Very interesting, thanks!
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The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll. War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944.
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Nice photo
Also, following Revell’s wonderful instruction sheet, they show the one plane to be glued facing in the wrong direction on the catapult, turret...
I have looked high and low and the only thing I can come up with is that on December 7, 1941 her towers were painted a very light gray as I can...
Virginia cleaners. And it looks like he just picked up some fresh clean clothes.
Among other movies, Days of Glory was playing. War/Romance movie 1944. A year later I would be born, my dad was overseas with the U.S. Army. My...
Love all the stuff, patches are great! I have a few put on a cabinet in my garage.
That rifle is nice!
Very nice detail on the model.
Perhaps it’s a misconception of color with these old photos. This is [ATTACH] after the attack at Pearl Harbor……. Maybe it’s just the way the...
Looks like it maybe should be 5L or light gray. I believe the color 5U white was used for bulkheads and overheads. But I have seen many modelers...
I will have to look it up but I have seen others depicted that way. I never even read the color coded instructions that came with it. I do that...
Thanks, but there are some out there better than I, master modelers. As far as painting the black waterline stripe there are several methods and...
And I don’t know why the images posted twice because I think I only hit “post images as full size” but one time. Maybe not, who knows, but it...
A Revell kit, which took the anticipated cutting and sanding due to some bad fit of a few parts. I had done this kit years ago but it accidentally...
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Very interesting photo
