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  1. Jack12477
    That's how they came off the sprue, Ken. They seemed to have been bent during packaging, I think. After I get the rest of the brass on I will revisit them. I may use some brass rod I have and reconstruct them. Oh, I see what you mean! Yea, they do look cranked/twisted around. May have to disassemble them
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    Moving right along. Assembled and installed all 13 deck winches. These were more problem than the PE to assemble - had to put down the tweezers and use my "hamhocks" (hands) to hold them. The PE in this kit is a lot easier to decipher than the one for the destroyer. Assembled the hatches and the towers and added the PE, removed the cast on doors and installed PE doors. Hit with some brush on Tamiya primer just to cover them for now. Nothing else has been primed or painted. Pictures follow: Deck winches Hatches Deck structure and towers:
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    Glad I did, Greg. That kit is also on my list to acquire.
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    Forgot to answer your question, Lou. No, I never got onboard. The ship was never at the pier in the Inner Harbour when we went back to Annapolis to visit our daughter & granddaughter.
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    Welcome aboard everyone. Aha Lou, you best be aware of the Corgi - Sunny - she's pretty good at warning me when someone is trying to sneak up on me ! And she doesn't like popcorn so you can't distract her. She has too refined and discerning palate for mere popcorn. But if you wanted to bribe her with some fresh caught Dungenous Crab meat, she might let you sneak by. Not that I am aware of Ken, Lou. And at this scale I'm not about to try to hand-paint one. It would be nice to add tho.
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    Spent some time over the holidays reconfiguring my work area and repurposing my old train table so I have more work surface and better organization. Photos of the new workarea follow: After completing the workarea rebuild, I was able to get some time to work on the model. Got the main deck assembled and some PE brass railings attached. Cut a little too much of the bulkhead away for the railings, have to fill in the patch with some Squadron putty to hide the cracks and seams.
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    Thanks, Tim, I'll check it out.
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    For my next PE Plastic kit I've chosen the 1:350 Trumpeter model of the Liberty Ship S.S. John W Brown. The PE Brass is from Tom’s Modelworks. One of two surviving fully operational Liberty ships preserved in the United States, S.S. JOHN W. BROWN is the product of an emergency shipbuilding program in World War II that resulted in the construction of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. Liberty Ships were a class of cargo ship built during World War II. They were old-fashioned, utilitarian vessels that could be built in a hurry. They got the name Liberty ships because the first one built was named S.S. PATRICK HENRY. The S.S. John W Brown is based in Baltimore MD Inner Harbor and is open for tours and sails. Description Class: EC2-S-C1 Type Liberty Ship Launched: September 7, 1942 At: Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland Length: 441 feet, 6 inches Beam: 57 feet Draft: 27 feet, 9 inches Displacement: 14,245 tons Gross: 7,176 tons Capacity: 8,500 long tons Armament: Three 3-inch/50 caliber guns; one 5-inch/38 caliber gun; eight 20mm guns. I had a chance encounter with the ship some years ago while taking my Granddaughter, who was 6 years old at the time, on a tour of the Science Museum. While in the museum we saw the S.S. John W Brown pull up to the dock that was just outside the Museum's main entrance. Unfortunately it was late in the day and being a 6 year old she was tired and not too interested in climbing around an old ship. So we just took some dock side photos and planned to return at a later time. Photos of the actual ship: The obligatory box photos:
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    Hi Marcus Some of the higher priced plastic kits do include the PE brass; however, all the ones I was interested in do not. You have to buy the PE as a separate item. The two suppliers I mentioned in post #128 above carry the Toms MetalWorks PE brass. For example Toms MetalWorks offers a 1:350 PE kit explicitly for "The Sullivans" kit as well as a 1:350 PE kit that is generic to the Tamiya generic Fletcher class plastic kit. The PE comes in a a variety of scales to match specific kits. Toms also makes a generic PE kit that is just 1:350 scale US Navy doors, and another that is just 1:350 scale US Navy hatches. Any left over PE could be used on another 1:350 scale kit I suppose altho I have not looked to closely into that aspect.
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    Thanks, Greg. Got a lot of inspiration and how-to from watching your excellent builds.
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    Hi Tom, Yes I did use their Hold & Fold tool a lot, also their Black Acrylic cutting surface. Both worked very well. The Hold & Fold is a must have for bending the brass, I've tried other methods, e.g. pliers, and none worked as accurately as the Hold/Fold. There is a picture of it on page 1, 4th and 5th photos of this build log. I've found that both MegaHobby in NJ and HobbyLinc in GA both have pretty competitive prices on both the Trumpter & Tamiya kits as well as Toms MetalWorks PE. And the shipping to my location is pretty fast.
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    I guess I am a glutton for puishment, Lou, the Liberty ship SS John W Brown is on the bench. Probably start after New Years. Thanks for the compliments, Mark, Carl, Lou.
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    Finally finished the model. Didn't install as much PE brass add-ons as I had expected in the beginning; I just gave up trying to sort out what pieces on the PE Sheet went where and for what ships fixture. I did do the brass railings around the ships main deck, but that posed its own problems. The bottom half of the railing has a cross-hatched mesh attached. Gluing that to the brass rails posed a major challenge. I tried using a piece of picture frame glass, laid the pieces out and applied CA (first the Gap filling 15 sec and then second set used the very thin 3 sec) to glue the two pieces together. Unfortunately both types of CA filled in a lot of the mesh which got accentuated by the gray primer. Tried drilling some of it out but after a while my eyes got so crossed I had to quit. Have to find a different way of clamping/gluing for next time. Model came out pretty good for a first time attempt at P&PE (plastic and photo-etch). Learned a few things I can use on next build. Attached are the photos: (Even tho I took these outside in daylight with the white balance set for daylight the colors still look wrong - maybe it's the monitor)
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    Chuck, since I switched over to using your rope exclusively instead of the kit supplied, I find that I much prefer the look of your dark brown rope over the black. So dropping black from your inventory is okay by me.
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    I just replaced my incandescent standard base bulbs with GE or Phillips brand LEDs like the ones Gaetan posted. I have 2 swing arm desk lamps plus the overhead ceiling fixture to light my work area.
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    That is why I follow Richmond's advice and boycott eBay entirely.
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    Just to let everyone, especially Bob F, know that the copy of Rogers Collection Vol 2 I ordered arrived by FedEx this afternoon. Thank you much, Bob for reshipping it.
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    Yep, Certifiably ! Me included ! I decided to join them but not on Seydlitz, I'm building a US Destroyer in 1:350 scale with PE.
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    There's a family owned grocery chain in NY based out of Rochester called Wegmans. They produced these figures including the table for Wegmans. This is just part of her collection. A little bread, cheese, wine and some chocolate cake for the holidays
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    At least you guys received your copy. I ordered mine before Thanksgiving (US) and am still waiting for it to travel cross-country from Oregon to New York (4 weeks now) . So far have not received a response to my email and PM inquiries on order status. Update: Just received a personal phone call from Bob Friedman regarding my order. Seems our delightful US Postal Service screwed up again. And for some unknown reason, none of my emails or PM reached him. Bob tracked the package to my local post office who in turn marked it as undeliverable and sent it back to Bob but the USPS online tracking listed it as "Out for Delivery". In short Bob is sending me a new copy today via FedEx. Thanks Bob.
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    No but the rest of the fleet had to leave their safe harbor to make way for the Carolers. Fortunately the shipyard is in the cellar, altho it is getting a little crowded down there at the moment. [For those who don't recognize them these are the Byers Choice Carolers.]
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    Testors makes a Clear and White background inkjet decal paper. Try Testors and DecalGear.com - Decal Accessories for scale-model hobbyists
  23. Jack12477
    Some updates: Got the main superstructures glued to the deck along with the tiny deck apparatus and then glued the deck to the hull. After totally mangling the PE Brass stairs (only 2 on the PE strip) I ended up using the molded plastic stairs from the kit. Now to tackle the PE brass radar mast and the stern depth charge racks, then figure our where the railings go, if any. A fellow modeler sent me a pictorial book on the Fletcher class destroyers, so I do have a ton of reference photos from the time period to look at. I'm not drilling any new holes in the deck until I complete the railings and depth charge racks. Got some messed up glue joints to clean up and repaint and some other minor touch ups. And I even used a sewing needle to apply the glue so it wouldn't smear and it still smeared anyway.
  24. Jack12477
    Carbide steel defeated by mere plastic !!!!! Will diamond tips fair any better <he wonders> ? Interesting template they provided. Looks good so far, Greg.
  25. Jack12477
    Thanks for the link, Kevin, but I already have a hold and fold from The Small Shop in Oregon which I've been using on this build for some of the PE.

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