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Nice start Edward. Looking forward to learning some stuff from you.

Let us hope this works OC. It would be a shame to have to trash all that you have already achieved.

I'll enjoy watching this one Craig. It comes a little closer to my favorite group of racing cars. The Sports Racing/Prototype/ GT cars of the 60s. You don't even want to know how many of those I have in my stash in this scale! Some of them are even built, but my Ford GT40 MKII and Porsche 908 were done so many years ago that they are getting a little shabby.

Handsome looking pair sitting on the shelf together. Congratulations on getting it all together as well as possible. Too bad about the short chassis. That is the only fault that is visible in the pictures. Inexcusable in a model of this vintage, it should have been corrected years ago.

Congratulations Mark Nice work

Coming along very nicely Josh.

Nice looking work J

Good to see you getting to make some progress Jack

It seems that every time I think you must have reached the pinnacle of your abilities, you reach a new plateau! Your work is truly amazing and spellbinding. I would love to be able to walk those streets in person and experience the magic firsthand. As a side note of curiosity, do you have any idea just how much the village at this point weighs? It must be considerable.

Nice work in a relatively short time. I am glad you chose the American CB instead of the Yamato. It has been done so often and the CBs were such hansom ships. (In my opinion) Didn't really have much of a career compared to other US ships but unique designs none the less.

To some degree I agree with EG in that there may be few incidences where one wing would be folded and the other open other than in artistic license. I would not go so far as to say never though. One possibility that does come to mind though, that could be used in a diorama would be the transition. Just like the first picture in his deck shot where it shows one aircraft with only one set of gun bay doors open, there could be a transition time in extending the wings where one wing would be extended and the other not. The wings are moved by hand so there would more than likely be a number of crew about getting the aircraft ready. There........... My job is done, I'll leave now.

Just to show you how masochistic I can be sometimes, I think I would be tempted to build both wings. You could have one wing folded and the other down with the gun bays displayed. Is it just the camera angle or are the kit wings larger than the aftermarket wings?

That is possibly one of the most detailed and amazing cockpits I have ever seen Bob!

Fantastic work Grant Makes me want to hop in and take a tour of the fall countryside, rain and all.

Yeah.............. As big as a house fly! As a matter of fact in your part of the world the fly may be bigger! Your ability to put these infinitesimaly intricate guns together in such a short time is nothing short of amazing to me.

Strange........... it shows on my computer in both the original post and your quote. I added another of the same picture, hope it works this time.

I think that this picture may hold at least part of the answer Ken. Just shoot over the side and observe the impact of the rounds in the water. Simple and pretty low tech but I would think it would get the job done. kind of using the side of a building to aim the headlights on your car back in the day. That was done with a fairly simple gear set up that was designed in WWI for the aircraft that mounted the guns behind the prop. It is just a matter of stopping or delaying the firing of the next round as the blade comes into the field of fire. It was all geared to the crank shaft of the engine and would work at any RPM changing the rate of fire of the gun(s) as needed automatically.

My mistake. When I was looking at some of the pictures available online it looked like a number of those tubs on the lower decks held single 20mm guns with shields, not .50s. But then it is not my build and I was not really trying to research the ship like you are.

Nice work Denis I think I prefer the with flash the best. On my computer the without flash looks a little out of focus and it is hard to see the detail and finish of the model.

Now THOSE I had not noticed, and yes they look like more batteries next to the fuel tank. I have no suggestions. I can't envision a need for four batteries on anything outside of a military vehicle.

Your work area is FAR too clean and organized Craig! Nice progress on the Delahaye. It is interesting, (At least to me) that they used two six volt batteries. I wonder if they were set up in series for 12 volts, or parallel for higher amperage?

Thanks Edward We love our house. It was built in 1898 and as a Victorian design has many wonderful features both inside and out. But at the same time I can't say the same for some aspects of my neighborhood, the next door house being one of them. Oh well the bushes I planted years ago instead of building a fence are over 15 or twenty feet now and still growing. They are MUCH nicer to look at out of the dining window than his house would have been.

If you install a tubing pick up trough the bottom of the hull, or that extends under the hull from the transom back by the rudders that is in the propwash you will have no problems with picking up water even at speed.

I think that unlike most planes where the guns are grouped close together in each wing, the six gun F4Fs had the third gun in each wing located much further out on the wing in it's own bay. In your picture above, of the F4F with the bays open when the wings are folded, the third gun is the long narrow bay located on the far left of the second picture.

Sorry for not checking in a little more often but Waterloo just wasn't an interest to me in my travels through history and what little I have read about it was more confusing than not. Having said that I must say that your work on the figures is quite nice OC. I have done some figure painting back in the days when my kids were interested in D&D style board games and I spent many a night painting hero's and monsters needed to bring the dungeon to life. I also notice that in my absence, the life of reenactment and how it becomes a substitute life for some has come up. SCA is like that around here. Before COVID there were a number of events all through the better summer months around the area. Most of them even included jousting from horseback! How is that for expense! Not only the horse but armor and weapons as well! Some even have medieval tents where they stay for the event. Some events at the local fairgrounds can number in the thousands between participants and visitors. My next door neighbor and wife are heavily into SCA and spend most of the summer going from one event to another. Full costume, tent and whatever else they have crammed into their ancient delivery van that stays fully stocked year around. They don't do jousting but live like upper class merchants as their persona. I wish they would put the same effort in doing repairs to their partly renovated house that is the neighborhood eyesore and has been for the last twenty or more years! My house is on the right and their SCA van is on the left where it is parked year after year except when they take it around the block to keep from getting tickets! https://www.google.com/maps/place/2610+Oakes+Ave,+Everett,+WA+98201/@47.9827881,-122.2043191,3a,75y,267.53h,90.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sb4OsOVg1n6WQkVLWumoVxw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x549aaa97cb88ea4f:0x4964b7d6977f232a!8m2!3d47.9827813!4d-122.2046858 The pastime is so popular around here that they even have a permanent village not far from where I live. https://camlann.org/ I am not certain as I have not been there in years but I think it has been getting steadily larger each year with new buildings and events.