lmagna
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One of my more favorite aircraft. Also one of the first model aircraft I ever built, the old 1/48th Monogram kit with retracting landing gear, folding wings and opening torpedo bay doors, (That of course allowed the torpedo to fall out). Made many attacks with that model in my back yard plastic pool, (Ocean) Got a chance a number of years ago to get close enough to touch a real one. What a brute!- 267 replies
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OR (Novel idea), just fired them off as gunnery practice before entering harbor!
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Looks like a bad night for all concerned. Also looks like another case of British warships having loaded cannon when there really was no need. Still an enjoyable historical read.
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Again a nicely built and finished model Craig. Did you ever get anyone to translate the advertising on the one side? Probably says "Eat at Joe's."
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Looks like Chester needs to feed his crew a little better! Looks like you are making some steady progress OC. Must be nice being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and know that the ship will turn out so well. (Unless the light you see is a train coming the other way!) I need to keep jumping off of the tracks on my Huey build because of all of the oncoming train wrecks, and I'm only at the very beginning!
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Just another accolade among many Greg, but I must say that this is possibly the most masterful and visually striking model of it's type that I have ever seen. It is totally captivating to me, and I'm not even much of a bird farm kind of guy! All I can add to what others have said is just another "Congratulations" which just does not seem to be adequate.
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I am relatively certain That if you PMed Greenstone here on the forum that he would gladly translate it for you. I wish I could make the kind of progress with your fineness that you do Craig. If I could then I might even be able to put a dent in some of the kits I have stashed. But so far my efforts seem to be more in the one step forward and three back. I think I will wear out the parts of two Huey interiors before I get even one right! In the mean time it is nice to be able to follow someone who knows how to do it properly and make it come out nicely.
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It will be nice to see a modern build of this almost vintage kit. Your choice of planking her will also make it much more realistic as all of the YMS mine sweepers were of course made of wood. Even though made here in the NW, (Seattle) the ship was Lend Leased to the British Navy and ended up in Europe at the end of the war. One of her somewhat sister ships, also built here, went to the US Navy and Alaska instead. She also was converted and became somewhat famous as the Wild Goose, owned by John Wayne. For years he kept her up here in Seattle for the most part and sailed on her regularly, but when he died she was sold off and I believe now operates out of Southern California.
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Thanks It is good to at last see the planes coming on board. Just like on the real carriers the ship does not seem alive until the planes arrive. Are you going to make the Pacific campaign ribbon part of the display?
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Yes when recovering aircraft the stowed aircraft or those waiting to go below would have to be on the launching area of the deck with the crash net up. How many aircraft come in the kit? I know you said at one point in your build how many you have of each type but I don't remember if you stated they were what the kit came with.
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The modern remake by Moebius is available almost anywhere, without paying the sometimes outrageous prices on OldmodelKits.com. The aftermarket stuff, just like all other models can add up quickly though.
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Careful Your hanger will start looking like my model closet where I hide all the kits I don't want my wife to know about!😈 You keep saying that you are not going to put many aircraft on the deck. Are you going to stage them as if they are taking off on a mission and many of them are gone already? Or as the aircraft are stored and only a few are parked on deck either coming or going? Just a note. American practice, unlike British practice, was to store many of the aircraft on deck, usually on the stern in the landing area and kept the hanger deck available for maintenance and foul weather storage. That allowed them to carry more aircraft as a rule and expedite launching for missions.
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I did say WWII. I knew that the present day day version would look like a dead rat. Jim and Ken are right. Australia started with the red, white, blue RAF roundel but like Jim said, Americans it appeared, liked to shoot at anything with a red circle, so the red was removed from the fuselage roundels but for some reason not the wings. If it makes you feel better they removed the red circle from the US insignia for the same reason.
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There are a number of builds of this model Yves and I think yours could stand up there with any of them. Supposedly Moebius is claiming that it is in the process of designing my personal favorite from the movie, the Aries 1B. They claim a 2021 release date but if their Proteus release was any indication it will be more like 2025. I always kind of liked the moon bus as well but when I built the old Aurora kit when young I just had to modify it to what I thought it should be from avid reading of various SF books by Heinlein and others. That is almost always a problem with me building SF models.
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You are a braver man than I Harley. Are you certain that Florida is far enough from Australia to be safe?
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Not the only time that a salute caused a death and injuries. http://frogstorm.com/daily/2016/12/12/john-kendricks-final-salute
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New US carrier to be named for a WWII hero, not a president
lmagna replied to mtaylor's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Call me stupid I suppose. What alterations are need to jet equipped aircraft carriers to allow them to handle jet aircraft modified/designed to operate on aircraft carriers? -
Isn't that made with fruits or berries? That was a square into a BIG square hole. Truly an innovative solution, usually referred to as "Thinking INSIDE the box".
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That's what you get when you go to the store. Processed square tomatoes: Square bottle with a round hole.
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Or time of day, but it may have started on the question of if a square tomato can fit into a round hole.
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And the battle continues. Another mutiny? As far as I can determine it is still not completely resolved in 2020. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/descendants-of-bounty-mutineers-defend-their-island-home-from-au/ While I am not familiar with the ship Jud, I have seen what a couple of pods of 2.75 rockets can do. Impressive firepower for a short time. Definitely capable of wrecking someones day, even though a couple of M-61 Vulcan's may have been even more impressive. All they would have had to do was drive a couple of M-113s with Vulcan mounts on board and light them up when it was party time.
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Hope you can get them soon Mark. Not being able to see clearly is a real bummer even when not modeling.
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