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    Thanks for the added Intel, what I can't figure out yet, is what scale these wires work with? I don't have a gauge checker, but I understand 32awg is pretty good for most things. Not sure where these wires fall into the scale, but it will be interesting to find out. I have heard about solder as well, from the look, being silver in color, it is perfect for hydraulics, and I don't think paint is required in most instances. My issue is finding the really small stuff. Do you have the size you use? I would also love to see how you roll it into seat belts! I have some PE seat belts, b
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    I am very new here as well, my last build was when Bush was president, the older Bush, so that gives a time frame, may have even been Reagan, I can't remember. The one piece of advice I can offer you is this. Once the kit is painted and the decals are sealed in, you can use a satin clear coat to tone down how shiny it looks. Then, this is where you need to be bold and try something new. Try using colored chalk to weather it. You should look up how to use chalk for weathering, it looks pretty easy, just grind it to a fine powder and use a big brush to put it on the plane. Once it has gotten int
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    Since I made the mistake of cutting away too much plastic from my "back after thirty years" debut, I figured I would look around the house for inspiration. One area that always makes my jaw drop (https://davidsscalemodels.com/2019/04/19/detail-work-continues-on-the-1-48-f-22-raptor/ His ability to take a tiny model and just copy the real thing to the smallest detail, is stunning. I had planned to try and replicate as much detail in my models as well, from spark plugs to wire harnesses and hydraulic plumbing, you just need a scale sized wire in the right color. So, since I am bored,
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    Now THAT is a thing of absolute beauty! Can you imagine the horror when all eight barrels opened up on a battalion of men marching along, when these started popping off everywhere? For those who never served, the explosions created by hand grenades, Mk19's and 203's are actually quite unimpressive, just a loud pop, and a bit of grey smoke, not the GIANT fireball hollyweed would have us believe. Obviously secondary explosions are possible, but the grenades themselves are boring, but devastating to the living. If memory serves, the kill radius of all three is 5 meters, with a wound r
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    Did not know this, thanks for the heads up! Tank pretty much said what I would say, but to consider this as well. If an aircrew were to encircle a area of action from a decent altitude, where shooting into the area was nearly straight down, this could really be a useful weapon especially when you have ground assets trying to break contact etc. The accuracy would be pretty good to control, since it is easy to see the rounds leaving the barrel, also the obvious explosive report would make adjustments fairly easy I would think. The only reason I figure it does not make a good weapo
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    Strange, I am certain I wrote a different word, twice. Something tells me that the site changed my words for me. Just so we are clear, I never wrote "bad girl", we called her the itch with a B. At the beginning of my reply, I also wrote "the chunker", my phone updated this week and ever since then, everything has gone to hand in a hell basket. Cheers, Anthony
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    As always whiskey, you bring so much Intel to the thread, it's priceless! Hope others have enjoyed reading and looking at the pictures. Anthony PS. The chunkier, that sounds about right. The Mk19 had a strangely quiet report, you would think that sending a fist sized HE round over 4 football fields would require an explosion that would destroy your ears in one shot, but that is not the case at all. Same goes for the 203, another quite killer, but a pain to carry, worse than the M240Bravo, affectionately know as either "the pig", or my favorite, "the bad girl". You did n
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    Hey everyone, just thought I would put this out there for everyone to enjoy/consider on their next Cobra build. While I was looking over some reviews of the new Kitty Hawk line of helos in 35th scale, I wondered why I didn't see the Mk19 getting some love by the kit makers, so I went searching for more info. Anyway, long story short, the Mk19 is one of my favorite weapons systems I used while in the Army. Firing the ghost round always spooked me, not sure why. Anyway, those who have been blessed to fire the Mk19, know what a joy it is. The soft "ka-chunk" sound it makes and being a
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    Forgot to add, as for rescuing cats, it has been a pleasure and a curse. We have lots of successful rescues, including one cat with cancer (she got expensive quick) but lots of heartbreak as well. We just lost our home after 5 years living there, and we are unable to keep all the cats indoors anymore (they literally destroyed our last home, felt bad, but we paid to get it cleaned up) so now we are adopting them out, and we have dozens of cats that need homes, it sucks, but that is what we have to do. I also thought about the last 5 years, how much money and heartache we have been thru, and dec
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    Let's put it this way, it's one AM here and the current humidity is 81%. By noon tomorrow, it will be up to around 90+%. Or in other words, my sweat sweats! Probably 5 in line filters and I will be OK. Now for the scary part, I have found literally dozens of inline filters on ebay, for a few bucks and free shipping, guess that won't hurt to try, after all, it is just a few dollars each, and I mean less than three dollars with free shipping, so I am going to give it a try. Do you by chance know the size of the paasche hose line coupler? I really want to get that working,
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    Now that is what I am talking about! Thanks a million! In the Philippines, more water than air comes out of my brushes, it's that humid here. This is exactly what I need. Unfortunately this page/item does not ship to the Philippines, but it gives me a jumping off point to find one that does, probably via ebay (can you say "rip off" in Chinese?) Anyway, thanks a bunch! Anthony Not at all brother, that "stingy" comment was in jest. I was just wanting more info is all, I have a weird personality, what I call humor, others call nuts or pompous, depends who you ask.
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    Don't be stingy, please explain how you do it. I live in the Philippines, water vapor is ALWAYS a problem. While my compressor has a built in vapor trap, it still is unable to prevent all the moisture from spitting out the tip, I need to find a way to clear out the water as close to my brush as possible. Do you have a not so secret method of stopping the water from exiting my brush and ruining my work? Anthony
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    Now that is pretty clever.... reminds me of another European trick used in the 70's and 80's by Volvo. They used to (maybe still do) put the spare tire on top of the engine to act as a crash cushion of sorts. Not sure how effective it was, but still a creative way to help protect those inside from a head on collision, before the airbag was created. If my memory serves, the early airbags used solid rocket fuel, like that of the space shuttle in order to inflate the bags that rapidly. Of course they learned that small people and grabbed did not fair well, getting punched in the face by a NASA sh
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    Well as we all know, matter/energy can not be created of destroyed, only transformed. Such is the case of the water that is quite literally squeezed out of the air during the compression phase, which is unavoidable unless under laboratory conditions. So you guess a better way to say it is the water vapor that is collected during the compression phase, is merely a byproduct or side effect. The best way to avoid a sloppy mess is to have a vapor condenser just before the compressed air reaches the airbrush. While some compressors come with a water vapor trap, if you live in a high humility climat
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    Would be awesome to see a group build, have a fleet of these for a show, there would not be room for anything else! Anthony
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    Ok, and do you mind explaining? I have used compressors for most of my life, and as the air has always had water in it, the water is separated from what I guess is pretty simple. You can't compress water. So when you compress air, the water vapor is forced out as the air gets pressed harder and harder. I am no scientist guru, but I would be dollars to anything, donuts/gold, you name it, that unless you have pure air at zero percent humidity, water will be separated because of this rule, or something similar regarding the water in the air via humidity. But thanks for your input, it
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    I think I messed up my notifications settings, as I am only just now getting nearly a dozen at once. Anyway, that is absolutely tiny visible variations, for the trained eys, probably still difficult to spot, unless you have the proper angle and quality camera, otherwise most flying pictures will be indistinguishable. That said, it also makes converting the A to the L, a very easy job for even junior's scratch builders. Too bad I don't even qualify for that build rank as of now. But one day, one day! Thanks, Anthony PS. As always, you give us more
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    Sorry to hear that, sounds like you knew him as well. Is there anyone that you don't know on ARC, britmodeller and IPMS? By the way, my membership papers/package from IPMS are in the mail, then I can annoy you on three forums and ebay! Lucky guy you are. Anthony
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    Three seonds of reading your opening on the YF build, I was hooked! I will look over the build and in all likelihood, as questions. I will try my best to keep those questions limited to, I don't know.........less than 100! (j/k) (or am I?) I found your commentary/banter perfect. This of course lead to me musing over your attempt to join the X-Plane group, find the builder and send him a complimentary email via google translate. With a smile of your perfect words, now in characters that would make an alien cringe, you hit the send button. Having forgot about the email as you begin y
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    Cool, a lot of insight to my own back yard. At some point in time, if I remember correctly, they changed their flight program, and the pilots went off to be trained as paramedics, only a bit higher level than the guys in the meat wagon. We used to just call them supermen, since they could fly and save lives. This allowed them to become more independent I guess, and they would often take an EMT along while transporting the patient to the hospital. Again, my memory not being what it was, I think this was the early 90's. I never got a ride, but always wanted one. I can't image what th
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    Oh, I will have to read it again. I guess all the information I have been trying to absorb, has crossed up my brain. Glad you pointed this out to me before I did something stupid. Thanks! Now I just hope that I can unlearn what my brain has done....... Grrrrrrrrr Anthony PS. Obviously I won't be trying that since it was a mistake, unless my brain reconfigures into the false information mode again, I hope that doesnt happen.
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    This is gonna shock you..... David is another modeler from this forum and has his own website as well. He is a master builder in my eyes, his work and ability to scratch build is major league without a doubt. Here is a link to his website where he explains in detail how her removed scratches and seams from canopies via mr surfacer and a q-tip. https://davidsscalemodels.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-repair-clean-and-polish-clear-parts/ Hope that this is as helpful to you, as you have been to me! Thank you all for taking time to give someone you don't even know,
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    Wow, I get to offer advice! I have been talking with a fellow modeler and veteran whose build log I found by accident. His name is David, and his build skills put him atop the mountain of guru's that I have found while doing research for my first build. Anyway, he told me that he never uses future or other floor wax for anything, but especially not canopies. He told me tbat they yellow with time. Anyway, if you follow this link, it will take you directly to his "tips and tricks" page of his website. He does a lot of commission work as well. The level of detail he creates is ridicul
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    Shot them an email about an hour ago, will have to wait and see what the shipping costs are, hope it isn't cost prohibitive, the only downside to living in the Philippines. Thanks for all the info, very helpful. I have to admit, I am very confused about mr surfacer. I thought it was mearly a wet polishing compound, good for canopies. But I keep reading about it being used to fill seams. Can you give me a bit more information? Is it paint? Is it filler? Is it a polishing compound? Thanks again, as always, Anthony
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    Good to know, and I agree, it is better to have several types of glue, better to have it amd not need it, than need it and not have it. Thats my motto anyway.
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