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13 hours ago, arbit said:

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I never noticed that, but the white mcd is very high compared to the others.

Naa that's not high... 10000 Milli Candela would be high. So that's not the source of the heat. What resistor are you using and hows it wired? 0402SMDs are the same ones I'm using in Alissas X-Wing miniatures and there are no heat issues

1 hour ago, arbit said:

I don't have that. How about white glue?

White glue works too

what mcd LEDS are you using?

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Custom is better than stock so nothing lost there

Loctite them. Easier and it will work as well

12 hours ago, MechTech said:

That looks AWESOME Arbit! Both function and the LED jobs on it! Now you just need to load sound effects to cover the gearbox sound Those little motors are SO noisy! I've isolated them in rubber sleeves and tried everything else to include slowing them down. Still no success! But it looks too cool to notice anyhow! - MT

its because they run straight cut gears in the reduction box. Same reason a race car box whines and the reverse gear on your car does too but the rest of the gears (angle cut) don't.

I may have a couple in the collection I could swap for vf-1D fighters

which kit. which scale, which brand?

challenge accepted....

its actually his general lax attitude. His movements on deck, his hand signalling was less than deliberate... he just appears casual.

Building a deck scene at the moment with some guys in the process of releasing the Tie down chains on a Valk and running a preflight check.

New source of deck crew figures... http://reedoak.com/

Next up... you get to see the White Shirts, the Safety Observers, in action. One will spot a fault on a tail hook cover right before launch calling a halt and rectify to the launch, another will use the handy cutouts in the vests of the shooter to yank him back after he crosses the imaginary line drawn from the wingtip sidewinder pylon forward after the Ordnance crew make the aircraft live (Weapons External Master Arm On) and he walks into where the missile could fly if it accidently activated. Even though there is no ordnance loaded at this time, you always go though the motions. ALWAYS.

Complacency kills.

And from this shooters casual attitude and hand signals he's familiar with complacency.

The Shooter then gets an on deck retraining chat which he's none to pleased with. That just makes his failure worse. In my trade, you screw up, you stand up, own it and learn from it, you don't shake you head about it.

Starts at 3.30

Another Vid, this one from the Topside Petty officer POV (The green shirt hooking the Aircraft to the Catapult Shoe). 

Shows the Redshirt Ordnance Petty officer setting the aircraft to Weapons Systems Armed prior to launch by setting the Master Arm above the forward landing gear bay.

Also shows whats actually checked by the TPO when they are looking at the nose gear, cat shoe and holdback bar immediately before launch.

KEY NOTE: At 13.10 you will see the pilot complete his instrument scan and instead of a salute gives the dilibrate and clear headshake signal indicating an aircraft fault. The crew then have to remove the aircraft from catapult (Break Down the aircraft from launch) which you don't normally see on youtube and movie clips. The joys of Legacy aircraft beyond their hours, budget cuts and that Ahole Murphy.

Also what bugs me as a Soldier is the physical difference between Navy and Army. There are some FAT Navy pers clearly skipping PT! 

Another resource Video for any Deck builders out there. 

Taken POV from the Catapult Centre Deck Operators view. 

Shows a lot of the activity of the Cat crew for alternative positioning on our dioramas besides the moment of actual launch. I especially like the crew crowded around and hugging underside of the outside Hornet while they await the launch of the centre aircraft.

where did the arm come from?

Razor Saw

The bonus of having a genetic defect negating pain reception. 

The down side being a high disposition for somewhat reckless behaviour

2 hours ago, arbit said:

Derex, sounds like you could also use some Tamiya razor saws, the big one and little PE ones are great for removing big chunks safely. 

And I forgot to mention, wear protective glasses as well with the Dremel; I've had several bits break and fly off who-knows-where.

I'e had a dremel fibre cut off wheel explode and bury a half wheel chunk between my eyes across the bridge of my nose to the bone. Slightly amusing when my safety goggles were in arms reach

Ohhhhhh have you not been cranking that screw down? That must have driven you nuts as the barrel will walk the dog right off the rubber or the rubber will spin inside the barrel and burn

1 hour ago, arbit said:

How do you keep them from sliding off the rubber thingy?

Tighten the end screw down. It reforms the rubber insert to grip the sanding drum

They have drum sanding bits. Thats what I use

Wattpad has a translator for spanish to English?

Excellent work dude.

There is a white toner cart for laser printers now so you may be our first guinea pig to test it out here

I'l  buy your wheels if you do. My two have been.... fun to set up on the carrier decks