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This video thaty was linked at the end was cooler!

That's really nice looking work, the figures really stand out, but that Sherman kit is a shity Tamiya kit, even ten year old Dragon Sherman kit would have looked better, and the more recent releases are great. Those fenders have to be there to hide the missing sponson floors.

I like me a good New York.

Wow, those are both really cool.

What do real food people think of the food network and game shows like Cuthroat kitchen and Chopped?

I loved the old Mircroprose version, I hope this one is good!

Cool.

Putting ketchup on eggs or hash browns or any other breakfast food is a crime against humanity. Tabasco is ok… but hollandaise sauce is better.

Yeah Don summed it up. I liked both, the pacific was hard to watch at times it was so graphic.

You sure you didn't get hit with a R/O?

That was some good stuff! I think my Sherman project agrees with most of it too, I may have to adjust the Sherman name section a little though.

That's how my build started, but on Newegg, I found the fastest Intel CPU they had, then looked for a combo with it, then started going through the rest of the components. Then I had to convince the wife. So far, I’m still very happy with the build, I’ve had zero problems since I replaced the stock CPU cooler, and all it needed was a cleaning. The new on is easier to clean. The system is rock solid, and I only reboot it once every few weeks, mostly when there is a windows update and it does it on its own. GTA V crashed it a few times, and so did FarCry whatever the new Himalaya adventure one is. I haven’t run into a game I can’t run on full detail, but my monitors are not all that big. I will not be buying a prebuilt desktop again, building this PC was just to much fun, and so much better for the money spent.

Loquats are where it's at men. Loquats.

Aren’t the feds supposed to step in on shit like this?

Well, thats good to hear, since 3-5% more Californians are fleeing to WA state this year!

So they would probably fight tooth and nail to keep the information on the Iowa class classified? I can't be the only one interested right?

I have the first two, the third I'll have to add to the list. Thanks for the tip!

Here it is! http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/museum1.htm

where's the fricken laser?

All the Iowas have been stricken, but the Navy still technically owns the pink slip so to speak, for all the Naval Vessels being used as museums. If the Museum starts having serious financial problems and shuts down the Navy will take possession of the ship. This is why it’s so hard for groups to get the Navy to release a ship to become a museum, they feel with the four Iowas, the three other BBs, three carriers and several cruisers, the market is flooded so to speak. If a group does not have a clear business plan that plans decades ahead for things like hull repairs and dry dock time, they Navy won’t even consider it. They are also required to keep some parts of the ship mothballed, so it can be used again if needed, limiting what can be opened to the public. There’s a really interesting Article on Nav Weapons about it.

Couldn't someone request to have the blueprints opened as part of the freedom of information act?

So being the detail geek I am, I love these books. They have the deck plans for the ship in question. For example the book on the Essex Class Carrier Intrepid, has the deck plans for every deck down to the weird decks below the engine rooms. Everything is numbered so you can see what each compartment was used for. It also has detailed drawings of all the gun mounts and various deck fittings, all the portholes and hatches etc. They are a modelers dream in that regard. The books do vary in detail, the book on the British Carrier Victorious, they detailed out how officer’s staterooms would be laid out, and how the wardroom was set up, but the book on the Intrepid does not, you simply get a large room on the deck plans labeled Wardroom or officers staterooms, etc. They all include a decent design history and a basic history for the exact ship they are covering. Books in this series have been done on ships as old as the HMS Victory and USS Constitution, but the newest one seems to be the intrepid, or the one on a Fletcher class Destroyer. It seems odd to me no one has done one for any US Battleship, it’s not as if there is no demand, the ships are popular book topics. With no battleships even in reserve, and the big four setup up as museum ships, along with the North Carolina and Alabama, it seems weird one hasn’t been done on at least the more modern ships. I have no idea how you would go about publishing one of these books, but I assume it was done with blueprints or deck plans the Navy made based on in the Intrepid case, how she was designed and built at launch not how she is now as a museum ship. Though the one on the Victorious covered the ship from commissioning, through her two major rebuilds. It doesn’t coverer the huge scandal that took place while one of those rebuilds was being done, but it covers all the changes in detail with all new deck plans. So why do I have Anatomy of the Ship Yamoto but not a Anatomy of a Ship Iowa, or North Carolina, or even Tennessee for Christ sake? http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-Carrier-Intrepid-Anatomy-Ship/dp/0870219014/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1432878800&sr=8-5&keywords=anatomy+of+a+ship

I was making one of those general statements, mostly aimed at groups like Greenpeace, and ALF, PETA, since they are all pretty rank groups. It also seems like there can be no stories like this that are not followed by a gloom and doom report about how they and by extension eventually us are going to be dead soon due to some man made problem. Over saturation on very political topic seems to kill the message off. Do countries like Vietnam even care about enacting animal and environmental protection laws?

I've had a pair of books by Jim mesko since I was a kid, I got both a little local hobby shop in the 80s... Armor in Vietnam a pictorial history and Armor in Korea a pictorial history. By by Jim mesko, published by Squadron/Signal publications, 1982 and 1984. Pretty good books for what the are, and that's why I still have them.

It's cool and interesting to find new critters, but am I the only one who rolls their eyes at the immediate claims of everything being threatened? Fucking environmentalists have forgotten how to be honest.