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It's amazing how interesting this plane is compared to the average B-24 build. For that reason if for no other, it is also kind of surprising that these Assembly Planes are also not better documented. It seems as there were no two alike. I'm really liking your choice.

I think it is the right gun, even the right turret for the Snowberry but she may have never been fitted with the flare launchers. Like you say though the cost would probably be more than you have spent for the whole model so far, (Except the printer) if they offered it in 1/48th.

Looks like I get front row this time Bill.

The kit provided stand looks like you could screw into the two cross pieces just as you did with your drydock stand and then adjust the dowels to allow vertical storage. Or just put a hook on it and hang it from the wall like a picture. Vertical or horizontal it is going to be a good looking as well as impressive looking model.

Got me beat by a few, we are at 38.

Long after the Langley was sunk.

No wonder you knock stuff off! It is getting so crowded with detail that it would be almost impossible not to. Great work.

Back row nice comfy chair.

Great start Denis. I was wondering if you were going to do one of these ever since we talked about them and looked at pictures a while back. Was kind of hoping you would do the clown one with all of the dots!

Nice job of another captured plane Denis. Interesting subject matter also, It's nice that you include a little of the history as well.

I agree, plumbing can be a PITA but paying others to do it can be an even bigger PITA. Missing an anniversary can be even more deadly and costly. How many years are you at now?

But you do it quite well.

Very nicely done!

Kind of like a diorama only spelled with a v.

Boy did I ever get that one wrong! Even now with all of the evidence right here in front of me I find it hard to believe. No wonder it was so hard to feed the crew while at sea on these ships! it looks like from the drawings that there is no means provided to transport the meals to the mess, (wherever that is) without having to go onto the open deck! I always knew that the Flowers were strange ducks in many ways, but this pretty much takes the cake. Thanks for correcting me. Looking at how your build is going makes me want to go out and buy a printer. But then I remind myself that one also has to have knowledge and talent to make it look as good as yours. Even the pictures of the designer's model don't look as good as yours. You should send pictures of your build to him to show him how it CAN look.

What can one say? It just keeps getting better and better.

Hi Mike No problem really. Just go to the upper right hand corner and next to the "#79" click on the three dots. Go to the "edit" feature on the drop down menu click it and make your changes then re-submit your post and it is all good and Mark can quit pretending to be Mike, and go back to being grumpy old Mark. (Not as grumpy as me though) Great work on the Mikasa. Your Arizona looks impressive as well.

Really making some progress Alan. VERY impressive.

Very nice progress Yves. Just as a by-the-way, and I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain that the structure at the base of the mast is the radio room. As such I think you will find that there should be some antenna wires that will eventually be run from the yardarm on the mast going back to the ready ammo box on the two pounder platform. I have been told that the structure at the front of the bridge had many uses, the Asdic and I believe chart and radar room. But I have always wondered if the radio direction finder antenna located on the front of it indicated that it was possibly used for that as well.

I will go with the lighter color as well. The Langley was operating out of the Philippines prior to the opening of WWII as a seaplane tender. She was sent south by Adm. Hart just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor along with most of the seaplanes belonging to the Asiatic Fleet. Like most of the ships of ABDA at that time the next couple of months under the tropical sun and continuous duties caused their paint jobs to fade and more than the normal wear on ships in the area. I would not include skid marks on the deck though. I don't think the Langley had landed or launched an aircraft since her conversion ion to a seaplane tender in 1937. Even the P-40s stowed on deck on her last voyage had been placed there by cranes and would have been removed the same way if she had reached Java.

Just me then I suppose.

Call me stupid I suppose, but I don't understand why a manufacturer, (Or possibly a seller in another country) would be held to task to make monetary restitution when there really was no loss by the buyer? I understand that the box was less than perfect, but with the few pictures I saw it really didn't look much worse than a few of the boxes I have in my stash that have been there stacked up for years. My fault for having too large of a stash and the ones on the bottom sometimes getting the worst of it. I would definitely be on the same page if the contents had been damaged or even worse if the lower hull or some other part was deformed from the factory like the picture Landlubber Mike submitted above, but in this case OC says that the model is completely unhurt. Am I just being stupid, and every item bought mail order should be held to the same level as when you pick the item out in the store and transport it yourself? I have seen advertisements on TV where the pizza company will replace your pizza even if you drop it off of the top of your car taking it home.

I am not even a novice in this airbrush game, but I think I have done OK, (After the first few times) of keeping my airbrush clean when using the Citadel or Vallejo style of acrylics. I clean right at the end of spraying with hot tap water until the bowl is empty. If I am changing color then this is usually enough and I can go directly to the next color. If not then I follow up with a Bowl of Windex followed by 99% alcohol and finish up with water again just incase. I very seldom use the airbrush cleaner as so far as I have not used the Lacquer based acrylics, and everything seems to be coming clean without it. I have not had to pull my nozzle out for quite some time but I do pull my needle out as well on every cleaning and make sure it is clean. I just have a cheapie airbrush but so far it has done everything I wanted done or was able to use it for. So far I have not tried shading or weathering so who knows if it can be used for that kind of more advanced stuff.

There is no reason an RC model can't be static display quality as well Alan. Your work on the Snowberry is really turning out nice Yves. I am certainly glad that you have decided to go on beyond just the hull.

That is all too true for many RC modelers into scale ships. We are lucky to have a number of clubs in my area. One I helped found back around 1980, that is pretty much exclusively RC, and Two others that are somewhat further away but also tend to be RC oriented. There is another fairly close club that is more period ship and static oriented but there are many aspects of ship building that cross over and apply to both kinds of modeling. If there is no club locally then see if you can find others that are also interested and see if you can start your own. Back in 1979 we started with two of us, (We just happened to meet on the local pond when he ran over my MUCH smaller ship and sunk me!) and managed to hold our first event on Fathers Day that year, drawing about fifteen or twenty people from the area who we never knew existed, all with boats they had built and were sailing somewhere. That developed into a club that is even today quite active with a large fairly large membership. Even the monthly meetings these days can draw twenty or more people sometimes and the various regattas and other events are even larger. Not too many pools like in the video around that I know of. (That was somewhere in Sweden I believe) but there are plenty of lakes and such where sometimes things can get quite rough and for RC ships can be very 'North Atlantic'. I have a video of one of my tugs that I made probably 30 years ago that shows it in just those kind of conditions and it was just a local lake. It is VHS and I no longer have a way of playing it but it was fun when I did and always drew peoples attention. Here is something very similar: This is a little closer to what My video looked like. Don't get me wrong. There are many things you can do with RC boats that are not quite as 'exciting' as running in rough weather, but still keep the interest and challenge level high. Try pushing a soccer ball around the pond or even a five or six foot 2X6 or tow a half sunken log. None of those things are as easy as you may think, but plenty of fun anyway. I think that you will find that your build will bring you lots of enjoyment long after the build is actually done. Not that any RC boat is ever done. They get MUCH more wear and tear than your average shelf model.