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Post by mac on Feb 12, 2021 0:10:54 GMT
Where were you when Twilight Zone needed writers? Cheers
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 1:07:12 GMT
In DC Comics's GI Combat, there were occasional stories about Dinos vs GIs, Nazis, and Japanese.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 1:12:19 GMT
Come on Mike mind on the job; start digging out that sewer. LBH is a disease.
Cheers
Still no estimate. But I have appointments for an inspection by a company which places liners in your old pipes and doesn't rip apart the house. Average cost is $20,000, which is a lot better than the 30 - 125,000 range I am estimating, but I don't hold out much hope. Then a more conventional company is also coming next week and maybe I will finally get some good numbers. They referred the insert company. They are call Advanced Plumbing Technology and I was hoping they had Star Trek Transporters and Replicators, but maybe I will get lucky and a mini-chunnel boring machine will do the deed.
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Post by mac on Feb 12, 2021 11:56:43 GMT
They do have great technology now for relining and so on. Good luck! Cheers
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Post by Beth on Feb 12, 2021 16:39:26 GMT
Good Lord Mike I thought I was bad with my collection of untouched needlework! I haven't picked up a single one since I started my interest in battles, first Waterloo and then LBH. It's an addiction I tell you, an addiction. I just wish I could remember even half of the things I see to have forgotten.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 1:43:09 GMT
Beth, Well for me military history, wargaming, plastic model building are all aspects of the same hobby, it contributed to my success in the Army and that got me my 2nd career in Simulation and Modeling as a defense contractor. My oldest unbuilt model is either the USS Constitution in 1/96 scale or a Saturn V in 1/96 Scale. The Saturn V stems from about 1979 and the Constitution probably from 1996. My oldest wargame, Avalon Hill 1st Edition Battle of the Bulge I bought in 1970. My oldest book on warfare is probably Panzer Leader or Panzer Battles bought in 1970, but my oldest book is probably Alas Babylon in 1966 or so.
My wife's sewing room is our whole Florida Room which is about 12 feet wide x 25 feet and is full of stuff she will never do. The auxiliary sewing room/Guest House is her yarn. I can't even estimate how much she has because it is there and in boxes in the garage. My stuff is contained in my office and my wargame room, both of which together are smaller than her sewing room and is considerably neater.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 13, 2021 2:02:24 GMT
Panzer Battles is the classic all time best read for me.
Once upon a time I was friends with a fellow who owned a hobby shop in Ocean City, Maryland. It was only open during the summer, and he really did not have to work (family money). He had a house in OC as well, and on display was that 1/96 Constitution, that he built himself, and displayed it in a custom made case. Probably the best model of a ship I have ever seen made by someone who is not a professional model builder. While I am on the subject, if anyone wants to see some ship modeling works of art, visit the Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis. Don Pruel is the model curator there and many, if not most, of the more recent models on display are his. He has one of a Somers Class destroyer that I would hock my children to own. Maybe my grandchildren too.
That Constitution model original edition goes back to at least the 1970's Mike in its original tooling. It has been upgraded a couple of times. Revell issued a bunch of then in the late 1960's and early 70's including Cutty Sark, Kearsarge, Alabama, and I think the USCGC Eagle, and SMS Seeadler.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 2:38:32 GMT
I also have a Cutty Sark that I acquired in the 1999-2000 time frame. I am afraid to build either of them. Many of my other models failed to survive back and forth trips across the Atlantic and the North American Continent.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 13, 2021 2:53:17 GMT
Surviving transportation is fairly east Mike. It is all a matter of how you mount your model, and what you encase the finished model in.
All my display pieces including the T34/85 (1943) I just finished today are mounted securely on a base and in a case. I could move them just about anywhere without fear. It then is just a matter of how much you want to shell out for a case to secure them in. It would have to be custom made for that size model, but there is a company called Grandpa's Cabinets that could do it for about 500. Sound like a lot, but a model that big and that detailed makes the 500 buck shell out worth it in the long run.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 3:22:24 GMT
I did not store my armor or aircraft in the way you described. The two sailing ships remain unbuilt, being incompatible with my wife's 5 and #1 daughters 2 cats without first doing a first rate job of assembly and then indeed, encasing them in a custom display case. I do have a almost finished 1/350 Hornet with the Doolittle Strike positioned on the deck, a partially USS Wasp (LHD), unbuilt USS Enterprise (CVN-65, NCC-1701 TOS and NCC-1701 TMP), a USS Missouri refit with Tomahawks and Harpoons, and a USS Alaska CB. A USS Montana Class BB is calling me, but I resist thus far. I have a 1/700 Baltimore CA and 1/700 Montana partially completed as well, but they just don't look right.
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 13, 2021 20:23:58 GMT
I have always wanted to re-create a D-Day senario, I had planned to base it on a battalion strength Infantry force along with DD tanks, Churchill Funnies, flail tanks and some TDs. I have been searching for data on German strong points along the Normandy coast line and I have decided to make a stretch of coast about six foot long with two main strong points, one has a 75mm PaK 40 and the other a 50mm PaK 38, both in casemates. Each would be based in a WN setting with at ditches, wire and mine fields. Each WN would have a platoon of Infantry with MGs ect in slit trenches. Just hehind the beach we have a small village with anothe 50mm and another platoon, that makes up a full German company. The beach is covered by four 105s set back off table. The mission of the Infantry battalion is to take command of the beach, move inland and take the small village and push on to a bridge which is about a mile inland. The landing are set in three phases, with DD tanks and an Infantry company, then the funnies plus another infantry company and then the TDs with the last company.
Now it gets interesting, the bridge is guarded by a German platoon and a 50mm gun plus MGs and is the objective of a company of glider troops. The bridge defenders are supported by two other platoons and a couple of ex-French tanks about a mile up the road, so these will be called into counter attack if the bridge fell. After so many moves, a German panzer company with Pz IVs and SP guns with motorised infantry would be on their way, so it should be a good climax. I am using some of my old rules for naval gun fire and may even adda sorte from the RAF. Who knows, it may take another few years, but I have had this in mind for at least 20.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 1:47:35 GMT
I got my two cav troopers and four Indians today. At first I thought I got cheated on contents. Now I remember why I don't do many figures in 1/35. Other than my lack of painting skills. Expensive, but fast service and as advertised.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 3:37:59 GMT
Anyone got some 1/35th M3 Grease Guns? All I seem to have in the scrap box is M1s, Bars, Thompsons, Carbines, and 30cal MGs, plus some crew served weapons. What I need are M3s for the Driver and RTO. The TC will be on the 50. I might let the loader have an M1 or a carbine. Gunner will be inside doing his gunner thing.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 17, 2021 4:08:58 GMT
Mike I cannot recall seeing any Grease Guns in any scale. The guy to ask is Ian. 1/72 is his scale but he has so many contacts around the world that he could probably at least find out if any are made.
What is the model? Something with a crew of five so its probably WWII or Korea.
Any chance you could do some surgery on an MP44? In fact if it is WWII why not use the MP44 as found on the battlefield weapons instead of an M3?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 4:17:28 GMT
The model is an M5 Stuart at the Little Bighorn. Apparently the tank was disabled, so the gunner and loader are going to stay with the tank and use the MG and coax to engage the Indians. Driver, RTO and TC are going to dismount. I might have the RTO carry the 30 caliber with a shoulder mount they scrounged. Driver a Grease Gun and the TC a carbine. MP44 hard to find in Montana...even in 1946 or so, much less 1876. hahahahaha. I've got some contacts local.
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