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  1. Egilman
    Spectacular Brother... "On the road to Germany" is what my brain thought when I first saw it.... Proper period and all.... Very well done.... VERY well done...
  2. Egilman
    Yep, going thru withdrawals.... Again....
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    Then I guess you really don't want to see anything like this... B-17 Now that IS a monster.... (I have the plastic HK version, they are HUGE)
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    Good idea Brother, stock Pocher instructions can be so cryptic they are indecipherable.... Especially on their early kits...
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    Wait till you get to the P-38, that is a monster....
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    They look fine to me.... Better than I could do...
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    And that's why it had a 3.39 dollar price tag on it as well... {chuckle}
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    Wouldn't miss this for the world...
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    It is the simplest way.... only requires a drill and broach to make the mount... They did, hand squaring a hole in a shaft was one of the first things my father taught me in the basement shop.... The industry standard way before Collets to mount cutters on a horizontal mill was with a Morse tapered cutter sleeve, usually a standard #2 (self locking taper) with drive lugs... (one sleeve for each shaft size) Can you imagine the machining to make both the sleeve and it's mating collar to be industry accurate in that scale? four times more difficult....
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    Cannery Row, well quoted brother...
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    The Cincinatti 2MH's we were rebuilding all had automatic feed on two axises.... They were designed in '36 The Bridgeports all had auto feed by '42.... (or could have it added) I've personally run turret lathes that could handle 12 individual operations, and graduated to automatic screw machines which were run by cams that could handle 36 different operations in one setup... My father taught me how to cut cams for the old screw machines he ran in the late '50 early '60's and I learned how to program the pinboard computerized ones in the '80's.... Today, they are all led screens.... The cam controlled automatic lathe, which is what a screw machine actually is was invented in 1870.... A well setup screw machine can turn out 50 screws a minute without breaking a sweat... And if the operator knew what he was about, he could run 4-5 of them at a time...
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    I don't know about the card model, but the real deal was all aluminum... With of course a black panel... the Army version was the F11C-2, and the export version was the Hawk III.... Hope it helps...
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    I'm down for this classic Curtis Goshawk in USS Ranger markings.... (they were aboard the Ranger from from October 1936 to November 1937, the shortest span for any serving US Navy aircraft) The reason for this was Curtis took the original 10 yr old Hawk design and replaced the wooden wings with Aluminum ones... The aluminum wings had a vibration frequency that in flight harmonized with the engines vibration frequency, this meant the airplane was trying to shake itself to pieces all the time it was in the air... No matter what the Navy and Curtis did to fix it failed so it was unceremoniously dumped by the navy... Besides they were looking at much better more advanced fighter/bombers soon coming off the production lines in late '37 so keeping a decade old biplane fighter design around just wasn't in the cards... It IS a gorgeous yellow wing though.......
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    Hey Jav, try here.... True North Paints... (check out the RLM04 gelb, looks to be a pretty good shade of it as well, they have a pretty complete line of Luftwaffe paint) They would need to be thinned quite a bit for spraying, but they are probably the best enamels around, a little goes a long way.... It's what I use exclusively since the demise of Model Master's line.....
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    Yep, 91% denatured alcohol and a cotton swab has been used for generations to clean electronic equipment, like tape heads, mechanical movie projectors & photo engraving equipment, watch movements and the like... It is also what is used in an anycubic wash/n/cure to clean led printed resin parts right after they come off the printer bed.... IPA, It's a very powerful cleaner in it's own right..... Lesson learned, I know cause I learned it the same way brother... The scotchbrite pad broke the hard shell lacquer surface and allowed the alcohol to get under it.... But then again, it also leaves a residue free surface that makes the paint repair real easy..... IPA is for serious cleaning when you have to remove hardened surface coverings or heavy deposits... That's why I use nothing but Future or Diamond Coat for decal placement over fully cured paint, then a final sealing coat in the sheen I want over the finished piece.... But I imagine the recovery is every bit as good as the original paint, no one will ever know....
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    Yeah they tried, but loaded down with the guns and radar equipment it couldn't get up the speed to do what night fighters did... Typhoons and Tempests could easily overtake it, Mustangs & Mosquito's could keep pace with it... As a bomber if the pilot was careful, they couldn't be touched... The 4 engine "C" model was another subject altogether though, it could out fly the Me 262, easily.... It was the first jet bomber, as as such I guess it was a success, the first raid they went on was against one of the forward allied airbases, they all returned with only one receiving minor damage... The pilots attributed it to the speed of the aircraft... The ground gunners attributed it to their low altitude, sub 1,000 foot approach.... (which is the correct interpretation if you know the capabilities of the radar they were using) German bombers learned very quickly to stay away from US airdromes above a certain altitude, the radar guided, 90mm AA was absolutely murderous....
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    Unfortunately brother, there is literally no period photos of that specific aircraft version much less pics of the radar operators compartment.... There are a few pics of the nose radar antenna's configuration though... There is only one AR 234 in existence today in the Smithsonian's collection, (currently undergoing restoration) but it is a B2 bomber variant without the night fighter equipment... I will say this, the panel they removed for the radar operators canopy is square with radiused corners... I have seen a pic of this opening in one of the books on the 234 line... (an AR 234 B2 that was one of 4 that came to the US for flight testing and turned over to the Navy and eventually scrapped) Most of the imagery of the aircraft are artists renditions... (do not know how much artists license was applied to them) and the model companies are all over the map on this particular detail... (the Revell 1/48 scale production doesn't even have the radar operators station nor its canopy).... What I would say it is is probably square with rounded corners, the canopy would be made to fit the panel that they removed to install the station in the first place... but that is an educated guess as I have been unable to find any real proof of this... Sorry...
  18. Egilman
    Artwork like this is a labor of love brother... Anyone can slap together a model, it takes a MODELER to make a piece of art....
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    Yep the Harley Servi-car that's a '64 model, you can tell by the large steel box, Hydra-Glide forks, front drum brakes and electric starter, the first electric start Harley... (one year before the Electra Glide) You can still get a project Servi-car trike for around $5,000 or so if you like rebuilding that is... (complete in parts) Built from '32 to '74, $500.00 was a steal...
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    Well the Flathead in the pic is a custom hardtail bobber... best I can tell aside from the '36 or so flathead engine it is a mid 40's WLA hardtail frame, the forks are probably original to the frame, the oil tank is early 50's as well as the fuel tank... Completely custom 2n1 exhaust... Whoever built it did a nice job, Nice job... Definitely a late 50's throwback to an earlier time.... I wouldn't mind having one in my garage...
  21. Egilman
    Those are two classics, a late 30's flathead and an early 40's BMW.... Nice bikes....
  22. Egilman
    That is a beautiful camo job!!! Nice airbrush work!!! The yellow is fine it stood out like that in real life as well...
  23. Egilman
    If it's a street bike, you usually don't see much grunge on one... They don't get the weather that cars do... Dirt bikes can get pretty grungy and dinged up though... And I've never seen a motorcycle in a wrecking yard either, Motorcycles don't die, they just fade away...
  24. Egilman
    If your looking for the real deal brother Grainger is the place... If your looking for scale, 1/24th or 1/25th, then it becomes interesting... DOT reflective tape is called a decal either way... I would go here and scroll down a bit... Modeltruckin.com It took me four days of searching to find them back when I was looking for truck license plate decals.... Good luck, BTW, what are you gonna build?
  25. Egilman
    Very Nicely Done!!!

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