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Brave men.
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Thanks for the help! I'll try the sponge in the tube first, when I get back from vacation. I have some 4" PVC, I just need to get a couple end caps, and a union (cut a piece of plastic for the center to keep the plans and sponge separate). I can open the plans but don't want to handle them much, until I can strengthen them. The Model Expo plans are for 1/48th POB, rather than the kits 1/96th solid hull, and cost more than I paid for the model. I'm going to keep track of their sales though, sometimes they have the plans on discount for reasonable prices. I did stumble across the instruction book for the 1/48th solid hull the succeeded this kit, so I now have much better instructions than the few page typed ones that came with the original kit.
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Announcing the Model Ship World Ship Kit Database Project
thibaultron replied to SkerryAmp's topic in Wood ship model kits
Are you going to include data on kits that are no longer made, if the data is available? This might be helpfull to Ebayers for example. Scientific and Sterling come to mind. -
I have recently purchased an old Model Shipways (Yellow Box) model of the Benjamin Latham. I bought the older kit as it is 1/96th scale (close to a couple other fishing schooner kits I have), rather than the newer larger 148th kit they now offer. My problem is that the kit plans have aged to the point that they are quite brittle, to much so to simply have them photocopied. In addition they are folded, and are ripping in places. I am thinking of mounting them on a larger sheet, then having them copied and using the copies during building. Are there any suggestions on what adhesive to use, that would give some time to arrange the pieces, or some way to "soften" them, while still allowing for mounting? I think just taping them will only cause the plans to rip near the tape.
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I recently acquired a kit, "Steingraebers Kleine Reich no 2 Fischutter HF 83" Wood Model Kit from West Germany. The kit box and instructions do not mention the history of the original boat. Does anyone now what the prototype was for this kit? "Fischkutter" translates as Trawler, but tthat is as far as I can get. Any help will be appreciated. I bought it as something different from my mostly US based models.
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DesignCAD (by the same company) is also a good reasonably priced CAD program. I have been using it at home, in various versions, for the last 20 years. It has both 2D and 3D capability.
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