**** DONE: Revell 1/48 P-40B RAF 112 Squadron in Egypt in 1941 MTO Group Build

[B-17engineer]

Oh Vic, this is only half way through the year. We have mid terms though for classes. Also, I get math, history, science, and English homework regularly. And now I am working on a 5 page essay due in two weeks.

We are getting placed in classes for high school soon and I want to be in all good classes so for college it looks good. SO I am really pressing ahead with work.

We get off from June to September.

 

[Wurger]

Wojtek, how are you?

I have much work to do today. That is why I was pressing to move forward because almost the rest of the week I have very little time. I was expecting a bunch of work since break for X-mas is soon...

I should be on soon...

Hello Harry,

I'm fine. And you? I know you have not much of time for modelling.But I have found a few areas you have to correct during painting.Most of them are easy to carry out.These can be done when painting the Earth-Brown colour.But the most important thing is that the Mid Stone is too light.Also you need to apply another coat of the MId Stone.I think you should use the Mid Stone without mixing with the white paint.That's way a couple of corrections to the painted spots you have to introduce are easy too.
Look at these pics below.All should be clear. If not ask me please.

 

[B-17engineer]

Alright I see. I can add the darker color now. Then I can let that dry. Here is what I've been working on.... if you'd like to read. It still needs editing and what not..also, need to be three times as long..

It's on the navajo code talkers.

Navajo Code Talkers


Da-he-tih-hi! This is the Navajo word for fighter plane. The Navajo Code Talkers were one of the single most important assets to the American Army in World War Two because they, created the first unbreakable code, with this unbreakable code American troops lives were saved, and finally the code took the war to the Japanese. The Navajo Code Talkers are a group of Native Americans that live in the South Western United States. The Navajo people make up North America's largest tribe of Native Americans. Speaking the language the Navajo's speak is not easy. Navajo people take nearly twenty years to fully learn the language where as the English language takes a little under eight years. The language uses five tones, high, low, normal, rising, and falling. The words mouth and medicine are pronounced the same in Navajo language but use different tones. Before the start of World War Two, only thirty people in the whole world outside of the Navajo reservation could speak the language fluently. During World War One Navajo's, Comanche's, and Choctaws all volunteered for service, at the time there was hardly a need for a code since the cryptogram had just been introduced. A cryptogram is a code that substitutes letters for other letters for example a phrase like this "This is a cryptogram." Would look like this, "Fkdr dr u bazofmiauc." after the code was encrypted. This code was one of the greatest codes until a German officer named Kasisiki made a frequency chart that used the most common occurring letters. After this code was broken each country needed a new code, most found new codes very quickly but, the United States still was yet to have an unbreakable code.
At the start the start of World War Two the United States was in dire need of a code that couldn't be figured out. A man named Phillip Johnston had the solution, the Navajo people of the Southwestern United States. Johnston's father had been a Presbyterian missionary to the Navajo's in the years before and after World War One. Johnston, who grew up being only one of thirty in the world speaking the Navajo language (besides the Navajo's themselves.), served as a translator for his father. Johnston had heard that in Louisiana, Native Americans were being used to operate radios and this sparked an idea about using Navajo's. Phillip Johnston contacted US officers at Camp Elliott in February of 1942. Lieutenant Colonel James John met with Johnston and was very skeptic of the plan to use Navajo's because he believed many people knew the language. In reality, only thirty people outside the Navajo reservation knew and none of them Japanese. Johnston was annoyed with the rejection, but he argued his point. The Colonel wouldn't change his mind. To show the complexity of the language Johnston spoke a few words to some Marines and quickly the Colonel changed his mind. The idea was then turned over to two higher ranking officers, Major General Clayton Vogel and Colonel Wethered Woodward, for approval. The officers met with four Navajo's who spoke Navajo and English and asked them to translate a few messages. The two officers were amazed with the language and its accuracy. Johnson was given the green light to create the 382nd Marine Platoon which only had twenty nine Navajo's as opposed to the original 200.
The twenty nine Navajo pilot unit was sent to boot camp at Camp Elliott. Like every other marine the Navajo's learned to march in formation, fire a weapon, and set up a tent. Like most Marines of the time, Navajo's were expected to shave, have short hair, pay attention, and do well in physical fitness. The Navajo's passed with flying colors but, like many other in the camp, complained. After basic training was over, the Navajo's remained in the camp to learn how to use radio equipment and develop the infamous code. "We decided to change the name of the airplanes, ships, and the English ABC's into the Navajo language. We named airplanes ginigtosh, sparrow hawk, since the sparrow hawk is like an airplane."(Cozy Stanley Brown, 1942). The code was developed under the administration Phillip Johnston. The Navajo's began to refine and expand the code over and over. The code was based on twelve frequently used terms in the English alphabet. The repeating letters and more importantly vowels are the sole key to unlocking the code. For instance, the English letter 'I' appears regularly in words, the letter appears so often the code talkers know how many times the letter appears in a simple English phrase and then goes and fills in the blanks of a phrase to unlock its true meaning. After many months of refinement the code used 411 terms. The code talkers had to have a great memory and an ability to link the English and Navajo language to be able to send a code. A group of eight Navajo men were sent to the island of New Caledonia in the Pacific. These men were to be used to help send and translate messages because the Japanese were set to invade the island. The Navajo's would have to prove themselves in battle.

 

[Wurger]

A very interesting work Harry.Very nice.

I think you could add a few examples of the Navajo soldiers' service.You know a couple of these guys , personally.

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks workin on paint now

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Great essay H and very interesting and informative

 

[Wurger]

Yep...

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks

I know on the right wing I need to overpaint with brown but Humbrol paint is terrible..

 

[Wurger]

Thanks

I know on the right wing I need to overpaint with brown but Humbrol paint is terrible..

Looking really good Harry.The tonality seems to be better than the one mixed with the white.OK. Now let the paint get dry.

ANd it is not true that Humbrol paint is terrible.What is the problem?

 

[B-17engineer]

It's just different than what I like using, modelmasters and Testors. It is much thinner in it's consistency.

 

[Wurger]

I see.But have you mixed the paint correctly? Humbrols have a bad feature and the paint pigment settles down at the bottom of a can. The paint looks like the gloss one.Bit it should be matt colour.So I guess you didn't mix the paint properly.

 

[B-17engineer]

That's just has to do with the lighting all is fine. It isn't gloss. I shook 80 times and stirred 50 like Evan told me.

 

[Wurger]

OK. So we have to wait untill the paint is dry.

 

[Wayne Little]

Very interesting so far!

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Wayne. So Wojtek, today brown paint, let that dry. Saturday we finish up everything?

 

[lesofprimus]

Ever the optomist...

Looks good so far H...

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Dan

Wojtek, just went and checked, Humbrol paint is dry

 

[Wurger]

OK. Today the Brown colour.

 

[B-17engineer]

Mate I have a lot on my plate tonight. I can just squeeze in the painting... tonight.

 

[B-17engineer]

Piano now... will be on later..