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Buy 4X8 sheets and have them cut them down to 2x4 or 2x8 for you, much cheaper.

Yes, do stagger the rows!

Very nice work! I like your seam treatment!

I would second the Wefalck's cautions on individual tiles. I've never had anything but trouble with them. I'd recommend vinyl sheet flooring. Glued down, not taped. I taped the vinyl flooring down in some areas of my house, and it is coming apart, where furniture sits on it. It gets pulled back and forth as you sit and get up and thins out in those areas. The areas I did do a full surface glue do not have this problem. A cheap non-foam backed vinyl is more durable, and cheaper, than the foamed backed ones, but getting harder to find.

Does anyone make a LED replacement lamp for the circular fluorecent bulbs in the lamps with the center magniifer lens? I live by my magnifier lamp, it is much needed now that I am older.

Dan, sorry to hear that this is your last model. Best wishes.

Great work! I look forward to further posts.

Thank you!

If those are particle/waferboard side pieces on the cabinets, you might want to run a 1X4 along the inside where the bolts are holding the center framework. This will help insure that the bolt heads don't pull through. Don't ask me how I know. 😞

Even in the commercial world, gray is difficult between batches.

About 40 years ago, there was an interesting joke going around about military radar installations.   The US Military has standard colors, with associated color chip sets. In this case a General got it in his head to compare the interiors of the radar installations, with the associated gray chip. Of course the facilities all had slight variations, and he went ballistic! He ordered all of them repainted to the correct color, leaving them a standard chip to use as reference. After the specified time he reinspected, and once again all failed, but for one.  The others got in trouble, but the one that passed was commended. After ward the other facilities asked the sergeant in charge, how he got the color right. He replied, I repainted the chip, when I repainted the equipment!

I would use at least semi-gloss for the walls, flat will be very difficult to clean, if anything gets splashed on it.

Will everyone stop with the interesting book reviews! My wallet is crying! Seriously I ordered a copy from Abe Books for a little over $30 US with shipping from the UK. They had a few more copies. The new book prices here in the US were closer to $100 than $60.

Great work, it took me a second to realize the first picture was a model! great face painting!

Welcome!

That's all well and good, until that 1/48th British destroyer shows up! Then they'll be cursing you for slacking on the sonar bulb! 🙂

Fantastic work! You might want to put a crewman with a mop and bucket in there, in case they decide to launch her!:-)

For planking help, do a search on this site for "planking tutorials". Chuck has a series of  videos on planking.

AS a note; Do not buy tortoise shell, if you live in the USA. It is illegal to import.

The other problem with the nitrocellulose, is that it deteriates over time. The movie storage mentioned above has the added problem that the film disolves into a gel over time, a quit flamable one. I learned this from a film collector about 40 years ago, who described the condition of some of the films he had bought, and the care he needed to use, whenever he opened a "new" old film he had purchased, for the first time.

The best way I've seen to remove the char, is to scrape it off with the edge of a razor blade held 90 degres to the surface.

Thank You!

Welcome!

The cast metal parts should be Britannia metal not aluminum. This is a type of pewter.

Just a note: You might want to move the lower pulley over to the side opposite the door you always seem to go in.

I'm in! Great looking subject.