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It looks like you have the latest greatest type of bottle Jack. I think mine is two or three generations old now and has a blue and white label. Knowing Pledge they will change it again next week! Here is a dated paper on the product but it may still be useful especially to others outside of the US. http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html Just in case you may have wondered what OC was referring to with the toothpaste method, toothpaste makes a pretty good polishing compound. Here is a list of abrasiveness levels for several toothpaste brands. TOOTHPASTE RDA VALUES (Relative Dentin Abrasivity) – Tooth Cutting Ability Toothpaste makers regularly measure their product’s abrasivity. It’s necessary for FDA approval, and usually is not included in marketing. Abrasivity measurements are given by what’s known as an RDA value which stands for radioactive dentin abrasion or relative dentin abrasivity. These are RDA values for common toothpaste: 0-70= low abrasive, 70-100= medium abrasive, 100-150= highly abrasive, 150-250= regarded as harmful limit. The Mohs hardness of dentin is 2.5, the Mohs hardness of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is 2.5. The RDA value of baking soda is 7. That means any toothpaste that has an RDA value higher than 7 has the potential to cut dentin. The Mohs hardness of toothbrush bristles is 2.5. Also, research shows that 50% of damage occurs in the first 20 s RDA Values Toothpaste Brand and Variety Source 0 non-alcoholic mouthrinse (Biotene PBF(*Green Label), Act II Anticavity, Crest Pro-Health Complete, Oasis, Listerine Zero, Peridex, Peroxyl and water) Church & Dwight 7 straight baking soda (The Arm & Hammer Yellow Box) 8 Arm & Hammer Tooth Powder Church & Dwight 23 Biotene PBF Drymouth Toothpaste 25 Pronamel 30 KID’S TOOTH GEL STRAWBERRY-RASPBERRY (ph value: 7.0-7.5) Lavera 30 Elmex Sensitive Plus Elmex 42 Arm & Hammer Peroxicare Tartar Control Church & Dwight 42 Arm & Hammer Advance White Baking Soda Peroxide Church & Dwight 42 Arm & Hammer Peroxicare Regular Church & Dwight 45 Oxyfresh 44-53 Squigle Enamel Saver 49 Arm & Hammer Peroxicare Tartar Control Church & Dwight 49 Tom’s of Maine Sensitive (given as 40’s) Tom’s 53 Rembrandt Original (RDA) Rembrandt 53 CloSYS 57 Tom’s of Maine Children’s, Wintermint (given as mid-50’s) Tom’s 60 Boiron Homeodent Natural Toothpaste-Lemon Flavor 62 Supersmile Supersmile 62 Clinpro 5000 Fluoride Toothpaste 63 Rembrandt Mint (‘Heffernan RDA’) Rembrandt 63 Biotene Regular 68 Colgate Regular Colgate Palmolive 70 Colgate Total Colgate Palmolive 70 Arm & Hammer Advance White Sensitive Church & Dwight 70 Colgate 2-in-1 Fresh Mint (given as 50-70) Colgate Palmolive 70-76 Squigle Tooth Builder 79 Sensodyne Colgate Palmolive 80 AIM Unilever 80 Close-Up Unilever 83 Colgate Sensitive Maximum Strength Colgate Palmolive 85 Biotene Sensitive 91 Aquafresh Sensitive Colgate Palmolive 93 Tom’s of Maine Regular (given as high 80’s low 90’s) Squigle (Tom’s) 94 Rembrandt Plus Rembrandt 94 Plus White Indiana Study 95 Kid’s Crest 95 Crest Regular (possibly 99) P&G (P&G) 101 Natural White Indiana Study 103 Mentadent Squigle 104 Sensodyne Extra Whitening Colgate Palmolive 104 Sensodyne Repair and Protect with Novamin (Purchased on Amazon.com) GSK Pharmaceuticals 106 Colgate Platinum Indiana Study 106 Arm & Hammer Advance White Paste Church & Dwight 107 Crest Sensitivity Protection Colgate Palmolive 110 Colgate Herbal Colgate Palmolive 110 Amway Glister (given as upper boundary) Patent US06174515 112 Prevident 5000 Booster 113 Aquafresh Whitening Indiana Study 117 Arm & Hammer Advance White Gel Church & Dwight 120 Close-Up with Baking Soda (canadian) Unilever 124 Colgate Whitening Indiana Study 130 Crest Extra Whitening with Scope Indiana Study 130 Crest Pro-Health with Scope (Crest for Me) Burt’s Bees, Inc. 133 Ultra brite (or 120-140) Colgate Palmolive 144 Crest MultiCare Whitening P&G 145 Ultra brite Advanced Whitening Formula P&G 150 Pepsodent (given as upper bound) Unilever 165 Colgate Tartar Control (given as 155-165) Colgate Palmolive 189 Crest Pro-Health P&G 200 Colgate 2-in-1 Tartar Control/Whitening or Icy Blast/Whitening (given as 190-200) Colgate Palmolive 200 recommended limit FDA 250 recommended limit ADA Using water and a very soft cloth you can do some amazing polishing. You are more limited by the cloth than the compound. Follow up by DIPPING the windshield in future and you will be amazed at the results. I know, a little late but possibly for future use. Great job on what you already did. Great recovery.

Seems like even when you are gone someone is still adding structures to your village. Are you keeping little Keebler Elves around the house? I recognize the bin full of hay, but what are the other two bins full of?

I am just taking a guess here as not everything in your pictures is all that clear, at least on my computer. If the numbers match the plan picture of the deck it looks like possibly the Japanese followed the idea of marking frame numbers and representing them as stations. This practice is fairly common in most countries both in civilian and naval ships. The Yamato was about 263 meters in length so 12 would be the frame at 12 meters and 222 would be the frame at 222 meters. As I said, just a guess, others may have better ideas.

Looks like Ryland has a better way. Good luck on your build she is a nice looking ship.

DO you need both the plans and the instructions, or just the instruction booklet? I have both, but I would have to go to a copy shop to make copies of the larger plans sheets @? expense. If it is just the instructions you need then I could make copies of the book on my home printer unless someone here advises me that this is a copyright infringement.

That means that if yours do the same as two of mine then you only have eight or ten more years to pay for! One Doctor with extra specialities, one attorney, and one who is still thinking about what he wants to do as a trade. Only two more to go, (Grandkids I'm raising).

Nice addition to the fleet. If you add too many more from assorted countries you wil be able to stage your very own atom bomb test site. Using ships from all over the world they had the biggest fleet in the world at the time. I would be in for a tour as well. It would be nice to see all of your works in person rather than through he eye of a camera. Is the York your next build? I am somewhat more familiar with the Exeter due to her actions in the early days of WWII against both the Germans and the Japanese at the River Plate and Java Sea. I always thought the York class cruisers bore a striking resemblance to the Renown class battle cruisers.

Turn the car so that it looks like the front wheels are centered in the fenders Mike. You did too good of a job to be drawn to the one bad point each time you look at it. Congratulations.

Or intimate details of every game his favorite team played last year. To him THAT is history!

No tips or much experience to offer but I do know how to look, and from what I see your planes are turning out nice Mike.

Well in my opinion you need not have changed the wording Nick. I personaqlly am STUNNED by the quality of your recovery. If you had not said anything no one would been able to tell that the "F" is home made! Congradulations. I suspect that if it had been me I would have been stuck building an "ORD".

Great work Dominic. I kind of have the same kit atarted for pretty much the same reason as you. it will be for my long suffering wife. I didn't get the delux version though so it took almost two weeks just to drill out the 800+ portholes in the hull! I think the lighting kit was made by VooDoo at some point and I found it on eBay a few years ago. I also bouight some chinese fairy lights that I will either add or use instead. Did you just add foil to the hull as a reflecter or did it come with the light kit? Again nice work, I will be following along for obvious reasons!

Your ability to apparently just cruise through all of that PE as if it was nothing, never fails to astound me. Everything looks so amazing even in the close up pictures! I'm jealous! By the way I recieved my 8"/55 turrets from Micro Master and they are just as nice as your 11" turrets. At this point I think this company may have the best 3D stuff on the market. Shipping to the US is horrendous though, and almost made me reconsider. The same turrets from Model Monkey would have cost less than half as much after shipping!

You might be surprized at what children will sleep through Wahka. They seem to sleep right through thunder storms, loud parties next door, and all kinds of other things that keep us older people awake! Getting a dog may not work either. My cat and dog play together almost every evening, usually around 17:00. The cat is getting older now so it does not last as long as it used to. (She slaps the dog in the head to let him know play time is over).

Our elective, (Non life threatening) surgery operations opened back up a couple of months ago as well but apparently they are backed up to next year! I will still have to be tested a couple of days before surgery and can have no visitors, even family, while in the hospital. Not that anyone would want to come anyway. They will probably be at home having a party!

Not trying to hijack Greg's as always fantastic build Kevin, but the Strasbourg was more of a purpose built ship rather than regulated by the Washington Naval treaty or the later London Naval treaty. The Dunkerque and Strasbourg were built to counter the German "pocket battleships" launched in the early and late 1930s. The "Pocket Battleships" were influenced by the Treaty of Versailles but not the French ships. The French were limited by the London Naval Treaty of 1930 where their total battleship tonnage was limiteed. So one could say that the Dunkerque and Strasburg were more of a "Battle Cruiser" than a battleship. Their Richelieu and later Jean Bart were true Treaty Class Battleships with 15" guns. You are right in saying that the French were at least trying to build an effective ship while staying within the limits imposed by the London Treaty though, and looked at in that context, they did quite well for a ship rated at 27,000 tons.

Hope you recover fast Kevin. Sounds like a no fun condition to be in. They must be doing good work there in MS getting you in for surgery. I get to live on pain pills until late October before they can fit me in, if they don't close the hospitals again between now and then!

Years ago the Missouri was bearthed here in Washington and parts were open to the public. Almost no one knew she was here and there was never a wait to get on board. I was able to go through the open areas several times over the years. Then they took her to Hawaii and I am certain that much more of her is open these days to see. But the crowds are probably larger as well. Looks like you have done a very nice job on your Missouri so far Chris, congradulations.

Nice work Denis glad to see the final reasult. I have built a few Glenco kits and know that in many ways they are pretty basic kits so almost all the credit of having a finley finished model has to go to you and your skills, congradulations.

Nice work on your original try. These vessels are the workhorses of the oilrigs and in one form or another have remained almost unchanged for years. They have taken the form of fishing boats, anchor handling ships, cargo ships for the oil industry, and even navel tugs. Some even have hard chine hulls and that makes them even easier to model the hulls. Welcome and goodluck on your second try.

I have to join the, been there done that crowd. My first car was a Renault Dauphine that while not a "Sports car" was fun, small and surprisingly handled pretty well. But it was a hand-me-down from my sister’s husband and almost worth what I paid for it. Parts were impossible and my knowledge of cars left much to be desired at that point so I was unable to keep it running reliably. Two cars later I was able to buy a MG-TF and LOVED it! But at that point was unable to keep it running due to constant parts needs and required tuning. The tuning I could do myself for the most part by that time, but the short lifespan of parts caused me to have to sell it when I went into the Army. That was my last sports, or European car for the next 45+ years. A Porsche or such was pretty much out of the realm of consideration back then, (Still kind of is) the closest I could have gotten was a VW if I struggled hard and skipped a few meals now and then.

That is a pretty impressive assembly. Are you going to display it with an empty upper platform and raised high enough to see the lower platform and plane?

I am almost certain that they would have flown out of seperate fields, at least if they were stationed in England. Later on, as things progressed through Europe, there may have been a shortage of airfields causing a little more mixing. BUT, when returning from missions with either mechanical issues or battle dammage, any landing field would do, and getting on the ground in one piece more or less was more important than who was already stationed there. So I am pretty certain that at some point in time, seeing a Spit and a Mossie next to one another would have been possible.

I was doing the same when the kids were younger except that it was Hero Quest and later, Advanced Heroquest. Board layouts and play senerios made it much more interesting for the kids. No beer though.

I don't care what these guys have been saying OC. You have mannaged to come up with a very impressive Dio. One your dad would have been proud of I'm certain. It looks like when General Quarters shows up they will be fit and ready. Congradulations.