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Thats quite the article. I guess I didnt fully realize whom I had been communicating with. Your resume is very impressive! Now I understand the attention to detail you have and why.
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A wonderful tribute to one hell of a guy!!
May the good Lord keep his likin' for you, Dave!!
You are, and always will be , "The Man"!!
I am humbled to be accepted by you as a fellow modeler!!
Long live "M"!!!!!!!!!!! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
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Shoot, howdy, M!!
And ah wuz thinkin' you was just another crazy-assed old machinist!! (LOL)
Hey, y'all newbies out there!! Listen up to what this guy is tellin' you!! It comes
from a whole lotta "dues paying"!!!!
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Did you get to refine your craft much while you were aboard submarines? I don't know how much rec time you got. I don't like to brag, but while I was in the USAF Navy aboard the USNS Observation Island, I had my own State room and we did 12 on and 12 off. We frequently resupplied in Yokosuka, Japan for our 50 day deployments to the Kamchatka Peninsula. I stocked up on Diet Pepsi (I hated bug juice and coffee)and modeling supplies.Last edited by Sublime; 03-31-2014, 10:01 PM.Comment
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Air-Force pussies! Only state-room I had was on an ammo ship while briefly aboard as a TAD Diver doing a survey job. What a life: you had your own room, and the Steward would bring in a menu every morning -- it was a MSLC type ship. Those guys had it made!
OBSERVATION ISLAND. I understand that when it was not working for NASA it had Spook's aboard gathering electronic intell. You a Spook, Sublime? We used to host that type whenever we took the TRUTTA to Cuba -- three CT's and an over-see'er. We would go down, the ECM mast would go up, and they would stay in the pump-room with the receivers and tape-recorders till we pulled into Guantanamo.
No time to work models on the diesel boat (too busy drinking in the off-hours), and any off-gassing paints or other solvent bearing consumables were a no-no on the Boomer (not that that stopped the XO -- he was a model building machine). So, no modeling aboard the boats for me. However, while I did my nine-patrols on the DANIEL WEBSTER, I did a lot of model building off-crew, while doing R&R and team-training at Hawaii. Did a lot of model building on the YOSEMITE, VULCAN, and RECOVERY while filling a Diver's billet though. I actually took 30-days leave toward the end of my career so Ellie and I could rig the miniatures for a film we worked on in Kansas.
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Nope. I was rated as a Torpedoman. Later qualified in submarines after cross-decking from the GILMORE to the TRUTTA (never saw a day of Submarine School). Then went to Launcher School to became a Launcher Tech (Polaris/Poseidon system) aboard the WEBSTER. Then scuba-diver school, then hard-hat diver school, then got yanked off the boats by the Diving Detailor, and spent the rest of my time in the diving community. While on the tenders (GILMORE, steam shop; YOSEMITE, dive-locker; and VULCAN, diver-locker) I got myself in tight with the pattern, foundry, and machine shop guys so I could use the machines for my model building.
How does a Torpedoman do that, you ask? Simple: You walk into a shop, act like you own the place, and you can get away with murder (till you get caught). At one point, during my second Med deployment aboard the YOSEMITE, I understand that posted in the Repair Department office was a note warning to keep all Diver's away from the machines -- an easy task, we were the only ones aboard in greens at the time. This might have had something to do with that: I was in the sheet-metal shop the day an idiot MR lost three fingers in the big shears. I swear, I had nothing to do with that! He stayed on board, remarkably. We called him, 'lefty'.
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My first conscious knowledge of David came about when I learned of the Moebius Seaview kit and began looking anything up on the net for said model release. Undeniably David is a true craftsman. He designs, builds and then deconstructs things into variant kit forms for us mortal kit assemblers to put back together and represent as best we can what he created. In my ignorance I once called myself a model builder. But age, humility and David's forthright explanation has proved me and many others how wrong we are. The sad part is that I and many like me put a kit together, dress it up, make it look pretty and never once consciously or unconsciously consider the talants that gave us our kit or model. So if your like me don't envy David and his peers. Just do the best you can and a bit more to show a finished result that's honours their skill and efforts. Should the ever slim possibility come to meet him I would do my best not to fall to my knees and kowtow at his feet... :)Cheers,
Alec.
Reality is but a dream...
But to dream is a reality
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Alec, you're killing me!
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Great read! Now who wants to get on SC & bump that one up to the top?Comment
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They recently deleted one of my posts that made reference to the thread starter and a tin foil helmet, i might not be too welcome.Next time someone points out it takes 42 muscles to frown, point out it will only take 4 muscles to b1tch slap them if they tell you how mnay muscles you need to smile:popComment
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Man!! I just blew my ramin all over my keyboard. The USAF Navy had staterooms? I think the only stateroom I ever saw in the Navy was on the Midway and had a big blue flag hangin on the wall with a couple white stars stuck on it. There was a Marine in his dress blues blocking the hatch so I didnt see any models in there. I did visit an AF hobby shop on Okinawa once. The Howie G. building 15 was a hobby shop. The Bushnell too, just changed building numbers, same pier. Every time I ever went aboard, guys were always making all kinds of neet stuff in the shops that didnt have anything to do with fixin broke subs. I got a real nice acey-deucy board from the tin benders of one of those ships. Colored nuts and bolts too.Comment
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Well, this old Air Force 20mm "gun plumber" can say, with all due respect,
"We are not worthy...we are not worthy"!! Hah!!
No modeling time available, but got to play with a whole lotta F-4 Phantom weapons systems!!
1:1 scale stuff here, y'all!!
Pretty awesome flighty thingys!!
"Got air cover"??
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F-4: most intimidating plane I've ever seen. On the ground, or in the air. Those monsters were all business. And they could take it as well as dish it out. You look at a F-35 wrong and it will fold up.
And some ass-hole wants to retire the A-10's??!!....
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Yeah! Go figure!!
Lets retire one of the most feared, butt-kickin' planes ever developed!! Geez!!
A bit on the "slow" side, but by the time the bad guys get a bead on her, the ordinance is on it's way
to the ground!
R.I.P, you a**-holes!! Hah!! That's what you get!!
Mess with the best-die like the rest!!
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