Egilman

Thank you Jack, As far as the camera, it is really old, takes nice general pictures but really doesn't do details well, 2.2mpx. Focal length just isn't there for real sharp closeups. Todays basic standard is 30 mpx using a macro...... It's a great little camera I'm still going to use it I just need something with a little bit more capability for the fine shots... Thank you...

So, where do you get this "Blue Tack"? that type of soft edge effect I used to do with sponges or elevated stencils...... this method looks so much easier....

I'm sure, if your dad was there, he would give you a hug..... Beautiful tribute....... Beautiful job my friend...

We get a great opportunity to see what excellent molding and thoughtful design does for painting and shading..... It really looks the part..... Nice work...

Ok, Time to finish this up.... This is where I last left it... Basic assembly complete..... And, After adding the necessary mundane equipment that a howitzer needs to operate on the battle field and giving it something to shoot when it get where it going, I wind up with this........ Well the closeups didn't quite come out as sharp as I would have liked, I still need to get a better camera. (or learn how to actually use it) Anyway she is off to her next firing position, as soon as the crew shows up..... I call it finished... Howzitzer #4, Battery "B" 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division. The evening of June 6th 1944....... two miles northeast of St Mere Eglise, France..... 76 years ago, two days from now.... I hope you all enjoyed the journey..... EG Thank you for the discussion, comments and likes.... They are always appreciated..... Next up, resuming Blue Jay 4..... (assuming the parts arrive in the next day or two)

Now that is downright purrr.......rty.... 👍 (dig the manifold pressure gauge mounted right there on the manifold)

I did 1/4 mile oval racers in superstock claiming class.... So I understand.... you go and look, observe how everyone else does it (cause you have to take the plans and fit them within the rules of the class also) then try like heck not to go outside the rules.... Thankfully, we don't have rules building models.....

When you build a full sized kit car, they give you the pieces, tell you where they go and leave the rest of it to you to figger out..... Pocher kits follw the same paradigm, they make the basic parts some of them fit nice some of them do not, some of them are beautiful out of the package, some of them need major reworking, most of them depend on other parts to say where the particular part your working on goes.... Think of it as building a full sized kit car, it takes about the same amount of time, (and the same level of talent) to do it right..... But when someone comes and looks at your finished kit, they react the same as if you pulled up in a show winning Lamborghini/Fiaro.... Literally stunned... I have two pocher kits, even at this date, they are way beyond my talent level to do with the finish you are watching here....

Amen brother.... I have some more modern stuff that won't need a thing to build beautiful models and some ancient things that need everything...... The hobby has advanced that much over the last few decades...... That being said, the molding on this kit is some of the crispest I have ever seen....... very nice kit....

Me I prefer to find the pissoirs..... {chuckle} (French can be such an interesting language, quaint, fastidious at points, but very definitely direct and to the point....

I'm in..... That looks like a beautifully detailed kit....

Well our govenuer didn't renew his quarrantine order, but replaced it with a safe and sane business re-opening behavior control order..... The admiral was ecstatic, she gets to go back to bingo!!!! except just getting into the place is like entering prison.... they have a guard at the front door, you have to wear a face mask, your id security scanned, then you walk up the entrance ramp where the use facial recognition software to take your temperature and connect your image to your membership card and ID.... If you are too hot, they move you off to one side to "Cool Down" then are sent back through again, if your still too hot, security sends you home with instructions not to return for two weeks...... If you make it through that,they have you seated 6 feet apart and wives/husbands/children/relatives are not allowed to sit together, you have to maintain that 6' apart... you have to wear masks at all times except when eating drinking or smoking and you will be asked to leave if you don't. they have put up plastic barriers between people. Everything the Admiral went there for is eliminated...... (she goes for the social contacts, visiting her friends and such) Of course this is an Indian owned and ran business on reservation property so they are not subject to the govenuers orders, they have come up with this all on their own and to be honest? it is three times as open as the governuer is allowing.... But at least we aren't locked down at home anymore.... we just can't go anywhere to do anything.... Insane times my friends.....

Hi Mike, I'm in.... 1/48th is a good scale....

Well thank you for that sir, sorry for the late acknowledgment of the wonderful compliment but I kinda have let this one stew while the shipping problem got ironed out... Seeing your work, it is a serious compliment sincerely appreciated.... (said while frantically stuffing unjustified ego back into it's container) Thank you....

Well brothers and sisters, it has been a while here, but I just got notice from the post office that my trailer wheels and tires from Mo'Luminum are in the mail with tracking number!!!!! FINALLY!!!!! God they were ordered and paid for way back on March 11th... Gorgeous parts but they can take a long time... I was told that the first shipping got lost somewhere. (I think that my order got lost somewhere in that black hole between casting and shipping) But anyway they are now being on the road!!!! I'm going to be a busy guy soon.... 😂

I just got word from KitLinx that my parts are on the way..... YAY!!!!! And the wheels from the ukraine is in post office shippin' limbo, they are out of Ukranian customs and in the hands of the shipper... I might have all the parts before I really start.... This is a good thing... EG

You could still do it brother, it's not that difficult. But it's true that it will be more difficult than having it off the model.... It looks great either way, it's may be a 60's kit but your build shows that modern techniques can make them look very very good... Well done my friend....

That is why the term REMF strikes such a chord with all servicemen that have actually seen combat........ According to my father, it applied to anyone no matter the type of rank insignia they wore, he related a story where he actually was in the next room when the colonel, was berating a major for his lets say greater than spic and span tendencies in the "name" of efficiency. The colonel gave him the "Short" course on military efficiency in a combat zone, which had nothing to do with paint. He was soon separated from the division, yeah, completely out of the division he was that disliked and that was in Korea..... I can imagine similar things happening in all combat zones.... Some people just cannot figure what is important in what situation....

Actually those are very nice plans Lou, Here is their plan for the Airspeed Horsa Thank you for the link. Excellent source! I'll add it to my link to AeroFred.... AeroFred sends me free plans in my e-mail every few days.... I always love new sources, thank you for sharing...

EXCELLENT! Beautiful work.... Looks great! Joe.....

Thank you Craig, I'll have it finished in a bit....

Yeah, my dream, (I've already collected the available kits/information including a full set of the structural and GSE drawings) is a Saturn V, Apollo 10 in 1/72nd scale on it's launcher heading for LC-39B that will be 6 feet from the crawler shoes to the top of the Crane not counting the crawlerway or lightning mast....... (and it's already cleared with the admiralty) Don't know if I"ll ever get it done, but it is my dream model....

<triple sigh> Different people have different visions I guess.. for me brother, it has to be more than a tube sticking out of one side with the jeep and gun exiting down the ramps.... it could be that simple, but it doesn't tell a complete story to me..... I would need the discarded tail section to add more life, more action..... the tail section is what would require the space... the wingspan as you point out is 88 feet, in 1/35 that measures out to 2.5 feet 30 inches, the horizontal stabilizer is roughly 1/3 of the wingspan that is 10 inches of space needed right there then there is the length of the tail section say another 12 inches there... with the 2 inches of fuselage and 6 inches of ramp? The base has grown to at least 20 inches long and 14 inches wide right there... of course rearranging the parts could probably compact it down to about 16 by 16, but that is still quite large... Doth exaggerate? chuckle, Not in my vision.... it's not the height that is at issue length and width. Now for OC's C-5A down the Galaxy ramp dream? with a tail height of 65 feet? 65 divided by 35 equals 1.857 feet... EG

And I would have to find another place to live, the Admiral would transfer me out before separating me from the service...

amen brother!