Egilman

Beautiful car, beautiful model.... I like the steering slightly turned that is a nice touch to break the symmetry, a hair more would be better give a bit more action, but she is sleek. looks like she is moving when sitting still.... Question, do the lift doors open? if so, it would make for a much nicer display, show more of your great craftsmanship..... Wonderful Job brother, wonderful job well done......

I'm feelin' for him, I'll throw him a Jacobs ladder, if I can find one long enough..... But I will advise, If I can find it, don't be surprised if he chooses not to use it.....

Hard to tell on the basis of a single fingernail.......

An excellent set of online directions my friend, one suggestion, break it up into smaller parcels to reduce the scrolling, that would make it much easier to read..... Beautiful work....

In the Royal Navy, it was used several years before that in the US Navy on the Spruance class ships.... Gives a 13% power reduction to achieve the same speed as without it with the resulting cost savings.... There are two types they had tested, the original type that was fitted to and tested on the HMS Argyll, then retrofitted to the HMS Kent & Northumberland.... And the second type that was fitted to the HMS Manchester..... The first type was more efficient than the second type..... Here is the report as posted to a ship design discussion board..... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the Kent had a different Transom Flap than the Type 42 Manchester had.... EG

That's one of my dream models, still can't afford it, But it would be perfect behind the door to my workshop where it can't be seen until the door is closed.....

Around here we have a thing called Tagro, it is sold by the 10 yard dump truck full to the locals in the county as garden enhancement..... The name is a contraction of Tacoma Grows..... It's the sifted, composted solids from the local treatment plant...... And yes, it's the best garden fertilizer around..... When they first started, (30 years ago) they could barely give it away, today, it costs too much.......

Today when someone asks for Buffalo Chips, they usually get sent to the grocery store for barbecue flavored munchies...... But back in the day, your great great relatives would have just wandered around the prairie and gathered them up for the night's cookfire fuel....

My approach to this would be to find a D.VII pilot who flew a DR.I It will be easier to come up with a D.VII's markings and then see if you can locate an image of his DR.I The problem is going to be there weren't a lot of distinctive markings for the D.VII's mostly purple/blue lozenge patterns with little else...... They were getting to the point where they just didn't have the time or the confidence to be so brazen anymore being very late in the war and it being clear that they couldn't win.... It wasn't fun anymore..... Air combat was maturing and losing it's charm, it was becoming just as nasty as the lines on the ground....

That's the one thing about Mr Color Clear Lacquers, finding just the right mix..... I've seen a lot of people have great success with 2K and 4K automotive diamond finishes though, if you don't mind dealing with automotive products... The yellow paint look fabulous my friend, a real show stopper.....

Very Very nice, But if I tried to latch onto one of those brother, I would have to leave it in my will to the offspring...... Fairly steep price tag makes pocher look cheap.... But they do build into incredible models..... especially the L/E versions....

That should glisten like a diamond....

A very interesting design, been serving since 2010... Here's a review of the Type 45 Daring class destroyers, the largest destroyers ever built....

I agree with Lou, you're TV is probably louder than that.....

Lothar, Goering to name two.... most of the aces that survived the war flew both types.... Beautiful rendering of a period fighter pilots airplane my friend.....

The workings haven't changed in centuries, just advanced in materials and design.... somewhere along the way the dutch perfected the method of allowing the wind itself (using sails) to set the angle of the blades to the wind making them, (by rotating the house) much, much, more efficient, and could therefore be built much, much larger on permanent stone bases.... But they are basically the same as these rotating houses on stilts which are rotated by hand.... That sir is modeling excellence, especially for a primarily wooden structure..... You scratchbuilding master jedi you..... Impressive....

Well, like your sig says, it IS your journey...... I think you will be fine brother, as long as they don't catch you..... EG Blue/grey figures in red coats with white harnesses is kinda strange I have to admit.....

It's a Type 45 RN Destroyer under construction/repair/refit.... HMS Dauntless and HMS Diamond.

GET IT BACK???? I submit, you NEVER lost it!!!!! Very Very nice.....

Yeah, on some of those pics she does, there are a few of her without the 3D radar dating back to 2012/14.... Excellent references as well...

She certainly does, I'm sure you will do her justice....

Sorry, didn't mean to do that, but the kit does represent the post 2 midlife refits she had, by 2014 or so, and not the most current updates.... the unfortunate thing is the manufacturer missed it, when they decided to do the version with the gun turret, (as built they had no defensive armament and no turreted gun) she was strictly an ASW detection/interdiction ship..... After the fall of the Soviet Union, and the lessening submarine threat they decided to make the ship more multi-role... they added many air defense and self defense upgrades, when they added the gun, is when they added the fin to increase speed..... Just another Trumpeter faux-pas...... Unfortunately..... EG

Hi Greg, I just noticed something different..... The Wings on the stern, if I look closely it actually looks like a single fin off the stern along the stern body line inset a few feet and tapering..... In the left hand red square I drew, you can see the inner line of this fin parallelling the outside bodyline above the waterline shows a definite tapering to a rounded edge.. and that lower darker portion that appears to be wet shows that as it goes towards the water, it starts to curve inwards to follow the sheer line of the stern, but is not a full radius as the edgeline can still be seen.... The right hand square shows that this fins outer surface blends perfectly with the ships outer hull profile... Only question I have is does it continue following the hull profile below the waterline or are they two separate fins? I don't see it on the kit, or anything that resembles it in the kit parts, and it doesn't appear on F234, HMS Iron Duke in the drydock pick either. Is it something unique to HMS Kent or something the kit manufacturer didn't pick up on? Update: I found a second pic of the Iron Duke..... It also shows this stern fin at a sharper angle showing it's profile and that it exists on the type and is distinctive.... looks like it continues underwater from port to starboard as well.... No doubt that it is there.... Further update: It was added to the class of ships during their first midlife update.... From Wiki.... Mid-life refit The class underwent mid-life refits which lasted 12–18 months and cost £15-20m. Aside from refurbishment of the mess decks and drive train, the ships are being fitted with a transom flap which can add up to one knot (1.9 km/h; 1.2 mph) to the top speed ....... I guess this was done sometime around 2011, it doesn't appear on the Duke class ships as originally built.... , ah, the helicopter hanger was updated in 2011 as well and the model appears to have the later hangar.... I don't see any parts that could represent this "Transom Flap" on the sprues..... Hope it helps.... EG

I don't know why they do that OC, but it is strange and does create more work....

Yep not a lot of heavy aging there but some definite streaking on the stern and oil canning on the lower hull as well.... A real challenge to be sure......