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  1. lmagna
    Just what I would need, another modeling medium that I have absolutely no expertise in! I am hardly functional in the mediums I have used! But you are right, paper or card has a much broader selection range, at very affordable prices to boot. All we need to do is look at the Royal Katherine and others by Doris to see that even card has unlimited possibilities with the right talent and effort.
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    I agree with both the comment and choice of the Omaha class, most notably the Marbelhead, what could arguably be considered the sole surviving cruiser of ABDA. But my choice would be the Northampton heavy cruisers. After years of searching and waiting I was finally able to get a resin kit of the Houston but a 1/200 plastic kit would not bother me at all. Three feet of pure history every bit as deserving as any of the German WWII ships!
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    Very nicely done KP.
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    Nice sound Robert
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    We always figured we would use the Bill Cosby method of surviving a helicopter crash. Wait until just at impact and jump up! (You have to be familiar with the old Bill Cosby comedy records.)
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    If I understand what you are saying Jan, turning ships like this can be a problem sometimes. The easiest thing would be to make the rudder larger than scale. This can be done just by adding a clip on extension and is something that almost all RC scale ships with 4:1 or 5:1 ratio hulls need. Giving the rudder more than 45 degrees of turn also helps. About the only other thing you can do is give each outboard prop it's own throttle or at least the ability to turn them off individually. Then you can turn the ship more sharply by using only the outside prop in a turn and the rudder. This can be done by adding micro switches next to the rudder servo arms so the the right switch is turned off in a hard right turn and the left switch in a left turn. This will also make the ship turn much faster. Whatever you do, if you add two throttles do not reverse one prop while running the other forward. You will just slow down in a straight line until you are almost stopped and then start spinning in place. Good for docking but not so good for realistic tight turns.
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    Ah! So you finally brought it out of hiding Carl.
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    There is no cure Mark. One of the reasons I have so little room for models is that I have so many books, and I have no intention of getting rid of the books!
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    Hi Art I wish I knew something about the PE sets for the ships you have been able to get but I have never bought any of them. On the other hand I did buy a couple if Eduard PE sets for my Huey build and in some ways, at least in my opinion, are in no way meant for the modeler new to using the stuff. Their method of folding and attachment in many cases was totally unusable and I had to devise my own way to make the parts work. In other cases the details were incredibly complicated. The seatbelt buckles alone were made up of a half dozen individual pieces each, and each of those pieces were almost microscopic size! Incredible detail sure, but also unnecessarily complex. In my opinion pretty much items for either the very talented or skilled modeler. Or possibly just for masochists! I was told that this is a common factor with Eduard PE. Your mileage could very.
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    Nice, I like it better than the small brother. Your video showed how you are doing the woodland stripes but are you masking and airbrushing the black and white stripes?
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    That is interesting Ken. I never thought of comparing strengths and tactics between the P-40 and F-4. I was more aware of the F-86s legend as a dogfighter and using your example I suppose the F-22 would be the modern example of the F-86 but still maintaining the speed/power advantage of the F-4.
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    Thanks for the Video Jan. I was into RC for a number of years and there is nothing like seeing your efforts sailing over the "Sea" in pursuit of the enemy! The day was too bright and calm though. It should have been more gray and gloomy.
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    I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm just hoping that it is not an oncoming train! The only thing I check the obits for is to make certain I'M alive! If I call someone and they don't answer I just figure they don't want to talk to me. Not all that uncommon. Hope Sybile is home OK and settling in and you still have enough bottom end to be able to sit down comfortably. Remember bowing and groveling almost always helps, almost always.
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    Toilet paper Jack!!!!!! Are you not aware that we are in the midst of a pandemic and toilet paper is a crucial item?
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    You have already seen it Mike. It's already too late! It is kind of like looking at Medusa, the affects of just one glance last forever. The dark side beckons!
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    Thanks for the title Steven. You are right eBay seems to be cheapest. If it wasn't for the killer shipping cost from OZ it would be a good price. This is one of the times I wished it was available through Kindle or as an E-book! Be careful Lou. If you start getting into the history part of all this you will find that it is more addicting than crack! One book leads to another and they lead to books with different views. then there are books with new insights based on new information, or books written at the time of the event. One book I have about navel battles of WWI was written and published in 1918! Then after you have read about the general events you find there are personal accounts or small events that only affected a few people. How about escaping the fall of the Philippines and driving a 35 foot motor whaler all of the way to Australia through Japanese occupied islands! Makes William Bligh's little yachting adventure look tame. For me these stories I have been reading since childhood are what cause me to want to build the model in almost every case. But, yes I also just like the looks of some models also.
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    Thank you all for your kind comments. It is possible you are able to see something that I can't, or that you are great liars! Either way it does give me some incentive to try and get more table time than I have been able to manage over the last couple of weeks. Maybe in the middle of the day when I have real outside light coming in through the window, might make me feel a little less confined. I should be able to get a lot done in a relatively short time now that I am moving on from the cockpit.
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    Pleas let me know when you figure it out Steven. That is the period that I like reading about the most. I already have a minor Library that is just about the Pacific theater in WWII especially the early years.
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    I showed your cabinets to my wife and all she could say to me was "What would I do with my dolls?" (She has a number of cases all over the house that are like yours, but full of dolls). I have a closet that is full of un-built kits!
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    Thank you KP, Mark, and EG. 1/8th or 1/35th, I still feel your builds and a number of others I have been following are artwork, while mine will just be pedestrian at best. I am not ashamed of what I have done so far, as this is the first model of any kind I have really done in years and is using a number of disciplines that I have never used before at all. I do regret the advent of the virus as it has changed things around my house and dramatically curtailed my ability to spend time modeling and slowed my build significantly. Learning how to keep the kids up in their schooling that is now done at home, has, and continues to be quite a time consuming weekday endeavor and one that is not been all that easy for someone who left the school system almost fifty years ago! Add the daily adjustments to simple things like learning how to grocery shop online for a family of four including two Velociraptors who never seem to be full, and other life changes that I am certain you are all familiar with, and it sometimes seems that building has come to a complete stop. Hopefully I will soon catch up and things will change back to a more normal retired life! Again, thank you so much for your support. I will try to honer it by striving to do the best of my ability and present something worth looking at at least.
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    I don't think any Spitfires above the MK VIII were sent to the Pacific theater and as far as I know they were only used by the British and Australian forces in the defense of Australian interests. In this role, and later in the reclaiming of the Malay Peninsula, they did pretty well, after they learned just like everyone else NOT to dogfight with the Zero's. Part of the reason for their limited use was because of the limited range of the Spitfire and partly because they fell under the command of MacArthur, (Who I will not say much about here but is NOT on my list of competent generals of WWII) who denied them access to front line combat positions in his advance back to the Philippines. As far as I can determine this was not because of any shortcomings of the Spitfire's but pretty much strictly political. MacArthur wanted his return to be 100% American.
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    I have for some reason never been attracted P-51 that much, (Other than LOVING the engine sound of the Rolls Royce Merlin). So I have never really followed it's history as much as some other WWII aircraft. I have never built one as a model either. So the history part of the Mustang should be left to the more than adequate numbers of followers that I am certain are out there. On the part about entering the war, one has to remember that the US did not declare war on Germany. We had an agreement with England to help them with Germany and if worst came to worst that Germany would be the first to be dealt with over Japan, but at the time I do not believe we had an alliance with England to go to war with Germany in defense of England. Even though it is probably inevitable that we would have declared war against Germany, and certain that we would have continued to help her in a number of active and material ways, declaring war was not necessarily a given. In any case declaring war was not necessary, as Hitler declared war against the US first. While it is true that starting a two front war was not one of Hitler's better ideas and possibly cost him the war over all, the massive destruction of Germany and rolling their war effort back to defending the gates of Berlin would not have happened without America becoming a full participant in the Allied cause.
  23. lmagna
    So says you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    It was not the size it is the attention to detail. I could go through my Huey and replace much of what I know is wrong or overly simplified with it, but at my best I could not come close to duplicating the creative pieces of art represented in this build and so many others on this forum. I can live with it, (I really don't have much choice) but I can't help but be a little embarrassed at my more than modest skills when I see this degree of ability. I am envious but at the same time I'm Absolutely amazed and impressed.
  25. lmagna
    Congratulations SK. you have made a very nice model. Are we going to get to see her going on her maiden voyage?

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