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popeye the sailor reacted to Baker in Goldfinch by amateur - FINISHED - Scherft - 1:1 - CARD
A model kit of a bird, never seen this before. Nice work
I'm bored.
You can always send the bird to me.
Greetings,
Felix
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popeye the sailor reacted to CDW in General Dynamics F-16XL-2 by CDW - FINISHED - Kinetic - 1:48 Scale - PLASTIC - experimental fighter-bomber
The Heather-Ferris camouflage paint scheme is just about finished. While the finish looks okay, I'm just not a fan of these AK Air acrylic paints. Maybe I received a bad batch, I don't know. I have read where some bad batches got out there but don't know if that's the case here. The problem is, the paint has stayed tacky for days. Never had an acrylic paint act like that. It's common to enamels, but odd for acrylics in my own personal experience.
When you first spray this paint down, it looks like crap. Then you take your hair dryer, give it a drying treatment and it looks great. If the paint didn't stay tacky, it would be good.
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popeye the sailor reacted to ccoyle in Guns of HISTORY Civil War Coffee Wagon by Dr PS - FINISHED - Model Shipways - Scale 1:16
Looks a treat, Paul.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Dr PS - Paul Schulze in Guns of HISTORY Civil War Coffee Wagon by Dr PS - FINISHED - Model Shipways - Scale 1:16
Finished awhile back and I need to post the final display. Thanks for watching.
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popeye the sailor reacted to jrsiii50 in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Hello,
I'm interested in putting together a Bofors quad mount diorama in 1/32. I realize yours is scratch built. I'm thinking about getting 3D printed models from Shapeways.com in the right scale and populating with figures from the same site. I'd like to include the quad mount in a tub, a single 20mm Oerlikon and a Mk51 fire director. These were arrayed in a relative compact area port and starboard on the main deck just forward of the number 3 turret on BB-55. I presume I would need some photo etched parts as well (gun sights, shell casings, shells and clips, etc. for both 40mm and 20 mm). Any comment, advice or guidance from you would be most welcome.
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
We didn't unload the loader to drop the Breech to remove a barrel. Cleaning this one, the water jacket is clearly seen, a close look will reveal the hose connections on the right gun, that fitting recoiled with the barrel through the slot clearly seen on the top of the left guns housing. This gun was manned 24/7 and did most of the shooting, we seldom went to GQ to provide fire support or transit the river, to much to do and not enough men so this gun took up the slack, we re gunned this one because of barrel wear, quick change, half hour per barrrel would do it.
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
We kept a fire hose to run into the cooling tank, if you weren't careful The water would turn to steam and pressurize the tank and a hot flow would come out the breather filler cap, bounce off the tank and scald us all, Quick fix throw a flack jacket over it and keep on shooting, second loaders would start to cool the tank with the fire hose. Here is a cooling tank getting replacement water it had boiled out. Each gun had it's own tank, looks like one tank but is two separate tanks and cooling pumps. Yes, that is a helmet, fine pouring spout on the front of them.
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popeye the sailor reacted to oneslim in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Torbogdan,
Yes, a small tank mounted on the rear of the loaders deck with a pump below. Each barrel was capable of 160 rounds/minute. In fact the 40mm/56 mounts, twin and quad, where credited with downing more Japanese planes than both the 5"/38 mounts and the 20mm Oerlikon.
Bob W
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popeye the sailor reacted to Torbogdan in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Very interesting thread to follow. Did the guns have some kind of cooling system for the barrels?
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
The first photo, ( Wed 1638 ), shows me at the pointers position, we fired using local control and our sights, so as Gun Captain, it was common practice to take that position, could use the sights and when satisfied, it was me that pressed the firing pedal. Our gun crews almost lived on the guns and did not need close observation, all were cross trained, I could call a second loader up and put him in the pointers seat and go repair a gun if needed. Replaced the extractors in the right gun of a twin while the left was firing one nite, hadn't noticed until then, with my feet and legs in the pit above the ejection shoot, that the gas in the empty cases glowed as they went by and the opined breach also emitted a glow. Forces ashore needed support and it was this gun providing it, no others were maned so needed those extractors changed..
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popeye the sailor reacted to oneslim in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Thanks Guys for the comments and likes.
Jud which first loader are You? Fingers or Clip.
Here is the link to the build log, if anyone is interested. Hope its OK to list here:
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=76455
Bob W
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popeye the sailor reacted to Canute in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Well done, Bob. It's great that we can do things like this for our remaining WW II vets.
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popeye the sailor reacted to dvm27 in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Great looking diorama, Bob!
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Happy seeing just what happened with your fine work. Excellent job.
An old Gunner, jud First loaders
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popeye the sailor reacted to oneslim in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Here are a few shots of Owen Garrison and His wife Florence Saturday when I presented the model to the Millville Army Air Field Museum in His honor. Owen was very pleased, and somewhat emotional. It brought back many memories of his time aboard USS Monterey. He plans to use it as a teaching aid when he gives tours at the museum.
Bob W
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popeye the sailor reacted to Roger Pellett in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Yes, mine is stamped 1942 on the bottom.
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Some of the brass ones were made into ashtrays, but very few in relation to what went over the side. I have an ash tray that I made in RVN from a brass case. We were receiving a lot of steel cases, the brass was also a mixed lot, newer had less copper than the the older WW2 stuff that seemed to be softer and a different color, if you look at my above photo of spent ammo, the steel cases can be picked out from the brass and the two different colors of brass is also detectable. Your ash tray is clearly of the WW2 vintage, we had two of that vintage split the case when fired, one of them the projectial just cleared the muzzle and exploded, pattern in the water was a half circle, almost a perfect straight line on the gun side perpendicular to the line of sight. That ammo was part of a deck load that had been hit with recoilless rifle fire and set on fire and the fire put out, we sorted it out, but we were happy to see the last of it fired. Navy 40 MM ammo because of the volume fired over the fleet, used a self destruction feature as part of the tracer that exploded the round after about 4000 yards, out of thousands, only experienced the one that was that early. Delivery day, everything we consumed was delivered by these small ships, they were often fired at, slowed that down after putting 81 MM-50 Cal combo Mortars on them, they could return the fire much better. Reminds you of Mr. Roberts.
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Canute in The Thomas Point Shoals lighthouse - BEST models- HO scale by Popeye
hello Yves....thanks for look'in in and the kind comment. I don't have any plan to mimic the water, but I do plan to add rocks around the pilings and some scenery green to represent seaweed growth. I haven't done much due to the hectic prep for the holidays, save for something I've had stuck in the back of my head for some time now........figured I'd let the beast out and breathe. I hope to get back to doing something meaningful soon
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popeye the sailor reacted to Roger Pellett in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Some of them were made into ash trays. My father-in-law brought this one back from Florida Island in the South Pacific at the end of WW II.
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popeye the sailor reacted to oneslim in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Once again thanks JUD. Great photos.
Bob W
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
Republic of Vietnam. We started to save it, but we went through so much it was crowding us off the ship because we couldn't get it picked up and we never left the river to dispose of it. It went overboard, sometimes the popular forces would get some cans to fill with mud and build forts along the river bank, most of them went over the side, we shot holes in every one so they would sink. Second photo, Bob had just thrown an empty 40 MM can overboard, it was a 20' throw from there, but on the 01 level so the rail was cleared
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popeye the sailor reacted to Canute in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
The older versions of the AC-130 gunship in Viet Nam carried a 40mm. The new up-engined model has a 30 mm and a 105mm as armament. Think the 30mm is belt fed, like the 30mm in the A-10 Wart hogs.
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popeye the sailor reacted to jud in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
There was a slot, as the 4 round clip was fed into the loader, the clip dropped out of the loader ending up on the deck where the first loader was standing, just as you thought. In the second photo above and just left of the First Loader with his back to you, you can see the slot where the clips dropped clear, looks like one is just clearing the loader in the photo. Here is a photo your friend might enjoy, could put a lot of rounds through those twin Bofors and we did.
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popeye the sailor reacted to mtaylor in 40mm/56 Twin Bofors by oneslim - FINISHED - scratch diorama by Bob W
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