Egilman

Sounds a lot like brick and mortar to mee.... {chuckle} What you do in modifying the parts into what you want and designing your own fits and looks is way beyond just building a kit, you really have mastered the medium.... You sir must have had a medieval stonemason in your family tree.... Outstanding work.....

Keep on pluggin it my friend, you haven't missed yet....

Ahhhhh, another closet member of the MSW Masons Guild steps into the sunlight!!!! Way to go brother! we will model this planet yet!!!!

Hey, if I was doing it it would look like a wrinkly noodle by now.... don't sell yourself short.... Looks wonderful from here......

And here the same reviewer's comments on the prewar update set for the Gleaves class destroyers with 12 .50 cal machine guns from Steel Navy: http://www.steelnavy.net/KrakenKearnyConversion350FBustelo.html The USS Kearny DD432 was a sister to the Gwin DD433.... Link to Krakken Hobbies page...https://krakenhobbies.com/shop/ols/products/1350-uss-kearny-dd-432-1041-conversion-set

NAY!! I say, makes perfect sense, and is logical as well...

That's a very nice set as well as the one I have... there are actually two updates for DesDiv 22, the prewar (late '41) to post midway update when they had mostly .50 cal machine guns and minimal 20mm's and the post midway update where they received their designated complement of 9 20mm's... (the Gwin during this period had no 20mm's) That's a very nice review but it is for the post midway update.... since I'm building her during the Doolittle Tokyo raid timeframe I need the 12 .50's configuration for the Gwin.... You see the aft deck house roof here which shows the 6 tub configuration. and that bit on the side is the two tubs that need to be added to the pilothouse roof..... Not all of the four destroyers got the same modification in fact they were each different. If I was going to do the Monssen for example I would have to take the part above and remove the two middle tubs and replace them with larger tubs for 20mm's cause the Monssen had 4 20mm's and 6 .50 cal's during the raid.... The four ships had different AA fits during this period... The reviewed parts definitely set up the AA fit during their Guadalcanal service though The Greyson remained in that fit during the war until mid '45 when she received the "Kamikaze" upgrade to 40mm's But what he says about the Kraken parts quality is right on the money.... Excellent parts that directly replace kit parts... Still need to check references for the time period your modeling as the differences are very readily noticeable..... I would provide a link to their site but I can't seem to connect to it right now.... Very nice parts....

That's what we do research for.... check your reference pictures for the boat details.... Overall the ship looks very very real.... Well done...

For the most part, working parties of up to 8-16 men in an area with a rating or two doing supervision, a couple of officers walking the deck, stuff like that... And unless they were cleared away for action stations you could find them on most horizontal surfaces, wooden decks especially.... look for photos of the ship at sea, you will probably find them on ships or crew reunion webpages... there were always someone several dozens of people on deck when just cruising..... a couple of men around various equipment looking like they are attending to it would work..... Check here... https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205138247 Also these shots of KG5 class battleships.... Lots of people everywhere....

And, the original transformer.... Startup and Takeoff

Actually it depends on where they are located when they are on the ground, typical take off procedure is to do a rolling takeoff from a runway.... (when one is available) Generally, although capable of taking off vertically, they usually do not.... I'm sure they have a warning indicator of some type if they are tilting the engines too far forward when on the ground

Brother you are going to force me to do a Mk4.... Beautiful work my friend..... A very nice addition to the case.......

You can kitbash one brother, Monogram pressed an '81 S3 which had the 2.2 turbo engine...... And Fujimi released the S1 which is the body style your looking for.... The S2 had the same straight body as the S1 and the 2.2 litre engine destined for the S3 was installed in an S2 in '80... only 88 were made in real life.... So your probably not going to see a model of such a car.... The only way to build one is kitbash.... The engine out of the Monogram S3 Turbo.... https://www.ebay.com/p/1400105695 Scott Van Aken previewed one over on MM a number of years back..... And the body/chassi of the Fujimi S1 2.0...... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2322090.m570.l1313&_nkw=Fujimi+126401&_sacat=0 That's the only way your going to get one brother.... Sorry.... And yeah, lets not derail Craigs thread anymore.... Thanks for the reminder brother......

Nichmo, Monogram, Hasegawa, Fujimi & Airfix all made one..... Lotus Esprit-- Scalemates The Hasegawa was a Monogram release pressed by Hasegawa.... ie. a knockoff.....

That sir is an Enzo Giallo Modena, made by Ferrari. There are many Giallo Modena's but only one Enzo Giallo Modena..... How bout a reference? And yes, in the very rare factory base model color of yellow with black trim and interior..... According to the web, most of them were built in red.. Beautiful car, and another difficult paint job.... Nice turbo V-12 650+ HP...... Multi million dollar car..... Nice pick..

That's unfortunately true all over Europe and parts of Japan as well.....

I knew my faith was well placed..... Decals look superbe!!!! My compliments!!! One question, you gonna ink in the panel lines once the decals are sealed?

Well, you gots to have a place to get a brewski..... No surprise there..... Of course I"m not that old, but if I ever saw an old world tavern, that's it....

Yep it rotates clockwise to a fore & aft position, and the blades fold as well.... It's still a monster sized aircraft on a carrier deck though....

I think they are the product of the decade, they make intricate silver details that would absolutely kill a model in the past, easy peasy.... The headlight liners will look like real parts under their clear covers.... Great work!!!

Quite familiar, My ticket to retirement was a 44' studded roof truss back in '93.... My empathy is yours...

OUCH!!!! the Thoracic Spine is nothing to mess around with..... I hope it works fo ya long term....

All of those advanced the knowledge & technology of short and vertical takeoff aircraft, The XC-142 being the closest to an operational aircraft before the Osprey.... There are a couple of static models of her in the marketplace and one now OOP, very hard to find RC version..... Sold for over $400.00 when it was in production....

She's a beauty, I just love those RAF birds in USAAF markings....

The idea for a tilt rotor aircraft came to light way back in 1951 or so... The first embodiment of the idea was the Bell XV-3... The XV-3 featured a Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial engine mounted in the fuselage with driveshafts transferring power to two-bladed, pivoting rotor assemblies mounted on the wingtips. It was originally designed with three-bladed rotors but they dropped one blade due to unsolvable instability issues which caused the loss of the first aircraft... On 18 December 1958, Bell test pilot Bill Quinlan accomplished the first dynamically stable full conversion to airplane mode, and on 6 January 1959, Air Force Captain Robert Ferry became the first military pilot to complete a tiltrotor conversion to airplane mode. Bell XV-3, (2nd prototype & only survivor) at the Davis-Monthan during a public display in 2006... (in 2007 she was transferred to the US Airforce museum) In her short experimental service life, she completed over 100 full flight transfers from vertical to horizontal flight, she also revealed the main issue with this type of aircraft... Known as pylon whirl, which consisted of a condition of pitch-flap coupling, (rotors wanting to stay in line with the flaps during transition) exhibited by the tiltrotor demonstrated the aeroelastic dynamic rotor instability of the configuration. The final test was at the NASA 80' wind tunnel where the rotor heads disintegrated destroying the wings/rotors and seriously damaging the wind tunnel...