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  1. James H
    All the fisher from Vanguard are designed for pure beginners. That was the premise of their design, but still to have loads of detail you wouldn't see on a beginner model. The materials are also higher quality that you normally see, with pear being standard. I can't help with the Polaris or advise it one way or the other.
  2. James H
    They were put online last week in 1:72 https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/product/gun-crew/
  3. James H
    Would you not be able to buy online and have shipped to you? I know VM have shipped to Norway with no problems.
  4. James H
    Moved topic to correct area.
  5. James H
    Not at all! I didn't take it as such. I know the bow castings for this are metal, but those could be omitted and the planking continued to a sharp point, so no need to sand down metal.
  6. James H
    Absolutely incredible. 😲
  7. James H
    That does sort of leave me a little confused. So, if a modeller is aware of the error, then he/she can choose to correct it. Doing so is the simplest sort of correction that a wooden modeller can do. On the other hand, if a modeller is unaware of the error, and chooses to build it per instructions, then that is a 'fatal error'? If a modeller has built the kit as thus, and to a standard that are happy with, then that is somehow a 'fatal error'? Fatal to whom? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the context in which you use that phrase? A reason I ask this is because I have primarily worked with plastic models, which are extremely difficult to correct if you get an error like this. I would consider that to be a 'fatal error' to a modeller who is knowledgeable about that particular subject, although not to someone ignorant of the error. I also hear some modellers decry any kit which has a flaw in shape etc. which can easily be rectified, and they call it 'unbuildable'. There seems to be a lot of rhetoric/white noise over kits which basic modelling skills can correct. Did OcCre screw up the bow? Yes they did. Is it easy to correct? Yes, very.
  8. James H
    It's actually very easy to fix. Agreed, it should not have been like that and someone at OcCre dropped the ball, but a 'fatal error'? No, I don't think so.
  9. James H
    Just a quick note: This forum area is for talk of using MSW's software and features, and not any modelling content.
  10. James H
    That was noted in the review, and I also said the model would benefit from a laser engraved deck.
  11. James H
    Did you flush cache and cookies and then restart your browser? This problem lies somewhere in your browsers inability to recognise your login and sign you in automatically. That tells me some data in a cookie could be corrupt and needs to be flushed out. Did you also test your login on another browser?
  12. James H
    Just to let you all know, Vanguard Models has now made TEN more kits of Sphinx available. Chris is just waiting for some thin pear sheet to arrive from Germany, then he can add the last parts to these kits before a proper restock. Any Sphinx kits ordered in the next week or so will be dispatched the week commencing 29th August '22. This will let those that are thinking about buying the kit while the VM Summer Sale is still on, to get one so they don't miss out while the kit would normally be out of stock. If you're thinking about a Sphinx, time to get in there whilst there's a £70 sale reduction! https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/product/hms-sphinx-1775/
  13. James H
    Allan, I think this was already discussed here, again, by yourself:
  14. James H
    This is only a mini-update as I've been away on holiday. This shows the hull up to completion of second planking, but I have started on sanding this smooth, which will be seen in next update when I've added the wales and done some other stuff. The plan will give a position below each gun port, where a mark will be added. It's here that a plank will be run, from stem to stern. It also gives a nice reference to the upper wale strake which will lie directly over the top. The hull is now sheathed in pear. Sanding begins.
  15. James H
    Perfect for Sphinx 😜
  16. James H
    No programming glitch. I’m away at moment and can’t look at tech stuff, but a quick browse yesterday on a computer on this ship showed it was working.
  17. James H
    Thankfully, that wouldn't involve me updating it, as I have zero to do with the NRG site 😁
  18. James H
    I'm sure you'll be just fine with that kit. We don't even know if you've been a modeller in some other form before. My first kit was an AL San Francisco....a lit which doubtless I'd be told is too hard for a first build, but here I am 20yrs on. AND....I'm still full of bad habits. Just enjoy your build.
  19. James H
    You tend to find that someone who is not on Facebook will rarely use any other social media platform, generally. Social media is really the only way we can communicate that we are down. We can't send out 42k emails to tell our members as our mail server would also be un-operational. We could, theoretically, open a Blog page which we can use for service updates in such eventualities, but again, it's just something else for me to do, plus our downtime is so rare that if it happens, it's not worth the effort.
  20. James H
    I'm afraid I've enough to do without venturing onto Twitter! 😉
  21. James H
    We also use SSD drives, so not the spinny, slower things. Read/write access times are much faster. We also have a fast CPU and loads of RAM so queries on our database (anything a member does on MSW) don't slow us down. A nice fast data pipe out of Chicago also helps.
  22. James H
    A higher latency is really not what we want. We've had higher latency before, and it just frustrates folk. We are actually using a cloud proxy, as you've seen, so there's a bulwark between the site and the outside world. We've also used globally distributed DNS providers before, with minimal success. To be fair, our downtime is so rare (and our connection speed so good), that implementing other things really isn't worth it. If you count the site downtime since 2013 (and even before), you'd see we're pretty good.
  23. James H
    MSW's email server is tied into MSW. When MSW went down, then no one can send or receive mail via the site.
  24. James H
    You shouldn't have too much trouble with that kit. Just take your time and ask questions. We do have a gallery of her here. I see you only live 10-15 miles from me too, so good to see another local!
  25. James H
    Not similar in the slightest, thankfully. 2013 was a hardware failure. This problem isn't even related to our server, but a service which our host is provided with via a 3rd party, affecting some server cabinets. No data is involved. As an aside, MSW has backups on separate drives to the one we primarily use. We were supposed to have had that in 2013, but our host failed to set it up.

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