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Thanks for the kudo's folks.
Rick I'm still working on the model, little fittings and eventually the sails ... but in the meantime here's a u tube video of the real boat sailing under various conditions :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucLvyxVN7bE
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I've been working on the model and had posed the question on how to fill in the bow area as shown in the above photo's. I had great success using the filler show in the below images. It cures hard enough to sand and tool in 15 minutes.
I still have to work on the rest of the model and do more finishing , like more rigging, cleats, snotters, paddles,cam cleats etc.
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- yvesvidal, hexnut, michael mott and 2 others
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This second battle a month after the Battle of the Coral Sea started the turn for victory for the US Navy in the Pacific theater WW2 One US Navy pilot witnessed it from a life raft ...Ensign George Gay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
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Looking good but I hope the patina sets in on all that brass.
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Yes, Bob it was lifted over. But if the vessel was making many short tacks I imagine it was left to one side.(Up to the skipper) In a race it was lifted over for sure.
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The pictured model is of 18' sprit sail skiff I have since full size build some 20 years ago. She is still sailing, the boat that is. I have since made many alterations gained by experience sailing the boat. The model has never been up dated since her initial bath tub and real sea trials. So I think it's time to make the model look like the actual boat.This image shows the inside painted , ) model was bright)some supports for thwarts a new inwale etc. In building the real boat I made the side planking merge with the stem in a continuous line . Not so the model. My present problem is to perhaps fill in the void shown in the stem area. Anybody here ever do this and if so what filler did you use?Also pictured is the real boat inside and another sailing.Thanks for any input.S.os
- mtaylor, Elmer Cornish, pete48 and 2 others
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18 April 1942 The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, was retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, provided an important boost to U.S. morale, and damaged Japanese morale. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, U.S. Army Air Forces.
Sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in theWestern Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to bomb military targets in Japan, and to continue westward to land in China—landing a medium bomber on Hornet was impossible. Fifteen of the aircraft reached China, and the other one landed in the Soviet Union. All but three of the crew survived, but all the aircraft were lost. Eight crewmen were captured by the Japanese Armyin China; three of these were executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union at Vladivostok was confiscated and its crew interned for more than a year. Fourteen crews, except for one crewman, returned either to the United States or to American forces.[1][2]
Their official website : http://doolittleraider.com/
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After the raid, the Japanese Imperial Army conducted a massive sweep through the eastern coastal provinces of China, in an operation now known as theZhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, searching for the surviving American airmen and applying retribution on the Chinese who aided them, in an effort to prevent this part of China from being used again for an attack on Japan. An estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese during this operation.[3][4]
The raid caused negligible material damage to Japan, only hitting non-military targets or missing completely but it succeeded in its goal of raising American morale and casting doubt in Japan on the ability of its military leaders to defend their home islands. It also caused Japan to withdraw its powerful aircraft carrier force from the Indian Ocean to defend their Home Islands, and the raid contributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to attack Midway Island in the Central Pacific—an attack that turned into a decisive strategic defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Midway. Doolittle, who initially believed that loss of all his aircraft would lead to his being court-martialled, received the Medal of Honor and was promoted two steps to Brigadier general
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Michael, What is the diameter of the tiller handle ?
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Mike, I cannot see any kind of scuppers to drain the cockpit. Does any photo show them ?
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- Bindy, GrandpaPhil, mtaylor and 1 other
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I sure like the way this is going together. The precision reminds me of surgeons preparing for an operation
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- WackoWolf, Saburo, Elmer Cornish and 1 other
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Viv, you are really giving that little junk lots of personality. How about a few figures aboard ?
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I and I assume many others appreciate your posting with images on this form. It's kind of being there in your shop and working alongside you.
Mike, thanks once again.
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I think I might want to put some small nuts and bolts and washers in there, bolting the two halves together. It'll be cheap insurance against the glue failing between the two halves. Yeah - that's the ticket!
I recon ya goin off shore with that modelTim. I hear tell those nor'easters kin split a ship in two!
Looking good so far.
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I don't get to technical with the measurements, if it looks ok that's what I'll go with.
What pleases the eye must be considered. After all this hobby is fun.
Keep up the great work. It sure pleases my eye.
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Absolutely beautiful. You made a wise decision about the sails. Now! When can I borrow her to sail in my bathtub?
Such a beauty deserves a name.
Did you put a coin in the mast step, face down ?
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PS another ? Are ya gonna put a crew person at the helm ? ?
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I like your approach to model boat and ship building, working up to models like the HMS Victory. You're little fleet looks like a great start.
Ahh the snipe. A great little sail boat. I built one right after getting out of the Navy back in 1952.
To make sure I could get it out of the basement I and friends muscled it out just in frame.
I did plank mine and kept the boat for about 7 years until it got too small for a growing family.
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I'm gonna follow this one. I never did a ship in a bottle but I might just try it.
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Looks good from here..... maybe a little wear marks from chain paying out.
S.os
18' spritsail skiff by Senior ole salt - FINISHED
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