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  1. Egilman
    Well life is beginning to give me a few moments occasionally to put a few bits on in places.... All I've got left is the front bumper, turn signal lights, door handles, spare tires and canopy left to go. A hour or so is all it would take and it would be finished..... (if life would get out of the way)
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    Not me, I was telling the Admiral/CFO/chief cook and bottle washer back at the beginning of March that they were going to drag this out to July/August.... Predictable as heck..... (it will be over just before the NFL season starts, they REALLY do not want to **** off the football fans)
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    If it's a sherman, or any other US armor, Olive Drab overall...... Like I mentioned above, Testors/Model Masters Rattlecan.... Fastest way to put a true olive drab finish on anything... goes down thin, dries extremely fast and has the optical properties of real US Army Olive Drab....
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    Yeah they were, but they still flew Me-109's during it.... (and afterwards) I would suggest it, it's not a scheme you see very often...
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    It was actually the unfaithful queen Neferteri.... In the Theban pebble torture.... But I also liked the Human Siamese Knot..... Very interesting in what they were showing to us as young children.... {chuckle}
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    The Bearded Beauty - Mitzpah... B-17F-10-BO Flying Fortress, Tail # 41-24453 Coded LG-O. History: Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-O] Bangor 29/8/42; Bassingbourn 29/9/42; in taxi accident with John Hardin 18/11/42 at RNAS Yeovilton, Missing in Action 28m Schweinfurt 17/8/43.... See Also: B-17 Database
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    Looks like a heated bath and a gentle massage... Boy you sure do treat your models nice.... :-)
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    Yeah, she's only available in 1/700th scale at the moment.... unless you want to kitbash the resin Atlantic models type 1
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    Not that their releasing, that they haven't included what I think is the most needed ship class in 1/350th.... Brooklyn class Light Cruisers But they don't care about 1/350th anymore cause they now realize that the real issue is bigger is better.... People will pay hundreds of dollars for those behemoths....
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    Disappointing if you ask me.....
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    Bringing the lounger for this one...
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    Nope, actually paint it with Testors Rattlecan Olive drab.... You won't be sorry....
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    That about all we have left since out govuener just incarcerated us for another month....
  14. Egilman
    So when are we going for a drive? When you fire up that engine, I bet it's gonna purrrr....... Beautiful work....
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    Great Name.... You do beautiful work..... and historically accurate also.... It's what we do....
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    "The Job is done.... Vive la France !" I think that would be a good title for this one...... Beautiful work.......
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    That shade of Flat Earth Green look very close to Olive Drab...., some of them are too greenish..... Looking good Tom...
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    An early war long barreled cast hull sherman tank.... Sicily, (with a short barrel) Italy, (post '43) comes to mind. With the T-48 (square pad) track and the offset return rollers strongly indicates Sicily and perhaps early Italy campaigns.... (there were still some floating around after D-Day in France but probably not with square pad tracks) By 1944 the T-48 track and 75mm gun was out of service. (although there were still a few 75's running around that hadn't reached a service depot yet) That's where you should look for references..... And Ken gave some of the best advice anyone could.... And don't be afraid to ask questions.......
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    You bleed off way to much energy trying to turn tight, both to get away and to attack.... Especially in jet aircraft... The aircraft maintaining speed always has the advantage..... Olds was so acutely aware of ACM and what was going to happen when they issued gun pods for the F-4 that he refused to allow them to be mounted on his squadrons aircraft. He KNEW what his younger pilots (many of them korean war vets) would do if they had them..... Basically go get themselves killed... (the F-4 was not the F-86) Which was aptly demonstrated by every other USAF squadron flying the F-4...... He saved many a pilot by insisting on (and providing for his pilots) ACM training even though it cost him his career.....
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    The Culin Hedgerow cutter..... And a different style... The first one is an early DV ported short barreled Sherman and actually after the hedgerow battles. Its been re-tracked with T-51 tracks.... The lower pic being a long barreled A-1 cast hull Sherman without the direct vision ports, probably during the breakout.....
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    Yep, a couple of Stens in the front seats and an MG34 in the back..... They actually represented this in the movie "The Great Escape" The coburn character "Sedgwick" is in paris trying to look small when he is saved by a cafe keeper when a couple of german officers sit down..... A car like this one pulls up and machine guns the german officers then screeches away and Coburn takes the chance to connect with La Resistance'...... Powerful scene, and is what came to mind as soon as I saw the MG34......
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    Beautiful kit, it was derived from the Phantom II kit. the II is available in the 60-70 dollar price range but the III, when it is available, easily runs 100.00 bucks more..... The difference between the two, the II is an open coach cabriolet body and the III is the sedan version... Entex also made a III in the same scale, (I don't know if it is a panto or if they acquired the molds) that runs in the 120-130.00 range when you can find one.... Beautiful kits..... all of them...... (and unfortunately I don't have one in my stash) (a bit envious here)
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    Yeah it's the long barreled 75mm so it's right smack in the middle of sherman production you could pretty much do almost anything with the hull as far as detailing for a diorama, sandbags come to mind... {chuckle}
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    That was true until Robin Olds arrived on the scene, he corrected that perception of the younger pilots.... But then again, Olds learned his craft (became an ace) flying P-38's against FW 190's over northern Italy, Austria and southern Germany..... there was no greater Boom & Zoom aircraft than the P-38.... Which the Germans nicknamed the "Fork-Tailed Devil" The Japanese had a nickname for it also but I don't remember it...... Robin Olds was the last true old school fighter pilot..... (and an air combat tactical genius)
  25. Egilman
    Looking good my friend....

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