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There is an action quietly underway. My grandson Russell had a small stash of model kits and a couple hundred dollars of tools, brushes and paints. In a fit of rage, his younger adopted brother destroyed every kit. Major model parts snapped in up to 4 pieces, paints dumped and replaced with...

She's kind of tubby, cheerful-looking vessel, yes? I would be she rides like a fat lady in an inner tube in any kind of sea. Your bridge ports look dandy in this scale. The USS Texas ladders look like close copies of Tom's Modelworks 1/350 parts. They are probably made there anyway. Ah...

Yessir, but I disdain all things Apple, and I don't want their photo formatting program to resize and reformat the pictures.

His pictures come from an iphone in an HEIC format. They do not transfer/download well to being posted here.

Crane post and boat placement. It could be advantageous to move the mooting bitts to the afterdeck edge, outboard of the boat cradles. I figure Bantu Winds boats may have been any Captain Katanga could come by.

Having the 1/1 scale version in the garage is a definite advantage!

Welcome to the coziest, coolest group of Model Miscreants on the Globe! Pictures of the Hellcat, perhaps?

https://tlarmodels.com/ols/products/caligraphydraftmans-ruling-pen-48-inches-long One of these, for gentle thin glue application. I bet you have such a thing on hand already.

Bantu Wind was registered as a Nigerian vessel, but she was Egyptian flagged for the movie. The Egyptian flag changed in 1958, so I found and printed the accurate 1930's national ensign. The DKM flags for U-26 may not be popular in Germany. They have that naughty symbol on them. At that...

My friend, Mark, up in Cleveland, Wisconasin heard about my 1/700 scale Flying Boat-ness, and asked me to send him "A few" when I got them done. He does a lot of the research for my Nautical Oddity projects, and he's an enthusiastic waterline scale modeler. So, today I shipped them to him...

Sanding stick and water! :lol:

That should prove interesting! Slow down 'Pup! You're gonna spin out, or auger in, as it were?

Sopwith Perverts.

It's good they ain't no yung-uns on M/A. All this airplane nekkidniss could give 'em the wrong ideas.

I like your big wooden fan! Very RFC-like!

Tiny decal day! (And test fit of TLAR kit 226 decals.) These are some of the smallest decals I ever tried to apply. Sometimes, they lay down pretty well, and then sometimes they curl up and make a teensy useless tube. The silver 314 became NC 18603, The (damn) Yankee Clipper. The...

WOW! You blew me out of the water. I still contend YOU are the smart one. Momma always doted on the frowner. You print 'em and I'll mold 'em an' cast 'em!

If you apply Rhino Math for Age, you are actually 10. 6+4=10. See? None of us will mathematically age beyond 18 with my system.

Perhaps the smaller of the 2 32' Barrelback Runabouts will come in the kit? A tiny, wild, blonde, German scientist at her helm? "Go between them?! Are you mad?!" No, wait! That's a different Indiana Jones movie!

The 'Other U-Boat" Type IX is coming along. I used Tom's Modelworks Axis Submarine P/E and it is a closely packed fret! It vexes me that the bow net cutter was 2 parts. The mounting frame was no end of fun to install, and the fine, thin brass etchings bend rather easily. This bit will not...