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We had big canals around the runway to route the water away We had them on the field and on base. One of my buddies had to jump into one on a night when we received some morter rounds during monsoon season. It was mostly empty but it had rained for several hours that day and was more mud than anything when he went in partly face first! Took him an hour to bet showered down and look human again. We called him "Swamp Thing" after that. Craig Do they explain what the bump on the barrel is in the instructions? I suspect not as that kind of information is a thing of the past in model building but to me it looks like an iron sight on a rifle????🤔 -
You can certainly tell it was a ship intended to operate in warm enviroments.
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That was possibly the SU-25 Frogfoot. It was designed to be a contemporary to the A-10. Both the Ukrainians and Russians had them at the beginning of the war, but as far as I can tell almost, or all of the Ukrainian planes have been lost since the war started. Russian reported losses are much less reliable, plus as usual I believe they have/had more of them. Without going into a long comparison I think the A-10 is a much superior weapon for it's intended use than the SU-25 even though on paper they seem more equally matched. But that is paper.
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We used condoms as well but it was for the rain especially during monsoon. Plenty of oil present to stop rust, (In most cases) but the rain was sometimes heavy enough to fill the barrel!
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You may consider the inside of any of the larger wing mounted weapons as additional weight locations.
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I think that they could be close quarters, close range weapons only and would be stored in this location only when engaging in urban actions. Not as much dust as everyone is moving relatively slowly as well as probably having paved roads. Most times the crew, other than the driver, will also be more fully exposed and a personal weapon on the outside would be quicker to deploy and have a broader field of fire.
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You may want to look at adding some nose weight as well. I think the A-10 in model form tends to be a tail dragger. Ken I think I fell in love with them all. The Vulcan, Specter/Puff, and later the A-10. After seeing and hearing my first A-10 in real life though I always thought they should have been nicknamed the Dragon instead of Warthog. They have the looks of a dragon and certainly the sound of breathing fire, to say nothing of what happens to the impact zone. I almost wish we could send all 280+ into the Ukraine along with the proper pilots and support systems. Putin could not say that we were sending in modern "State of the art" weapons. As 50 year old weapons () they are certainly older than the Hypersonic missiles he fired. I wonder what the battlefield map would look like after a week or two?
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
lmagna replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Did you bother to release the brakes? I have stood by the side of a runway about mid point, (About where the rear wheels just start leaving the runway and the nose is up and the flames are bouncing off the runway) and I never got the feeling that it was all that simple. Did seem like you guys were always in a hurry though. We had to wait until the air settled down a little before we could FLOP FLOP across the runway and climb out at our comparatively leisurely rate. Always felt like we were sneaking out after your big show of noise and flame! -
Not historically like him. Hope it is just some glitch and not something really serious.
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Starting to run out of places to put stuff! I wonder how well those Uzi's would function after a couple of hours cross country in the desert! I certainly would not want to be the guy to have to clean them!
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Hadn't thought of it that way! Could be true, but either way you need to keep it up, you are creating some truly unique masterpieces.
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That is why your ships are so fantastic. When others would reach this point they would say that the 3D part was over and start the scratch building part. You just lean back and casually say "Only another 100 parts or so to go!"
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
lmagna replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
That is why I said you should be consulted. In our case all we really needed to be certain of was that the fire was lit, RPM was up, and that our wings were already flying before trying to take off ourselves. It would seem that you may want to start with gloss black toward the nose and fade to blue after the wings somewhere. -
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Hope they are working better than the ones I am taking!😝😵 Get yourself, (Or with your talents) print yourself a pilot and place the plane at the beginning of the runway running the engine up before takeoff. Ask Ken for certain but I am fairly certain the flaps would be down at 20 degrees at least at that point. -
I am with Mark. A little Locktite will secure the running gear yet with some heat from a soldering iron or such will come loose easily. I think you will like your launching frame even though I think I would put a platform or straps over the center to keep smaller ships from sliding and possibly slipping back into the water bow or stern first. Here is what I have been using: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FX9F37C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Back then it was $25 AFTER tax. It looks like it has gone up a bit in the last three or four years! I am certain that there are others at lower cost though. At under three pounds it is easy to transport though and fits into my boat cart folded up pretty well. Too bad you don't live out this way. Our annual tug regatta is in a few weeks and seeing you work your HH30 you could do well in competition.
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Might take a looks at this selection. It's from China but may fill the bill. https://www.ebay.com/itm/203895063255?hash=item2f7917c2d7:g:r1gAAOSwYyNiu6ML
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I agree with Dave. You have done outstanding work on a very common "Sticks in a box" model. Makes me feel even more guilty about my unfinished kit of the same model.
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Looking good Chris Now that you have taken that comparison picture you will need to build an F-86, F-4, F-14/15/ or 16, and F-22, or 35 to show the evolution of fighters and sizes through the wars.
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I think it is just an area of canvas stretched over hoops to cover the persons legs.
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
lmagna replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Nice progress on the Sabre EG. Not so happy about the RL news. But if it helps a little we have faced it in our house three times now and made it out the other side each time with my wife. I have no idea what kind you are facing and some types and their treatment can be physically taxing, but ALL of them are emotionally debilitating. My wife's best friend has also faced it and making a long story short she ended up loosing most of her lower body inside to surgery. Even though she will always have issues and complications she now leads a VERY active an full life. Don't know if it is of value but our prayers are with you for nothing but the best. Please keep all here advised, I do know that it helps when you share a little. -
Amazing progress. She is really starting to show some of her over all design concept and how much of the old and the new were incorporated in the same ship. Hard to believe you are able to create all this from photos!
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Don't know much about the Stuka other than they were good at falling out of the sky. Early on in attacks and a little later in flames or pieces. Must admit though that I have never seen a picture with the full skirts on the main gear. I like the other style better. Even though I knew that one of their issues was that they were underpowered, I didn't know that they had to be guns or bombs! I believe the SBD was considered a better dive bomber and was almost certainly more loved by it's pilots and crews. It was also dated and outclassed latter in the war but continued to be used. Nice recovery Denis
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There you go Valeriy, using that giant match again! I do not think I will ever stop being amazed by the craftsmanship of this build or have enough words in English or Ukrainian, (Not that I know any Ukrainian words other than "Cat") that can do your work credit. My learning of some Ukrainian words may have to improve as it is possible that soon we may have a person and her son from Cherkasy coming to live with us. She is waiting for her passport and trying to decide on the US or Germany where she would be closer to her family. For us, all we can do is wait and see what she chooses.
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I would never say that one could not find fault with the boats I built. In fact quite the opposite. The best I ever did in competition was 2nd in scale. It was a Russian icebreaking tug where virtually everything, including the props that took me a week each to make had to be scratch built. Nothing was available. The guy I built it for died not all that long ago and I have no idea where it went or is today.
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I will not include period ships in this as I have never scratch built one. But over the years I have built at least six or seven for myself and friends, (All RC) if you don't include stuff like stanchions and a few other assorted small parts that were available individually. In a few cases I even made the props. But not in every case. These have measured from as small at 20" to a little over 48". In all those builds all that was used were hand tools, the only powered ones being a drill, Dremel, and soldering iron. You just have to expect that things are going to take a little longer.
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