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    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    MikeKardec, interesting take on the Axis 'big picture' and for the most part, I agree with it based on what I know. It never made any sense to me how any of the Axis nations could believe they'd be able to keep their empires like that, especially in Japan's case. The early horrific war in China...
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    • Post #35
    • Forum: WWII
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I was experimenting with late-afternoon light through an open window again, last night...
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    Acme thunderer on A-2 jacket

    I have talked with many 8th AF vets in the past, and they told me that the whistles were because a yell couldn't heard nearly as far (or as loudly) as a whistle and if you ditched in the channel, it was probably too cold to yell anyway. There was a US Army issue whistle, and that's a common type...
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    • Post #14
    • Forum: WWII
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I still can't believe it: Two magazines on hobby shop shelves at the same time with articles I have written; the March/April 2018 Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette and the 2018 On30 Annual!
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    The ET&WNC decided to put sheet metal covers over the headlights on their tenders, due to the proximity of the coal load (to keep them from being crushed when the coal bunkers were filled). It's one of the key features of the WW2-era black paint jobs that Bachmann never addressed with their...
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    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    I've always wondered why there seemed to be no effort to do something, but I guess considering the allies knew that Russians POWs were being killed en mass and all the other general mayhem going on inside Europe at the time, it appears to have bene a low priority. I would have assumed that some...
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    • Post #25
    • Forum: WWII
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I normally don't post photos from this angle, as I normally take shots from O-scale eye level but otherwise I never get this water tower into shots (as there's no good background for it in any direction at a low angle).
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    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    Yeah, people forget that the French were considered quite fearsome prior to their defeats in WW2. Just look at their actions in the Great War and the 19th century for excellent examples. Here's a few others: The German autobahn did not come as surprise to the Allies as they invaded Germany...
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    • Post #16
    • Forum: WWII
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Just playing around with my cell again...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    For a while, I was working a 10:30-7 shift, so I'd get up and have time to watch some TV. I usually watched "Community" on one of the cable channels as it was one of my favorite shows ever. The one thing I noticed was that all of the commercials were either personal injury lawyers or trade...
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    Magnum P.I. reboot

    Magnum had been a POW in 'Nam and tortured. I can't imagine that'd translate to modern times, though I guess being a SEAL caught by ISIS and quickly rescued before they could do a internet execution would be plausible? Either way, they're going to have the have the "Did you see the sunrise this...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, but the idea that one of the two is going to tell the other to 'get a life' and not see that he also needs one, that was more than I could handle. My point was that sports fans go way further than a sci-fi fan might in some cases, and feel their interest is so mainstream in nature, that...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The annoying part of this is that the same people who will poo-poo your interests will declare their interest(s) as something that can't be dismissed. Reminds me of a line for a sci-fi event I was once in, and a sports event line at the same venue was right next to our line. A baseball fan...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I got my layout in an article in the March/April 2018 issue of Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette, which just came out: I wrote the article as if the layout was a real-world railroad and that I'd found photos taken during WW2 in a footlocker. But the editor changed that focus quite a...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I took some more photos recently...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Trackside Model Railroading recently released DVD of video from my layout and another club layout. Guess who made the cover (and the fronts of both discs)? https://www.tracksidemodelrailroading.com/ if you're really interested...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    This is on the wall at a 90-degree angle of the wall shot I posted above. If you open the door to the room all the way, you'll likely never see this. The poster is obvious, but the plate is an original WW2 heavy flatcar one, pulled off the rotting car on a siding near Arlon, Belgium in the early...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Before Christmas, I bought a white wood sign that was blank at a craft sotre, with the idea of making it into a RR sign for the layout. I printed out some letters on paper last night in a typeface that existed in the 30s, then transferred that to the sign, then painted over it. I was surprised...
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    Show us your photography

    I took these over the last few days:
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    This week, I got a lot completed. I took the remains of a busted Bachmann 2-6-0 and made a scrap load of the locomotive parts and a water car out of the tender: I also lettered an excursion car with my own decals to make it an Army troop car, and weathered it with washes and powders:

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