The Officially Shameless PBY/Halloween '09 GB

namrednef wrote:

Yeah, Hobbes is no dog lover.....he wants to smooch Susie! Where the EFF is Watterson anyway!!??

LOL!

Here's a gratuituos Cat' link...anyone care to venture a guess what color that interior is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWIBAwspaQ

Cheers,
Alex

 You can leave it as is.

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namrednef wrote:

Yeah, Hobbes is no dog lover.....he wants to smooch Susie! Where the EFF is Watterson anyway!!?? NP Eric! I wasn't sure about the NUMA ref. Lemme know if you wish a change! The BVD will sit on it and think!

cardshark_14 wrote:

Nam, looks like we've got a whole crew of bluesmen... I can rock out with the best of 'em, but I'm starting to move on and learn some sweet blues licks! Me likey! Whaddya play? Cheers, Alex

Hi Alex! Glad yer getting started! Cool help and hints already up here!

I can play any stringed instument except a banjo.....even a violin.....I know my way around a keyboard and with a synthesizer you get a lot of help. I was a garage band drum banger as a teen....but guitar is the main instrument the past 30 yeaqrs, but not consistently. I can't shred but I have my moments.....as I said this tape CD is almost 8 years old......I listed my guitars on that old Odd n Ends guitar thread if that what was you meant. I'm down to just 4 guitars now.....too much styrene in the blood.

Good grief I have become invisable!?!??!?

 Alex! The interior at 1st appeared dark gray but my view of the back wall shows it to be Green zinc chromate heavily weathered! That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

Dog gone Navy squid ignoring me! I'm gonna paint them Army green and be done with it I say!

Grey.

Outside shot looking in the cockpit is grey and green and the open hatch is grey.

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Division 6 wrote:

Grey. Outside shot looking in the cockpit is grey and green and the open hatch is grey. E...

Take a peek at the outside shot when it is taxing out. Really green with the sunlight. The inside does look dark gray in the pit shots but I wonder if it is the poor lighting?

Aaron - my Dad has some old kahki tan tarps that have USN stenciled upon them. I would paint them  Model Master Enamel "Sand" 33531 as that makes a close match ..

Lt - Thanks for the thoughts, I heard some ice crackiling on the River earlier from the extra H20.

Poor image and overcast sky really messes things up.

Looking around the inside in the rear looks almost light seafoam green for a few seconds.

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You up pretty high on that hill Sean?

Good gracious! Seems the BVD has passed out in the comode again! Who's turn is it to pull his face out the head?

sfcmac wrote:

Good grief I have become invisable!?!??!?  Alex! The interior at 1st appeared dark gray but my view of the back wall shows it to be Green zinc chromate heavily weathered! That's my story and I'm sticking with it! Dog gone Navy squid ignoring me! I'm gonna paint them Army green and be done with it I say!

Sorry Aaron! I replied to this about the tarps......wrong key....maybe wrong tab.....apologies!

You probably already had better advice....I simply said 'olive drab or Navy gray!'

(Hope it didn't show up in FAW GB!)

sfcmac wrote:

Yeah I think Sean got it covered. I figure a tarp is a tarp but I'll make one special just for you as described! Sorry to pick on ya but then what's really bad is Ol' Frank ain't been around since you sent him out to look for wenches....

Sir! THAT is because the XO knows when to put the mouse away and BUILD!

sfcmac wrote:

You up pretty high on that hill Sean?

Yeah , I think so - If we get enough wate to fill the Valley and get in the yard there will have been more serious things leading up to that.  Not sure how high we actually are, here is a pic from Spring (not strapping on the snowshoes to go out and take one) before the water came up. On the point where the rocks turn white is about 12 ' from the water line there. Later on with the runoff the white will be under.

  It looks like it would take an awful lot of water but then I thought so too and the hurricane surge came really close to us.  Just thinking of that stash Sean. Shame for the decals to get all wet.  You take care it can rise pretty fast.

And you Nam! I work with a mouse in one hand a paint brush in the other!  Dee is somewhere in the middle! I took both your advice after I finally pryed it outta yer aniebrietated carcus! # stacks are Seans color and 3 yours to keep it fair. Variety wasn't a bad idea. Gives contrast!  I also took Sean's mention of a stencil. Not USN but I had a few spare Navy decals in black which you can read thru the windows now. Pretty cool!  Thank you fellows!

 A little fading with dull coat and rubbing alcohol and I'll close er up. Unless you have any further complaints sir?  Nap time for me gotta work tonight! I was on a roll too!

namrednef wrote:

sfcmac wrote:  Yeah I think Sean got it covered. I figure a tarp is a tarp but I'll make one special just for you as described! Sorry to pick on ya but then what's really bad is Ol' Frank ain't been around since you sent him out to look for wenches.... Sir! THAT is because the XO knows when to put the mouse away and BUILD!

  You got it!  I mustered up the courage to start painting the FW-190 white.

sfcmac, tarps look great looks like you have a packcat instead of a packmule!

daywalker, I think that you have come up with a fine wench for this GB. Are you snowed in with her!!!!!!!!!

MKelley wrote:

daywalker, I think that you have come up with a fine wench for this GB. Are you snowed in with her!!!!!!!!!

Yessir- she's rubbing my shoulders right now after snow removal duties.  It's rough being me...

Mac- I love what you did with the tarps!  Well done my friend.

Sean- You be careful there!  Hate to have you get flooded and float away.  They'll be scooping you outta the river by Mac's house!

Daywalker wrote:

Sean- You be careful there!  Hate to have you get flooded and float away.  They'll be scooping you outta the river by Mac's house!

Were good, thanks for the concern . There are a lot of people suffering from the snow and and flooding. We had the same thing happen last year, there are parts of Rainer State Park that I think are still closed due to flooding over on the West side.

Besides I wouldnt float by Aaron's place I might get to see Dave - as this river runs North into Canada. 

ALex if no~one comes through the best I could do would take a pic as my scanner kicks my butt

 Alex I've been thinking about scanning the Pro-modeler ones simply because they are cooler instructions. Ref pics and stuff right in there. I have to go to work tonight but as soon as I wake up from my slumber I will be on it!

Thanks fellows but Frank gets the credit for the pennies and Nam and Sean's brain power for the tarps! Teamwork!  There is no eye in Tomato! When the going gets tough the Nam gets meat tenderizer and Sean gets a bigger hammer! Or uses his boots! 

 Hi HO HI HO!

sfcmac wrote:

I've been thinking about scanning the Pro-modeler ones simply because they are cooler instructions. Ref pics and stuff right in there.

I'd be interested in seeing those since I have the new re-release Army version.

I'd also be interested in any figures that people don't want.

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Well looking through the few color pix I have from WWII some look a bit dirty on the keel area where others are shiny white while the rest of the plane is heavly weathered and dirty.

Maybe a bit of chipped paint and streaking of some dirt would work. 

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Alex!!! I don't want to hear any more talk about your Rocky mountain goat whiz commonly referred to as Coors! Make it Newcastle Brown Ale for me thanks!

Aaron great looking Tarps my friend!!!!!!!!

What figures and scale are you looking for Eric? I've sent bags of them as far away as Britain. All I have are pilots and occasional groundcrew.

My experience with weathered white colors in real life was the white looked and was chalky. If you rubbed a finger on the paint some would be on your finger. These were Phantoms and Tomcats awaiting maintenance and painting in a very salty environment. There also would be some very faded amber colored areas, usually on the spine behind the pit to the tail.....this was evident even on gray upper paint.

Undersides could be problematic.....I saw the pristene and shabby. But of course those A/C usually didn't land on the water!

Roy....I agree with your opinion about Coors.........Newcastle is nice for quick change now and then, but I'm strongly into the whitebread red white and blue.....Bud!