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What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:24:44 AM

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Christopher and I have been busy expanding the Japanese Fleet in my man cave over the last two days. We've built I-400, DD Hatsuharu, and DD Hatsushimo to add to our collection of waterline ships:

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:27:22 AM

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Here are the SS. Look at I-400 compared to the others.

Chris was really funny. WE built the two DDs today and, when completed, he stared at them and said....ahhh...wait a minute. Got up. Grabbed I-400 and said 'that thing is bigger then a destroyer!' Small lesson learned I guess.

Tomorrow we start IJN Chokai (Chris's choice) and IJN Kirishima (Dad's choice).

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:29:19 AM

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WOW! Don't know why the first picture is so big...

If you are staying home, what are you doing right now?

I'm keeping my store alive on life support, building models with the boys, and working on finishing our pond/stream/waterfall in preparation for a small garden railroad.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:31:36 AM

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Waterline ships? You could at least do an SS with just the periscope showing. You could claim to have a whole fleet of submerged SSs. That's what I'm going to do.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:32:48 AM

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THAT is FUNNY! Well said Mister Gorn.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:39:02 AM

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Do the periscope sub then challenge us to ID her.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:40:13 AM

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Chris wrote a paper on IJN Yamato for 8th Grade American History Class. Got a 95%! (That's my boy)

Now that he is enjoying doing the waterlines...he wants Dad to buy it so we can build it. Damn. It will take forever...not to mention I'll need another blue shelf on the wall.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:40:29 AM

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Do the periscope sub then challenge us to ID her.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:42:48 AM

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I'm waiting for the new, improved BTSL

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 12:53:34 AM

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I've already completed one of my own. Here is SS-292 Devilfish. The water is brown because it's in an estuary after a flood.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 1:26:06 AM

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I'm waiting for the new, improved BTSL....GP

Lordy...me too! Michael said positive things about real progress but I am not wanting to raise false hope...

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 1:46:53 AM

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Waterline ships? You could at least do an SS with just the periscope showing. You could claim to have a whole fleet of submerged SSs. That's what I'm going to do.

When you finish your sub fleet, will you invite neighbours over to watch the submarine races?

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 1:49:45 AM

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I've already completed one of my own. Here is SS-292 Devilfish. The water is brown because it's in an estuary after a flood.

What is that Juksto or Jukstg device? Is that what you use to contact your Gornian Central Committee controller?

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 1:54:23 AM

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I've already completed one of my own. Here is SS-292 Devilfish. The water is brown because it's in an estuary after a flood.

What is that Juksto or Jukstg device? Is that what you use to contact your Gornian Central Committee controller?

And what's magnifying glass for? Don't tell me Gorns are near-sighted?

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 1:54:45 AM

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Trying to expose my 15 YO son to Shakespeare. A classic remake of King Lear, but with many more arterial spurts than the bard's version:

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 2:31:07 AM

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Cool stuff! Very nice. I am working, far too much.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 4:37:32 AM

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There's Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg. Then everybody else.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 4:48:50 AM

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just working � shift now. we split everyone into two teams, hoping that both don't fall ill at the same time ...

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 10:25:51 AM

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There's Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg. Then everybody else.

Er... You forgot Sergio Leone and Stanley Kubrick.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 11:48:37 AM

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There's Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg. Then everybody else.

Er... You forgot Sergio Leone and Stanley Kubrick.

Kubrick would resurrect Dr. Strangelove for a sequel.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 2:13:30 PM

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There's Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg. Then everybody else.

Er... You forgot Sergio Leone and Stanley Kubrick.

Kubrick would resurrect Dr. Strangelove for a sequel.

+1 for Dr. Strangelove, +2 for Peter Sellers

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 4:01:12 PM

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I am working from home. On the bright side, my primary customer is staying open and keeping us busy, because it's the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. On the down side, I am in sales, and they are not buying ANYTHING right now if it isn't directly related to COVID 19, and software with a 6 to 12 month implementation cycle is....a non-starter right now.

All of my fellow salespeople are worried because if customers can't or won't buy anything, why do you need salespeople?

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 4:02:22 PM

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Do the periscope sub then challenge us to ID her.

Weirdly enough , the Royal Navy station on Gibraltar used to have a couple of supper powerful mounted binoculars with a silhouette chart on the wall behind it with most of the world's periscopes on it. You might not get the exact boat , or even her class, but certainly the nation of manufacture. And as modern subs ALWAYS put up ESM , RADAR and com masts as well , you can more often than not ID the subs class.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 7:32:07 PM

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Working from home and playing a ton of video games.

Playing:
Fire Emblem 3
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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 7:57:30 PM

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Working from home and playing a ton of video games.

Playing:
Fire Emblem 3
Total War Three Kingdoms
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nice taste!

about to snag fire emblem 3
sub in a Warhammer Total War
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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 7:59:30 PM

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Do the periscope sub then challenge us to ID her.

Weirdly enough , the Royal Navy station on Gibraltar used to have a couple of supper powerful mounted binoculars with a silhouette chart on the wall behind it with most of the world's periscopes on it. You might not get the exact boat , or even her class, but certainly the nation of manufacture. And as modern subs ALWAYS put up ESM , RADAR and com masts as well , you can more often than not ID the subs class.

Guessing this is from the era when submarine turbines weren't powerful enough to fight the underwater currents at above a walking pace.

great youtube channel for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 8:00:59 PM

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I am working from home. On the bright side, my primary customer is staying open and keeping us busy, because it's the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. On the down side, I am in sales, and they are not buying ANYTHING right now if it isn't directly related to COVID 19, and software with a 6 to 12 month implementation cycle is....a non-starter right now.

All of my fellow salespeople are worried because if customers can't or won't buy anything, why do you need salespeople?

First week working entirely from home here. Instead of going out, treating myself at home.

Remember folks: when making craft drinks, large ice cubes protect complex flavors. You don't want to lose the "flat diet mountain dew found in the back of the fridge" taste with crushed ice.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 8:06:02 PM

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Do the periscope sub then challenge us to ID her.

Weirdly enough , the Royal Navy station on Gibraltar used to have a couple of supper powerful mounted binoculars with a silhouette chart on the wall behind it with most of the world's periscopes on it. You might not get the exact boat , or even her class, but certainly the nation of manufacture. And as modern subs ALWAYS put up ESM , RADAR and com masts as well , you can more often than not ID the subs class.

Guessing this is from the era when submarine turbines weren't powerful enough to fight the underwater currents at above a walking pace.

great youtube channel for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw

Ah....exactly how fast do you think submarines go when passing trough a narrow choke point? ALL subs, nuke , diesel and AIP ALL slow waaaay down when going through a narrow restricted passage. I've spent a fair bit of time operating in the STRAUB (straights of Gibraltar) and I can attest to this. Any sub trying to pass through covertly will certainly pass through at minimum speed.

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 10:26:51 PM

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There's Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg. Then everybody else.

Er... You forgot Sergio Leone and Stanley Kubrick.

Sergio Leone would be nothing without Ennio Morricone

but Bernard Herrmann sure helped Hitchcock!

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RE: What are YOU doing during the Outbreak??!! - 3/20/2020 10:40:38 PM

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