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One way to display
For the summertime on our back deck my son and I thought this looked pretty cool. We just had put the Corsairs up and are waiting to see if we could get a white Zero at a good price. We put the Hellcat in the Zeros place for now.
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very cool.
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I was wondering about what would happen if you had a storm.JollyRoger wrote:They are pretty good with that 30 pound test fishing line. BUT the other day a small tornado touched down in the city next to us. My wife was in the torential rain standing on the table ripping them down. Good thing she was home. I think that tarp canopy helps deter the wind.
do you live in the Midwest...the last couple of days that is all we had was tornadoes and rain... in the SD, MN, and ND.
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
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VMF115 wrote:I was wondering about what would happen if you had a storm.JollyRoger wrote:They are pretty good with that 30 pound test fishing line. BUT the other day a small tornado touched down in the city next to us. My wife was in the torential rain standing on the table ripping them down. Good thing she was home. I think that tarp canopy helps deter the wind.
do you live in the Midwest...the last couple of days that is all we had was tornadoes and rain... in the SD, MN, and ND.
Actually I live on the east coast in Connecticut, but Thursday a tornado touched in Bridgeport which is the next city over.
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The planes are under the big canopy which keeps the sun and rain off. It just rained here and they are dry. We hope for a little wind because when the props start turning they really look good.fightin wrote:Looks good, but I wquld be worried about the various influences of the weather (direct exposure to sunlight, storms and heavy rain)
I had a similar setup in 1/32nd scale on the ceiling of my barrack room when I was in the Navy. What you might want to try is get two clear acryllic rods at a craft/hobby store, about 1/8 or so in diameter, and paint small sections of the rod red. Then connect the rods to the gun ports on the shooting aircraft and the other end to an impact point on the "victim". It makes it look like tracers are travelling from the shooter to the target, and it makes for a nice effect and keeps your models from swinging.
I'm using the same trick on my Tomcat when I get it done, except I'll have two AIM-9s at the end of the rods, with cotton running back along their lengths that's airbrushed to simulate exhaust smoke. I had a Tamiya F-14 hanging from the ceiling firing two AIM-54s in the barrack, and it always got me out of room inspection because the inspectors would walk in, see that display, and forget about inspecting the room.
I'm using the same trick on my Tomcat when I get it done, except I'll have two AIM-9s at the end of the rods, with cotton running back along their lengths that's airbrushed to simulate exhaust smoke. I had a Tamiya F-14 hanging from the ceiling firing two AIM-54s in the barrack, and it always got me out of room inspection because the inspectors would walk in, see that display, and forget about inspecting the room.