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That last picture is probably one you would NOT want to see while looking through your binoculars! 

Nice work

16 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

those pesky allies have sewn bear traps everywhere 😁

Need to read through the Geneva Convention rules on that one. Were probably illegal but land mines were not.

Nice looking build.

On 10/13/2021 at 6:37 PM, Landlubber Mike said:

I find it just easier to take swigs from the bottle

That works too.

4 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

I find blue-tack on a small item like a plastic shot glass help keep the part stable while adding PE to it):

Dozen' t that make it hard to keep the Bourbon in the glass that is so needed when working with Infiniti PE? Great work.  

Really nice seeing you make some progress on your Hannah Mike. She is already showing that she will be an impressive little ship in your hands.

Nice to be able to see your latest progress Ken.

Great work on both the ship and the stove.

12 hours ago, ccoyle said:

if I had the skills and the $$$, I'd be all over it

Don't need building skills to become a "collector" Chris. In fact building it is the last thing you want to do normally. You do need the money, and the ability to wait for what could be a while though.

Now you went and done it!

First the TOS Battlestar Galactica, and what appears to be the more accurate Mobius version to boot then I look and the same guy makes the Rodger Young available as well. Not a super fan of the movie but the book was a long time childhood favorite. 

I can't add anything to what has already been said so I will just say WOW and stand here in awe (And possibly a little jealousy).

1 hour ago, mtaylor said:

it's possible it was a prototype or early production bird.

Possibly this one, or a close cousin:

Pitcairn PCA-2

Just found this. It narrows it down a bit.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nnam/education/articles/history-up-close/navy-autogiro-takes-flight.html

Nice progress Craig. I bet that you are happy to finally get the main superstructure painted and attached. Can't see anything hanging or bent in your pictures so it all must have turned out OK.

The way they established the plank pattern on the main deck looks a little odd, at least to me. Hopefully it won't be as pronounced when you add the remaining superstructure and other decks.  

This is going to be a very interesting and unique ship build. Now we know where at least one inspiration for the "Steampunk" ships may have come from

Interesting picture. I did not realize that they had experimented with naval helicopter deployment early enough to have used the Langley as the platform.

As this picture had to be taken in 1935 (+-) be3fore the deck was cut down I suspect that the aircraft was not a helicopter but an Auto Gyro. Very similar, but an Auto Gyro cannot hover and needs forward speed to take off. Still interesting to see that the concept was being looked at at that time.

Those guys are going to make SO MUCH difference!

Interesting, it looks just like picture #17 in post #3 without the yellow sunset looking color. Even has the black spots.

Just learned something new.

I always thought that  the Kawanishi was a much larger aircraft, along the size of the Boeing 314. But seeing it beside the Cat in the same scale it does not seem that much larger.

14 hours ago, reklein said:

I'm sure if I did this ,say 10 times more I'd get better at it.

Don't be too sure. I think I did it at least a dozen times with both my own builds and when helping others build their RC boats in my active RC years and each time it ended up being stinky, messy, and needed a lot of sanding to get the finished hull looking right. They held up though. I just took down about six of my old ships with the thought of restoring one of them after 25+ years and getting back into the hobby. Ended up going another route but I was amazed at how well they have fared over the years.

Your hull is looking pretty nice, and it is still early yet.

The further you get with the candy cane plane the more I wonder about what was going through the minds of the crews that had to paint one of these aircraft. I wonder if they had some fun doing it as it was a deviation from the everyday OD and gray of their normal everyday world.

It reminds me of when I returned to the US from overseas. I arrived in Oakland CA. at night and they kept us until the next morning. When we walked out the front door to walk to the bus station we were hit not only with the morning sun, but with a burst of color that was shocking at first. People wearing clothing of every imaginable color, cars of different colors, signs on buildings that had bright images and wording. Even the ground was assorted grays and blacks with yellow and white stripes. I wonder if those guys were struck the same way and overwhelmed with all of the color, or if they were just shocked at the "wrongness" of a B-24 in those colors?

Great job in what is appearing to be a harder than anticipated build.

In my case it is more hunt than peck.

54 minutes ago, Canute said:

Can't talk while sitting on hands.

Does that mean that we can't type while sitting on our hands either?

Even though you say that you are not completely finished yet it is clear you have created a fine model of the hardest RC ship classification, the submarine.

I recently became re-involved with my old local RC boat club and at the last fun float another old member who has not been all that active for years showed up with two subs that he was trying out for the first time. By the time we left he was saying that he should have added wheels to the bottom of the boats as our local pond is so shallow he spent much of the time skidding along under the water!😭 Hopefully you have deeper water to run in and will have no need for wheels! 

Welcome back Ken. I missed your progress reports, and getting to see your fabulous model. Now get to work!

I have heard of leaving your mark on a build Roger but aren't you starting a little early? No really, nice recovery. I have found that when I have spilled the thin glue onto a visible surface area that if I do not touch it and just let it dry that the etched surface covers nicely when painted. Yours should look fine after your work on it.

Are you going to take a year on the Bismarck as well?

I continue to be both amazed and frightened when I watch and see what you are able to accomplish HG. Amazed with the results and frightened on how little I know about creating the files that make it all possible. I want to be able to do that same thing at some point in my life but fear that I never will get even close to that level.

7 hours ago, shipmodel said:

I just hope that we will never get to the point of duplicating a fine old wooden model of the Constitution with the push of a button,

I don't think it will ever get to that stage Dan. The pushing of the button part is just one of the more minor steps in creating these models. For wood we have already accepted the use of a laser cutter instead of a saw and for that matter the use of power tools in general both manually and computer operated to make models of all kinds including wood. 

2 hours ago, CDW said:

The gangways (not certain what they are called)

They are most commonly called Bridge Wings and are used when docking and other maneuvers where the Captain might want to see down the entire length of the ship.

In your case, if you somehow knock one or the other off, they can be glued in the more normal stowed position along side the bridge instead  of sticking out.