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Mike

 

Current Wooden builds:  Amati/Victory Pegasus  MS Charles W. Morgan  Euromodel La Renommèe  

 

Plastic builds:    Hs129B-2 1/48  SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48  Five Star Yaeyama 1/700  Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama  Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32   IJN Notoro 1/700  Akitsu Maru 1/700

 

Completed builds :  Caldercraft Brig Badger   Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle  Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700   Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350

F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72  Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48  Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48  Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72

Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya  Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16

 

Terminated build:  HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn)  

 

On the shelf:  Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits

 

Future potential scratch builds:  HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans)

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I added a piece of brass tube for a gun barrel.

 

Big mistake. After researching, it should just be a hole, as the barrels are farther back.

 

I would remove it, however, it would be difficult without damage, so incorrect it will be.

 

 

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6 hours ago, SigEp Ziggy said:

I added a piece of brass tube for a gun barrel.

 

Big mistake. After researching, it should just be a hole, as the barrels are farther back.

 

I would remove it, however, it would be difficult without damage, so incorrect it will be.

 

Brother, I assume you used CA to glue it to a bulkhead or along the side, I would use a drill bit larger than the brass tube ID but slightly smaller than the OD in a pin vise and slowly remove it till it's gone or it spins off it's mount....

 

The drill bit will either remove the brass to the point of pushing the residual back into the fuselage where it cant be seen or grab it and twist it off... without damaging the plastic.... I've done it in the past for the same mistake...

 

Don't use a power drill for this technique, way too much torque and if the bit grabs then you lose the model... Do it by hand so you have better control....

 

It's an easy mistake to make.....

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Current Build: F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale

In the Garage: East Bound & Down, Building a Smokey & the Bandit Kenworth Rig in 1/25th scale

Completed: M8A1 HST  1930 Packard Boattail Speedster  M1A1 75mm Pack Howitzer  F-4J Phantom II Bell H-13's P-51B/C

Temporary Suspension: USS Gwin DD-433  F-104C Starfighter "Blue Jay Four" 1/32nd Scale

Terminated Build: F-104C Starfighter

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The aerial cannons on many of our earlier jets, up thru at least the F-16s, are 6 barrel M61A1 20mm Gatling guns, capable of up to 6,000 RPM. The size of a jet's magazine, like the silver drum in the second opening, defined how many seconds of gunfire per jet. The F-4E had 640 rounds in it's magazine, so it had 10 seconds of cannon. This Tomcat looks like around the same size. We were limited to a 2 second burst or the barrels overheated and twisted into a pretzel. One of my squadrons in SEA had a warped barrel set in our lounge.

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

Member Nautical Research Guild

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Interestingly, the same 20mm Gatling is found in the shipboard CIWS...and they all were evolved from the army AA version that was mounted on the M113 APC back in the 60's.

Brad/NavyShooter

 

Build Log: HMS Puncher by NavyShooter - 3D Print - 1/144

Build Log:   HMCS Bonaventure- 1/96 - A Fitting Out

Completed Build: HMS Blackpool - 1/144 3D Print RC

Completed Build: RMS Titanic - 1/100 - 3D Print - Pond Float display

Completed Build:  HMCS St Thomas - 1/48 - 3D printed Bens Worx

Completed Build:  3D Printed Liberty Ship - 1/96 - RC

 

A slightly grumpy, not quite retired ex-RCN Chief....hanging my hat (or helmet now...) in the Halifax NS area. 

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