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You ever hear the old saying, "No Good Deed goes unpunished". Well, it rang true for me today. I took the Nordkap orphan to the shipper this morning to get her sent off to her new owner and the shipping was $150.00. They first told me when I called to get and estimate the shipping would be less than $130.00. But when I arrived at my local shipper, when she plugged in the owners address, she said Fedex was charging a $27.00 surcharge fee due to the package being delivered to a rural address. I was stunned, but I broke out the wallet and dug a little deeper. This was after spending about $60.00 for packing material like 1x2 wood for framing, tape, staples and $40.00 worth of packing peanuts.
Now I have had to pay surcharges before by the P&O and UPS for over sized packages or due to the package weight, but this was a first for me. I have been pondering that this one would be my last orphan adoption and if it were, would I stick with my decision this time and I think this kind of sealed the deal for me. I have a couple of builds left like the Calypso and a small tug boat for my grandson, but after that it will be scarce.
- mtaylor, BobG and Keith Black
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Beautiful job on the repairs, so many times I see people chunking them in the garbage when a boat gets damaged that bad. I would make a suggestion that you paint the ratlines black, on the real ship they were tarred to weather proof them.
- mtaylor, thibaultron and Keith Black
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Well, this little orphan has found a new home and has been adopted by a nice older gentleman living in Minnisota. I hated to see her go, but knew it was for the best. He will provide for her better than I. I just shined her up and made her more adoptable hahaha.
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Yep that would be me alright.
- Keith Black, BobG, popeye the sailor and 1 other
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Your right Popeye the Progress does look quite sililar to the Nordkap with subtle differences too. But then again, most fishing trawlers looked about the same with just diferent names.
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Thanks Mike and Popeye, I did the same, I flipped my belt sander upside down on my outside work bench and went to work on it. The kit supplied a balsa block, which I relunctantly used. But if I did it over, I would have glued together some pine or similar wood blocks, it would give a nicer finish. I skim coated the balsa smoke stack with auto bondo and sanded it smooth to get a better finish.
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Thank you Bob.
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I hope the previous owner is looking down on the model from heaven with a huge smile on his face on finally see it become the finished model he had hoped it could be and be very pleased. I tried not to think about it when I was finishing it, but now that she's pretty much complete, it brings a tear to my eye now that I'm thinking about it and knowing that this will be me one day looking down or up what ever the case may be hahahaha with a bit of admiration for the person who finishes my unfinished projects.
- Keith Black, Ian_Grant, mtaylor and 2 others
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I also fashioned the smoke stack, painted it black and installed it. Now Billings supplies a chunk of balsa wood that is kind of in the shape of the stack, you just have to sand it down in order to get the final shape. I used what came in the kit, but if I did it over, I would use 3 to 4 pieces of white pine or similar wood stacked together, which takes sanding better and gives a better finish in the end.
And yes I know, my work bench is a mess, but to me it's an organized mess at least that is what I keep telling my wife every time she brings up "How can you work like that, how can you find anything?"
- BobG, Keith Black, Landlubber Mike and 3 others
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I know what you mean Popeye, the crane in the upgrade fitting kit is plastic in mine as well, but the kit also included the wooden version. I'm going to see which one looks better.
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Thanks guys, I really had to practice my solder skills or the lack there of before doing the railings. I started out making a jig, and make the railings laid out on my work bench. Short story long, that was a couple of hours and materials wasted. I found the easiest and most efficient way was to just build them on the model. You know what they say about hind sight. Now to clean all that flux off the railings before painting them white.
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Thanks Keith, another couple of weeks she'll be ready for her maiden voyage.
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I would like to point out that even though the hardware/fittings package cost an additional $200.00, it did include several upgraded parts such and plastic hatch covers, doors, brackets, which or crane parts. All of those in the original kit would have to be cut out and made of wood, which looked awful.
- BobG, Keith Black, CDW and 1 other
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I was able to spend a few hours working on the Nordkap today and have the super structure of the deck housing installed as well as a few other odds and ends. The entire super structure is removeable to allow access to the motor bay in the hull as well as the rudder. You will have to esxcuse the messy work area, that is my process.
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Thanks druxey. I'm getting ready to start installing the deck cabins and all that detail stuff.
Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day
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I spent a little time on the Calypso and cut out all the flashing from around the hull, installed the wood keel strip, interior deck and cut out a bunch of smakk plastic pieces like the life/small exploration boats, pontoons, barrels and such.