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Maybe just call the bug bit "battle damage"... and paint a fly on the side of the cockpit for the kill.

The 60's? I've heard of them.

Looking great, CDW. I'm glad you were able to repair the damage. Now about that ZZTop quote.. thanks for the earbug.

Wow....

Beautiful work, Amallo.

Kevin, Actually I'm doing pretty good. Longterm memory is coming back in bits and spurts which the docs told me would happen. Short term seems sometimes to have wandered off. Did some work inside today as too cold still to sit outside. Just worked for 15 minutes at time with two shop vacs and an air filter running. Then after 15, go do something else. Rinse , repeat. Up and down all day and I'm making progress.

Caldercraft is part of Jotika. So... go here: http://www.jotika-ltd.com/Pages/1024768/Profile.htm#Contact

Have you tried contacting Caldercraft?

Rock on. Having two projects (or more) isn't uncommon. When you run out of steam on one, just jump on the other one.

Congratulations of kicking some butt and welcome back.

I'm wanting to believe that the classy interiors were for the officers? High ranking ones? If the crew had them, there would have a been fight to join the fleet. As for the toilet paper shortages... I don't get it. The virus doesn't cause bowel or stomach problems. I guess it's one of "follow the leader"... one person does it, brags on social media and everyone else follows. There's tails of fist fights breaking out here in the States over the stuff.

Thank you, Pat and Druxey. If the weather is half as nice as they predict, I'm taking her out on the balcony to sand. Working inside requires vacuums, and serious cleanup. BTW, the plastic was fun and good for me but wooden tall ships is where my heart is.

That's what I'm thinking... for the guns and also maybe for the chainplates for the deadeyes.

What I see here (they use the Medford airport for "short runway" practice) is them rolling out and the first two stop, and go. The next two follow pretty quick. They're staggered as they roll onto the runway. Last summer we had a flight of 12 and the whole flight was airborne in just a few minutes. Impressive. These were F-15's (reserve) and I think they had stopped for fuel and lunch. After the take off, they made some passes over the field and on the last one, at mid-field... launched straight up.

Nice work on the church (or what's left of it), Jack. Looks appropriately battle damaged. I put one of those half-tracks to together way back in the day. Nice model when done.

It may be a pig, but from here, it's coming out looking great.

Thanks Yves. That explains a lot as I'm not familiar with subs at all.

There's also: https://model-motorcars.myshopify.com/collections/small-parts-hardware/bolts which is the company that bought out the old scale hardware web shop.

Can you post a photo the cannon and the band?

Welcome to MSW, from the southern end of the PNW.

Thanks OC. I'm still going to stand in the corner... Amazing how things get twisted from mouth to ear to mouth ad innfinitum ad nauseam.

It wasn't a 707. And it wasn't empty. <sigh> I've had it wrong all these years...bad story tellers... bad! It was DC8 with a load of passengers. And they didn't have to gut the plane. Here's a link with a video... https://thelexicans.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/dc8-crew-confused-3200-runway-at-marble-mountain-with-danang-runway/ <hangs head> <goes and stands in the corner> <wonders why he listened to his fellow Marines>

Lou, DaNang was an awful place to fly into. I was a few clicks down the road from it and we used to go there too. Funny we never left base without our thundersticks and never got called on it at air base. Well... no. I did get called on it one time for having a bandolier full of ammo. Thought it a bit strange that someone would go off their base with no extra ammo. The USO was good place for food. I remember that base well. The AF had squadron of -53's, less then we had but 2-3 times the support people. They asked us to come over once a week and cross-train some their guys. The MP's at the AF area stopped us and questioned the guns. All we said was, "we're not going back through town unarmed". Kept the rifle but had to leave the grenade with them until I left. There was an incident around '67 or '68 maybe? A 707 (empty) headed to DaNang, misread their instruments or were just lost and landed on the strip at Marble Mountian. Reports were, the pilot realized something was amiss and to late to go around, he did everything in his power to stop it. Succeeded but ran of the end of the runway by 100 feet. They had to strip that plane down by gutting the interior, leaving the crew (other than 1 pilot) and draining every tank (water, etc.) and minimal fuel. They were offered a couple of JATO (the strap on rockets) but declined. They said came the day to launch it, the whole base was there to see it. Took off, due south, got over the vill and then started banking so they wouldn't run into the mountain. The guy who told me had photos...

Cool.. you had a dogfight on ceiling.

And therein were issues. Too much experimentation sometimes. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. We tried a dual .50 mount on the ramp. Welds on the mount tubing kept breaking. One of the first failures was the tail gunner forgot to secure the ammo can (it was single gun mount) and when the pilot did nice turn at speed, the can flew off the ramp... left the linked ammo hanging down outside. Exactly. One thing I noticed was everyone looked them in the eye... like they had never seen "round-eyes" before.