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Thanks. It is an odd scale, and I was ambivalent when I bought it. And, it's been sitting in my stash for a while, but for whatever reason, now is the time. But, I suppose it's close enough to sit next to other 1/48 inter-war AC, such as the Williams' Super Ace and Pitcairn Autogyro, Revell Spirit of St Louis, Testor's (nee Hawk) R3C-2, Gee Bee Racer, Travel Air Myster Ship, &etc. With the exception of the Revel Spirit of St Louis, the Williams Super Ace, and (maybe) Pitcairn, these are all, um, well, projects to get beyond the minimal/non-existant detail. The Gee Bee Racer and Myster Sh

Interesting. Here's the Majic product page. Google tells us Walmart, Sears, Amazon, and others, carry it, too. I've got an airliner that could benefit from this; I'll be laying down these LOT "Lady with an Ermine" decals from Nazca, and I'll really need a glossy surface!

When this happens to me, my only comment is "if was any closer and had teeth, it would have bit me"

I've started work on the Williams Bros 1/53 "The Lost Electra". It includes decals for Earhart's NR16020 as well as EAL (Eastern), Delta, and USCG versions. All AC have bare metal flying surfaces; the USCG version shows a blue fuselage. The kit itself is rather simple with very pronounced rivet detail. The cockpit consists of two generic seats, an instrument panel, control columns, and wheels. If you look carefully, you can see the control columns were identically molded, with one to be flipped. Sadly, they are assymetrically molded, so the forward surface on the port column and aft surface o

Sad how well this resonates with people. I have a wooden floor, and I find a dustpan and brush the only reliable retrieval method. Even so, I too have had several how-could-I-have-lost-something-that-big or I-know-I-put-it-down-in-front-of-me episodes. My only tactic in this case is to carefully move everything out of the area, looking carefully in all boxes and trays, picking up all pieces of paper, &etc. Since it's not where it's supposed to be, I look at everything, especially those it-cannot-possibly-be-in/under-this items. This technique is often, but not always, successful. I never

Oustanding job! Well done.

The TwoBobs/TwoMikes 2012 IPMS National OPFOR Super Pack arrived today. It looks FABULOUS! Waco, congratulations to you sir, you did an outstanding job! :cheers:/>

I built the accumulator trolley from the Teknics "WWII RAF Ground Crew and Trolley-Acc Cart", TK48023. The kit includes 4 ground crew, the accumulator trolley, two chocks, and some other bits... Here are the trolley parts removed from their pour blocks and cleaned up: And here it is assembled: The observent will note that I replaced the rear and bottom frame--collateral damage from my heavy-handed removal of the bottom frame after I contrived to mis-position it... :doh:/> Perhaps it was my sub-concious balking at the fact that the bottom frame, which should be an open frame

OK, nothing to show in the cockpit, Based on your "late-war airframes", the NF II wouldn't have had the tube light you show above. I guess that I can assume something that looks like a clear rearward-facing wingtip light can be assumed to be this. Thanks for the info, and good hunting in the archives!

Is this a 2nd sight or the only sight used on, say an NF Mosquito? Would you post some URLS or photos showing these? I'm getting all the bits to do EW*R, a Mosquito NF II, 307 Squadron, and this would be cool to show... This is great stuff, thanks! Can we anticipate more from you on this in the future?

That you were just there is orthogonal to the problem Google reports. Google still reports a problem now. Try https://www.google.com/search?q=infrared+light+wwii+identificationMy link If the warning is, in fact, bogus, the webmasters at britmodeller.com still have work to do. That too is described in the Google page the above query will describe. In any event, the exchange is off topic and obviously pointless.

Serious issue at Britmodeller My research on this topic pointed to britmodeller.com a couple of times, and Google is flagging it as a malware site. If you know the webmasters, please contact them as they have some work to do ASAP

That's certainly my observation. I've only gotten them for strength or replacement of misplaced or mangled parts...

The True Details F4F is one approach. As noted the F3F and F4F used the same landing gear. so the wheels are similar. I compared the AM F3F-1 to a Tamiya F4F-4 (not a TD resin wheel): On the F3F, the tires are 0.545" diameter and 0.146" thick. On the F4F, the tires are 0.530" diamter and 0.157" thick. The F3F tire has embossed lettering, "Goodrich Silvertown", while the Tamiya wheel is quite smooth. Both hubs have the same diameter. The outboard F3F hub has 4 bolt locations; pictures I have confirm this. The F4F hub has 6 bolts with another feature that could be a valve. The inboard h

Gotta go with this as my fave. Very inventive!

Waco, THANK YOU! You did an awesome job!

Outstanding!

Or the Eduard (nee Academy) that I already have. Hmmm, maybe I do need another since you have 2 sheets

I'm *impressed* with the image work! Imma have to try my gimp skills too!

Wow! Now that's a truly awesome set! But, well, aren't we going to get a picture of said celebratory chugging?

I've had DirecTV since the '90s. I don't use any of the on-demand service or PPV, but have a bunch of stuff set up to record--it works great. The recording feature works by title and priority. We've been recording some shows for years; it just keeps working as long as the content provider doesn't change the title!

Have you seen the several crew pictures in Wikipedia's Lancaster article?

The existence of the problem is well known in other modeling hobbies. The Curator of Navy Ship Models published a comprehensive article "Lead Corrosion in Exhibition Ship Model". It's an interesting read; the conclusions indicate acid, particularly acetic acid, as the cause of the problem. On a wooden ship modeling list posting back in 2005, somebody had indicated the British Model Soldier Society had studied the problem. Perhaps somebody on this list knows of a direct source of information from them as my Google-foo failed me... In any event, that post also noted advice in the 60' and 70's

For something like that, how about 1/72? IIUC, that would put it around 15 in. It would also be consistently scaled with various other small vessels like the Gato Class, PT, PBR, Type-VIIc, Type-IIa, Type-XXII, S-Boot, Hunley, David, Holland-I, and so many more...

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.