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coxswain reacted to BobG in Amati 1:64 HMS Victory - LATEST NEWS
It would be pure bliss if I could build in a pub! Not sure how accurate things would be but, then again, I probably wouldn't care! 🤪
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coxswain got a reaction from FrankWouts in Amati 1:64 HMS Victory - LATEST NEWS
Yeah, right!! That spot is either the biggest distraction or the biggest inspiration........green with envy......
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
So I ended up taking the one beam out due to the fact the gap between the deck boards was just too much.
i think after re-doing it was well worth it.
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
ok, this is pretty embarrassing but since I turn 40 this year I am hoping to have all these done in my life time. I’m convinced I’ll be retired in 15 years 😂
the one on the bottom I’d occre bounty with open hull
pretty much every model shipways kit when it was on sale...damn those sales
recently the model shipways constitution was on sale for 200$...couldn’t resist. The other two are eBay wins...
this Berlin kit is normally 450$ - $600! Got it for under 200 shipped....awesome looking materials
never seen a Le grande lejon (which is a real boat) a rattlesnake and a very old victory kit.
lots of Midwest...
midwest steam engine kit which came with a boat and I ended up winning two Corel cross sections for $75.
well I hope that motivates you to ummm...I don’t know but I think I need help 😆
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
I actually purchased the full size version of this ship as well for a literal steal (under $200 including shipping!)....
anyways, inside the box was a Corel product brochure and I was amazed to see all the options for dioramas/cross sections.
also, please tell me what the rod in my diorama is representing...would it be the rudder??
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
I finished the night off carving up the post and fitting the planking (not glued yet)
So far its not too shabby. I’m wondering what the sailer is doing, there is something under him that he is using a post to manipulate. I’ll get the picture off the plan later...
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
The next step was to box out the gun port and stairs
I still have to trim the lip formed within the gunport
the plans show the stairs between frames 5 and 6 but the instructions and stair detail say 6 and 7...
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
I then built them into the provided jig. The instructions and plans are quite well written I think.
i flies the plan and jigs onto a build board.
I then put the frames in the jig and started putting some of the strips of wood that form the gun port and outline the stair well
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coxswain reacted to Duanelaker in Ponte Berlin by Duanelaker - Corel - 1:25 scale
The frames were pretty rough cut...and the drawings didn’t match each other very well.
I did my best to align them and get them close.
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coxswain reacted to Old Collingwood in Bell UH-1H Huey By lmagna - Dragon - 1/35 - PLASTIC
So you have traveled in a Boeing 707? I have too when I was a teenager.
OC.
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coxswain reacted to lmagna in Bell UH-1H Huey By lmagna - Dragon - 1/35 - PLASTIC
I think the whole thing not only got pretty blurry at the end with all that was going on. Maintaining flight duties, processing out, turning stuff in, and a blur of other things. Not too many drunken parties as I was still on flight status but I do vaguely remember some Rum and Coke episodes in the hooch after dinner. The last couple of weeks were a whirlwind of events and emotions that ended here:
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coxswain reacted to lmagna in Bell UH-1H Huey By lmagna - Dragon - 1/35 - PLASTIC
Well a short update. It feels strange to have any progress to report so soon after the last report.
I filled in the excess holes in the deck like suggested and then proceeded to make more, that mostly will also probably have to be filled in later. I assembled the rear jump seats and gunner seats. I then placed them into their proper locations. The test fit looked OK as first glance so I went ahead and painted them. Big mistake! They immediately assumed a different shape or something and refused to be usable in the locations that they seemed fine in prior to painting! So after taking the following pictures I went to a different method of installing the seats that is totally different than what I used on the forward jump seat!
Today I hope to get some time to alter the seats and install them. I will of course need to make some more repairs to the deck and then will be pretty much done with the basic cabin area. I will be adding pilot controls and delicate stuff like that at the last minute so that hopefully they won't be broken.
After that, it is back into new territory for me. People painting! Another area that I have never tried in model building, at least not figures that were meant to be looked at from close quarters.
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coxswain reacted to JPAM in Sandolo buranello by JPAM - FINISHED - GILBERTO PENZO - Scalla 1:18 - SMALL
ok boys n girls... this model is FINITO! i built the case out of single strength pane glass. the base is stained pine. i am trying to source brass L brackets to replace the copper tape and brass stips for the bottom of the glass. I added the 'Pali de Casada', those iconic striped mooring poles you find all over venice. They were originally lantern post so that people would be able to find the entrance to their Palazzos in the night. they are painted with different color swirls to denote different families, the red and white belong to the Foscari family in whose grounds the university is now placed, thus they are to be found throughout the city. on to the next one!
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coxswain reacted to Canute in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
Well, Roscoe made it back to the States, to Hill AFB, Utah, where he lived for a number of years. He supposedly came to Korat in one of the early arrival aircraft in 65-66 or so, from Kadena AB on Okinawa. He had his own party suit, a blue dog's coat with the rank of Colonel. He had the run of the base, even stopping the CO's jeeps if he wanted a ride by sitting in the appropriate lane facing the Colonel. He could forecast how tough our missions up over the North of Viet Nam would be by whether he was sitting up paying attention to the briefers or laying on a chair, napping. His forecasts were better than the success rates for the weather briefers. That's why one of my current dogs is named Roscoe, in memory of the mascot at Korat.
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coxswain reacted to lmagna in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
What is it with company mascots? We had a dog we called Major, even had rank on his collar. He was always there when you came back from a flight and seemed to love everyone who was in a uniform. But with the exception of most of the Mama San and Papa San's in the company area HATED native people. Many called them "Gooks" back then. He would go into battle mode, all fangs and growls if approached by one. I never knew if it was smell or something else that triggered him but he never failed to let one get close to him but had no problems with any new GI who arrived or was there on business. I don't know what happened to him when we pulled out a few years later. As a dog that was born in Vietnam there is little chance he was allowed to go to the US with his company. I hope he found a good home.
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coxswain reacted to Canute in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
A couple of my veteran groups run trips over to Nam on a random basis. I didn't leave anything over that way, except friends who won't be back.
I know the Thais ate dog, saw some in their butcher shops in Korat City. They were always eying our mascot, Roscoe dog, with bad intent. And Roscoe gave it as good as he got; chased the guys off on a routine basis.
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coxswain reacted to CDW in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
When we retired, one of my best friends (now deceased) went back to Vietnam and Thailand and stayed for over a month.
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coxswain reacted to Jack12477 in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
I never saw combat or Nam like you guys but I did visit the wall some time ago and was surprised at my reaction. One of the guys I went to school with, 1st grade thru college, is listed on the wall.
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coxswain reacted to mtaylor in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
I hear you. I went to the funeral of a friend from my squadron back in the 80's. They held at the VA cemetery and that with taps and bagpipers..... I know for certain I wouldn't do well.
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coxswain reacted to lmagna in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
Sometimes I wish I had. I was shocked at my reaction.
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coxswain reacted to mtaylor in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
I hear you on the fleetness and uselessness of our efforts. I've been told, for example, the runway we used at our base is now part of a major north/south highway. There's not much there to see from back then although some of the grunts have gone out to certain battlefields.
I've avoided going to the Wall like the plague. Not sure I could handle it. Some things are too powerful emotionally and that's one of them.
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coxswain reacted to lmagna in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
I have seen people do that. I have never decided if I would like to or not. It is not really the time or the money, I have enough of both if needed. The area I was stationed was not really a tourist attraction in the first place, and probably mostly everything has been erased of our presence there. I think Part of my reluctance stems from the fear of really seeing how fleeting and possibly useless our time there really was, bringing credibility to what was happening by the Jane Fonda types here in the states and further discredit to our time there.
The other side of me would like to show my wife and to a lesser extent my kids where it all happened and why it can't really be explained.
I was able to go to the Vietnam wall in DC a few years ago, and pointed out a few names to my wife. It was clear that she still didn't understand when she said she had never seen me that way before.
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coxswain reacted to mtaylor in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
Very true, Lou. When the locals food came, it was hot both in flavor and temperature and we were damn glad of it. Hmm.. might have been rat instead of chicken... who knows? It was lots of spices, a sauce, lots of rice and bits of meat. We didn't insult them by dragging out a spoon, some guys used chopsticks and the others of us used our fingers and everyone smiled, both us and the villagers. There was cross cultural stuff though. One village I remember had spoons for their "honored guests" who brought medicine, tobacco for the adults and candy for the children. Lovely people most of them. I've often thought of going back for a tour/vacation/sentimental journey. but never found the time or money.
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coxswain reacted to lmagna in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
That was my policy whenever I ate local. If it tasted good, (Almost anything did after a steady diet of mess hall food) and didn't kill me, I didn't want to know what it was. Like you I was pretty sure that at some point the food had been someones pet. But then It could have just as easily been rat! Some of them were HUGE!
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coxswain reacted to mtaylor in Sikorsky CH-53 by mtaylor - FINISHED - Revell - 1:48 - PLASTIC
Yep... we drifted off to food. I think it's in our DNA...
Had some off the wall foods in 'Nam doing MedCaps... muc nam, lots of rice and some other vegges but not sure what they were, and I think at on village we had dog. Not sure as they wouldn't tell us and as honored guests we weren't supposed to ask. On the Malaysian trip... cuttlefish, octopus, and eel. All those again from the villages on the coast (we did "good will" trips). Inland, I never asked just like in "Nam. Just bowed, thanked them and smiled while eating it. Once we left the village (both places), washed it down with beer.
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