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    American Civil War, not Second World War, but...

    Yes, but there are several theories as to why the Hunley went down. None of concrete. I've kept a close watch on the discoveries as the submarine was recovered, preserved and slowly excavated for all the silt.
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    • Forum: WWII
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    "New" D-Day footage re-emerges

    "New", my left foot! I've seen most of that reel countless times in documentaries!
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    • Post #6
    • Forum: WWII
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    American Civil War, not Second World War, but...

    Nobody knows for sure why the Hunley went to the bottom.
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    • Post #2
    • Forum: WWII
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    Anyone into tent camping?

    But you've got to wonder how many Infantry grunt vets got into that postwar craze. I'd think they were split between, "I'll never do that again," and, "This still beats a mud hole in Italy for 2 years..."
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    Anyone into tent camping?

    I grew up in a family that was into black powder shooting and civil war re-enacting. The events were always in the middle of nowhere and we couldn't have afforded a hotel anyway. We actually used to shoot Dad's hand-made 6-pounder field gun, even in competition shoots. Anyway, we camped all the...
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    Any modelers on Fedora Lounge?

    Thanks! The gas station is a pre-built structure but I modified the heck out of it. Two flag stops were built from kits, and the rest were scratch-built.
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    Any modelers on Fedora Lounge?

    I have done a great deal of work on my model RR layout, and it has been the subject of a feature article in this publication: http://on30annual.com/current-issue/ More photos can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/53587910@N05/albums/72157668176638961
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    100th anniversary of Ypres

    I went to Ypres when I was 18 and it was a truly sobering experience. At the time, you couldn't dig with a backhoe or anything like that due to all the unexploded shells all over the place. Signs in multiple languages warned not to touch the numerous stacks of shells the farmers would put in...
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    • Forum: WWII
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Ironically, Model Railroader was the only magazine I pitched an article to who turned me down totally. They said they had enough On30 articles. They don't like that gauge as they were the last magazine in the hobby to refer to that gauge as such and hardly ever run anything about it. MR is...
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    Replica pre-war Hawaiian shirts?

    The problem here is that people are posting shirt patterns they like, but I'm looking for one that has a pattern that existed before the war...
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    Replica pre-war Hawaiian shirts?

    The one I really kick myself about is someone was making BDU tops in Hawaiian prints, all hand-made by the wife of one of my soldiers many years ago when I was still in the Army. She apparently had access to an embroidery machine, and she'd make nametapes, rank and the unit patch in a Hawaiian...
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    Replica pre-war Hawaiian shirts?

    Leaping Lizards, those are insanely priced! :eek: There's nothing I could find on that site that says where any of these are '30s patterns. I couldn't find anything marked "From Here to Eternity" there. Now I realize why I haven't been able to find any repro 30s shirts. Nobody seems to make...
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    Replica pre-war Hawaiian shirts?

    I'm not sure if I haven't asked this here already, but I've done a lot of searching online and came up with nothing. I'm looking for reproduction pre-war hawaiian shirts. Any pattern is fine. Most reproduction vintage patterns I see are form the post-VJ day 1940s or later. I have yet to find any...
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    What to do with memorabilia?

    To be frank, scrapbooks were kept by a lot of people during WW2, and I don't see them valued all that much by museums or collectors.
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    • Post #6
    • Forum: WWII
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I built some metal figures I got from the UK and painted them last week. I'd never done much figure work before and though they're hardly perfect, I am okay with how they turned out.
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I took these yesterday with my cell, noticing the afternoon light...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Nope, that's flex track and turnouts from the same company, Micro Engineering. Their stuff is pretty fragile while you're putting it in, though... I wanted track that was solid and as trouble free as I could get. Every section is connected to feeder wires off the main bus.
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Width-wise, yes, but the track itself has ties that are correct for O scale.
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Come on, nobody else has a 30s-40s themed layout? :eek: I moved the civil war memorial into some trees, and I think it looks way better there. Adjacent to that, I just completed a cow field, complete with hay pen, water bucket and cow pies. All I need to do now is to finish painting the two cow...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I took this with my cell over the weekend:

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