Landlubber Mike

Looks great! Are you planning to print these parts?

I'm a big fan of the Amati Keel Klamper and the Hobbyzone Professional building slip. You can probably build something similar to the slip (I did using MDF board and angle brackets) as well.

Not sure how I missed this one - sweet project and subject! Looking fantastic! Hope everything is going better for you my friend!

I have the Revell 1/144 Snowberry kit with Pontos set (bought from a member here a few years ago) and the Revell 1/72 kit with the David Parsons upgrades. Would love to start building them, but want to get my skills up a bit to do them justice. Those Mirage kits look quite nice, especially at that scale.

Cool little project Jack!

Looking great Alan! I love the Flower Class corvettes.

Those came out great Patrick!

Hi Nils, great start on your Elbe! These light ships are really interesting. I visited the Overfalls a few years ago (it's in Delaware) and always thought these ships would be cool subjects to model - something different than the 5000 English war ships that are out there. Looking forward to following along!

He's back! Looks great Kevin, very crisp work on the PE there.

Very cool - interesting way to apply it. I think on my Buffalo diorama I just took a pinch in my fingers and sprinkled it on like I was sprinkling on seasonings on a piece of meat. This looks like it gives more control.

Looks great Dan - nice decal work.

Looking great Chris! Love the shelf too! Just out of curiosity, are these kits usually built OOB (out of envelope)? Seems like things like the pre-cut frames would almost be a necessity. I'm sure the pre-made resin wheels are also a much welcome piece of aftermarket.

Made some good progress on the JRS-1 the last few days. First, installed all the interior components - bulkheads, cockpit, seats, windows, window frames, curtains, etc. Given that you can't see much of any of the details from the outside, I didn't bother trying to make everything look pristine. Then managed to get the fuselage buttoned up. Surprisingly, very little filler or plastic strips needed, though the canopy is going to require plenty. The top was a pain because you had to insert the rectangular piece in between the fuselage halves (you could cut this in half and model it as open), as well as the two forward top fuselage halves. Not exactly easy to do, but eventually got there. Thanks for looking in!

Cool subject Denis, I'm in. Hope your home situation is resolving itself. Sounds like a real mess.

Loving your build Dan. Congrats on retiring!

Looking forward to seeing this one come along Chris. I finally managed to track down a catapult set for the Airfix 1/48 Sea Hurricane and have been doing some background research on these planes. Very cool subject!

Looks like a cool subject! Looking forward to seeing this one come along.

Interior is all painted and ready to be buttoned up: Half of the Eduard resin passenger seats had broken arm rests. I ended up cutting them all off, then replacing them with brass wire. Won't be able to see them, but for some reason I feel better knowing that they are there: Thanks for looking in!

I use the #10 curved blade also. Just press down and rock/roll over the attachment. Plus, the #10 blade has better strength and stability relative to #11 blades. I use #11 Swann Morten blades for pretty much all my other work.

Chris, great job on the Titanic! Looking forward to your Victory build. I see you have a well stocked bar - that will help you during the long days/nights of planking, copper plating, and cannon rigging

Thanks Kevin! I've got the interior painted up. I'm going to weather the cockpit area a bit and then assemble it. You can't really see anything inside given the very small windows, but still worth a little extra work.

i built the Caldercraft Badger years ago and put furled sails on. Looking forward to seeing yours come along, especially with the full sails.

Wheels look 100x better. Nice job!

This week I've been able to put in a lot of work on the JRS-1. Though, from the pictures it probably doesn't look like it! You can probably slap this kit together fairly quickly, but there are a lot of fit and other issues that I'm spending the time addressing along the way. The external Eduard photo etch has some nice details, including the main wheel well. You can see the kit part instead gives you a present of a hard to access ejection pin. I ended up using the CMK part instead of the kit part because it had a clean bottom edge and seemed to fit better. The CMK part gives you a little more detail than the kit part, but you have to remove it to add the Eduard photo etch: The kit has five bulkheads, and each of them is a bit too small. I spent a lot of time adding material so that the fuselage halves and the front half top parts can sit properly supported on the bulkheads. Might be overkill, but better than chancing a cave-in of the fuselage during my clumsy handling: Here is where things stand now - I've inserted the rear four bulkheads and floors into the starboard fuselage half, and the interior is ready to prime and paint. Since I had to test fit the bulkheads and cockpit dozens of times, I taped the parts in this way so that I could quickly test fit and make adjustments. I'm using a mixture of the CMK and kit parts. The CMK parts certainly have more detail, but one of the rear bulkheads was warped and one of the sliding fuselage doors had the window drilled off center. The kit doors were a little too thick I thought, so I thinned them down. Looks like all the pre-work helped, as the fuselage closes up fairly nicely: Thanks for looking in!

Wow Glen!! What a fantastic SIB and display! I love the spirit that the diorama imparts on your SIB, really cool!