Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Richie I tend to agree with Richard (is there an echo in here?)

I think a little less is more in this case. You've done a fab job. That pit is A N S! 

Richie, The pit looks very good as is.  At this stage, I would forgo the wash.

Regards,  Rick

Here's a couple of pics of the office tub. I haven't put the raw sienna wash on that I was planning on yet. Keep thinking, does it really need it? Open for opinions. Next is the pit sides and then to tackle the E&T engine. I held it behind the cowl ring yesterday to get an idea of what it will look like, and was quite pleased. The only reason the plastic is bare on the back of the IP is that it won't be seen at all. Enjoy!

 Hey Ritchie Good to hear! I was going to ask ya what you use for a wash to tone them down. I have heard a burnt sienna works well on the green zinc chromate but heard others use a darker green. Some use the Model master pre mixed wash? All has be stimied. I'm working on that Ventura and trying to make an interior so I am looking for some advice on things like that.

 Anyone feel free to chime in as there may be a lot of different techniques and prefs?

Wonderful stories guys!!! Great buys as well!!!! I would very much like to build a 1/72 DD and make it R/C. Want to do a Fletcher class but might have to settle for summit I can find plans for.

Little progress on the Corsair, still working on the pit. Starting to look like an office now. Giving it a wash to try to tone down the green.

Cheers, Richie

Maybe I spelled it wrong? Uh look here.

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Base/1250/buchanan.html

Drago has a brand new 1/350 Model of her out actually 2 of her now. It is the latest bomb in ship models. You know I have to go for it.

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Nope.....never saw that ship......Fletcher class.....But there is another DD similarly named and I shall find it! 

sfcmac wrote:

Yep Roy that is a killer deal. Those are a descent size even in 1/144 Nam and very popular so $25 is not bad. I have seen some for $40 plus. There was a post a while back where someone did one and made a display out of a mirror. He took it outside and took pics and it looked like the real deal in the air. Pretty cool. May have been under tools and techniques I shall check.  Nam the sailor on the right is my father in law who passed on Memorial Day 1990, They were home during the refit of their destroyer. The USS Buchanan. Heard of it? None of the women are my wifes mother though? Hmmm true sailors! My mother-in-law passed on in 2001 but worked doping the self sealing fuel tanks of the F4U Corsairs before joining the Navy herself as a wave. They met in the Navy and married after the war.Wife is pure blood Navy she is, probably why I like to torture her!

I seem to recall the Buchanan....hull # in the 700's, I think.....another FRAM mod from either Sumner or Gearing (I'm outta touch)......heck! Now I have to look her up!

 Yep Roy that is a killer deal. Those are a descent size even in 1/144 Nam and very popular so $25 is not bad. I have seen some for $40 plus. There was a post a while back where someone did one and made a display out of a mirror. He took it outside and took pics and it looked like the real deal in the air. Pretty cool. May have been under tools and techniques I shall check.

 Nam the sailor on the right is my father in law who passed on Memorial Day 1990, They were home during the refit of their destroyer. The USS Buchanan. Heard of it? None of the women are my wifes mother though? Hmmm true sailors! My mother-in-law passed on in 2001 but worked doping the self sealing fuel tanks of the F4U Corsairs before joining the Navy herself as a wave. They met in the Navy and married after the war.Wife is pure blood Navy she is, probably why I like to torture her!

sfcmac wrote:

Nam? A Battle of Midway Dauntless not related? If anything I think you should get some extra credit points! Looks really good. When done you will be hard pressed to recognize it as the old Monogram kit.  I wanted to post this link for the canopies for you again. Really nice prices around $6 and under for a whole list of them including some of your current projects. In case you get a hankering! I betting there be no stopping ye now! http://www.falconmodels.co.nz/squadron48.html  Most cost $2.95 like ye heard tale about!

I don't be knowin' how's me Mom gots in yer photo archives....but that ain't me Dads w' her!

Thanks for the link!

!/144 for 25$

Aye!.....(sidling off aside) Cap'n Wyoroy! I hopes ye be well....I knows ye be not doin' much buildin, while yer doin' real buildin!

Great to hear from you and thanks for the comments!

  Nam? A Battle of Midway Dauntless not related? If anything I think you should get some extra credit points! Looks really good. When done you will be hard pressed to recognize it as the old Monogram kit.

 I wanted to post this link for the canopies for you again. Really nice prices around $6 and under for a whole list of them including some of your current projects. In case you get a hankering! I betting there be no stopping ye now!

http://www.falconmodels.co.nz/squadron48.html

 Most cost $2.95 like ye heard tale about!

sfcmac wrote:

Too small for me feet!  May belong to the XO as the socks be very clean. Prob an occifer!  I still be awiatin the paint to be dry. No one has said otherwise to me so How many more days? LOL. Still smells like paint and plastic. That could be fixed with a bit of the wifes parfumes.  How dem wheels comming!

The wheels....the wheels! I be a happy mate gettin' that albatross to her present state!

I posts wheels an' others posts feet! Sick scurves!

Have a tot!

If's I can locate the rear stabes and glues in.....I may finish a model before Labor's Day

(I sincerely thank all for supporting a non-related build thread!)

Sincerely 

 Too small for me feet!  May belong to the XO as the socks be very clean. Prob an occifer!  I still be awiatin the paint to be dry. No one has said otherwise to me so How many more days? LOL. Still smells like paint and plastic. That could be fixed with a bit of the wifes parfumes.

 How dem wheels comming!

bondoman wrote:

AARrggg... stop that bloody hollerin' an bring me a mug o'grog. Everthin' wa' splendid til Sfmac broke open that case o' Madiera! Got's ta open me eye! LtCdr, is that you I espy? Buuurrrppp!!! Chilren', don' try this a'home.

Glad ye could join us ye lubbers! Untangle ye'selves and gets yer butts on deck!

Them be not my pins Mr. Bondoman! I wears Yankee blue!

Forward!....................Drink!

AARrggg... stop that bloody hollerin' an bring me a mug o'grog. Everthin' wa' splendid til Sfmac broke open that case o' Madiera! Got's ta open me eye!

LtCdr, is that you I espy?

Buuurrrppp!!!

Chilren', don' try this a'home.

AAaaaarrrrrggggggggghhhhh! Up ye be Mates! Turn to with a will, damn ye!

Stow the lawnmowers and grab the AB's! Get these decks in shape.....the CAG may be lookin' in durin' the midwatch!

LCdr Bondoman and the ludicrous MAA Aaron are prolly asleep near the rum rations! Wakes 'em and gets 'em on the stick!

I prolly be called to the XO's cabin for usurpin' his absent responsibility, but it be 8 bells somewheres on the planet.....and I be havin' a tot!

To work, ye mutts!

Rotfflmfao! You two are just tooooooomuch!

Here's a key!

Ah been passin the time  while me gloss paint be dryin. A complex thing to be true  and feel strange to be land locked. The worried about what the good CAG  would think only to find he has once again beaten me to the punch and himself joined the same GB. Barnacles! Just like with the ladies aboard leaving me with only the ships wheel and a few gulls for company!

We have a hard life indeed but duties be duties! With the good LtCdr Nam Hallucenating an all. and the Xo ashore robbing the rum stores to replenish our worst!

Them treadheads be a shark fest what little body parts only float up to the surface an'blast 'em. Be awere, dey's not able ta hold their spew in a Noreastyer gale, bloody lot o' lubbers they are esp that scurvy doog! He be goodish mate too, wut we've a friendship.

I'm a  actually abuildin this eve fin'shin anutter GB what I cannut be aswayed away ferm.

More later ye scum.

Nam ye basterd be asleepin' wit dat mermaid; hold yer pistol aclose ter yer chest an' dig deep.

LtCmr in'is'cupws Sir Bondo the brave.

Where's Roger?

Rank and File, men. Rank and File.

Piss in a bucket, drink to the occifers, I'm Rummed and hurt and drunk and pizzled.

XO damn his eyes be ashore, CAG ain't alive not I can tell!!!

LtCmr Nam therebe at the helm, but I've got his balls in my sights o' ole Festus me 10 gage!!

We're thirsty fer Rum, what the gold braided ones are a'holdin out on us. There's boys afore the mast, and drunks in the keelson, and it's time to light up the ship wit' a Rum Jig.

Cap'n Roys a treat but 'eas convertin the Christians.

Nam; blas yer as fer not bein here when we neded a tot an yuus go' the key an' wer' thirsy' an'its' a Rum thin' an ' dead' men' dont tellno tales an******on ye an block Island sucks anyways cause im 15 generations ou' a' nantucket' and my fart is in'nor sail an...

Snor!!!

 AAARGGG been modeling so much I fergot about it being the weeks end! Rum from Bondo. Yeah it still be fresh!

 Now to the business at hand! Nam I have all the respect in the worlds for ye but ye not have to put a girl young enough to be yer daughter on the page and claim her to be yer girl. Ain't had near enough tots to believe that fish tale yet!

 Come on you can tell me. Where'd ye come about them photo's? Outta the picture frames ye bought on the way to the hobby store? Perhaps post cards from the rest area. It doesn't matter to me if ye be telling a yarn but the Unkindly Bondo may take offense. You know how he be with women about the ship. Though he had a couple a cutied aside him the e'r day.

 Give the yellow clad life guard a hearty hello from me and a tot fer yer imagination!

Been a loooooong day Mates! The storms still be tossin' the sound about! Me an' the wench stayed on the beach! The skies was mostly dark and the thunder was heard in the distance. Long Island was just a thin hazy line on the horizon.

Er....sumpin stalkin' ups the beach.... 

Lookin' kinder okay!

OOPS! Caught 'er sittin'

.....and sometimes she walks away!

ARrrrgggghhhhh! The important bits!

mid tide.....any things ye sees tween sky an sea be Long Island!

namrednef wrote:

Me has the inklin' that me day will entails lunch or evening chow and cockstails at the Captain's Cove here in Bridgeport (a likely spot!) and then...............?

ARRGGGHH

Rum for all, if'n the officers be so kind!

namrednef wrote:

Me has the inklin' that me day will entails lunch or evening chow and cockstails at the Captain's Cove here in Bridgeport (a likely spot!) and then...............?

AAARRRG! tis those That makes life fun!