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    Naa, wrong scale.
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    But you’ll need a T-6 Texan wing to make it right. 🤪 Actually, I might just hit the pause button on anything with a deadline since our weather is changing and I’m about to ramp up yard work, pressure washing, dock repairs and mods, new decking on the front porch, etc…. before the miserable summer heat kicks in.
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    I just had this pile of parts arrive Thursday. Just opened it all up. It seems a lot of guys bought these with the intention to super detail them out and build a show finish airplane. Then they never leave the stash because of AMS and get sold off. Me on the other hand, it will go perfectly built as the Canadian Mist bar advertisement as it was intended with my man cave decor. I just hope the decals are still good. I might have to get my daughter to cut me out some vinyl transfers if not. About the only detail I plan on is the radial engine. It’s not too bad for a bar display kit.
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    Gentlemen, this will probably be my last post in this thread. Soak it in, because I’m now at the stage of needing to add my “surprise” addition. If things go as planned, I should be making a post in the completed Wet Builds page within a day or two, according to how things work out. But here’s the diorama base 95% completed. I do need to add some more painted wood trim is all.
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    Best price I’ve seen on these kits. As we all know, Lightning Deals can go away quickly. Link
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    Yes, I laugh because I’m about to wrap up the Seaview build within the next few days and I was going to jump on my Revell build of the same subject and throw it in the wet build just because…. Now I do have the Hollywood Zero conversion to go with my second T6 kit…..
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    Seriously, I had no idea: “Erickson became a recognized expert in the Type and eventually obtained the Type Certificate and manufacturing Rights from Sikorsky. ” Mind blown! I thought all that was left was surplus bought. So there are new productions flying. If I ever get brave enough to tackle one of these, I’m going to have to scratch build one of the MASH boxes that came with the old Revell 1/72 I built as a kid.
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    Great review Ernie! Can’t wait to see your skills applied to this one.
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    Funny you say this. I keep a bag of cheap stuff in the garage for oil spills. The kitty gets the good clumping stuff. But when I brought the bag into the house to sort through it for the larger pieces, he was all over it. “Hey Dad! Where did this come from? Can I try it out?”
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    And some sand…
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    How about a little paint on all that kitty litter?
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    I think it was late fall of 2021 I installed them. Living on the lake we get some strange weather patterns. We’ll get fog so thick some mornings you can’t even see the end of our driveway that’s about 200’ long. Once winter set in the fog went away. I retired in the spring of last year so I didn’t get a whole lot of actual “fog” use out of them. But man, what a difference they made. If it was really bad I’d just turn my headlights off and run the fogs only. Agree on the expansion of width. Unreal. We have so many deer in this area just grazing in neighbors yards, you can spot them much sooner and be prepared for them to run out in front of you.
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    I installed the Diode Dynamics yellow fogs on my 2015 Mustang GT. What a difference! Much brighter and the yellow light really cuts through the rain and fog and also makes deer more visible on the side of the road. I almost bought the “Too bright for highway use” but glad I didn’t. Mine are fine as is. Would have been blinding oncoming drivers. EDIT: My absent minded wife smacked a steel pole in a gas station parking lot last month. I’m going to order a prepainted bumper and install it myself. I’ll probably get her a set of the yellow diode dynamics for her Pilot if they make them. Since I have to swap the bumper, might as well do that too.
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    I call them “Ramtards”.
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    Alrighty! More progress today. I painted the dark gray base, dry brushed the rock formation and started gluing down rocks around the base. Some are actual rocks from my yard, some are just kitty litter! After it,sets up, I’ll brush on a coat of the Mod Podge and then paint the rocks to match the rest.
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    Okay! Progress at last. I got all the joint compound brush streaks sanded out, edges cleaned and taped up and a heavy coat of Mod Podge flat applied to seal the clay and compound. Entire base coated Next step will be a base coat of dark gray and black and painting potato mountain.
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    Hey! I found the magic trick to smoothing and filling the clay and cracks. quick setting drywall compound. The kind you buy as a powder in bags. I mixed up a couple of spoonfuls this morning and brushed it on while forcing it into the cracks. Lots of sanding will be required to get out the brush strokes, but here’s a shot of “mashed potato mountain” after a quick sand job.
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    I think I mentioned earlier that I consider my yard care and improvements a hobby. Last fall I carried a battery powered sprayer all around the yard walking a pattern with that heavy thing slung over my shoulder. A week later I was laid up in bed with one of my worst back episodes I’ve ever had. Told my wife I went cheap and now I’m paying the price. So I looked into a sprayer I could mount on my ZTR mower. All starts with an ATV “luggage rack”. Welded up a few brackets yesterday and got it mounted. live got a 16 gallon sprayer system on order that will sit on the rack. I know it looks close to the engine in this pic, but it actually sits higher.
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    Colors are actually FS 36375 on the top and FS 36622 on the bottom. According to all the syfi forums this is about the closest match by eye according to the experts. Of course throughout the different seasons of filming there were some changes made with some shading and mild color changes. And to add to the confusion, there were two different filming models. One was an 8’ used for all the underwater scenes and a 12’ model for surface shots. And each one had little differences. I built mine as the underwater model. Now the pilot movie had a completely different designed sub with 8 windows on the front and no hanger bay for the flying sub. I’ve got one neighbor already going nuts over this build. He was telling me I should have made it RC so HE could play with it in the lake. Told him to fund it, and I’d do it!
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    Thanks! I’m not use to hearing those words. 🥰
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    Aww hell naw, nothing is under control here. Just happy mistakes!
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    I kill myself sometimes. FWIW, just wrapped up all the clay coverage. Let the cracking begin!
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    Sorry, I don’t do crack.
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    Went down to look at things last night. Found a few large flakes that had dried and lifted. Coated the wood under the flake with Mod Podge and stuck that sucker back down! I also coated everywhere it was dry with it as well. I plan on mixing up a thin slurry of clay and brushing it on later to help smooth things over. Large cracks I’m packing with new clay.
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