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Canute

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  1. Amen to that. I check & double my numbers. Hate screwing up the simple stuff.
  2. Jesse, what did you use to cut the sanding jig, a router bit?
  3. Bob, that's some beautiful workmanship! Well done.
  4. Cap'n, your sails look great. They capture the weather-worn look quite nicely.
  5. Get a organic solvents breathing mask. I use one when painting or using some glues, like superglue or contact cement. Get them at your favorite home supply place. Replace cartridges as shown in their instructions. And vent your work space/shop. Something as simple as a box fan should do unless you're using the stuff to clean car parts. Large volumes of the solvent - do it outside the house for peace inside the house. Don't tick off the Admiral!
  6. UMM-USA carries this stuff here in the US, too. http://www.umm-usa.com/
  7. They have a very nice micro saw: http://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/product_info.php?cPath=21_28&products_id=35 I've had one for years and it works well.
  8. My condolences to the Admiral for her loss. Tiny will be waiting for her across the "Rainbow Bridge" one day. Nice back story with your diorama, Jonny. The ship and setting are excellent! Well done.
  9. Jay, it's etched permanently in my being. I watched the Twin Towers being built in the late 60s, while in college. And as an Emergency Manager for the the state of New Jersey, I watched them fall. The heroic 343 firemen and medics who ran into the buildings, along with NYPD and Port Authority police were true heroes that day. We continue to mourn the 3,000 plus folks who died that day. We must never forget this dastardly act.
  10. Carl, you're right! make sure you use Catopower's Yakatabune build. He has translated a lot of the early instructions for us Japanese language challenged folks.
  11. Picked up a set of cool grays and black Faber Castell Pitt pens and promptly went to my shipyard to color some edges. Thanks for the steer, Slog. They look good. I touched up all the parts I had previously used the Chartpak pens on. Continued gluing up the hull skins and still puzzling over the stern pieces. I think I have a fix, but I'm going to try it with some re-positional glue first. Also began the paddle wheel housings. Paddle housing support Paddle wheel attachment point, bottom of support Exterior paddle housing. The white semi-circle gets another overlay, but its both an inside and outside cut. I'm looking for a good, smooth semicircle here, with a flat at the top of the paddle. There will be an observation platform perched on top of each paddle wheel housing. The red 52 on the housing is the location for a 3 piece bump-out, glued over that spot. The instructions aren't text, just pictures with numbers and arrows pointing in approximate locations. Thanks for reading.
  12. Check a model railroad shop that stock garden railway items. They may have people in 1/24 scale. The garden RRs are anything from 1/32 to 1/20 scale cars & locos. They use the same track gauge. Very confusing to us more conventional model railroaders.
  13. Nice frames, Mick. And a smart move to go for the optivisor; can't have too much light and adequate magnification.
  14. Might try a sepia tone. Different colors will look interesting.
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