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1 hour ago, realworkingsailor said:

I picked up the Tamiya 15 pounder

I think you mean the 25 pdr?  I did that one as a kid -- thinking about it made me realize how long some of the Tamiya kits have been around. 🤔

Your construction philosophy differs considerably from mine, which is "just wing that baby." Of course, my method doesn't always yield the best results. Hopefully your diligence will pay off!

10 hours ago, catopower said:

If people are interested, I'd suggest speaking up, because if I don't think there will be enough sales, it won't happen.

Of course I would be interested, but interested enough to open the padlock on my wallet? That's another question. Of course, there's always Christmas and birthdays. 🙂

If I were interested, I'd want to get the kit and all of its available after-market accessories.

31 minutes ago, LoydB said:

Is there a way to see all existing tags? I was thinking about how to tag my Lowell Grand Banks Dory. Dory? Grand Banks Dory? etc.

 

 

Not that I'm aware of. Such a list would be enormous. As far as tagging your build, use the exact vessel name or boat type. In your case, that would be "Lowell Grand Banks Dory." You could also add "dory" for people who might be searching for the type in general rather than the specific local example.

Horizontal stabilizer added. The framing went together lickety-split, followed by some thin CA to stiffen the structure and a little sanding to get the outboard taper correct.

That last photo is one of those that makes me jealous of plastic modelers from time to time. That cowl structure would be a nightmare to replicate in card, and sadly(?) I have a few kits in the stash that have similarly intimidating cowlings!

1 hour ago, Danstream said:

Good luck with the modification.

Oh, it's done already. Did you not notice? Good! 🙂

It's just a convention that has been carried over from naming ship builds, as is the all-caps formatting for media. Your humble moderating staff works hard to make sure the build logs have a uniform look and feel. 

P.S. What a cute dog in that screen capture!

22 hours ago, Snug Harbor Johnny said:

I'd like to edit the title of this build, but don't see how at this point. 

Titles can be edited at any time but only from the first post.

Somewhere along the way, I picked up a little bit of error creep, with the result being that the starboard dorsal fillet didn't line up well with the ventral part of the fillet, producing a large-ish gap.

The fix for this included surgically removing the fillet from the ventral skin, cutting off its joiner tabs, and moving it over slightly before reattaching. The seam still didn't end up being very good on the top side, but it will have to do.

One down, one to go -- port fillet is done. Fillets are always tricky to do because they curve and bend in multiple directions. Parts for the starboard fillet are shown for comparison.

2 hours ago, amateur said:

Those things on the reardeck are not vents:

Ah -- companionways then. Got it!

Wingtips finished, ailerons built and attached, and wing mated to fuselage.

15 minutes ago, Racersonly said:

USS Sarsfield DD837 out of Mayport Harbor

USS Benjamin Stoddert DDG22 out of Pearl Harbor

Handsome vessels, both of them.

11 hours ago, catopower said:

I thought I'd try out EZ Line

I purchased a different brand a while back, but it turned out to be the same stuff. One of these days I will have to get hold of some of the very fine fly-fishing tippet line that is out there.

15 hours ago, RGL said:

So why bother?

Cuz we know it's there!

10 hours ago, Racersonly said:

the two destroyers I served on

Out of curiosity, which ones? I'm an amateur genealogist and just recently learned that a very distant cousin of mine was one of the wounded aboard USS Kidd (DD-661) after she was hit by a kamikaze in 1945.

Just now noticed your Ruger stickers. I may or may not own a few. 😉

13 minutes ago, Rich Sloop said:

Really would like to find an easy, all-around airbrush kit that provides better results than brushes.

I'm not trying to dissuade you from getting an airbrush, which is admittedly a very useful tool, but is your desire to get one based on a perceived lack of acceptable results with brushes? If so, the problem may lie with the brushes and/or paints you use. For the best brush painting results you need quality brushes (not the kinds sold in inexpensive sets) and paints formulated specifically for models using finely-ground pigments, applied in multiple thin coats. Of course, if you're already doing that and still want an airbrush, then have at it!

1 hour ago, Lee gil yong said:

반갑습니다 리카르도

저는 한국에 살고 있으며 리카르도씨의 몬타네스

작품을 보면서 조립 하고 있습니다

범선 조립이 두번째이지만 첫번째는 기본적인 지식도 없이 그냥 취미로만 만들어서 두번째인 몬타네스는 정말 재대로 만들기 위해 지인을 통해 알게된 이 사이트에서 리카르도씨 작품을 본순간 바로 따라 만들고 싶어서 선체까지는 거의 다 만들었지만 그다음 부터는 어떻게 해야될지 막막합니다 ㅠㅠ 아무튼 리카르도씨의 작품 은 저에게는 너무나도 도움이 됬습니다 감사합니다

혹시라도 리카르도씨의 몬타네스 작품 전체적인 내용을 알수 있다면 부탁드립니다

이 씨께,

Model Ship World는 영어 포럼이므로 게시물은 반드시 영어로 작성해야 합니다. 온라인 번역기를 사용하면 이 작업에 적합합니다. 또한, Ricardo 씨는 3년 넘게 저희 사이트를 방문하지 않았기 때문에 귀하의 메시지를 볼 가능성이 낮습니다.

감사합니다!

Dear Mr. Lee,

As an English-language forum, Model Ship World requires postings to be written in English. Online translators work well for this task. Please also note that Ricardo has not visited our site for over three years, so he is unlikely to see your message.

Thank you!

Welcome aboard and good luck on your project!

6 hours ago, amateur said:

Sometimes I think you love card-planes better than card-ships.

I love whatever subject I happen to be working on at the moment. 🙂

6 hours ago, amateur said:

Is the pattern of the ribs just rendering, ordid you do something to enhance it?

That is just the artwork, which is very good. One interesting feature of the kit is that the fuselage bulkhead that goes where the fuselage on the real aircraft transitions from all-metal to fabric-covered tubing is actually a polyhedral; that way, if the modeler chooses, he can emboss the printed 'tubing' on the aft fuselage skin and get a more realistic fuselage shape. That is rather beyond my skills. Plus, once that bulkhead gets beveled it is more or less oval -- at least in my experience.

That looks terrific!

1 hour ago, uss frolick said:

Nope. It doesn't look anything like them. Try again.

Dude, those are obviously their stunt doubles.

I started adding the wingtips, left wing first, but had quite a bit of trouble getting the tip pieces to close correctly. It dawned on me that there was no interior framing here, as there is in some kits. It's possible I simply overlooked them somewhere, but I don't think I did. In any case, I decided to make a couple of such pieces from scratch.

The left tip is not closed up at this point, so I can still get the framing piece in there. The hardest part of making the framing was getting the left and right versions correct. I already knew in advance that the two pieces are mirror images of each other, but inadvertently made two right wing pieces anyway. Had to make a third piece to get the correct left wing version. 😑