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Egilman
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Why, you already caught the cold, right along with the rest of us my friend..... Besides the guvernuer might send his goons if you go outside, then, give you a ticket for breathing fresh air..... {chuckle} -
It's actually each class has it's own design.... This one was tested on the HMS Argyle, then retro fitted to the Kent and another ship of the class.. (I forget which, and I have been unable to find if they were retrofitted to the other three ships of the class) I think they tested five different variations, the ones the fitted to the HMS Manchester were a different flatter style which only gave a 10% increase in fuel economy. the ones on the kent and her sisters gave a 13% increase..... But when your talking thousands of tons of fuel, it makes a pretty big difference...
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KI-43 Oscar by Javlin - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1/32 - PLASTIC
Egilman replied to Javlin's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Gimme a few minutes, I have to go back to the replicator for another easy chair.... I'll be here.....
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Well can't stop them from maximizing their money, but it is the same kit, with mostly the same sprues..... I've been thinking about CV-1 for some time now... (but I wish that Trumpeter had put the PE in the kit rather than making it a cost+ upgrade) Her last mission as an AVP was carrying P-40's to Java, which would be a nice look for her....
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It's already out there brother.... https://www.amazon.com/Trumpeter-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-Langley/dp/B07YSJYMW6 Trumpeter also has an update set... https://freetimehobbies.com/1-350-trumpeter-uss-langley-cv-1-upgrade-set/ As does Eduard... https://store.spruebrothers.com/product_p/edu53254.htm The other part of my issue is getting approval from the war department, right around 200.00 just to get your foot in the door...
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Looks very tasty, but Like Lou, I don't know if I could handle her as an AVP... (seeing as she was the first aircraft carrier we lost in WWII)
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AH! The guild is getting stronger! Nice recovery my friend....
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A 14th century floaty thingy tied up to the quay? that would be the bees knees!!!! Beyond any doubt..... Hey maybe you could offer some tips on getting into 3D..... (now that resin printers are becoming affordable) That hull looks gorgeous!!!!
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Amen Brother... I knew you weren't dishing any disrespect, he is one of several that use their own time to actually physically search the Nara records and collect info, there are others like him as well who without the info their research offers and they freely give us the accurate history would be lost.... and us modelers would have to work twice as hard..... We all owe them a great deal of thanks....
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I wouldn't call him a student, he's one of the preeminent researchers and naval archivists, especially about the US Navy, he's forgotten more than I know about the US navy........ You have a historical question about the US Navy, he's one of the men to ask.... He usually hangs around the Ship Model forum.... but he does post in a lot of forums.... He's a good friend... And that is a VERY good shot of what fresh 5-N Navy blue & 5-O Ocean grey looks like up close.... Notice how close the color on the aircraft matches the paint on the ship?
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That first splash is exactly what I was talking about...., given the slosh pattern you have there should be another on the port side, just about the middle between the aft gun and sternpost and a bit smaller.... Your doing well, very well... looking good....
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Another suggestion, Mr Surfacer 500, works well in the filling with no sanding department.... Many of the online demonstrations are of actually filling wing root gaps....
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It's not supposed to be, according to the logs I've read say it's neutral, which way it balances depends on how heavy the paint is nose to tail, (or angle the props to taxi position) a half ounce in front of the mains should be enough for it to settle nose down in all situations.... But I've never built it, so I'm giving second hand information......
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That's pretty darn good for a Maly Modelarz kit!!! I remember a forum where they used to have contests to see who could build the nicest Maly kit... (straight from the kit, no mods) They were not known as the best of kits..... This is a fine accomplishment, well done
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Ok Craig, here's a few shots.... Choppy seas off Australia, It would be the subs operating area.... I think you nailed the coloration..... More.... Very foamy water with tiny ripples in the surface.... And last, what a wake looks like in such seas.... The water is still chaotic but there appears to be a foam filled trough in a wavy line astern..... It only extends about a ships length before the water churns it all up again.... Hope that helps... EG
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I like the way you built up the sea, it works for making water that seems to be churning with no real idea of a swell or direction of swell.... Water that is just slapping around for want of a better term... Indian Ocean, mid summer is the feel I get from it..... Subs rode low in the water, nature of the beast, as a result they had water constantly washing over the bow in a seaway but we have no swell direction so water will be spilling onto and splashing all over the main deck... You need more foamy white all along the hull and patches of it at a distance of a few meters away from the hull also, and a distinctive white wake..... The water "slapping around" would be hitting the sub or falling away in a random pattern, more like a heavy wave hitting a seawall and throwing up a big splash although much more subdued in this situation.... Same principle of the seawall splash, but much smaller and from different directions........ Been looking for an image or video of what I'm talking about but so far have struck out.... Not a real easy seaway to model..... Will continue to look my friend....
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Oh that's one thing I DO NOT MISS living in New England.... Shoveling snow, shovel it one day, wake up the next morning and it doesn't look like you did anything...... four feet of snow in a couple hours.... You can keep it my friend... Enjoy.... One other thing, BE SAFE..... Don't let the snowplows bury you.... (happened several times a season in CT)
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Sorry, I should have included it in the last... http://www.gatorsmask.com/gatorglueorder1.html Email him and he does respond soon.... (same day when I did) link to e-mail is on the page...
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There was a reason they were nicknamed devilboats by the Japanese...... They never knew what they were going to get when one came cruising by..... And the crews were typical warriors...... As an aside, the hulls weren't made of plywood as we understand plywood, they were made of mahogany strips, bias laid, with heavy canvas in between the inner and outer layer... secured on the inside with copper screws and outside by bronze screws, thousands of them.... Very Very light, yet very strong and easily repairable in the field without specialized tools..... A very unique design..... Beautiful work my friend....
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Yep, document and study, only execute when your comfortable with what your trying to accomplish...... Sometimes, the research and learning about the subject part is more fun than the building......
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My experience with doing it that way is that usually the lower wings are not the exact length required for a good match at the wing tips..... When you tweak the wings up or down to get the tips to match it throws out the dihedral of the wings..... When you get it glued straight up this way, you usually have to sand down the wing tips, reshaping them which unless done very carefully alters the wing appearance..... The other issue is the glue surfaces, between the upper wings and fuselage may not match or will be perfectly vertical which will flex the fuselage fatter when you mount the lower wing half.... Not that it can't be done, but think it through, which is more work? filling a few millimeters along the wingroot at worst and having everything line up correctly, or, having to do five times the work to fix the issues that rearranging the build sequence could entail? Beyond that, you have enough experience to figure it out yourself my friend.... Why reinvent the wheel?
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He's actually quit making paint masks, when the residual is gone from his site, that's it, he's still producing the glue though..... If anyone want's some, buy direct, it's cheaper.....
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Well, you could just cap it with a hip type roof, that was common to most periods...... Especially away from the mainstream.....
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Thanks brother... And yeah I know the feelin' I've got so much useless junk floating around in my brain from researching subjects that strike my fancy from time to time that it all gets jumbled at times.... It was mid '43 when they started switching to Mark 13's on roll off racks .... As an aside, Kennedy, after the rescue and short medical leave was given command of PT-59, a 77' Elco that had been modified with no torpedoes, two 40mm's and four more twin .50's They were known as gun boats intended to handle heavier armored/armed shallow draft japanese barges they were beginning to encounter... His first action with this boat was the rescue of 50-60 marines from a swamped landing craft that was under heavy shore fire.... Reports say they made excellent use of those 40mm's silencing enemy shore batteries....... Getting sunk wasn't the only fame Kennedy was famous for, such just wasn't published cause Kennedy wouldn't allow it.... He thought the publicity over PT-109 was enough....
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