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The wood filters look great. There's always something else to buy. Sigh Great work Alan
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And then along came Boeing. They have out a welcome package to St Louis employees including a Boeing pin. A lot seemed to end up in the car park. The names live on a bit though The call sign for the X-32 at flight test was Phantom 1 (may not be the best inheritance for the wonderful F4) and the St Louis advanced projects is the Phantom Works Alan
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The bane of cooperative ventures. I spent some time at McDonnell-Douglas St. Louis back in the 90s (when corporate budgets allowed office supplies with company names and logos) and there were die-hards who would cut the "-Douglas" off the end of their pencils. Rolls-Royce Derby went out of their way to ignore what was done at Rolls-Royce Bristol. As for Joint European ventures.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Alan
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The cockpit has been finished off in the late war dark grey. I added some dry brush metal on the wear surfaces around the cockpit and a panel line wash. I used the Mig panel line wash and found it didn't flow terribly well until I added more thinner. It's not terribly noticeable but a check with the canopy on suggests it's all going to be invisible anyway. Tape seat belts and I used the Mig crystal fluid in the instrument dials and then some bright metal wear. Then closed it all up. It went together nicely and needed little clamping to hold the fuselage halves together. The fit has been great. The stub wing is quite a complicated shape but it fitted without any persuasion. A coat of Mig One Shot black primer and then onto colours I borrowed someone technique and used clear coat to "glue" the masked canopy in place. It seemed to be a good fit and easier than masking around the seat Thanks for all the input and likes. I hope everyone has a great weekend Alan
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Definitely Ken Along with his fat Reichsmarshall I think they severely reduced the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe and could be argued paved the way to losing the war. No complaints on my part. The aviation designs and concepts are fascinating though. The Ho229 in particular. Again an early concept that led to things like the YB-49 i think. I have a Ho229 on the wish list Alan
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Craig You are right, I was being a bit frivolous but I do get the impression Hitler wasn't an easy person to tell that the wonder weapons were not working out. As you say their science and arts had some strange and esoteric frontiers all the way to mysticism. Maybe thats a fertile environment for unrestrained thinking Alan
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Welcome Mark I've been reading up some of my STOVL material and it registered that tilt rotor (like the V-22) requires a surplus of power compared with tilt wing because in tilt rotor you waste thrust blowing on the non-compliant wing. So for the days of limited power (although in STOVL you always have limited power) the Germans made the correct choice. The fixed stub wings might even have given them a little STOVL capability too Alan
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Thank you very much Yves, You were the pathfinder for this build so some credit goes to you. I was right - I can't reliably lift the case and base solo so I am waiting to recruit someone trustworthy to help with the final move. Alan
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Thank you Mike, very kind. The cases are bit basic but at least i can protect the models. I really need a display cabinet but I don't seem to have anywhere to put one so the cases allow me to spread the models around a bit. Alan
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Thank you very much. It definitely stretched my ability at times Interesting to know that there are some printable crew figures out there. Thats a shame about the Castle class kit although I printed the Flower hull at 1/72 partly out of curiosity and also to prove to myself that I had a better grip on the 3D printing and it didn't have to be the marathon I went through with the first iteration. The hull still seemed pretty robust at that size but i suspect going a lot smaller would make it a bit fragile. Alan
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Thank you OC, An interesting model and fun to make and paint. I have a British X Craft waiting to go on the table once the Luftwaffe make room Alan
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