Subject: SMML VOL 1625 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:20:15 +1000 SMML is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http://sandlehobbies.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Re: Dogs and animals - exwives!! 2: Re: Lockheed's Sea Slice 3: resin 4: Re: computer added color 5: Re: Sea Slice 6: NAS Lemoore, California -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: NAVYDAZE@aol.com Subject: Re: Dogs and animals - exwives!! Another story: Back in the early 80s I was one of the first to get Monograms new A-1 Skyraiders - man it was beautiful and I had just finished everything but adding the landing gear as I had painted and decaled it. Came home from work and it was in a hundred piece - nothing over an inch square. She said she was tired of me spending my spare time on my models - man I was mad - but stayed with her for another 6 years! Janis if you are reading this my new love actually buys me models!!!! Mike Donegan NAVYDAZE - Naval & Aviation Artist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: DRPREUL@aol.com Subject: Re: Lockheed's Sea Slice If you would like to see what the Sea Slice looks like today you can go to my website at www.jdproduct then go to custom models and the Sea Slice. Happy modeling from J&D Productions Don Preul -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: "Jansen, Matthijs" Subject: resin Can anybody tell me anything about resin? I mean, how does the process work? What kind of materials do you need, how do you make a resin object? I am planning on make some extra parts for some of my kits and I don't see myself making 20 fuel tanks out of styrene sheet. matthijs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: John Snyder Subject: Re: computer added color >> I think this is where some people would say that colorizing is a bad thing to do, as the colorization you speak of, in my belief is very wrong. I do not believe that colors that bright were ever used. For a more realistic version of that particular scheme, look at page 71 of "The Great Liners" from the "Seafarers" series by Time-Life Books. Those are copies of the original camo pattern diagrams from Wilkinson. The colors used on the liners were White, Light Gray, Medium Gray, Medium Blue and Dull Black. All of the grays have a touch of blue in them. << Hi Steve, I'm not sure I agree with you on this one. The colorized image of Olympic is based on very early secondary sources from White Star themselves: promotional materials that showed the ship in those colors. The same holds true for the gaudy scheme portrayed for Mauretania. I have the Time-Life book too, but until there's a better specific historical citation for the colors referenced there, other than they were simply the colors on Wilkinson's pattern sheets, I think both must be regarded as having some historical basis. Between them, the British and Americans had around 200 colors in use in camouflage schemes during the WW1 period, and it is entirely possible that Wilkinson's patterns were used, but with other colors. What we need to settle this one is direct, primary source material pertinent to what was actually applied to the ships. Cheers, John Snyder -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: Percy_John@emc.com Subject: Re: Sea Slice >> Lockheed Martin's advanced hullform ship Sea SLICE will participate as a littoral warfare ship in the Navy's Fleet Battle Experiment Juliet (FBE-J) this summer. << That has got to be the ugliest ship I've ever seen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: Rod Dauteuil Subject: NAS Lemoore, California After my post yesterday about my ill fated helicopter model, I got to wondering if there are any listmembers out there who may have been stationed at NAS Lemoore in the early 1970's. My question is regarding the search and rescue helicopters stationed there at that time--Colors, insignia, etc. The details are off-topic here, but if any of you could contact me off list, I'd be most appreciative. Rod -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the SMML site for the List Rules, Backissues, Member's models & reference pictures at: http://smmlonline.com Check out the APMA site for an index of ship articles in the Reference section at: http://apma.org.au/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume