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Yet again apologies for not being ships but weathered the edges of the tracks with a mixture of humbrol rust and dark earth and thinned matt 29 paint as a keying coat. Keith
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Looking good there Boyd- will have to put my 1/35 ww2 german armour to one side and re-start my Vic Keith
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really coming along nicely there. Keith
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Nice work- i have the academy warspite with white ensign upgrade and hopefully soon the pontos wood deck. The weathering looks fine to me- at this scale i think less is more if you know what i mean. Keith
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Nice to see you are better Bob and respect for the pork consumption Keith
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Wasn't just you Boyd m8, i am about to re-start my Victory after mucking about with me 1/35 scale tanks for a while, and first job is to trim the brass castings to fit the available space. Keith
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At the end of the day Boyd it is your ship so whatever you want it to look like will be fine- if anyone complains tell them to go and build their own - as for the admiral mine has been looking at me for years in the workshop and shaking her head and saying your nuts! Keith
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Coming along great Boyd. keith
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Looking good Bob- i always put a lil cyano gel in the nail hole to help it stay there
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it can be a bit messier but epoxy resin provides a really strong bond as well and i always use this if possible for glueing eyes/ pins etc.especially if they are going to be slightly load bearing. Keith
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Bob i have used peco model railway track fixing pins for the bolts on the pintles and gudgeons on some builds- they even come ready blackened! For my cutty i used billings panel pins left au natural. Keith
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If painting brass you can either use special primer for brass etch or humbrol spray primer is very durable especially if varnished as well- i have used it on a number of brass loco kits and it seems to work. Keith
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Looking good Bob- just don't go tearing off your t/gallant rail again!
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just goes to show truth is stranger than fiction Bob- i love it when chance throws wobblies like that Keith
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Looking great Bob- tells Nenad off for calling a clipper a windjammer- Jock Willis would have his hide!!!! I always prefer the T & F drilling machine too Keith
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Coming along nicely there Boyd nice work with the windows. Keith
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I polished and then used spray on lacquer for my cutty sark- touch wood 17 years later they still look ok. Keith
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The tracks are ye old rubber band style supplied with the kit- i have discovered a company called fruilmodel who manufacture white metal tank tracks- a very extensive range acually- so using these to replace the tamiya tracks, and any future armour builds including trumpeter and dragon models kits. Keith
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think it will look good Boyd- you will need to file a fair bit off some of the castings though to get them to fit within the confines of the billings stern. Keith
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Thanks everyone, been doing some 1/35 scale armour for the last week or so- needed a break from ships for a while! Boyd i was thinking about building up the wooden supplied scroll work but as i am painting mine decided to buy the castings- wood the brass castings not look ok left au natural on your wood finish(i love the look of polished brass)? and Bob i left my cutty because of no workshop facilities and other projects and it was 12 years before i finished her off Keith
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A lot of source works i have read specify 15" spacing for the ratlines. Keith
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True Nenad- at the moment i am building some 1/35 scale armour (m4 sherman and jagdpanther late version by Tamiya) as a break from ship building for a while- fruil model metal tank tracks are kewl Keith
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