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  1. lmagna
    Hi Jim I thoroughly enjoy and look forward to each installment of your paintings. Your range of subjects and sea conditions is astounding. Your picture of the 'Oronsay" in Alaska is exactly what it looks like when you take a cruise ship up Glacier Bay. I did it a few years ago and you really do get that close to the glacier before you turn around, and some of the icebergs are a deep beautiful blue green color that makes each one unique. Didn't see any Orcas, though I have seen them a few times over the years following the ferries here in Puget Sound where I live. One time it was what appeared to be a mother with a youngster and a quite small calf. I would swear she was taking them on a sight seeing tour of the "people" on the big boat just as we would take out kids to the zoo. They followed the ferry all the way into the harbor and did not turn back out into open water until the ferry started to slow down for the docks. Looking forward to your next installment. Lou
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    Hello Nigel It won't help you much with the open 4" mounts, but Toms modelworks makes a couple of brass etched sheets in !/125th for the Fletcher destroyer, (Blue Devil) that includes depth charge racks and stuff like that. A second sheet has railings an ladders. A bit expensive being that they are not exact sets made for the four stacker but the scale is about right. http://www.tomsmodelworks.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_39&products_id=166
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    Hello SOS I sent you a PM about this build. Lou
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    I agree, not only did you get it done but were able to take the extra time to share with us. Night Lou
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    John Now that you know how the winch works it would not be all that much trouble to modify yours as well. You already have a fine start. You should get to take some advantage of your own research after all. Lou
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    Hi John I could be wrong but in this video it appears that the fish are actually going through the rollers along with the net. The rollers appear to be made like wide tires, possibly under low inflation and possibly only their own weight that allows them to have enough traction to pull the net but still have enough give to allow the fish to pass through without getting squished. I do agree that the videos posted the other day seem to show the fish being thrown to the side as the net passes through the winch. Lou
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    Hi David Thanks for the reply. By the way in case you did not have the identification on the ship in your first picture, it appears to be the Lynx out of Nantucket. http://tallshiplynx.com/ Lou
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    Hi David I will not even pretend to have an answer to your rigging question, in fact I am looking forward to the answer just as much as you are. Do you have the source of the first contemporary picture you posted? It looks like one of the newer replica ships, possibly on the East coast? If so then possibly you could contact them and present your question. Their ship is obviously rigged in the way you wonder about so they should know if anyone would. Just a possibility. Lou
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    Hi Mark It's good to see you making some very nice progress. She is looking like a very worthy model. Lou
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    Going to work at ANY time of the day messes any day up! Retired Lou
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    PM sent Lou
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    Denis Not sure what you mean by larger. The Dumas kit at 1/16th scale is almost three feet long at 33". I think I did see somewhere that a model company was making a smaller plastic hull version at 1/40 scale but I have never seen one. I don't know what kind of wood the modern Dumas kit uses but if I remember back in the old days they used pretty much the same kind of wood you are using on your build now. I do like the color choice you have used on this build though, even if there is no orange! Lou
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    Denis If you want to use up your orange, (Or just put a dent into it) you might consider building the Dumas USCG 44 foot lifeboat. In it's USCG colors you would have no need for orange at all but the RNLI of Great Britain used the same vessel and their colors are a royal blue hull with gray decks and ORANGE superstructure. They have a thin white waterline and red below that. MUCH more interesting colors than the USCG! Just helping you spend more money so that you can use some of that orange paint! Lou
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    Hi Mark Good to see you getting a little time to work on her. Making some progress either in your head or on the model makes the rest of the day a little less stressful. Lou
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    Plenty of reason to be proud. She is a very handsome ship and there is plenty to be proud of, balls and all. Lou
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    Ah Family! Yes we probably do have the same Admiral. Mine trusts me about as far as she can throw me! She is leaving to visit kids and grand kids as well except I won't be meeting her there. I get to stay home and finish the bathroom rebuild and be chief cook and bottle washer for the two grand kids we are raising, (15 going on 30 and 10 going on 3).I have been doing this pretty much five or six times a year, (The kids not the bathroom) for years and she still calls me up and makes "suggestions." She has no problems with me in the kitchen unless we are in there together! She keeps reminding me about how tired she is of cooking! Now you have me worried! I have no childish cuteness! She may not come back and I will be stuck with these two Velociraptors all alone! Good luck on your trip and vacation, and I still think your work on the Sultana is turning out perfectly. Lou
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    Are you adult enough to be left all alone for a full week? What's in Tokyo? When my Admiral leaves for her almost three weeks next week she is only going as far as California! She doesn't trust me enough to go any further away, (Even though she would probably like to, further away that is.) Lou
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    You are right. The escort carriers were converted hulls with a flight deck installed. The escort carriers were mostly converted cargo ships while the light carriers were normally converted cruiser or passenger ships. But in the US they were built open bowed with a gun platform under the flight deck at the bow and stern like the Japanese carriers. British carriers, including their escort carriers had the bow built up higher so that it met the underside of the flight deck. Possibly not a true hurricane bow like today's carriers but still much more weather resistant than the American and Japanese designs of WWII. Lou
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    Well you could have been in Typhoon Cobra in 1944: 100 mph (87 kn; 45 m/s; 160 km/h) winds, very high seas and torrential rain, three destroyers capsized and sank, and 790 lives were lost. Nine other warships were damaged, and over 100 aircraft were wrecked or washed overboard; the aircraft carrier Monterey was forced to battle a serious fire that was caused by a plane hitting a bulkhead. Story Pictures More I read somewhere that this storm was one of the main reasons the US navy converted to the British hurricane style of closed bow on aircraft carriers. Lou
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    No reason to believe you will not do an outstanding job just as you have done so far. I just thought it went without saying. Now get to work and show us more or I will be forced to send a horde of Rigging spiders to your house! Lou
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    I agree, a VERY nice build to be proud of. I am kind of jealous though! Lou
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    Well this was MODEL North Atlantic. The waves were more like four or five INCHES, not 40 feet! But it was still fun and made for some very interesting movie footage. Lou
  23. lmagna
    Used to be when I first became a police officer. Then it changed and continued to change until today it is a privileged life style. No bills, no boss, free medical, everyone else cleans up after you and takes care of you. How can you loose? Lou
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    If she did then you would be broke and agility would no longer matter!
  25. lmagna
    Its their agility that KEEPS me FROM getting them anytime! (But then the Admiral kind of likes it that way).

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