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Some of the details I see are amazing and I have to keep reminding myself that this is 1/700 scale NOT 1/200!- 168 replies
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Yesterday I received the book "The Sloops of the Hudson River" by Paul Fontenoy. At first glance it appears that it is an excellent book for fans of these sloops or anyone wanting to model one, especially if their choice is one of the more refined designs in the early or mid 19th century. It has 16 foldout pages of plans and diagrams of various sloops with many of them containing enough information to allow the building of a model. It appears that a fairly large portion of the book is devoted just to the Experiment. If you don't already have it you might want to find a copy. It was not all that expensive for a practically new looking copy. I have not read it yet so I cannot speak for Fontenoy's presentation or knowledge of the subject. Even if I had read it, I would probably not be able to comment on the latter anyway as my knowledge on Hudson River Sloops is also quite limited. The reason for the purchase in the first place. https://www.amazon.com/Sloops-Hudson-River-Historical-Maritime/dp/0913372714
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You are only on your first!!!!!!!!!!! I have had to already mow twice and it is already too long again! I should do it today but it's raining. At least that's my story, and I'm sticking to it! Nice looking work on the hull. Just as a note or two. I doubt hat very many PT boats ever saw and form of a drydock. If they got to that condition they were probably just stripped for parts and scrapped. Also I believe the under hull metal parts were bronze and left unpainted like the props.
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Rope making is a new venue for me and to be honest I have never done it but your efforts look just fine to this untrained eye. If these are your rejects then I am pretty certain that I could find them a home!
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Nice choice in the color. If you ever RC her then Rustoleum is a tuff paint that will hold up pretty well. I have used it in several RC boats over the years.
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Trumpeter Scharnhorst Battlecruiser 1/200 is coming soon.
lmagna replied to yvesvidal's topic in Plastic model kits
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Another plane that could have influenced the F-82 was the BF109Z COG has made a pretty interesting version of this plane.
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Those are some pretty nice models Victor. I also am impressed that you were able to build even one while doing your residency. My oldest son didn't even seem to have to say hello to his wife during his Radiology residency and I think the only thing he had to show for it afterward were some of his first gray hairs. My wife just reminded me when I retired and started staying at home much more that if I became too irritating that everything she had is hers and everything I had was hers!
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Trumpeter Scharnhorst Battlecruiser 1/200 is coming soon.
lmagna replied to yvesvidal's topic in Plastic model kits
The only problem about what we tell our wives the cost of a model is verses what the actual cost was, is that if we die first she will probably sell the kit, which has hopefully become rare and even more valuable, for what we said we paid! It really bothers me to think someone will get that kind of deal when I had to spend so much to get it in the first place! -
Jagdtiger by Jörgen - Tamiya - 1/35 - PLASTIC - Weathering
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AH............ A man after my own hart! I love the Corvette/Uboat as well including the sky. Can't wait to see how you make it "better?"
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We didn't actually remove our ranks as they were for the most part sewn on within a few weeks of being in country. MUCH easier than pinning them on each day. Besides everyone knew what rank the other was anyway so why bother. But the actual status of rank pretty much was set aside within reason both on and off duty in the flying crews. The AC was still the AC and so forth on down but no one felt the need to lord over the others about rank. That is except for "Time-in-country rank." Just as a Warrant AC outranked a commissioned pilot sitting in the left seat, a SP-4 in country for six or eight months outranked ANYONE commissioned or not who had just gotten off the plane. This was a kind of unwritten rule understood by everyone. While I don't know of it ever happening it is possible that any crew chief or gunner who had been in country for a while could get away with "You are full of S***............ SIR! I do know of more than one incident where the AC cut out the radio to the rest of the crew to chew a big hole in a new pilot for doing something we all knew was stupid or poorly executed.
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Same in the Army. It was almost like we were a separate branch of the military. Even though there was a separation of both duties and ranks it was much more blurred amongst the crews. We all literally depended on each other almost every day and eventually that trust even extended into our personal lives as well. There was many a night where the ranks of those people "hanging out" involved ranks ranging from Captain to Private, even though in actuality we didn't really have any Privates.
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That is because the Navy could never decide what they wanted the Langley to be. She started life as the Jupiter, a Collier commissioned in 1913. At the time she was considered a fairly advanced ship design. In 1920 she was converted to the first US aircraft carrier and renamed Langley CV-1. This was when the full deck was added. With the commissioning of the Lexington and Saratoga in 1927 the Langley quickly became outdated but continued in a training role until 1936. At that point she was converted again, this time to a seaplane tender, AV-3, mostly by removing half of the flight deck as you have noted. She remained in this configuration until late February 1942 when an ill considered and poorly executed attempt at delivering P-40 fighters and pilots to Tjilatjap, Java resulted in the Langley being caught at sea in the daylight and lost to Japanese bombing. Her planes and pilots never made it to the island, and would have probably been too few to late if they had. The mission was pretty much a waste right from the outset like all to many ABDA actions were.
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Well I suppose that is smaller than ant legs. That is what I called the barrels on the quad Veteran Models 1.1" guns I bought for use on my 1/350 Houston.
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Nicely done Edward Congratulations
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The only thing that I see as missing at this point in the construction is the wooden covered trench in the floor where you would drive the auto over to work underneath and/or change the oil. Every repair shop I ever saw and most home garages when I was young had at least one. In later years many of them were replaced and covered over with the advent of hydraulic lifts, but back in the 20s I think they would have been very much the thing and used almost daily.
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Nicely done Johnny. These little kits are not as easy as some people think to build. You did yours very well.
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The use of red light was believe it or not classified information developed in WWII by the US. In order to cover some of the research the fable about carrots helping vision was widely spread. I believe the Germans had much the same idea except they used blue lights to help against night blindness. I have no idea if this is verified or not but I know I did read it somewhere when I was reading something else. Kind of like looking up a word in the dictionary and getting hopelessly sidetracked by all of the other interesting words you see getting there!
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You know the research as well as anyone Ken but I personally would think that four, one at each swivel post would be better than just two, especially as there is so little overhang with your oars. This would make them hard to secure with just two cranes at the ends. Your work is looking fantastic.
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