Egilman

I'm experiencing some of this now.... The speed of my minds eye is not what it used to be relative to my skills... {chuckle}

Neither can I, I'm learning this on the Gwin, it looks beautiful, and yes it takes time, but also skills and lessons learned brought forward from the past.... Some of us just don't have it, we aspire to it, willing to do the work to get us there, but there is nothing short of absolute experience to get to that level of building..... Some of us (like me) will never get there...

Those lifts are designed to do exactly that... they were originally installed in parking garages.... They were adapted to serve in auto repair shops, they have a ratchet mechanism which absolutely prevents them from dropping..... Hard to find an auto shop around here that still uses a hydraulic or air cylinder lift anymore.... You see the cylinders in the bay floors of the older shops but the lift plate and controls are gone....

You could always promote her to Fleet Admiral, give her a solid gold brooch with five stars to make it official....

Well, frustration with photoetch.... Sky Lookouts..... The Gwin had them still installed until after Midway, they were removed after as they were effectively useless compared to radar detection. Radar was capable of locating and vectoring aircraft before they ever got in range of the binoculars of the sky lookouts.... So, what is a sky lookout? They are binoculars mounted to a swiveling rotating frame so they can track aircraft and ascertain position angles on them relative to the ship for antiaircraft purposes.... AS you can see from the pics they consist of a pedestal with a bearing angle indicator, a U shaped base frame which swivels around the indicator for direction, and a second frame mounted to the first frame to indicate elevation angles which has a pair of binoculars mounted to them.... The third pic is the kits pedestal parts, so small I can't even get the camera to focus on them..... The two U shaped parts are Photo Etch and needed to be bent into their shaped before being glued to the pedestal..... I was bending the last binocular mount and sproing! It decided to go walkabout... I think it finally found where the carpet monster resides.... One second it was there in the jaws of my pliers the next, right before my eyes, it disappeared... The size of these parts.... Smaller than the wire I'm going to use for rigging...... Unfortunately, Dragon didn't give any spares, so she won't have her sky lookouts in place.... Well, I know that after her return from Midway, They were removed from atop the pilot house when they installed her 9 20mm guns... I do still have the pedestals and windshields so unless you know what your looking at it will appear that something is there.... Even if it didn't disappear, you would still need a 3.5x magnifier to see them.... This is becoming a frustrating learning experience.......

Nothing is impossible my friend..... Show us some pics along the way brother..... it will look spectacular.....

No question Lou, shame that no one has held one of these in historical condition..... (probably have just not on public display) Beautiful cars none the less....

How bout a look at the real thing? McLaren M8B.... Engine.... Basically Chevy black but, lots of different peripheral colors under the hood there.... (particularly the bare aluminum heads?) Lots of opportunity for superdetailing...... Stainless hose wraps yes with colored fittings EG

AMEN! I've been resisting this one for 5 years now, (not really, was waiting on a BWN USS Brooklyn, (easier to convert) Nary a sign of one for 5 years now so I finally broke down and bought ISW) And yeah, it's like they are deliberately leaving the Brooklyn's behind, working up everything else though even if the Brooklyn's are the more historically important models.... They were the forerunners of every modern cruiser built for the US Navy....

Hey brother, when the official requisition comes down from the admiralty these days I don't even bother to look at the bottom line anymore...... I just fill the requisition, it's no use doing anything else....

Personally, I would rather have not at this time, but for her to get hers I had to get mine as well.... so yeah I've had my shots, wooff wooff....... It happened kinda fast, no one would give her an appointment claiming they were full, so she called around for a couple of days... she got a referral to a patient coordinator at a local hospital who put her on a waiting list, a week later, they called her to come in and was asked if she had anyone around her.... Yeah me.... We live alone, her and I, so for her to get hers I had to get mine..... The rules are funny here in Washington...... (but what else is new)

Measure 32/12A... Measure 32/4A.... Check your pic references for when what ship had what pattern..... Given the wide fades between 5-L & 5-H to the 5-N bands on pattern 4A, 12A would be the easier pattern to paint IMHO.....

Excellent Brother! The Admiral got her second last Saturday so that was a load off her mind....... The boat is coming along nice good to see some progress my friend....

The Cimarron was the fleet oiler assigned to the USS Hornet and Task Force 18, when they left Norfolk in March for the Doolittle Raid.... The Lindberg Kennebec class tanker in 1/525th scale was a T-2 class tanker and was considerably different than a Cimarron class ship... The Revell Mission Capistrano (AO‑112) in 1/400 scale is also a T-2 type tanker as well, so it wouldn't work either.... The Sangamon initially started out as AO-28 built as the Esso Trenton under the maritime administration contract to subsidize the improvements the navy needed for underway replenishment oilers... Commissioned in 1940 she was delivering oil to our new ex British Caribbean bases when we entered the war..... The ISW Sangamon is in the right scale, (1/350th) but the only thing usable in that kit would be the hull, the hull is the easiest thing to scratch build..... I do have her BoGP for the decks and superstructures and her hull lines, so it shouldn't be too difficult a scratch build.... I agree brother, Scratch building her is probably the way to go..... (highly unlikely anyone is going to do a kit of her in the near future)

Oh lookie at what came in the mail today...... That is an Iron Shipwrights 4-053 USS Nashville CL-43 in 1/350th scale.... Look at the size difference between a Brooklyn class Light Cruiser and a Gleaves class Destroyer!!!! About 21" long.... Shouldn't be too difficult to back-date her to April 1942.... She goes on the back burner for future work...... All I have left is to figure out my USS Cimarron AO-22 build.... (probably doing to have to be a scratch project) Anyway, Onwards....

I went back in this thread to the point where he mounted the "Venus" drive parts... it appears to me that they mount to a large gear/disk that provides the earth drive before they mount to the shaft.... Never having ever seen this before that's all I've got...... Of course I have no way of knowing if he's showing the complete steps either..... EG

Very well done my friend.... I'm also not really a fan of modern warships, but this one, really shows you skills.... I'm impressed.... Nice job....

Kindred spirits brother.... (as a young man living in Vermont at the time) Yep McLaren's and Lola's settin' the pace... The last of the seat of the pants racers.... It's was a drivers series in the truest sense of the ideal... Much much more that Formula 1 ever thought of being.... I'm in.... McLaren's always looked nicer than the Lola's in my opinion, doing away with the high wings took something away from the looks of the car.... If we could only turn back the clock, Bruce's loss really set back racing.... More than Miles loss did....

L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace.......

Well we still have Emil up there in Renton.... The last true model shop in this part of the country..... but it's the other side of Seattle for you..... What's left is game figure type stores, even RC has gone away down here, trains, as little as five years ago we had three shops, they all closed within 30 days of each other.... Online is the wave of the future as soon as they get the delivery methods sorted..... The old social ways of the hobby are dying, aside from IPMS, all the independent clubs have died off as well. All about making the quick buck..... Cheaper, (relatively) more profitable, and less work for them.... The world is changing around us my friends....

Well, ya found it... If I knew you were having difficulty making windows I would have recommended it..... But then there is being reliant on yourself as well, Good Job!

Yeah, but you will be happier in the end....

That's a pretty hefty stretch your putting into it there brother.... about doubling it's wheelbase? Interesting....

Looks nice, the wheels look fantastic, but she could use a trip to Les Schwab to trade in the RV tires.... I know, you bought her that way..... {chuckle}

That exactly fits the measurements given in the Britmodeler thread they should be about 5.5 cm long.....