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About ccoyle

  • Birthday 08/15/1963

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    Greer, South Carolina
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    model building, hunting, fishing, reading, genealogy

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    Great choice for a new project!
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    Nope. Looks like they manufacture plastic kits. I found links to their products at Scalemates and Fine Scale Modeler.
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  20. ccoyle
    I do, too! She's a real credit to your skills, Peter.
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  23. ccoyle
    Work on the cockpit continues slowly. Sometimes it is a "three steps forward, two steps back" kind of process. Here we have the instrument panel, which is 'glazed' with clear tape (the kit includes an unglazed option). There is a recessed instrument in the center of the panel that I had to do twice because the first time it didn't allow the panel to sit properly. There is also a series of electronic doohickies that sit below the panel, one of which you can see before its installation. The instrument is a tiny box that unfortunately does not fit into the space allowed for it, so I will need to do some surgery on that piece before proceeding.
  24. ccoyle
    Congratulations! I noticed that you didn't include your name and date on the nameplate. You know we get a lot of inquiries here about mystery models with no provenance -- you should include that information somewhere, perhaps on the bottom of the stand?
  25. ccoyle
    Uh-oh -- need to develop some sales resistance! But don't ask me how to do that, cuz I don't know!
  26. ccoyle
    Very nicely done!
  27. ccoyle
    If you have a smartphone you can try Google Lens -- it has a built-in translation function. You point your camera at the text and the translation shows up on the screen.
  28. ccoyle
    Slowly adding structure to the cockpit area. There's a lot of parts that need to be laminated onto various thicknesses of card, even if one uses the laser-cut frames set. The laminated parts often need to be trimmed slightly here and there to get them to fit properly, and with Halinski kits there is no margin for error -- get the frames wrong and fitting the skins afterward will be a booger. And here we hit a little snag. This bulkhead location is off because there are tabs on the piece in front of it that fit into slots on the back of the bulkhead -- except if one accidentally installs the forward part upside-down, then fitting the tabs into their slots causes the bulkhead to be off by several millimeters. It's not a huge problem, since all I need to do is trim off the tabs and fit the bulkhead without them. That's all for now!
  29. ccoyle
    Congratulations, David! She looks suitably impressive.
  30. ccoyle
    I know it's been three days since I created this build log, but despite the apparent inactivity, I did in fact start building. And here's the progress so far: Exciting, right? If you're not familiar with Halinski kits, I'll let you in on a not-so-secret secret in the card modeling world: Halinski kits are very highly detailed -- even to the point of being described as "over-engineered" by some modelers. This one, small, partially-built assembly has eighteen parts in it. To give you a good idea of how detailed Halinski kits can be, here's a birds-eye view of all the cockpit parts: That doesn't include all of the laser-cut frames that are part of the cockpit, nor does it include the wire and/or styrene rod bits that must be made using supplied templates. Some of these parts will be replaced by 3D-printed parts, but by no means all of them. It can make for some slow progress. Cheers!
  31. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard, Manuel! I built Chris Watton's original Sherbourne design, a Caldercraft kit, over twenty years ago. That was a good kit, but the new one is a vast improvement. Have fun on your project!
  32. ccoyle
    Yup!
  33. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard, Friedie!
  34. ccoyle
    Ha ha! And that is an 'old' photo. 🫤 The shelf situation is much worse now. I long ago crossed the nebulous border between "builder" and "collector." I may even have made another purchase recently. 😬 But hey -- it was 20% off, so I had to!

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