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TallBlondJohn

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  1. Wow that scheme does look trippy! Are you going to apply the wing/fuselage don't walk markings (or whatever they are)? I've never seen the top of a US Navy Clipper but all the others had them. Also note that the bulb aerial behind the cockpit is offset to starboard. The extra nose aerial could be the same? That trolley looks really good now, I admit I wasn't sure about the tanks either.
  2. Sadly nobody seems to have followed up this ring wing idea - except perhaps for the 1:1 replica Moa is working on in secret - or maybe that's his flying saucer. This is the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Richards_annular_monoplane
  3. They even camoed the blades?? Looks lovely though
  4. Fine wee build. As you say 1/600 is the perfect scale - so much more easier to detail than 1/700 but not too big. Shame we will never see another kit released in 1/600 but wonders can be achieved with the old Airfixes if you put in the time. One tip - if you can get an older moulding they are much better than recent re-pops.
  5. Anybody know if all digital calipers have that back 'ledge' as part of their design or is it just the Mitutoyo? Thanks
  6. And there are some AMX builds on Paper Modelers, might be worth asking there? http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/pasa-paper-aeronautical-space-administration/
  7. No, but like you I've thought about it. I know of this site that also does free downloads: https://currell.net/models/mod_free.htm Very tempted by the N1 and the airships, paper suits these sorts of subjects very well.
  8. I've had exactly that happen more than once. Never found a good way to fix it either - best of luck!
  9. Fantastic frost effect - just add some strategic snow. Seriously, if you'd said that was the effect you were trying to achieve my jaw would have fallen off.
  10. Great film, good idea, great build! Admiral Benson: 'I look out there on all you wonderful guys and I say to myself "What I wouldn't give to be 20 years younger... and a woman". You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life.'
  11. Can be done... Looks real mean too! But a Vulcan in USAF? - no no no...
  12. 'Unloved'? I built this as a kid as Wolfpack, loved it. So did the dog, which got it off my table and ate it 😧
  13. Loved this kit as a kid - its something about the green and grey on a harrier. Only thing prettier is arctic camo. My dad was livid, he was RM so didn't have much time for USMC. Great rebuild!
  14. That's the US Navy scheme in various blue/greys - which is what you can see on the central fin. Thus the pale registration. Very useful photo, I've never seen the Navy scheme from this angle. I think the darkest shading on the left fin is shadow, just to complicate things.
  15. How you can resist that lovely grey/white/orange scheme is beyond me!
  16. Makes sense - yes there is an outlet there that I missed 😬. This is California Clipper, Pearl Harbor Another unnamed Clipper, Seattle. Same wing unfortunately but the positions seem to be identical for once (sorry picture is in Pinterest so it wont embed): https://i.pinimg.com/474x/89/f4/75/89f475ac6e004f83e8799b9aa3fc3651.jpg FYI the outlets weren't on the prototype Honolulu Clipper before rebuild, but there's no reason to think they weren't on the final production models (this picture isn't embedding either - not my day!): https://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-04-at-07.26.48.jpg
  17. The weird white lines are the curves of the open nacelle access doors. I think that makes it look something inboard of the port inner, but its not visible on any British Clippers. Maybe Roosevelt's had a modification, but I doubt it. What the BOAC clippers did have is some sort of probably brass cap, which is usually not visible in Pan Am clippers, probably painted black. Of course the position varies! The small inlet further back between the engines is on all Clippers, but only ever the port wing. Clearly the two wings had different plumbing.
  18. Also note gun for use on any members of the working class who get within a hundred yards. (And flares.) 😉
  19. Hi JWM, I've checked my photos and I can only see one intake per engine, always just outboard. Just in case this wasnt a typo 🙂
  20. Vaguely related - the BBC have done an article on the importance of Fiji in the development of GPS for air travel. Good read, but bear with me... http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190303-how-fiji-changed-the-way-we-travel The navigator's desk halfway down is from a Clipper. Most 30s airliners had slightly less room! I have no idea about oil cooler outlets - could the hot air have been retained for heating?
  21. Ancient horrors, unmentionable blasphemies, mutterings of what should not be... But enough about Britmodeller. Wonderful build. I'm still wondering if the guy in the lit tent is wondering where his companion has got to - he has been gone for some time - or if he knows where he has got to...
  22. Just do a google for 'Shoggoth plush'. But brace yourself - some things in this world are best left not seen.
  23. One of these cushions perhaps? (Shoggoth Cushion by MagicWarrior at Society6.com)
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