Russ:

Yes, Evergreen makes tubing about that diameter, the trick is the wall thickness.

The ID of the nacelle exhaust area on your kit looks like a lot bigger and cleaner diameter than on my Revell kit. Mine has nacelles that are at least 1mm thick. Did you modify them or did they come that way?

"By the way, I'm having trouble loading that pictures of the exhaust, not sure why but it doesn't open any more."

Please cancel that comment about the photo not opening, it was an ISP issue.

Dag-nab-it, I have already glued the nacelles together with the cones portruding, and you can see right into the nacells because of the tolerences. I have to figure a way to widen the nacelle exhaust diameter, and glue in exhausts.....

Dom

Dom, it was a museum bird, so it's going to look a bit rough with missing and repaired parts.

I am using the smallest tubing I had on hand, and I am in the process of carefully sanding the outside of it to reduce it's wall thickness. Not sure yet of how the scale will be. I may have to find some smaller stuff.

Ken. Thanks for asking. My best answer is that there are bad days, and then there are worse days. Nights and weekends are toughest. I still can't handle being at her house and don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sort through her things.

Jim

Bockscar

Russ:

The ID of the nacelle exhaust area on your kit looks like a lot bigger and cleaner diameter than on my Revell kit. Mine has nacelles that are at least 1mm thick. Did you modify them or did they come that way?

Dag-nab-it, I have already glued the nacelles together with the cones portruding, and you can see right into the nacells because of the tolerences. I have to figure a way to widen the nacelle exhaust diameter, and glue in exhausts.....

Dom

jimbot58

Dom, it was a museum bird, so it's going to look a bit rough with missing and repaired parts.

I am using the smallest tubing I had on hand, and I am in the process of carefully sanding the outside of it to reduce it's wall thickness. Not sure yet of how the scale will be. I may have to find some smaller stuff.

Ken. Thanks for asking. My best answer is that there are bad days, and then there are worse days. Nights and weekends are toughest. I still can't handle being at her house and don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sort through her things.

Jim

Jim, I know what you mean.  I still haven't finished cleaning off the workbench in my Dad's garage after 2 and a half years.  Every time I find a receipt with his signature or some small project he was still working on I start to tear up and have to quit.

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Dom, it was a museum bird, so it's going to look a bit rough with missing and repaired parts.

I am using the smallest tubing I had on hand, and I am in the process of carefully sanding the outside of it to reduce it's wall thickness. Not sure yet of how the scale will be. I may have to find some smaller stuff.

Ken. Thanks for asking. My best answer is that there are bad days, and then there are worse days. Nights and weekends are toughest. I still can't handle being at her house and don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sort through her things.

Jim

Jim, I know what you mean.  I still haven't finished cleaning off the workbench in my Dad's garage after 2 and a half years.  Every time I find a receipt with his signature or some small project he was still working on I start to tear up and have to quit.

Ken

I cared for her for her last two years and was by her side when she passed of a massive stroke. It was a 2 and a half our drive one way to visit her, but I missed work, weekends, and even my wife helped out cleaning her home, paying her bills, talking to the bank, installing a new furnace, doing yard work, taking her to the hospital, and buying her groceries. I would make her soup and meals and put them in tupper ware so she could have handy meals during the week.

She left everything to one of my sisters. Everything.

My father's second wife has a heart colder than a witch's nose. I took him to the cancer hospital two dozen times over two years, and those took the whole day. About two weeks before he died, I was tending to him while the ice queen went out shopping. When she returned, I was chatting with my dad, and singing him little songs he taught us when I was a child.

I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and when I got back to his care room she was bent over him saying "...he's not leaving.....he's not leaving...." my dad turned his head on his pillow and saw me, and he was mortified, and she just kept repeating...   "......he's not leaving.....how do I tell him to leave....."

He didn't leave me a dime either. Her kids will get everything my dad worked for.

So now ice queen wants me to visit the apartment and pick up a few things, including a big 1/24 Supermarine Spitfire I built for my dad, but I hear you guys, I sure as heck am not going back over there.

I'm counting that Spitfire as an MIA, and everyday she looks at it, she'll think to herself ".....it's not leaving.....it's not leaving....."

Dom

Striker8241

Bockscar

Russ:

The ID of the nacelle exhaust area on your kit looks like a lot bigger and cleaner diameter than on my Revell kit. Mine has nacelles that are at least 1mm thick. Did you modify them or did they come that way?

Dag-nab-it, I have already glued the nacelles together with the cones portruding, and you can see right into the nacells because of the tolerences. I have to figure a way to widen the nacelle exhaust diameter, and glue in exhausts.....

Dom

Dom,

 

Yes,you have to thin out the nacelle edges with a knife and sanding first. Then the false exhausts will fit ok. Sorry, forgot to mention that.

 

I had already glued mine together too when I  realized the nacelle thickness was way to thick. You can do it - just proceed slowly and carefully and use a sharp blade. It will be really tricky if you can't get the nacelles off the wings  to work on them

 

Russ

Thanks for the tip, if you don't mind me stealing your idea, it'll really help improve the look of those engines!

Dom

Guys, I have a suggestion based on my experiences searching this site for information. Unless you specifically mention the model or project you're working on in the body of your replies, it likely won't be found unless your project happens to be the subject of the build or the searcher happens to accidentally include an applicable word.

What I suggest is, at the top of any reply that involves building, updating or detailing your model, you put your project information at the beginning of your reply. For example, in my case, I would enter: "Monogram/Revell 1/72 B-52D Stratofortress". This will help others find your information and maybe even attract more folks to the build This would also remind each of us what project you're working on and the scale.

Maybe someone knows how to enter this information permanently so it will be found in a community search and wouldn't have to be entered every time?

Just a thought,

Cheers,

Russ

Bockscar

Thanks for the tip, if you don't mind me stealing your idea, it'll really help improve the look of those engines!

Dom

Never a problem, Dom. That's what we're here for, right? You guys have already provided me a lot of tips and ideas and if I can do the same for you, it'll sure make my day  .

Russ

Striker8241

... but now I'm going to have to modify the display engine because its exaust nozzle is too small. Never noticed that until now.  

Well, I discovered the display engine nozzle is ok. It's the shape of the nacelle around the other engine exhaust that is not formed correctly. Monogram can't claim mold wear here - I don't think it was ever formed correctly. Nothing I can do about it anyway.

Striker8241

Striker8241

... but now I'm going to have to modify the display engine because its exaust nozzle is too small. Never noticed that until now.  

Well, I discovered the display engine nozzle is ok. It's the shape of the nacelle around the other engine exhaust that is not formed correctly. Monogram can't claim mold wear here - I don't think it was ever formed correctly. Nothing I can do about it anyway.

In the meantime, I'm trying different ways to tag posts, including TAGS....lol....

I hear ya Dom.  My Dad's death was a pain to deal with.  All of his insurance was left to my half Sister Debby,  My Sister and I got nothing but all the bills and nothing to pay them with.  When my Mom died not long after that, it was the same except that she didn't have anything to pay the bills with, not even basic insurance. Sometimes life is such a beeotch...

Rich

Bockscar

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Dom, it was a museum bird, so it's going to look a bit rough with missing and repaired parts.

I am using the smallest tubing I had on hand, and I am in the process of carefully sanding the outside of it to reduce it's wall thickness. Not sure yet of how the scale will be. I may have to find some smaller stuff.

Ken. Thanks for asking. My best answer is that there are bad days, and then there are worse days. Nights and weekends are toughest. I still can't handle being at her house and don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sort through her things.

Jim

Jim, I know what you mean.  I still haven't finished cleaning off the workbench in my Dad's garage after 2 and a half years.  Every time I find a receipt with his signature or some small project he was still working on I start to tear up and have to quit.

Ken

Every situation is different; in the case of my mother, I had powers of attorney for health and property. As attorney though, I had no rights to review her will.

I cared for her for her last two years and was by her side when she passed of a massive stroke. It was a 2 and a half our drive one way to visit her, but I missed work, weekends, and even my wife helped out cleaning her home, paying her bills, talking to the bank, installing a new furnace, doing yard work, taking her to the hospital, and buying her groceries. I would make her soup and meals and put them in tupper ware so she could have handy meals during the week.

She left everything to one of my sisters. Everything.

My father's second wife has a heart colder than a witch's nose. I took him to the cancer hospital two dozen times over two years, and those took the whole day. About two weeks before he died, I was tending to him while the ice queen went out shopping. When she returned, I was chatting with my dad, and singing him little songs he taught us when I was a child.

I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and when I got back to his care room she was bent over him saying "...he's not leaving.....he's not leaving...." my dad turned his head on his pillow and saw me, and he was mortified, and she just kept repeating...   "......he's not leaving.....how do I tell him to leave....."

He didn't leave me a dime either. Her kids will get everything my dad worked for.

So now ice queen wants me to visit the apartment and pick up a few things, including a big 1/24 Supermarine Spitfire I built for my dad, but I hear you guys, I sure as heck am not going back over there.

I'm counting that Spitfire as an MIA, and everyday she looks at it, she'll think to herself ".....it's not leaving.....it's not leaving....."

Dom

Dom & Rich: I hope ya'll don't mind that I've been praying for you guys. I guess I'm fortunate that my family mostly gets along, little feuds here and there but no big issues. Went to the dentist today and on the way back to work took a nice drive on a quiet country road with the windows down on a absolutely beautiful day. Did wonders for my mood and clearing my head.

Great work guys, please keep the photos coming!  

Russ:

I found that using a head line with the subject or using the TAGS both work pretty good for future searches, thanks for the suggestion.

Dom

Thanks Cliff:

I believe prayers help, so thank you for those.

It is no longer as fresh an experience as Jim's or your experience, if that is anything

like good news for me, and

I sure don't want to remember how that felt when it was.

I know everyone processes these things differently, but the closest I

can describe it for me was that I had a feeling I was in a bus I wasn't

driving, and it was going to go off the highway.

Some times you have to leave some of the living behind as well,

because these situations are the true measure of a person's

character, and when you find out whom they really are, that they are willing to

throw you under a bus to satisfy their greed, then

you know it is time to "move on."

Dom

Dom,

How do you use a head line in a reply? I didn't see any formatting for a subject either. Also, how do you get something like that into the Tags area?

Thanks,

Russ

Searchable Subject Line

Russ:

Having a little problem today with the reply button,

All you have to do is put the words you want to act as key words for a future search

at the top of your message, as I did above, or in the body of your text:

Too Many Topics

Then in the future you can search for them.

When you use the Rich Text feature to reply, a dialogue box opens at the bottom

labled "TAGS", and you can enter a subject there too.

You should be able to find this post from another part of the site using

the key words of any of the examples in the "Search The Community" dialogue box.

Dom

Bockscar

Searchable Subject Line

Russ:

Having a little problem today with the reply button,

All you have to do is put the words you want to act as key words for a future search

at the top of your message, as I did above, or in the body of your text:

Too Many Topics

Then in the future you can search for them.

When you use the Rich Text feature to reply, a dialogue box opens at the bottom

labled "TAGS", and you can enter a subject there too.

You should be able to find this post from another part of the site using

the key words of any of the examples in the "Search The Community" dialogue box.

Dom

Hmm, sorry bud, maybe what i typed was confusing. I was suggesting we add that searchable subject line so others can find our stuff, but that would have to be added everytime you replied. Right? Or maybe there's a way to make it a permanent part of each reply without retyping it? I was hoping there was some way to add it permanently but would be unique to the replyer (heh - new word). 

As for the TAGS entry - I typed something in there but there's no option to save it. Besides the field, theres only the Select Tags button and I can select only whats already in there. What am I doing wrong?

Disregard the above - i found out how to do it. I clicked on the Edit Tags option in this reply and selected a tag already in use, then changed it to the ones I want. Works! . That's what you were trying to tell me - I just didn't know how to do it.

Thanks!

Russ

I have been away from modelling this summer, but I did get a couple of planes done.  As soon as I figure out how to post pictures, I'll post my MiG-17 and MiG-21.

OK, I think I figured it out. 

So here they are.  A 1/48 Hobbycraft MiG-17 and a 1/48 Revell MiG-21.

Berny's Phantom has to have a target!

Striker8241

Bockscar

Searchable Subject Line

Russ:

Having a little problem today with the reply button,

All you have to do is put the words you want to act as key words for a future search

at the top of your message, as I did above, or in the body of your text:

Too Many Topics

Then in the future you can search for them.

When you use the Rich Text feature to reply, a dialogue box opens at the bottom

labled "TAGS", and you can enter a subject there too.

You should be able to find this post from another part of the site using

the key words of any of the examples in the "Search The Community" dialogue box.

Dom

Hmm, sorry bud, maybe what i typed was confusing. I was suggesting we add that searchable subject line so others can find our stuff, but that would have to be added everytime you replied. Right? Or maybe there's a way to make it a permanent part of each reply without retyping it? I was hoping there was some way to add it permanently but would be unique to the replyer (heh - new word). 

As for the TAGS entry - I typed something in there but there's no option to save it. Besides the field, theres only the Select Tags button and I can select only whats already in there. What am I doing wrong?

Disregard the above - i found out how to do it. I clicked on the Edit Tags option in this reply and selected a tag already in use, then changed it to the ones I want. Works! . That's what you were trying to tell me - I just didn't know how to do it.

Thanks!

Russ

 

Hi Russ:

I'm not sure what is happening at your end there.

If I hit Reply and Rich Formatting, the formatting menu bar comes up on top, and the TAGS dialogue box comes up on the bottom.

I just enter what I want and hit the POST button, and the tag attaches to my post.

If someone posts and uses a subject, say at the top, everytime someone replys and and uses the QUOTE function, that subject heading should be automatically included in the reply post.

See how your Strike-Through text came through? The same should happen for all of your texr.

We'll figure this out,

Dom

Buffirn

OK, I think I figured it out. 

So here they are.  A 1/48 Hobbycraft MiG-17 and a 1/48 Revell MiG-21.

Berny's Phantom has to have a target!

I need a MIG-17 to go with my other MIGS,

Dom

Bockscar

I'm not sure what is happening at your end there.

That's what she said

Bockscar

If I hit Reply and Rich Formatting, the formatting menu bar comes up on top, and the TAGS dialogue box comes up on the bottom.

I just enter what I want and hit the POST button, and the tag attaches to my post.

Ahh, maybe that's it. I didn't realize you had to post to add the tag. I'll try that now by adding SEA.

Yup, that worked, although it overwrote what I had there already.

I think we're good. Thanks, Dom!

Russ

Buffirn

OK, I think I figured it out. 

So here they are.  A 1/48 Hobbycraft MiG-17 and a 1/48 Revell MiG-21.

Berny's Phantom has to have a target!

They look good, Jim. Nice work!

Russ

Yeah Jim, nice work, cool camo!

Nice job Jim!

Ken

Striker8241

Bockscar

I'm not sure what is happening at your end there.

That's what she said

Hey, the TAG didn't follow the reply!!

Bockscar

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Dom, it was a museum bird, so it's going to look a bit rough with missing and repaired parts.

I am using the smallest tubing I had on hand, and I am in the process of carefully sanding the outside of it to reduce it's wall thickness. Not sure yet of how the scale will be. I may have to find some smaller stuff.

Ken. Thanks for asking. My best answer is that there are bad days, and then there are worse days. Nights and weekends are toughest. I still can't handle being at her house and don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sort through her things.

Jim

Jim, I know what you mean.  I still haven't finished cleaning off the workbench in my Dad's garage after 2 and a half years.  Every time I find a receipt with his signature or some small project he was still working on I start to tear up and have to quit.

Ken

Every situation is different; in the case of my mother, I had powers of attorney for health and property. As attorney though, I had no rights to review her will.

I cared for her for her last two years and was by her side when she passed of a massive stroke. It was a 2 and a half our drive one way to visit her, but I missed work, weekends, and even my wife helped out cleaning her home, paying her bills, talking to the bank, installing a new furnace, doing yard work, taking her to the hospital, and buying her groceries. I would make her soup and meals and put them in tupper ware so she could have handy meals during the week.

She left everything to one of my sisters. Everything.

My father's second wife has a heart colder than a witch's nose. I took him to the cancer hospital two dozen times over two years, and those took the whole day. About two weeks before he died, I was tending to him while the ice queen went out shopping. When she returned, I was chatting with my dad, and singing him little songs he taught us when I was a child.

I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and when I got back to his care room she was bent over him saying "...he's not leaving.....he's not leaving...." my dad turned his head on his pillow and saw me, and he was mortified, and she just kept repeating...   "......he's not leaving.....how do I tell him to leave....."

He didn't leave me a dime either. Her kids will get everything my dad worked for.

So now ice queen wants me to visit the apartment and pick up a few things, including a big 1/24 Supermarine Spitfire I built for my dad, but I hear you guys, I sure as heck am not going back over there.

I'm counting that Spitfire as an MIA, and everyday she looks at it, she'll think to herself ".....it's not leaving.....it's not leaving....."

Dom

Wow Dom, that is really cold!  I know you didn't do all that work for the inheritance but to have that done to you.  Did you every think that maybe the wills were fake?  I mean you know your parents better than anyone else, but do you really think they would do that?

I have already seen my parent's will so I know in advance what to expect.

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Bockscar

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Dom, it was a museum bird, so it's going to look a bit rough with missing and repaired parts.

I am using the smallest tubing I had on hand, and I am in the process of carefully sanding the outside of it to reduce it's wall thickness. Not sure yet of how the scale will be. I may have to find some smaller stuff.

Ken. Thanks for asking. My best answer is that there are bad days, and then there are worse days. Nights and weekends are toughest. I still can't handle being at her house and don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sort through her things.

Jim

Jim, I know what you mean.  I still haven't finished cleaning off the workbench in my Dad's garage after 2 and a half years.  Every time I find a receipt with his signature or some small project he was still working on I start to tear up and have to quit.

Ken

Every situation is different; in the case of my mother, I had powers of attorney for health and property. As attorney though, I had no rights to review her will.

I cared for her for her last two years and was by her side when she passed of a massive stroke. It was a 2 and a half our drive one way to visit her, but I missed work, weekends, and even my wife helped out cleaning her home, paying her bills, talking to the bank, installing a new furnace, doing yard work, taking her to the hospital, and buying her groceries. I would make her soup and meals and put them in tupper ware so she could have handy meals during the week.

She left everything to one of my sisters. Everything.

My father's second wife has a heart colder than a witch's nose. I took him to the cancer hospital two dozen times over two years, and those took the whole day. About two weeks before he died, I was tending to him while the ice queen went out shopping. When she returned, I was chatting with my dad, and singing him little songs he taught us when I was a child.

I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and when I got back to his care room she was bent over him saying "...he's not leaving.....he's not leaving...." my dad turned his head on his pillow and saw me, and he was mortified, and she just kept repeating...   "......he's not leaving.....how do I tell him to leave....."

He didn't leave me a dime either. Her kids will get everything my dad worked for.

So now ice queen wants me to visit the apartment and pick up a few things, including a big 1/24 Supermarine Spitfire I built for my dad, but I hear you guys, I sure as heck am not going back over there.

I'm counting that Spitfire as an MIA, and everyday she looks at it, she'll think to herself ".....it's not leaving.....it's not leaving....."

Dom

Wow Dom, that is really cold!  I know you didn't do all that work for the inheritance but to have that done to you.  Did you every think that maybe the wills were fake?  I mean you know your parents better than anyone else, but do you really think they would do that?

I have already seen my parent's will so I know in advance what to expect.

Ken

I have nothing to feel bad about though, I did what I did for

family, and my conscience is clear. Even knowing what I now know,

I would do it all over again if I had to.

Dom

Damn Dom, that sucks. Im relativly lucky that my family is pretty tight nit. We dont see eachother for 5 6 7 plus years then all gather together and just chill like we were hanging out yesterday.

Theres a couple of exceptions of course, always is. Me and my cousin are pretty close (more like a sister to me than my own sister) we always joke that shes the black sheep of the family and im the grey sheep lol. I dont care how people act towards me, when i go, all my posesions are going to my nearest blood relative, weather that be sister cousin parent or child. Someone whos married into the family only gets whats given to them by blood relatives.

Blood is thicker than water.

Hopefully I won't see those family members for 567 years......lol