Author Topic: MYSTERY MODEL OF THE DAY? Looks like a Robert Emmett design. (Read 3241 times)

Shultzie · « **on:** February 25, 2009, 10:28:07 AM »

Mystery scan for today..
I keep running across this scan that I took around 30 some years ago at the Aerospace center parking lot...

What a clever paint scheme! (Very strange Ama # 66651 or 65657???
It appears to be a Bob Emmett Ike design...so if Keith Trostle is lurking, maybe the ama # will clear up the some of the cobwebs' of my mind?

Randy Powell · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2009, 11:35:51 AM »

Looks like 66661. Must have gotten the AMA number in the late 60s.

Shultzie · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2009, 01:39:00 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on February 25, 2009, 11:35:51 AM

Looks like 66661. Must have gotten the AMA number in the late 60s.

666 BEWARE...SIGN OF THE BEAST...BIBLICALLY SPEAKING!!!

Steve Helmick · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2009, 09:03:15 PM »

It reads "63651" to me, but I'm not 100% certain, either. Pretty artsy. No idea who dunnit...

Steve

Shultzie · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:02:58 AM »

Quote from: Steve Helmick on February 25, 2009, 09:03:15 PM

It reads "63651" to me, but I'm not 100% certain, either. Pretty artsy. No idea who dunnit... Steve

Love that airbrush theme on the left wing...
Maybe that 2nd letter could be a "3"?
I'll pop it in the scanner again and pump up the pix...for another look?

Shultzie · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:25:43 AM »

Humm? Didn't help much except...blurr things a bit too much except now the numbers seem to look more like?

6365-7 or maybe a 0 or a 1???

Bootlegger · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:48:09 AM »

Sure looks like a Walter Peyton paint job to me .. What say ya'll

Mark Scarborough · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:15:40 PM »

63651,, If you look where the various "arcs " actually join each other you can discern what the numbers are,, IMHO..
did you mean Walt Prey? I dont think its his, the flow of the color trim lines doesnt work as well as his stuff does,,, again, just my perspective,, and His colors tend to be more pronounced variations,,,

Warren Wagner · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2009, 02:20:00 PM »

I have to agree with Mark.

I wonder what ever happened to Walt Prey? He sure did beautiful work, and was a great inspiration. Hope he is still around, and still modeling.

Cheers.

Warren Wagner

Shultzie · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2009, 04:11:04 PM »

Thanks for the scan enhancement...Probably would have been a better slide if I had used Kodachome instead of that Ektachome 64...plus hand holding that old Minolta SR-2 (no meter) didn't help matters much either? I am sure Bob Emmett (our snow bird) when he gets back knows the model builder.

How sobering when I look at so many of these old slides...sad that I have forgotten the names and dates that really shines a light on my demented paint fumed out brain.

$:-\$

John Stiles · « **Reply #10 on:** February 26, 2009, 04:13:11 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on February 26, 2009, 04:11:04 PM

How sobering when I look at so many of these old slides...sad that I have forgotten the names and dates that really shines a light on my demented paint fumed out brain. $:-\$

Wish I could be there looking at those slides right along side of you Shultzie

Shultzie · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2009, 04:19:04 PM »

Quote from: John Stiles on February 26, 2009, 04:13:11 PM

Wish I could be there looking at those slides right along side of you Shultzie

Sad to say...........I given away soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomany of the slides to the owners of the models and others modelers who asked for duplicates. It was just eaiser to pop them in an envelope, stick a stamp and drop them in the mail.

So many of the local camera outlets etc...stopped making dups and prints from slides...until just recently.

John Stiles · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2009, 04:26:57 PM »

Yup.....we dun gone to compooters and 55x CD Roms....where does it go from here? Nobody knows.

Warren Wagner · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:57:03 AM »

Quote from: Shultzie on February 26, 2009, 04:19:04 PM

Sad to say...........I given away soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomany of the slides to the owners of the models and others modelers who asked for duplicates. It was just eaiser to pop them in an envelope, stick a stamp and drop them in the mail.

So many of the local camera outlets etc...stopped making dups and prints from slides...until just recently.

Don.....something to think about.....several scanners have the capability of scanning slides and negatives. I looked at a HP unit recently that would do both, and it was not that expensive....i.e. < $150.

The slides continue to deteriorate with time, so it would be a good project for you to digitize your slide collection, allowing you to archive the photo, to email and post easily, and also to make prints, at home, easily and quickly.

Depending on how many slides you have, you might what to throw a "slide scanning party" and invite some friends over to help.

Cheers.

Warren Wagner

Shultzie · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2009, 03:13:56 PM »

Warren...
First and worst....I have this old Dell Dimension E310 that has a hard drive with virtually no space or memory left.
For my birthday...I bought this Epson V300 slide scanner for $120.00 but so far it is not only painfully slow and can only scan 4 slides at a time...or 35mm only B&W-color negs...(if the color negs haven't shifted too much into the purple range of decay.

I can scan about a dozen slides before I transport them to photoworks or webshots...(however once I send them to webshots...I can no long right click and save these for later personal use?
So far the photoworks seems the best option?

?
How the heck do I begin to know....my computer skills equally my flying and building skills. With that in mind....

I have found this all toooooooooooo much of a time wasting pr

Perhaps...first, I am still wondering whether or not I should just put these onto a portable hard drive...or just send them to my www.photoworks.com on line picture saver?
After checking the $$$ costs------the external hard drive sounds like about the same amount of $$$ or less.
At least this way, when I get with the new age...and buy a ditataileee' camera, I then should maybe have enough hard drive space for photos...etc?

John Stiles · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2009, 05:46:50 PM »

Why can t you save them to CD discs

Warren Wagner · « **Reply #16 on:** March 01, 2009, 01:56:14 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on February 27, 2009, 03:13:56 PM

Warren...
First and worst....I have this old Dell Dimension E310 that has a hard drive with virtually no space or memory left.
For my birthday...I bought this Epson V300 slide scanner for $120.00 but so far it is not only painfully slow and can only scan 4 slides at a time...or 35mm only B&W-color negs...(if the color negs haven't shifted too much into the purple range of decay.

I can scan about a dozen slides before I transport them to photoworks or webshots...(however once I send them to webshots...I can no long right click and save these for later personal use?
So far the photoworks seems the best option??

How the heck do I begin to know....my computer skills equally my flying and building skills. With that in mind....
I have found this all toooooooooooo much of a time wasting pr

Perhaps...first, I am still wondering whether or not I should just put these onto a portable hard drive...or just send them to my www.photoworks.com on line picture saver?

After checking the $$$ costs------the external hard drive sounds like about the same amount of $$$ or less.
At least this way, when I get with the new age...and buy a ditataileee' camera, I then should maybe have enough hard drive space for photos...etc?

Hi Don,

I can see that managing your photos is a chore for you, but it really doesn't need to be. What you really need, is someone that can look at your equipment, and walk you through the proper way to do thing....it's quite straight forward for one with a bit of computer experience. We can help you here on the forum, but an 'in-person' guide would be much easier.

I'll briefly try to address some of your issues.

First....the ancient Dell....it has very obvious limitation, but for basic photo archiving, it will do the job with some easy 'fixes'. An external hard drive is inexpensive, but would require a USB port to plug it in. Much easier, is to install an INTERNAL hard drive. This would use all internal power and wiring and the job could be done in minutes. And the cost is very low. You can probably manage with just the 256 MB of RAM for now.

Pictures that you scan or digital photos that you take, should be loaded DIRECTLY to your HD and not to some internet site. Later on you could COPY photos to internet sites, but the original should always remain on your HD.

To manage and organize photos on your HD, the very best program, IMHO, is free from Google, and is called "Picasa". Look on Google's site for the link to a free down load. It's an amazing program, and perhaps the most trouble free software on my computer.

It sounds like you don't have a digital camera....the prices are so reasonable that you owe it to yourself to buy one. Study some reviews first.

So, try and find a friend locally that can help you, but if you can't, we will be glad to give it a shot here on the forum. Lots of good computer gurus present here.

Cheers.

Warren Wagner

Shultzie · « **Reply #17 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:07:13 PM »

Thanks Warren...for your advice. I just printed a copy of this last post.
I tried the Google Picasa but even that took up too much space on my hard drive and after dumping Picasa...for some reason my computer started working again....but still is painfully slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!
Looks like a need a GEEKSQUID' HELPAAAAALADYMANORBEAST.

Warren Wagner · « **Reply #18 on:** March 01, 2009, 04:56:17 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on March 01, 2009, 02:07:13 PM

Thanks Warren...for your advice. I just printed a copy of this last post.
I tried the Google Picasa but even that took up too much space on my hard drive and after dumping Picasa...for some reason my computer started working again....but still is painfully slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!
Looks like a need a GEEKSQUID' HELPAAAAALADYMANORBEAST.

Don,

The listed requirements for "Picasa" are:

System Requirements:

Windows XP/Vista or Linux
256MB RAM
100MB available hard disk space

Question for you:

1) Do you have XP?

2) The Dell has 256 MB of RAM, so you qualify there.

3) Do you know how to see how much space you have on your HD?

4) **Do you have someone locally that can ease you through the job? That would make your life much simpler.

Cheers.

Warren Wagner

Shultzie · « **Reply #19 on:** March 01, 2009, 05:23:15 PM »

Dell Hell Dimensiion E310 with 256MB
Intergrated Media Acc. 900
80GB ATA HDrive
Windows XP Media center 2005 Edition
16XDVD 16XDVE+/-RW
Dell USB keyboard
Media 10 player..n'all that jazz.
(I am trying to clean up the disk cleanup as we speak...so far I have virtually NO MEMORY LEFT..and that includes my own demented paint fume induced brain cells..