Essex: Side Catwalk and more
The ship paint is Life Color. Other paints are generally Tamiya with the Sea Blue being Vallejo. Tamiya is the best! The others do clog, especially if you thin with Isopropyl Alcohol (I must be German…capitalizing nouns…). As to air pressure… I wish I could adjust it. I have a 37 year-old Badger diaphragm compressor with no regulation.
I am on deck to replace it with one of those Chinese twin piston units with reservoir and then I'll have both pressure regulation and no pulsation. I also got a tacit go-ahead from the CiC that I could get a spray booth as long as I can vent it out the cellar window… no holes in the walls. We had our land line shut off and put our security system on Cell by ADT. They also gave us a new box and control pad, and reduced out monthly rate by 50%. It was a really good deal! We discussed moving the security bars on the cellar windows lower and outward so the window could be opened further without tripping the alarm to provide more space for the booth vent hose. When I explained this to the Commander, she was no longer negative to the idea. Those are really the only two ship things on my wish list… new compressor and spray booth. With the spray booth I'll be freed up to spray solvent-based paints and Tamiya rattle can paints indoors. That would be a big improvement.
I have some Tom's frets where the etching was so overdone that some of the part is dissolved away and therefore completely unusable. I'm not too happy with Alliance either. They all have their drawbacks, but so far, both Eduard and GMM have sent me replacement parts when I needed them. It seems that all their sets should simply have doubles of everything since one set (at least to me) never does the job. One set is for dress rehearsal and the other for the big show.
The source about the catapult said the slot was there, but the mechanism to operate it was not.
I found the picture to which you referred. Sure shows that catwalk…
And now…looking at that picture, I see that the companion ladder is stowed lying flat against the hull. So now I spent time wrecking the ship yesterday to pop it off and reset it in a ladder position only to find that it's stowed flat. Now I have to rig it with some tackle to support it in the ladder position. I just happen to find this image too late.
The ship paint is Life Color. Other paints are generally Tamiya with the Sea Blue being Vallejo. Tamiya is the best! The others do clog, especially if you thin with Isopropyl Alcohol (I must be German…capitalizing nouns…). As to air pressure… I wish I could adjust it. I have a 37 year-old Badger diaphragm compressor with no regulation.
I am on deck to replace it with one of those Chinese twin piston units with reservoir and then I'll have both pressure regulation and no pulsation. I also got a tacit go-ahead from the CiC that I could get a spray booth as long as I can vent it out the cellar window… no holes in the walls. We had our land line shut off and put our security system on Cell by ADT. They also gave us a new box and control pad, and reduced out monthly rate by 50%. It was a really good deal! We discussed moving the security bars on the cellar windows lower and outward so the window could be opened further without tripping the alarm to provide more space for the booth vent hose. When I explained this to the Commander, she was no longer negative to the idea. Those are really the only two ship things on my wish list… new compressor and spray booth. With the spray booth I'll be freed up to spray solvent-based paints and Tamiya rattle can paints indoors. That would be a big improvement.
I have some Tom's frets where the etching was so overdone that some of the part is dissolved away and therefore completely unusable. I'm not too happy with Alliance either. They all have their drawbacks, but so far, both Eduard and GMM have sent me replacement parts when I needed them. It seems that all their sets should simply have doubles of everything since one set (at least to me) never does the job. One set is for dress rehearsal and the other for the big show.
The source about the catapult said the slot was there, but the mechanism to operate it was not.
I found the picture to which you referred. Sure shows that catwalk…
And now…looking at that picture, I see that the companion ladder is stowed lying flat against the hull. So now I spent time wrecking the ship yesterday to pop it off and reset it in a ladder position only to find that it's stowed flat. Now I have to rig it with some tackle to support it in the ladder position. I just happen to find this image too late.
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