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  1. lmagna
    Looks like I am catching something at the beginning for a change. Be right back with my hammock and peanut brittle, (Just got a new stock in). Need to take good care of that eye. I do not know of any kits in Brail. 🤔
  2. lmagna
    Just popping up for a bit of air then back to the millstone of dealing with the assorted brainless branches of the US Government especially the Immigration people. I am beginning to see that the path to advancement in that branch of government is based solely on the lowest IQ possible as a precursor followed by brain damage caused by the forms they create. Unfortunately those same forms also are almost guaranteed to cause the same brain damage to the person required to fill them out. I am so at loss for words to cover your RL situation especially since others have been doing it so well while I have been deep in the pits of Government. I will try and stick my head out a little more often and see how my plane is progressing. Then deep one night when you least expect it your hanger will be missing one fantastic F-86. You have forgotten, I know where you live! To paraphrase Hemmingway Remember no one really knows for whom the bell tolls. Take care and beware for I will be looking until my bell tolls.
  3. lmagna
    I'll be up there with Edward. It will be Monday before I get my stock of peanut brittle though. You will probably be done before that! Good looking start though as always..
  4. lmagna
    I have to disagree. The fact that we are sitting here and seeing the results of your efforts and skills proves otherwise. Congratulations on a job well done.
  5. lmagna
    And just in case you have done something that makes you very unhappy with the results it can be used in the old fashioned way to make flaming airplanes! Just getting a chance to catch up with your build Craig. This is definitely NOT one that you would want going down in flames.
  6. lmagna
    This is "Valeriy" quality. Far above museum quality! At least the museums I have been to!
  7. lmagna
    Looking real nice EG. I think it would look even better on MY shelf! Like I said at the beginning, the F-86 is possibly one of my favoritist jet aircraft, and I don't have a single one in my stash. Get yourself well so that you can get onto the other builds you promised us. You wouldn't want to be a liar would you?
  8. lmagna
    I had a similar thing happen on a kit I was building except it was only one bulkhead and it was too small. I was able to pin a batten along the hull and form it to all of the other bulkheads. Then I just relocated the too small bulkhead Toward the stern, (about 1/4 inch I think) until it also touched the battens and allowed a smooth hull shape when planked. no other cutting or alterations were required for that part of the hull. It came out perfectly when planked.
  9. lmagna
    That is a definite improvement Brad. Congratulations
  10. lmagna
    I'm pretty certain that you persistence will pay off Brad. Looking forward to the next installment.
  11. lmagna
    I think that if I was sharing my model sailing space with Alligators then I would want much more than a few pea sized depth charges! Unless they were nuclear! I think I saw somewhere on YouTube where some guy was playing Catch-me-if-you-can like in a bull fight with his Go-fast electric boat while filming it with a drone. The Gator came close several times and it looked like the boat was going to be a goner. Your Corvette may have a longer lifespan if you keep in on the shelf!
  12. lmagna
    They did that whenever possible anyway. If they didn't then the planes seldom survived the first salvo of the main guns and would not only be destroyed by the blast but often caught on fire as well. Even 5" guns in the right location like those mounted on US treaty class cruisers could, and did, blast destroy the scout planes on board. I am really liking the looks of this ship RGL, they were truly graceful looking ships.
  13. lmagna
    The whole concept looks fine to me as well for the applications it was designed for. In addition I would think that sticking the pickup tube in some water or thinner depending on the paint used would also go a long way to keeping the nozzle clean. Totally a win win!
  14. lmagna
    Very nicely finished out and detailed Craig.
  15. lmagna
    The old Bonney is going to look impressive with all the details you are printing. Too bad you could not use a thin wire or something hard to see and have an aircraft taking off or landing.
  16. lmagna
    Great looking build. It has been following your learning curve and progress. It would have been nice to see it as an RC ship but that's just me. You are doing fantastically. I suspect that in real life what guns were put on in the small calibers was just as you have done, what was available on that day and what the Capitan was able to steal.😁
  17. lmagna
    Oh heck, that was the best job around considering where I was. What other job can you think of where everyday you get to zoom around the tops of trees at hot rod speeds with the wind in your face making a bunch of noise? In addition you got the benefit of getting to shoot a machine gun and watch the tracers arc out and hit the target just like at the fair only with lights. And lastly on hot days, (Like most of them were) we carried our own fan. 😁 In addition we were paid an extra $120 each month, ($55 combat pay and $65 flight pay) tax free for doing it! You could live on that, and I did, sending the rest back to the world. In many ways it was a simple life, eat. sleep fly, fix, clean and shoot! Rinse and repeat as necessary.
  18. lmagna
    That is because people like me can be so stupid that they are not even aware that there should be a question so don't ask it. I have been trying to gather the proper documentation and fill out Government papers for most of the week now using instructions that were clearly not written for the 26 pages of document I have been filling out, or written by an idiot, or both. It appears that the only way to get ahold of someone in Homeland Security Immigration is by holding a séance, or possibly getting arrested by them. "Submit in triplicate" is a term I have not heard since my military days but they use it so much I think it must be a stamp that they just pound the form with randomly. I have reached the point that as I cannot find a way to actually contact a human that I will just have to submit the forms and documents and cross my fingers that I guessed correctly.🤔
  19. lmagna
    Great build. See you in a year or so. Looking forward to what you bring for us.
  20. lmagna
    Obviously you have not heard some of mine.
  21. lmagna
    I think I read somewhere that the Stuka had a support rod that would hold the stick in a climb position when set. At the end of the dive the pilot would set this lock and it would hold the recovery even against the steepest pull out and more importantly if the pilot blacked out from the G forces. I'm not real knowledgeable on German aircraft but that was what I read.
  22. lmagna
    Mine is like that except I need to point out to her what I would like to have. A tugboat looks pretty much the same as a battleship to her! An example was a few years ago I finally was able to locate a model of the USS Houston. It was of course in gray I had it out looking over the details and she said "Is that the Titanic"?+
  23. lmagna
    I agree not many have a larger stash than I do but in this case I am hopelessly outclassed. Heck there are hobby stores with smaller inventory.😁 You do need to organize your shelfs before posting pictures though into sections of aircraft, armored, cars, ships, etc. That way I can shop easier. It could be possible you may have to either raise the ceiling or lower the floor if you get any more. I also think that you have found the sure way to hide new models from the wife. Once they get in there she will never see it. It will be like ET in the toy pile!
  24. lmagna
    You are so late getting here Edward that I only have part of a bag out of three left. 🤔 But the good news is that my wife goes back to Leavenworth in a month or so and will be sure to restock my supply. Any requests for special flavors?
  25. lmagna
    Those Paravane chains look awfully fine Greg. It the wife wandering the house looking for one of her necklaces by chance?😁

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