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You need to stay around and painting for at least as long as it takes me to catch up with you in age Jim. I'm 71 this month so you will have to keep painting for a number of years yet!
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In case you have not already seen it, here is some information and pictures that may be of assistance. Some of it is now a little dated but a search based on this information may come up with more recent stuff. https://www.foweyharbourhistory.com/uploads/2/0/9/0/20909932/st.canute_2014.pdf https://www.facebook.com/steamtugstockvik/ http://www.tugboatlars.se/Stockvik.htm
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Task Force 23 by SigEp Ziggy - 1/350 - USN ships
lmagna replied to SigEp Ziggy's topic in Plastic model kits
If you are willing to go the extra money you can use the Iron Shipwrights New Mexico kit and not have to bash an Arizona kit. The results would be much more accurate. http://ironshipwrights.com/pages/NewMexico.html At one time I was going to do the same thing using the available Indianapolis kit to make a USS Houston but located a resin kit instead and I'm glad I didn't have to go the bash route after all. Looking forward to your builds either way. -
Do you mean Kenco? If so I have never tried it as I don't normally drink instant coffee.
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That was a great rundown on the Prinz Eugen Rod. I didn't know about the removal of the propeller and display. I read somewhere a few years ago that the natives of Kwajalein petitioned the US Government for permission to disassemble the wreck and sell it as scrap for Island income. They were denied under the claim that all of the dials on board were still radioactive because of the Radium used in their construction and would be a potential radiation hazard. I do not know how valid this story is as it seems that divers are swimming through the wreck all of the time these days. I think the torpedo tubes were at a separate location than the main fortress guns Mark. They were not able to train on the Blucher while the ship was still in the firing angle of the fortress guns and did not fire their torpedoes until after the main fortress guns had stopped firing. I think I read that they were old WWI torpedos and had been fired in practice over 200 times over the years in training. They fired the first one and it hit forward with little damage because the officer in charge thought the Blucher was traveling faster than she was. The second torpedo hit amidships as intended and added considerably to the damage that had already been inflicted in that area.
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MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
lmagna replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I guess I will just have to squeeze in there somewhere! I am beginning to think I am in the wrong timezone. By the time I get to read that the build is going to happen the room is overflowing with watchers! I would have to join in the low opinion on Panda, in my case re-boxed as Dragon. In my case it is not so much bad fit but just everything is thick and out of scale and so much is missing all together that should have been included in the scale being built. But in my case it was, and is the only game in town. -
Quite the accomplishment OC. Glad you made it to the end.
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Where do yo keep the rafters? I'm inn. (But I DO expect fresh coffee in the morning)
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You make me feel guilty as well EJ. Only mine is something like 25 years or more of sitting on the shelf unfinished! I was originally going to finish mine as RC and have the hull and main cabin fairly done and then quit doing RC. I have thought several times of going back and finishing her as a static build.
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Another possible source of information, (Or at least an interesting read) https://www.amazon.com/Q-Ships-Versus-U-Boats-Americas-Project/dp/1557500444 There are several other books shown on the page as well.
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Hello Geo Although I do own one of the old Lindburg Q Ship models, the Atholl Star build in the above post is not mine. The pitcures and link I posted is just stuff I found on the internet as an example of the model I was talking about. I don't think it is a well known model for the most part. Another possible source would be the USS Atik. That would make the the model a copy of a real ship. The Atik's sister ship was the USS Asterion (AK100) but there is even less documentation on her than the Atik. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/asterion-ak-100-i.html
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Military Wrecker - Revell - 1:32 Scale - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
It doesn't take a general to do that. We got a colonel at one point that came in and started doing somewhat the same thing to our unit. He seemed to be more interested in spit shine pretty rather than effective combat readiness. He also instituted a number of other VERY unpopular activities that made very little sense in a combat zone, in fact some of them were outright dangerous. He lasted about two months and transferred out. I suspect they thought he was going to wake up one morning with a grenade in his bunk! Even still, we seldom let our equipment get too dirty or worn looking for any length of time. We never seemed to have a shortage of OD green paint especially around inspection times! -
The ship lost in Norway was the Blucher. She was hit about 30 times by 11" and an additional 13 by 5.9" shore mounted guns from point blank range, and after losing two boilers and having a severe fire started by these hits she also received two torpedo hits, again in the engineering areas. All of this damage was inflicted on the same side of the ship. The fires advanced and at least one 4.1" magazine also blew up causing even more damage and additional listing. Finally with virtually no power and a considerable list the Blucher rolled over and sank with considerable loss of life. While the Blucher took hits in the stern causing her to have to use her engines to steer due to her rudder function being lost but I do not believe she lost her stern. The other main ship involved was the Pocket Battleship Lutzow with 11" main guns, and while she also took considerable damage from the shore guns was able to escape. On the way back to Germany she was also attacked by a British Submarine and took a torpedo hit but was still able to make it home. The ship used in the atom bomb tests was the Prinz Eugene not the Admiral Hipper. That ship was scuttled by her crew after taking damage from RAF bombers in 1945.
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Welcome Geo You have a very interesting model there. It should be very interesting in restoring. I agree that it may not be an exact replica of an partictular ship but in almost all ways it looks like the old Lindburg "Q" Ship model to me. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235017040-u-boat-hunting-ww1-freighter-lindberg-round-2-1390-q-ship/ Your model is of course larger and made from wood but the Lindburg kit design could make a very nice starting point of rdesign of the missing structures. Good luck
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Military Wrecker - Revell - 1:32 Scale - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
That has to be about the cleanest military vehicle I have ever seen Craig! FANTASTIC build. It is clear that this kit has waited a LONG time for the right person. Was the big crate just extra "scenery"? -
Very unique look and excellently rendered Joe. Truly a master build.
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You are doing just fine Rod. In other places in your build you refer to the Prinz Eugen as a cruiser. If you really want to get confused, The Admaral Hipper class of heavy cruisers were in many ways much more "Battleship like" than other cruisers in the world. They were almost a third heavier than treaty allowed, (secretly) and had fourteen watertight compartments making them very strong ships and with their 32 knot speed probably capable of taking on any other heavy cruiser in the world and being dominant. I always like playing the "What if" scenario in my head. One of those scenarios is what would have happened if the USS Washington had come face-to-face with Bismark's sister ship the Tripitz? Which could have happened. My money is on the Washington unless something accidental happened and the Tripitz got VERY lucky. I feel this way for a number of reasons. On the other hand I cannot think of a single allied heavy cruiser that I would give the same odds against a Admiral Hipper class cruiser. Admittedly just speculation, and speculation by an amateur to boot, but I think the Hipper class was that much stronger of a ship.
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I knew of the Horsa of course but I thought your comments were pertaining to a small footprint diorama. That would require either the Waco or the HS-58 Horsa II that also used the flip up nose rather than the removable tail. Of course a "Crash" with broken wings would take up little more space than the Jeep and gun would.
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The gliders used in WWII were pretty simple and you shouldn't need the whole thing to do a Diorama as they unloaded from the nose. In the case of carrying a Jeep, I even wonder if one glider carried both the gun and the jeep. Would this do for a set of plans? https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=6106 https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=6763
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T-28s by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to ErnieL's topic in Completed non-ship models
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Great looking build Rod. You seem to be making excellent progress without sacrificing quality. On the portholes in the hull part of the ship question, you are mostly right. Many countries included portholes in their warships up to WWII. Slightly before the opening of hostilities and soon after many or in some cases all of those portholes were welded shut based on reports that they were places where additional water entered when a ship was damaged in battle, adding to, or causing the more rapid sinking of the ship. I have no idea if the Germans followed suit on this practice but I do know that as a rule German ships were more compartmentalized than most ships of other countries at the expense of habitability. In most cases German crews did not live on board when in their ports but stayed in shore facilities instead. One thing of note though is that the Prinze Eugen was not a battleship, but as you list her in your original posting, a Heavy Cruiser. Portholes were much more common in cruisers than in Battleships even further into the war.
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With all of the pain this build has caused you, it was probably the intended spelling, but you didn't realize it.
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The JRS-1 is still available on Amazon for $130. https://www.amazon.com/Ltd-Boat-Jrs-1-Model-Kit/dp/B01M2ZU5EZ . But that would only save you the shipping cost from eBay. It is also available from Austria for about $90 with shipping to the US if you are willing to wait for the shipping time. I just sent a package to Europe and it took 17 days to be delivered. The PO says it was delivered today and I shipped it on the 13th. If you don't get it for some reason at least eBay, (and PayPal) protects your money. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-72-Eduard-The-Boat-JRS-1-Limited-edition/162788229416?hash=item25e6ef4128:g:s48AAOSwYDZaVPaB No need to thank me. I'm ALWAYS willing to find ways to spend someone else's money!
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Interesting view looking up the hatch into the cockpit. Nice work OC. How much pain does it normally take?
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