Egilman
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Usually they have a platform that allow the grain to be shoveled off the wagons into a hopper that gravity feeds the elevator... The elevator, (think bucket chain hoist) lifts the grain into the top of the silo which is gravity fed into the hopper cars when loading the train... The doors, (usually two) were there for elevator chain replacement, these elevators were used continuously during harvest season 24/7... The chain lifts would wear out in a single season in an area of large farms... There was equipment in the machinery room to effect the swapping of the lift chains, and it could be done in two days... They would actually use grain loaded in the buckets to balance the weight so it was a simple low tech hand operation to change them... Otherwise, the doors remained closed at all times.... This is why you don't see them open in period pics... (usually taken during harvest season when the elevator is in operation) EG -
That is one CLEAN set of wheels....
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BR-18 Locomotive by Greg Davis - OcCre - 1/32
Egilman replied to Greg Davis's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
They were flush riveted on the boiler plates, the bands reinforced & covered the riveting.... They were also built during the end of WWI thru approximately 1928 in several variations.... There is one still in operation today... Plate arc-welding as a manufacturing process didn't come into use until 1932, and even at that time was limited to the shipyards building warships... It's became widespread during WWII... -
I'm sure they look stunning brother, but, you can't really see it against a diffuse black background... The wheel black just blends into the background....
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You know, they lived with it on the real car... The door windows were plexi on the real car and the parts for the slider were as well just glued together... The rivets were for reinforcement... A few minor scratches adds to the authenticity... This is my opinion of course, but they are there on the real thing... Absolute fact... So, nothing to be sad about, an inadvertent detail added by accident, but very very realistic... (especially since you have to be on top of it to see them) Perfection I say... EG
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You know, I've been debating whether I should mention this or not... The idea is to scale down the car, NOT scale up the lumber it's sitting on... Where on god's green earth you obtained in scale metal flake blue paint? They don't make such an animal... So you see my point.... So please stop scaling up the wood... {chuckle} It confuses us.... EG PS: very nicely done Brother... VERY VERY NICELY DONE...
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Yeah he's got it right for the cockpit portion only, somewhere between the cockpit and tail empennage, the cable will cross within the rear fuselage giving the proper direction to the elevator...
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The X1C and it's clones are a tool... fire and forget, load your file and print right out of the box... They are so good that both Anycubic and Prusa cloned it... It's the future of FDM... Resin still has it's place, but for some things FDM is now the turn to....... This is an excellent project YES, and I don't want to take it off course, if you want to discuss it, hit me up with a PN brother... Gladly share what I know... EG
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Ron, Brother, FDM printing has come a long way in the last few years... My X1C will produce parts that are just as smooth as most Resin printers... I suspect the Clones by Anycubic and Prusa will as well... I've actually gotten bead lines from the X1C at .007" off the build plate... Structural parts like he's proposing are no longer the private purview of SLA printers, they can be readily printed on a filament printer.... That's at 1/72 scale from a Bambu labs X1C.... That part in the upper right corner of the pic is the cowling section of the nose part for a '77 Pontiac Freeway Enforcer (Buford T Justice's car) printed off the X1C at 1/25th scale in ABS... Resin isn't the only option for fine details anymore...
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I love it when manufacturers think they are doing a good job when they take the time to engineer an instrument panel that looks decent, then provide a single cover decal to put over a three or four level surface... Never gonna happen without cutting up the decal, and this plane had a grey interior with black faced instruments which will force you to cut up the decal to get it to look right... (or even attempt it) Roden isn't the only one to do this... And I usually chuck the decal and go straight to paint... I don't know if there is any aftermarket instrument panels for this model or aircraft, probably not given the obscurity of the subject... So I would agree with going straight to paint, the panel itself looks great, a fine piece of molding.... EG
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Hey Dennis!! GOOD to see ya back!!! And with another great build as well... WE missed ya! Happy to see that you made it through the travails... The boy can build can't he..... {giggle}
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Oh my pleasure, it is what we are here for.... EG
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The Continental IO-360, has a steel crankcase, and steel sleeved aluminum finned Cylinders and Heads... The yellowish finish on the engine is the anodizing used to preserve and protect the parts from corrosion... and as you can see it doesn't last forever... Here is a link to the Maintenance and Overhaul manual on this engine... (scribd link) Looking good will be following...
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Woodwork/Model making workshop. Scale 1:1
Egilman replied to Charter33's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Here's the Indiana Harbor Belt "O" scale (1/48 scale) 0-8-0 for sale... And, Casey Jones AHM O Scale Cannon Ball Express Locomotive Kit 4-6-0 for sale... (27 watchers on it, they don't last long) Both are reasonably priced.... EG
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Me, I'm lusting after the Ferrari 330p4 or 412p both were upgraded 330p3's the only difference was the 330p4 had a fuel injected engine rather than carbs and the 412p was the North American Team version, otherwise identical...
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Porsche Carrera GT by CDW - Tamiya - 1:12 Scale - PLASTIC
Egilman replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
He wasn't actually in the West German Luftwaffe, they wanted him but the US Airforce sent word thru NATO representatives that he was unacceptable... The Germans could have chosen him anyway, but decided not to... It is the only appointment of WWII Luftwaffe officers that was interfered with by the new NATO, (read US hierarchy) This was due to alleged sympathies with neo-nazi organizations... He became a consultant to the Argentine Airforce of Juan Peron.... Eventually returning to Germany and starting a consulting organization which eventually gained contracts with the West German Luftwaffe... He never held a military rank after WWII... He eventually became good friends with Douglas Bader and godfather to Bader's son.... And unofficially friends with many US Air Force officers, He was an Anti Nazi, both Goering and Himmler tried to get him imprisoned or assassinated during the war... He was an affable chap, very easy to get along with and one of the greatest fighter pilots to ever fly... An ace in both propeller fighters and jets... While with the Argentinian AF he flew the Gloster Meteor, he was reported to have said that if the Germans had anything like the meteor engine in the Me-262 it would have been the greatest fighter jet of all time.... -
Search the internet first your looking for names like Glardon-Vallorbe... Corradi... Esslinger Grobet... Ebay isn't the place to look brother... The real deal.... (but pricey, but then you know as we all do, you get what you pay for) EG
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Look at any of my builds and you see the same identical thing... We all have that tendency brother...
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This is one of the things that scares me with MFH kits, they are beautifully made yes, meticulous details and assemble much like the real thing... But if they are off in any way in the first sections, it shows up way down the line... The interference issue seen here would have easily been handled with shaving the engine parts to lower the carb and intake profile just a few portions of a mm... Then it would make it an easier job to shave the bonnet to fit... I know back seat driver and monday morning quarterbacking... But I have faith that You will get it right my friend... You skills are far past anything I've seen before...
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Yep there is so much stealing of others customers that it is getting very hard to find some items online, like microfiles... And certain other tools of the trade... I still get my Micro-Mark catalogue in the mail, but seldom buy from them anymore, just about everything they have on specialty tools is sourced from somewhere else, low quality and almost twice as expensive as the original manufacturer... to me IMHO, they have become the Harbor Freight of online tool buying... Be very careful of what you order from them...
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Jewelers micro file set... https://www.amazon.com/Micro-Mark-81845-12-piece-Micro-File/dp/B0058EDUM8/ref=asc_df_B0058EDUM8?mcid=71d1bde401673526aea980d2055a9046&hvocijid=16478961440123805471-B0058EDUM8-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16478961440123805471&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033430&hvtargid=pla-2281435178298&psc=1 It's a start, but do your research, there are many mfgr's labeling their needle files as micro files... make sure of what your getting..
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I remember acquiring my two MFH kits, both of Sato's winning rides in the Indy 500... Pricy, pricy, hard to find... Definitely would have been cheaper off the website but they were both out of production with no though of re-release... I was lucky to find them...
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Glad to hear that MFH is one of the few companies in this business that take CS seriously... Excellent to hear... Hopefully some of the others will take heed....
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Doesn't matter brother, we'll still be here... (giggle)
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