Darth_Vader

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For all the hype, manpower, money and material that went into them, we really didn't get much Battle out of the Battleship era...relatively.

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There were a few such engagements, but you’re right. Not many for the cost.

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The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement in the Second World War, which took place on 24 May 1941 between ships of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping (Operation Rheinübung) through the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland.

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Less than 10 minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from Bismarck struck Hood near her aft ammunition magazines. Soon afterwards, Hood exploded and sank within three minutes, with the loss of all but three of her crew. Prince of Wales continued to exchange fire with Bismarck but suffered serious malfunctions in her main armament. The British battleship had only been completed in late March 1941, and used new quadruple gun turrets that were unreliable. Prince of Wales soon broke off the engagement.

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HMS Hood


Bismarck

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I asked for a solution. What ya got?

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If someone has a legit disability, I’m all for them getting assistance. If they’re just fat and lazy, that’s not a disability. That’s a choice.

The concept of preserving one’s dignity is gone in a growing segment of our society. That’s because the concept of shame has been destroyed.

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Mr. Vader, the F4U Corsair is on Line 1...

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No doubt she’s in the conversation. But she gets points deducted for being known as the “Ensign Eliminator.”

This story proves we really don’t have any standards as teenage boys in the throes of puberty, pretty much anything that that walks upright and bleeds once a month will suffice.

The clock is now ticking for some leftist judge to put an injunction on this.

Typically, it can get kinda annoying trying to understand them. But, at other times it’s quite sexy… case in point…

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Just curious, what is the wording in the arrow on the side?

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According to the instructions, the arrow says “For Leningrad.” The inscription behind it says “Avenge for Khristenko.”

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Btw how do you do your streaks? What paints do you use?

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Here is the process I typically use:

1. Airbrush the camouflage pattern using Tamiya flat acrylics.

2. Airbrush gloss clear coat, again Tamiya acrylics.

3. Apply decals using Micro Sol or Tamiya Mark Fit Stong for better adhesion.

4. Airbrush flat clear coat, again Tamiya acrylics.

5. Using a large brush, coat the entire model with Tamiya Panel Line Accent, in this case I used black. There are various other colors to choose from.

6. Once this dries, I use cotton swabs soaked in Testors Enamel Thinner to clean off most of the Panel Accent. And since my paints are acrylic while the Panel Accent is Enamel, the Enamel Thinner doesn’t mess up the overall paint scheme. I rub the cotton swabs from front to back in straight lines to leave an overall front to back patter on the “grime” that’s left.

(I didn’t do it on this build, but I also sometimes follow this up with a Flory Weather Wash. I typically use Grime, Brown, or something similar. But this is typically something I only do on armored vehicles.