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  1. lmagna
    Nice photographs from both hobbies.
  2. lmagna
    Are you certain that is not some kind of secret camouflage? This should be an interesting build with all of the Micromaster you say you are going to add.
  3. lmagna
    I agree Chris She really did turn out nice. Congratulations
  4. lmagna
    I grow on people after a while................... Oh sorry, that's mold. Well my wife still tolerates me after forty years, I guess that's something. No pirate bed though.
  5. lmagna
    It is almost a shame to see most of the lighting installed Harvey. She really looked like the Forth of July for a while. Now she just looks like they are shooting off flairs! I really do like the Ugly Duckling looks of these ships.
  6. lmagna
    I will certainly be attending as well. This will be a MUCH harder build than just building the ship before she sank!
  7. lmagna
    I don't know of anyone who tried the hydraulic fluid idea on a Huey but I do know of a couple of birds where the crew chief managed to get his hands on some high gloss OD and "pimped" their choppers out. In both cases they were "command" birds that were used by the CO and other upper ranking big wigs. Our birds may not have been quite as pretty but they were clean where it was needed and mechanically as tight as we could make them.
  8. lmagna
    Handsome little VESSEL, (That's what Nav Source Online calls them ). Many years ago I helped a friend build a steam launch using a surplus single cylinder double acting vertical steam engine. (I think it was originally an auxiliary engine on a Liberty ship or some such). At any rate, you would have to do much the same thing when starting or reversing the engine. You would have to bring the shaft to a complete stop, move the flywheel with your foot to slightly before or after TDC or BDC depending on the direction you wanted to start up in, and open the steam again. It was a little cumbersome at first and we had the engine start up in the wrong direction a few times, but eventually it got to be like double clutching in a car, pretty much second nature. It wasn't as big of an issue with a 30' BOAT as it was on your 112' ship but it could be exciting none the less. So is a floating can opener a ship? Or a boat?
  9. lmagna
    Fantastic progress Ken. I especially like the "down the deck" eye level shots. Makes me feel like I am really there and it is no longer a model.
  10. lmagna
    That little E-Boat almost disappears back there! Nice looking battle group.
  11. lmagna
    That is how it grows so quickly.
  12. lmagna
    Nice job on the finish and first coat Denis.
  13. lmagna
    It is a proper look for whenever a tank is traveling under it's own power in unpaved conditions just as any other off road vehicle. BUT you can be certain that as soon as they return to base the crew will be all over the exterior cleaning dirt, dust, and mud from everywhere they can reach. The ideal is if they have a convenient shallow river close by where they can just drive in and give it a good scrub down. It seemed to me that every time I saw an armored unit they were either going somewhere getting dirty or sitting still getting cleaned.
  14. lmagna
    They know enough to rule the roost with an iron fist! I climbed up on roofs and stuff like that as recently as a couple of years ago but I suspect that anything over one story would be possible suicide these days unless I made some special precautions. Bamboo is the one plant I do not have in my yard. A couple of houses ago the neighbor had Bamboo and it was all I could do to keep it at bay each year! That stuff makes Blackberry easy to deal with. It's too bad it is so hard to handle. I would have loved to plant it between my house and my neighbor to the south. Our dining room windows look directly at his half renovated wreck of a house, or would if I had not planted tall Arborvitae along the property line several years ago. Bamboo would have been perfect and by now would be three stories tall. The Arborvitae is only 15-18 feet right now.
  15. lmagna
    I was thinking the same thing Mark but you said it first.
  16. lmagna
    Looks like a jungle back there. My backyard trees are all evergreen and the smallest is at least 60 feet tall and the tallest over 120 feet. That little trimmer and ladder would not be of much use!
  17. lmagna
    Yes I suppose I should have left out the word "few." But I still stand by the fact that they really dress her up.
  18. lmagna
    Any surface frequency legal radio of two or three channels would do just fine. You would only need the third channel if you wanted to run the motors at different speeds. Not something you need to do often with this type of boat. You would also need a separate speed controller for this ability as well as it appears that the running kit only has one speed controller. Go to your nearest hobby shop where they sell radios for cars and they can set you up with a beginner set for not too much money. They also should have batteries and chargers that will fit your needs. As the radio gear in any RC hobby can be the most expensive outlay you may run into, you might consider buying a better radio with more functions if at a later date you wish to build a boat with more abilities and functions. That way you will already have a radio that is able to meet the expanded needs. Good luck and show us a picture of your progress now and then.
  19. lmagna
    It's amazing what a few railings, (properly installed) can accomplish! They are like jewelry on the lady!
  20. lmagna
    Looks like you are on the downhill side of the planking Jack. You will get to flip her over soon.
  21. lmagna
    Hey Kirby, are you in the market to adopt a slightly long in the tooth retread kid? I am enjoying your build and getting somewhat jealous that I don't have someone building me a pirate ship bed like this. It's like a child's dream come true. You will have to film us the unveiling event when he first sees it.
  22. lmagna
    Came out quite nice Greg. Pretty unusual looking finished ship. Don't see too many ship models fully set up as minelayers. Congratulations
  23. lmagna
    Front and center.
  24. lmagna
    Even if you choose to build one of the 1969 team cars Mike, You can still choose either Bruce's #4 car or the spare car, (Which is also the 1970 car you have after it was sold to Lothar Motschenbacher). The 1970 #11 Motschenbacher car was the 1969 #1 and #3 spare team car. It was driven as #1 by Dan Gurney at Michigan and #3 by Chris Amon at Laguna Seca it was also driven in four other races by Denny Hulme and once by Bruce McLaren. With some slight body work, you could also build the 1970 M8D team cars and have an entirely different looking car but still on the McLaren orange. Unfortunately this is the same car that Bruce was killed in while testing for the 1970 season.
  25. lmagna
    Now it looks like the 1969 team car Craig. It's surprising that they supply the proper struts so you can still build the older car but not the parts or instructions from the original kit so that you can make the choice. Too bad you didn't have some tiny brass tubing and rod laying about. That would have made quick easy work of the retrofit.

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