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💬 Re: RC Semi update (Segment 4)
2 hours ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly (
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Go Lew GO!!!! This a going to be fun!
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💬 Re: Construction report "Pilot Cutter Britannia" 1 : 24
19 hours ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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It just keeps getting better Wolle!!!!!!! Love it!!!!!!
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💬 Re: Midwest/ Model Expo The Fireboat
1 day ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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It would be OUTSTANDING if the Expo could find the plans and patterns for the my Dad's ancient (and huge) Lobster Smack!
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📝 Prostates! Get a blood test.
2 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Razor! Just had my bi-yearly last week as I have BPH and associated bladder stones. All my levels are good and scans are good. As a caregiver and then a patient, early detection is the key!
I am glad to hear you are doing well and appreciate your reminder to us all!
I am glad to hear you are doing well and appreciate your reminder to us all!
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💬 Re: Midwest/ Model Expo The Fireboat
3 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Good for you Chug! Well done!!!
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💬 Re: Midwest/ Model Expo Fireboat
3 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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This is so COOL!!!!!! Chug I want one!!!!!
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📝 CA Glue Type
3 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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To follow up…I like Bob’s success with the thin CA. I just think the is that as I’ve gotten older I just can’t seem to control it quite as well as I used to. hence my issues with it.
I do recommend test strips with what scrap stock you have and give it a go.
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I do recommend test strips with what scrap stock you have and give it a go.
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💬 Re: South Florida Boatyard re-opens
4 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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She's a Beauty Chum!!!!!
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📝 CA Glue Type
4 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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CA, Medium to Thick, I use both with a spray accelerator. Avoid the thin CA at all costs.
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💬 Re: 3 day running knife fight
4 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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John!
Will send a message asap with particulars.
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Will send a message asap with particulars.
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💬 Re: 3 day running knife fight
4 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Will do a build blog Zooma! Hope to get to it today and thanks for the kind words.
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💬 Re: MS Tomahawk Tug
4 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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OOH! I want one!!!!! What a beauty! More info please OE!
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💬 Re: 3 day running knife fight
8 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Alessandro! Truth be told I prefer easy going cruising, but just for now I will visit speed to say I did it, although that's not a very good excuse considering the costs! 😉
Everything else on my bench and in my stash is meant for a more leisurely approach including a the queen of my collection rather large Chris Craft Corvette cabin cruiser. That will bring me and everyone else back down to Earth.
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Everything else on my bench and in my stash is meant for a more leisurely approach including a the queen of my collection rather large Chris Craft Corvette cabin cruiser. That will bring me and everyone else back down to Earth.
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💬 Re: 3 day running knife fight
8 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Managed the surgery...😁. And yes Cash, I will glass her for sure!
After days of edge sanding. I will start a new build log on her soon!
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After days of edge sanding. I will start a new build log on her soon!
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💬 Re: Midwest/Model Expo Fireboat
8 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Chug!!!!!! It's simply...
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💬 Re: 3 day running knife fight
8 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Thanks Cash! She's definitely right out of a sci-fi movie! Having had a really nice experience (so far) with Traxxas on the Bluebird, I will probably go for their speed and mucho power. Brushless, Lipo etc or mix and match various components as I am still fairly new to "big" power and speed. So, advice will be sought and happily accepted down the road.
Right now I have to carve and add the nose block and then the cowl surgery comes. I have to surgically cut it (at a 45 degree angle) because the nose section up front is permanently attached...it's a worry.
Good news is that the canopy for the Bluebird should arrive from the UK today or tomorrow.
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Right now I have to carve and add the nose block and then the cowl surgery comes. I have to surgically cut it (at a 45 degree angle) because the nose section up front is permanently attached...it's a worry.
Good news is that the canopy for the Bluebird should arrive from the UK today or tomorrow.
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💬 Re: Seaway tug boat
8 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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What ever she is Stephen, she's a beauty!
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📝 3 day running knife fight
9 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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While Donald waits for a new canopy as some of you know I jumped into an ancient Dumas Pay 'N Pak Hydroplane to keep my mind working amidst all the snow outside. It's an all plywood kit and a terrible hand full. But, after a 3 day slash and knife fight I managed to straighten all the old plywood (with the help of some bricks) and get this far...I am definitely a glutton for punishment, but it has a very sci-fi look to it.
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📝 How to reduce roll in a warship model
10 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Hey there Ron! yessir, but not by much...the 1:200 Iowa is 53 inches long while this Sterling Models kit is 55 inches long.
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📝 How to reduce roll in a warship model
10 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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I tend to go nuts with the ballast down the middle. I like the brass bar down the keel used by other builders here, but in my case it's bathroom tiles cut and cemented down equally for balance. I use this sort of stuff from the Home Depot. Not perfect, but it's helped.
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💬 Re: Superstructure
10 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Great work Jock! Very Sharp!!! Have to love freighters!!!! And thank God for card stock and styrene sheet!!!
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💬 Re: RC Semi (Segment 2)
11 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Outstanding Lew!!!! And yes, HO slot cars are experiencing a renaissance it seems!
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12 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Not my photo in this case as I misplaced my Cooper’s, as well as my local Red Tails. I will find them! More to follow. 😉
Thank you for the kind words Alessandro!
Thank you for the kind words Alessandro!
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12 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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All Good Lew!
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📝 Difficult Restoration's?
13 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Boatshed! You have to film a snow run for us!!!!! Love the original stickers on that Kyosho motor and the Krick is very BadAss! Very Sharp!!!
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13 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Keep those semi pix coming Lew!
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📝 Batteries
13 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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As a dyed-in-the-wool Nicad guy, then Nimh, the move to Lipos has been a chore, especially for high speed applications. I think I'll need a phd to figure them out, charging, storage, discharge rates. Yikes! But, dove in with both feet so the quest continues.
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13 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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More brick laying in the basement. I am sure that even the Cooper's Hawk thinks I'm nuts!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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📝 Difficult Restoration's?
13 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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On the subject of outboards. I restored this Kyosho Wave Runner a while back, resealed the hull, added a new paint scheme and decals, but the hull is a dog and difficult to keep dry. The outboard however, albeit a bit under-powered, is a nice set-up. If I can't sort this hull maybe I'll repurpose the outboard. When I get back up to the cabin, I'll tub test her again and see if I can make it work.
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13 days ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly ( Admiral)
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Hey there Colin!!! Good to see Ya'!
Lew! Up Connecticut we are freezing our asses off. 9 degrees isn't cutting it for me! Praying for Spring to come quickly or, at the very least, some moderating temperatures.
Fortunately the sun-house I built for my wife (last photo and finished on Christmas Eve) has worked out well and has been great in fighting her "seasonal affective disorder" during this brutal winter. It's fully insulated and I ran the electric to it. With a six foot electrical "plug-in style baseboard heater and with a bit of sun we can get the temperature up to 65 degrees in there and she loves it. With a bird feeder just outside the windows, the locals put on a great show...although the ever present Red-Tailed and Cooper's Hawks keep a watchful eye on the place. Local Cooper's in the first photo.
And, as always, I've got my projects down in the shop....The K-7 is awaiting a new canopy, decals and first test runs, I still haven't gotten to the dreaded rigging on the Pacific Trader, and the Dumas Pay-n-Pak hydroplane's warped lumber has been a brick laying battle, but fun all the same!
PS: Dying to build a Semi in 1/16th scale!!!!! But they are incredibly expensive these days! Will have to save my nickels and dimes. Keep us posted on the RC conversion!
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Lew! Up Connecticut we are freezing our asses off. 9 degrees isn't cutting it for me! Praying for Spring to come quickly or, at the very least, some moderating temperatures.
Fortunately the sun-house I built for my wife (last photo and finished on Christmas Eve) has worked out well and has been great in fighting her "seasonal affective disorder" during this brutal winter. It's fully insulated and I ran the electric to it. With a six foot electrical "plug-in style baseboard heater and with a bit of sun we can get the temperature up to 65 degrees in there and she loves it. With a bird feeder just outside the windows, the locals put on a great show...although the ever present Red-Tailed and Cooper's Hawks keep a watchful eye on the place. Local Cooper's in the first photo.
And, as always, I've got my projects down in the shop....The K-7 is awaiting a new canopy, decals and first test runs, I still haven't gotten to the dreaded rigging on the Pacific Trader, and the Dumas Pay-n-Pak hydroplane's warped lumber has been a brick laying battle, but fun all the same!
PS: Dying to build a Semi in 1/16th scale!!!!! But they are incredibly expensive these days! Will have to save my nickels and dimes. Keep us posted on the RC conversion!
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