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mtaylor replied to rhephner's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
I checked my stash of MM paints. They now have tossed as all were dried out. They were great paints but times change. -
Don't beat yourself up, Chris. Sometimes, stuff happens or isn't clear in the instructions. I think we've all been there at least once or twice or more. I know have multiple times.
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Beautiful work and believe the in-laws will love it. I did change your title to "Finished" for you. There is a posted topic on this here:
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Such a tiny little craft but very well done.
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Great to see you have returned and are recovering, Bob. The model is looking good. Do keep listening to the First Mate as she cares and seems wise.
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Generally speaking... yes the port side was a mirror image of the starboard side. However, there probably were exceptions. And once the iron/steel navies became a thing, they weren't always mirror images.
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He'll have to inspect any cake for tiny periscopes.
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Not quite, Keith but I love that photo. The Russians are using, if I recall correctly, Limpet mines that are magnetic.
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I see you have and that's great. Welcome to MSW. May I also suggest you do an introduction in the "New Members Introduction" area?
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War dogs are not uncommon. The military uses them for guard dogs and also other tasks like helping to clean out bunkers, etc Currently, there are war dolphins being used by the Russians (alledgedly) to help guard their Black Sea fleet.
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Interesting video, Eric. When I lived in the St. Louis area we did ride the Katy trail but only about 20 miles of it. Wonderful ride with some little towns along the way that most used for rest stops.
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That's a new category... "war penguins". How do they compare to "war dogs" other than have to keep them in fish.
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In 'Nam, our choppers weren't washed except by the rain and wipe downs by the crew chief and 1st mech. Exhaust was rusty. and paint had a lot of worn spots where the maintenance guys walked and worked. There were oil and soot streaks but sometimes didn't get cleaned up due to time. Most CC's would try to touch up the paint from the worn spots but it was rather iffy as to finding time to do that. No rust on anything not steel such as skin, blades.
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Generally speaking, Rick, if the gunports didn't have lids or bucklers (I could be wrong on the bucklers), they didn't have the port stops
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Nice work. I really wasn't able to visual how large this model is until now. Note to self... scratch this one off the "maybe" list due to room.
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I recall having a few of those rapid disassembly launches around '71 when the Estes were the rockets of choice. Seems if you dropped those "motors" on concrete accidentally, they would explode either at "launch" or just as it left the launcher. If I'm remembering right, those Saturn V's had 4 motors and were only a single stage. Some smaller ones were two stage with one motor per stage. We started off launching at Wright State University which was mostly field back then as they only had a few buildings up. The AF sent out a truck with MP's on Sunday and asked us to go somewhere else as one of the jets landing saw one of our rockets (the smoke trail) in front of him.
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So far, none but I will look in the vacuum cleaner bag when I'm done.
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Donald Mckay(Or his client)had a sense of humor!
mtaylor replied to Lucius Molchany's topic in Nautical/Naval History
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I used almost entirely wood glue for hull planking as the CA smell gets to me. But use what you're comfortable with.
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I hope the back problem is solvable, Tom and you can return to doing what you want. This getting old stuff ain't for sissies is it?
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Well, I'll put in my 2 cents. As kid we didn't have any hills in the subdivision which basically was filled with housing bought by folks on the GI Bill of WWII. However, there was a large hill probably 1/4 mile away or so that was undeveloped and had tall grass. Our summer time had many trips down that hill on either a big sheet of cardboard or an old car hood (several were stashed there by us kids). Great memories of fun times. BTW, the hill was known in the neighborhood as "Cardboard Hill". Back then, we'd leave home in the morning and not come home till dark and no one worried about us. We'd wander (usually on bikes) to the hill in on direction, the grade school in another, and then there was creek on a large state owned farm that was a great place on hot day to sit in the water and talk.
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I'm' just flabbergasted.
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