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Those are a little frightening to say the least! I am glad to see that you got them built though. I have to build eight 5" 25 open mounts and four 1.1" quad mounts from Veteran Models. The package of barrels for the 1.1" guns looks like someone pulled the legs off of an ant and threw them into a ziplock bag! Do you hold them with the old MK 1 hand while building or do you have some kind of clop or vice to hold them while building? -
I don't need to touch either of my kids. They KNOW when I'm upset with them and don't like it at all. All I did with my youngest the other night was raise my voice about him not eating his dinner and he started to cry. I felt pretty bad because it was just dinner and it is pretty clear that he is not malnourished or anything. He's skinny but healthy.
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Thanks So if I understand properly you fist use the wash then while it is still wet you dry brush the white using the pointed Q tip Please excuse my stupidity but is the White Spirit just a solvent or does it have a color as well?
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My Missus is pretty much the same, (Except at this time of the year when we have to pretend we have a clean house for company) but there was an incident a few years ago that kind of touched me off. My Grandson became interested in assembling and painting wargame figures. I jumped with joy and set him up a workstation right next to mine and even made a holder that was designed to hold the glue bottle and paint bottles so that it would take a MAJOR effort to spill them. He was really doing pretty well and remembering to replace the lids and stuff like that so I started letting him paint even when I wasn't there also. A few weeks later I went to grab my favorite jacket that was on the back of my work chair and found dried orange paint all down one arm. There was more on the floor and to top it off even more on a china cupboard three feet away! It appeared that he had forgotten to tighten the lid and when he went to shake the jar of paint it came off with the expected results. It would not have been a big deal as the paint was Acrylic and could have been cleaned up pretty easily but he didn't say anything and by the time I discovered it the paint had been dry for several days!
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I could not help but laugh a little inside at your video Semor. It looks like you are very easy to entertain! No really I think you did a great job and I agree that it looks very nice just hanging loose. I do have a question in your toning though. Are you using a dry brush technique using black or darker gray or a wash, or something else?
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I think that is the one I would like to see. Not long ago there was a group that I think was trying to build a flying replica. I Think they ran out of funds but I believe another full size mock up was built and tested at Nortrop for possible STEALTH properties of the design. No one seems to know where the real aircraft went somewhere in the bowels of the Smithsonian, but the mock up ended up in San Diego at the Air & Space Museum.
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AAH....... The most important detail! Good to see you get a little time from those four letter days, (work) to get some details done on the destroyer Carl. Looking forward to seeing some more progress. Hopefully you are able to get more than just the holidays before returning to the daily grind overwhelms everything again.
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So did she blame you for storing it on your work bench? I think that the gun director can be bought on an a smaller fret through Toms Modelworks for possibly not to much money. I'm not too certain about the other crane parts as I am not too certain what is missing. Could you scratch build them? Another possibility is that possibly someone like OC or someone else who has built a similar British ship might have something in their spare box that they could send your way. Wish you luck in either finding them or being able to replace them.
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Having a like and appreciation for your build has nothing to do with the other builds by the people we have been watching and I am certain we know who they are. I personally feel no problem being astounded by all of them right along with yours. So to get back onto the build before someone gets upset WHAT'S NEXT?
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I would say that you are blind but your work says otherwise, so I will just say you are modest. channel already said it......... "This one's a winner." And I will add in all honesty I am a bit jealous.
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If your Missouri ends up better than this build then you won't need to build a case, you will need to find a museum to display it in. This build is already museum quality so it is hard to believe that the next build could be better!
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I think I could do without the Weevils but I did buy some rum for the eggnog tomorrow.
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I always get a kick out of the latest greatest diets. It seems that fo reight or ten years they say one thing and then turn around a full 180 degrees and tel you to do something else! Bringing up low fat milk is one that comes to mind as I have drank hole milk since childhood. In fact until i was about eight years old we lived on a ranch and I drank raw milk that was only pasteurized. When we moved to the city and started drinking whole milk from the store it was hard fo rus to get used to. It was like white colored water as far as we were concerned! I have never been able to go the extra step and switch to the even thinner stuff. Then last year after years of people telling me that whole milk was not good for me I saw something on TV where the doctor was saying that what we had been told may not be true and that it may even have been a fad. When it was brought up here I could not resist looking it up: http://time.com/4279538/low-fat-milk-vs-whole-milk/ I am not trying to say that all diet suggestions are false, especially when it comes to diabetes but I do think that many people expound on a fad and if they are loud enough it becomes the latest health craze that you ignore at your own peril.
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I agree I truly hope she feels better soon. Please give her my best. Tell her that she needs to start feeling better so that she can start making little curtains and stuff!
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I don't know why it would weaken the fabric. Virtually everything made of cloth in my house and wardrobe is dyed on one color or another and seems OK. I am not much of a clotheshorse, in fact I am probably a bit of a slob, so I have some clothing that may be older than some of my kids and is still holding up fine.
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So that's the REAL reason you "Volunteered" to do the last minute shopping for the wife Craig. Even though the Mikasa Has been religated to some dark corner of the house, you were still "on the hunt." I agree though I think the finer weave will be just what the doctor ordered. Hopefully you will be able to stain it the right color and not have to risk clogging the pores by painting. Have you ever used Rit Dye? they have all kinds of colors including grays and dark blues and would not change the translucency of the material at all. https://www.ritdye.com/color-formulas/
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Except for teachers who keep getting more days off. It has been so long since I was a productive member of society I had forgotten about what was happening in the working world.
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In reality it kind of goes from Halloween on October 31 until the first of the year January 1st. Except for school teachers who get all of the available holidays everyone else gets plus 3 or 4 months throughout the year that only apply to them!
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I personally agree with Mark...............BUT The REAL boss of the manor has other ideas. She has been running around yelling at me to get my single personal area in the whole house cleaned up and cleared off! She is cleaning and decorating every where and sending me out to the shed and down to the basement to get all that will be needed. I try to explain to her that it is just the same kids that lived with us for all of their childhood years and know how our house looks, in fact did their utmost to trash it on a daily basis for all of those years. I might as well be talking to the dog, in fact I have been talking to the dog pretty often lately, that cat too. Neither of them are as wound up as she is! Oh well two days, Thanksgiving dinner, and Christmas, then I can start dragging stuff out again, at least for a while. Good luck on your vacation Craig. I am reserving my place for January though, i expect to see some really good stuff!
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German WW2 Armor Models by nickbud - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to nikbud's topic in Completed non-ship models
It's kind of hard to experiment when the product is a two million dollar investment and the people who invested want a return on that investment. Even Ford, while he had and was willing to spend millions, wanted results and fired people to get them. He was not in it for the game. He wanted to win! I know what you mean about the Indy 500 Mark. The Can Am series was started much the same way, but between making unnecessary rules and becoming too costly pretty much killed it's own sport. -
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lmagna replied to nikbud's topic in Completed non-ship models
You are more than welcome Paul. Most of all that stuff just sits in the top of my head spinning around with nowhere to go. I seldom get to talk about it. It is just another part of history that I fell in love with at an early age and never outgrew. Pretty useless stuff really I suppose but like naval history I love it. Your son kind of has a one up on me when it comes to modern Le Mans. After 1970 for me the endurance racing world was completely overrun by big bucks, not that it had ever been cheap, and the racing scene started losing my interest for some reason. The rules kept changing to favor certain manufactures and almost eliminated the little guy altogether. The days of Jim Hall, Bruce McLaren. John Wyer and Eric Broadley and their like were pretty much gone So I went on to other subjects to fill my head with and don't normally keep current. I think I am somewhat the same with naval history. I am not all that much up to date on post WWII ships and actions. To me they are not really "history" Mark You are pretty much right. Henry Ford entered the prototype racing world with little more than an open checkbook and a desire to beat Ferrari. By 1967 he was under tremendous pressure to get out of racing all together, mostly because of the cost to Ford. He did drop Ford from the European prototype and F-1 racing but still supplied technical assistance to Ford powered vehicles. He stayed active in NASCAR and for a short time in Can Am. It had become a very expensive sport in a short time and he had been partly responsible. Also Ford and Ferrari had been so busy battling each other that they had not been watching Porsche all that close and out of the rearview mirror they suddenly came up and blasted everything wide open. If you have any interest at all, one of the best reads out there is "Go Like Hell" by A.J. Baime. Not only a pretty good account but a well written read that keeps you awake even if like me you know what is coming. Out of my twenty or thirty books on Sports Prototype and Can Am racing it is one of my favorite books. -
I would have liked to see your Smit Nederland. I have built the 1/200 kit and it made a nice beatle size model. Then I bought a Fiberglass hull and got plans to build a scratch build. It was going to be my next RC large model to replace my ocean going tug that was getting a little old. Then I also bought a 1/48th vacuform hull from Model Boats in England, A big deal in those days and planed to use the plans they published in their magazine. That was going to replace my smaller ship handling tug that had won several regatta tug events over the years. Kind of fell out of the RC ships about then when life got in the way and both hulls are still sitting in my basement with motors and running gear waiting the build. I also have a 1/48th Voith Schneider drive tug waiting for servo installation and a few finer details that would finish it's ability to operate. The drives alone cost more than any of my other models did all together back in those days. I don't know if they even make the drives anymore but if my bath tub tests were any indication if finished it would be a pretty powerful and certainly maneuverable tug!
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