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Just wow. Stunning work and well photographed. The sense of walking the streets is unreal and not like a model at all.
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Hi Joe, welcome back home. I too suggest you start a build log. It's a great way to meet old friends, make new ones, and get help.
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Thunder, what the tooth count? Have a look at the first post in this topic and download the file. There's info in there that very applicable to other types of small saws. In particular is one for wood thickness vs. tooth count.
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You might PM Betaqdave (who is a wheelchair user) here on MSW. He had several posts about how he set up his workshop.
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Miniature Russian carving tools
mtaylor replied to druxey's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Contact allanyed via PM. A few posts up from yours, you'll find his posts. The reason it's done this way to keep Mihail from being spammed. MSW along almost every other website gets crawled by bots and email addresses do get sucked up and posted -
Welcome to MSW, Sigmadog, When you're ready to start your model, do give some thought to starting a build log. It's a great way to get help and also meet other builders.
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Welcome back home, Darren. Quite a fleet you have there.
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This is an impressive beast. The design and building of it is amazing what they accomplished.
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Thanks Egilman. Cleared that right up. Teach me not to take the few minutes to Google. As for WWII, they were headed there... adding as many guns as they could. No mini guns though, but they did mount assorted 37mm guns. I've heard they did a lot of testing with different configurations, armament and aircraft but there were a lot of issues that stopped most dead in their tracks.
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Just remember to that Kodachrome film and printing had it's problems. Too warm on the solution or too cool? A bit to long or short in time? Too much time or too short a time between developer and fixer (and temperature again). And this applied to both the negatives and prints. Along with age and storage temperatures and time between the shooting the picture and starting to process. In the early 80's I did photography at the local drag strip and my own processing. It was damn difficult to get two prints exactly alike. So basically.... close counts.
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I think OCD goes with the turf of scratch building... we're all showing it.
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They don't seem to carry that info through in the title. Since you attributed in your post, no problem. Maybe add the attibution to the first post next time. I have a motto that applies here..... "stuff happens".
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I've had that wood in a couple of kits (the only two I did). Tossed it as I recall and used in the fireplace as starter.
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You didn't have to go down to bare wood did you? Might need some touch up with the epoxy if you did, I'd think.
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You're probably right, Lou.. dusty and foggy memory on my part.
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Wow... I had to look at those several times to fully understand this is a model. My excuse is a second glass of wine. But it is impressive.
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PM EdT. I believe those are his plans and he might be able to offer some insight. He also has a build log on this ship. Use the search feature and "Young America". I recall there's a topic on this book but not sure where it is.
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Alan, could add a attribution to those posts? Thanks.
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Marc, I hesitate on referencing this site but you might also have a look here: http://www.arsenal-modelist.com/index.php?page=accessories See the links for "stoves", "kitchens", and "ovens". I'm not sure how much help these will be nor of the accuracy for a specific time period. So caution applies but it does give a general idea of them and a quick "how-to". The key word for the above is "general idea" as I sometimes use his site as a starting place for research.
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I think that's a common condition among modelers of all types... ships, aircraft, cars, tanks, etc. I'd be surprised though if there's any mention of it medical literature.
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I think the name is mis-spelled and should be: tanganika. Quite a few places sell it. But it seems to be a "generic" name. https://sites.google.com/site/shipwrightsfaq/smf-researchnotes/smf-RN-Tanganyika
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I don't recall seeing the C-119 version but I think it was pretty much a short term thing before the C-130 version came out. I'm vaguely remember we gave some gunships to the South for their use, but don't remember which one.
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CRob, welcome to MSW. I strongly suggest you open a build log to for others to follow along. Also, any questions that you can't find answers to, ask in the appropriate area here on MSW.
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