Egilman

That's what they tell me brother but there are so many and some you just can't replicate cause it is just too small..... Time to get this moving again, stop staring at pictures and crack the glue & paint bottles open.... I was cleaning the old glue off one of the K-guns and it broke, the charge separated from the thrower.... Thought I was done and started figuring out how replicate a K-gun and DC in 1/350th, then I remembered that the Livermore had six and the Gwin only four.... PHEW!!! I have two replacements.... Gonna get some action here soon.... I haven't abandoned this.... Drew up some diagrams of the various riggings for her in the meantime, Standing, Running and Antenna's..... Exploring line options as well, picked up some .2 mm (.008) beading thread for the standing rigging and some 44 awg magnet wire for the antennas, measures just under 2 thousandths inch.. (hair is around .003) Probably use it for the running rigging as well but I'm looking at some Caenis line for that possibly..... Not sure yet.... Still working out how I'm gonna do this.... These are definitely not my childhood models.... (now I'm repeating myself, I've been staring at pics too long) Still working on it brothers....

I'm hoping so Mike, but doubts are creeping in..... Well there hasn't been too much assembling lately, been busy driving myself insane looking at grainy B&W pictures... (trust me it's getting old)

I for one was sad to see what happened to Papermodelers.net..... And Zealot has been a joke since it was formulated.... I still don't know to this day why they banned me... (and at this point I could care less) If you want to go back 20 years, I was the original Papermodels@Emule... That was me.... Aggregating all the free paper stuff on e-mule where it was easily findable, soon others usurped the handle, (emule has no identity control I found out) and started doing the same with commercial properties, now I'm sad I did it..... After that I quit..... Seen too many great designers quit cause of the pirates, and my designs I've taken off line..... Good to see you here Ron, I used to follow your builds like I follow those here..... You are another one of those artists......

Paladin, Have gun, will travel..... Any questions? {chuckle}

Don't be sorry, the place I got it from has it captioned wrong, that's what I get for trusting the internet.... (but it was a very funny looking 75 to me, I thought it was a 2.8 cm schwere Panzerbüchse 41 (sPzB 41) or "Panzerbüchse 41") Hey brother, If I'm wrong, hit it.... Would rather have it right than wrong..... EG

My pleasure Kevin, glad to be of help.... Pale Yellow is a color variation of Zinc Chromate which was the metal preservative used on the interior of aircraft of the period... If it had field maintenance you could easily see some on the interior of aircraft and early in the war you could see entire aircraft interiors painted in it, but not often..... Generally they were zinc chromate green... It became ubiquitous in aircraft, of the period, (especially US aircraft) British aircraft were either Green or Yellow depending on availability.... Eventually, wooden aircraft were being painted in an alkyd oil paint called Interior Green..... There is a difference, Interior Green was a semi gloss, Zinc Chromate green was dead flat.... ZC Green was a shade or two lighter than Interior Green as well..... Portions of the interior being partially Yellow Zinc Chromate is period correct.......

Wiring color? I think you mean conduit colors... There would not be any exposed wiring anywhere... Conduit colors are one of three, but generally they are the same as the bulkhead they are mounted to..... You would do better researching the type of conduits used in the specific application.... They used both solid and flexible, solid in it's native color would be a cadmium silver, flexible would be either steel, aluminium or brass... most generally they were aluminium..... For their look, solid was smooth like copper pipe, flexible would look like old BX building conduit...... Silver, Black or whatever interior color was on the bulkhead...

I'm sure Craigs channel will turn out better than most modeling channels on U-Tube, most of them are unwatchable.... And yes, the green really pops looks good...

Well according to the reviews on the various forums I could find them, they are current British Armor crew, So you have to decide if you want to do today's crew or say the crews of the '80's-90's cause there is a set for those as well..... Generic and they say that they can be used on any british armor so they are not specific to the Challenger..... Then there is this set.... https://www.scalemates.com/kits/valkyrie-miniature-vm35031-british-army-tank-crew-70-s-80-s-era--1160740 Which is British tank crew, but from the 70's to 80's.... Direct link to their website... http://www.valkyrie.co.kr/ Not much out there brother...

Mr Color Leveling Thinner is what the manufacturer recommends....

Your spoiling us now....

My pleasure Brother.... I'm an artillery nut, especially for the towed variety.... I have 20 or so various pieces,(mostly US) and finding the appropriate tractor is difficult sometimes..... In the US army is was the 76.2 mm M5 AT gun and M-3 Halftrack which I have in the stash.... It's an unappreciated field of modeling in my opinion.... 40 quid, ($60 US) is not out of line, pretty good in fact.... barring the occasional bargain steal off evilbay..... The Opel, (Ford Germany) Blitz's would be found hauling light ammo trailers, generally they weren't strongly built enough to haul anything above very light anti-aircraft artillery..... But enough off topic chat, I wanna see more of what looks to be an outstanding PZ V.......

Well, I see Partick already answered it.... Getting slow in my old age... {chuckle} Nice replication of field applied spray camo.... Gonna look sharp.....

Patrick would probably know better than me bu generally no... Tanks didn't tow anything usually, not saying they didn't but it would be highly unusual... You need a Hanomag.... Namely an SdKfz 11 Leichter Zugkraftwagen 3t...... This was the standard 3 ton light artillery tractor.... used throughout the war on all fronts..... 1st Panzer Div France.... Afrika Korps... Russia... Ardennes Russian High Desert 1944 An RSO in Italy Kettenkrad in France '44... Captured Kettenkrads & Pak 40's Standard 3 ton artillery tractor.....

They are pretty nice, although the Hipper class heavy cruisers were much much prettier in my opinion.... With the Prinz Eugen being the prettiest of the lot....

They always are on those early birds, not impossible, but sometimes a real pain... but with the gear down we know where they belong.... Nice job...

Only telling it like it is brother.....

Landing a plane = Plane meets ground..... This is easy to do provided one can get it up in the first place.... All things that go up must eventually come down..... (Sir Isaac Newton) And no nothing is essential to making that happen..... As with all planes it will eventually happen no matter what anyone does.... The main thing is that a man can influence how that is accomplished..... and I imagine it becomes a serious interest if the man happens to be inside when it comes down....

Just my opinion, he should turn it into one of those modeling magazines and have a spread done on it.... It deserves a full front page/cover picture spread.....

Youse is a lucky man..... {chuckle}

Which volume?

489th transportation company, US Army October 30th 1944, Tacloban, Leyte.... Red Beach One.... Ducks and Weasels..... Serving up supplies for the 24th Division.... 19th Infantry..... My father was there....

Update - Kinda, In the two steps forward and one step back chapter, I've been involved in some intense research into what the Gwin carried and how it was laid out... I've found that the Dragon Livermore kit, although an early Gleaves class destroyer had some features that were not present or different on the Gwin.... First.... The five mushroom ventilator stacks, Part A-31, were present on the Livermore, were not present on the Gwin, so I've removed them.... In the image of the Gwin above one of those stacks should be positioned on the main deck P/S directly below the blower vent on the gun deck above, but they weren't there, so they get removed from the model.... This leads to another problem, YOu look at the K-guns The kit has them positioned almost perfectly, but they mount the Reloads to the aft side of the gun when on the gwin they are forward of the gun as in the image above you can clearly see the mandrel stanchions ahead of the tubes..... so the Kit installation is correct for the Livermore but backwards for the Gwin..... So I've removed the offending parts and will be repositioning the ones that need it.... Another problem is on the forward O-1 level bulkheads, there is a square ventilator molded into the bulkhead again it is on the Livermore and not on the Gwin.... So it was shaved off.... (red circle) Which left a little gap that was filled with some Mr Surfacer 500..... There is probably going to come a point where I'll want to get it done, but right now finding the correct configuration and modifying to it is taking a bit of my time.... So please be patient with me as I go thru my accuracy tribulations...... EG

Oh I'll be going through the proof and my reasoning when I get there brother, I just don't want to start another color war here.... (although I'm pretty sure it has petered out by now, especially since the Pearl Harbor Museum and all the model companies have gone with the preponderance of evidence and recommend a Ms. 2 Sea Blue scheme) But first I have the Gwin to finish.... Onward....

4hours and no responses? There are a couple off Navsource... There is also Steve Wipers book from Classic Warships publishing- Warship Pictorial #43 Alaska Class Cruisers (reviewed on that site) Available on Amazon and Evilbay.... Pretty much a straight forward US naval tower crane.... Hope it helps.... EG