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mtdoramike got a reaction from Canute in Best HMS Victory kit?
This is one of my points, you chose to deviate from the instructions of the kit and changed what you didn't like about. I'm not a purist when it comes to model building. I look at scale as what is pleasing to the eye and as long as it suits your eye, that is all that matters.
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mtdoramike reacted to Bill Morrison in Best HMS Victory kit?
Amen! My wife once got me an Aeropiccola kit of HMS Victory when we were stationed in Italy in the 1970s. marketed in 1:170 scale, it was an extremely basic kit. For example, the manufacturer planned for the builder to draw the gun port lids onto the hull in their closed positions. Hatches and gratings were simply printed on balsa sheets to be cut out and cemented to decks. All ordnance on the deck was plastic molded. You get the idea. It was not one of the "best" kits out there. I accepted the challenge. I carved out all gunports and scratch-built lids. I also made dummy barrels to fit. I hand made all carriages for the guns and lathed the barrels. When I was done, I had a beautiful (if small) model of the ship. The basic kit tested my abilities, but I turned it into a serious model. Any kit is as good as you make it!
Bill
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mtdoramike got a reaction from Landlubber Mike in Best HMS Victory kit?
This is one of my points, you chose to deviate from the instructions of the kit and changed what you didn't like about. I'm not a purist when it comes to model building. I look at scale as what is pleasing to the eye and as long as it suits your eye, that is all that matters.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from mtaylor in Best HMS Victory kit?
This is one of my points, you chose to deviate from the instructions of the kit and changed what you didn't like about. I'm not a purist when it comes to model building. I look at scale as what is pleasing to the eye and as long as it suits your eye, that is all that matters.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from BikerMart in Best HMS Victory kit?
This is one of my points, you chose to deviate from the instructions of the kit and changed what you didn't like about. I'm not a purist when it comes to model building. I look at scale as what is pleasing to the eye and as long as it suits your eye, that is all that matters.
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mtdoramike reacted to macleadg in Best HMS Victory kit?
I’m quite new to building ship models, as I’m to finish only my fifth kit (the Essex, from Occre). However, even on my third kit I was modifying quite a bit. I’m not super-concerned about historical accuracy (ok, so go ahead & call the ship-model police on me).
My modifications are for just aesthetics. For example, on the Occre kit, you’re supposed to simulate plank nails with pencil marks. Yuck. Instead, I cut the heads off about 100 small steel nails, and glued those in place. Historically accurate? Probably not. To scale? Who knows.
However, they look a lot better than pencil marks, at least to my unpracticed eye.
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mtdoramike reacted to MrBlueJacket in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
When I bought Bluejacket 9 yrs ago, I told people I never bought so many kits at one time in my life!
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mtdoramike got a reaction from EricWilliamMarshall in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
Yeah, I wish I were 20 years younger as well with enough cash to make my dream come true. It would be like a kid buying a candy store.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from Canute in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
Yeah, I wish I were 20 years younger as well with enough cash to make my dream come true. It would be like a kid buying a candy store.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from druxey in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
Yeah, I wish I were 20 years younger as well with enough cash to make my dream come true. It would be like a kid buying a candy store.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from mtaylor in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
Yeah, I wish I were 20 years younger as well with enough cash to make my dream come true. It would be like a kid buying a candy store.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from thibaultron in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
Yeah, I wish I were 20 years younger as well with enough cash to make my dream come true. It would be like a kid buying a candy store.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from Keith Black in BlueJacket Looking for a New Owner
Yeah, I wish I were 20 years younger as well with enough cash to make my dream come true. It would be like a kid buying a candy store.
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mtdoramike reacted to rudybob in PT-109 by rudybob - FINISHED - Revell - 1:72 - PLASTIC
Back in the 60's I was turned on to PT boats because of Lieutenant Commander Quentin McHale. Great show for a 9 year old. I built models then and always wanted to do a PT boat. Never did.
Recently I read: The Expendable: The true story of Patrol Wing 10, PT Squadron 3, and a Navy Corpsman. and here is my build log.
I don't spend much on plastic models. That's me. I stretched it to buy this one.
I'm not interested in doing it as 109. I want to label it 34, 35, 36 or 37 which were if I recall accurately the PT's that got MacArthur out of the Philippines
It's packed in one side open box which I do not appreciate so I taped all the sides closed and cut a flip lid. Much easier.
Fair weather means I can get in the paint booth (firewood storage room) so I can use rattle cans. I will never air brush cause I don't want to learn the art or clean the device.
I will get back to the pinnace in late fall.
So far I have taped the hull together. It's a pretty good fit. I am happy to have Tamiya Extra Thin. I wish there was a similar product for wood
More as life permits
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mtdoramike reacted to lmagna in 1/200 Trumpeter IJN YAMATO - issued by MRC/Gallery Models
Not certain if you are referring to the Mogami or the Yamato. While I personally am not a big fan of either ship and cannot help but wonder how much potential and advantage (If any) the Yamato class had over the Iowa class is a product of legend or just plain speculation. You can pretty much do anything you want with numbers and preferences. As the one opportunity in the battle off Samar did not go the way it could have we will never know.
But if Japan had used the Yamato and Musashi on the early morning of 14 October, instead of the 14" gunned Kongō and Haruna, for the hour and a half bombardment of Henderson Field I am almost certain that the damage and loss of life would have been considerably higher. I also wonder what the outcome would have been on the morning of 12 November when the Hiei and Kirishima ran into Task Force 67 and ended up fighting at sometimes pistol ranges where even 5" guns were inflicting damage on the Japanese battleships! What if the two battleships had been the Yamato and Musashi instead?
Even the Japanese sailors were aware and often commented that the two ships were harbor queens and all of the fighting was being done by other ships of the fleet.
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mtdoramike reacted to yvesvidal in 1/200 Trumpeter IJN YAMATO - issued by MRC/Gallery Models
The rigging is never indicated by Trumpeter. It is typical of them and they don't care. Obviously, additional reference books will be required to turn this model into a realistic model.
Yves
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mtdoramike reacted to rudybob in 1/200 Trumpeter IJN YAMATO - issued by MRC/Gallery Models
Victor Davis Hanson writes quite well about the folly of the Yamato in "The Second World Wars." Recommended
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mtdoramike reacted to lmagna in 1/200 Trumpeter IJN YAMATO - issued by MRC/Gallery Models
Even though I have not read Victor Davis Hanson's works I think I can possibly guess what his reasoning is as there are many that feel the same and in fact felt the age of the battleship was over well before WWII. This was especially true for countries like Japan that had such limited resources. But using that same reasoning one could look at all of the countries involved on both the Axis and allied sides with the possible exception of the US and Britain and say the same thing. When used effectively the battleship was still a weapon of awesome potential even though not always in the way navies thought they would be prior to the beginning of the war. But they were both expensive to build and even more to operate and so many countries held them in reserve rather than risking them. Japan in particular held the belief that they would be able to draw the US fleet into a massive surface action where the battleships would slug it out Mahan style and leave the Japanese fleet victorious. They refused to change this concept even late in the war when it was clear that it would never happen. Then they compounded it by not aggressively engaging when the opportunity did present it's self.
The whole thing is of course somewhat more complex and involved but the Battleship, including the Yamato class was still a weapon to be respected in WWII.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from NavyShooter in 1/200 Trumpeter IJN YAMATO - issued by MRC/Gallery Models
I was able to pick up one of the Trumpeter 1/200 scale US battle ships USS Missouri at a very good price $225.00 from a fellow modeller who believed in the old phrase "I can do anything tomorrow", but as with most, his tomorrow never came. But at least he was smart enough not to leave his wife stuck with trying to get rid of it when his tomorrows come to an abrupt end. How ever, I do love you tomorrow modellers because you keep me busy, God bless you.
But one consolation is the kit even if not built is magificent just to set and stare at, which I do quite often while building the Calypso.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from clearway in Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
I spent a few hours making and installing the railings.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from BobG in Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
I spent a few hours making and installing the railings.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from Nunnehi (Don) in Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
I spent a few hours making and installing the railings.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from robdurant in Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
I spent a few hours making and installing the railings.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from Dave_E in Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
I spent a few hours making and installing the railings.
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mtdoramike got a reaction from yvesvidal in Calypso by mtdoramike - FINISHED - Billing Boats - 1:45 Scale
I spent a few hours making and installing the railings.
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