ccoyle
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5, 6: Superstructure (cont'd) Whew! All the depth charge cradles are done -- at least the ones on the superstructure! I made a couple of modifications. Originally, each cradle is designed to consist of a tray and a rolled tube. Thinking I would go nuts if I had to roll 38 tubes, I decided instead to make these from 1 mm styrene rod. I made a jig out of scrap wood to get each tube exactly 3 mm long. The other change concerned the color. The prototype model on the cover shows the cradles as either white or light gray -- hard to tell which exactly. The kit provides the tubes in dark blue-gray, and the laser-cut trays are light gray. So which is correct? I decided to scope out some pictures online and, unsurprisingly, the few color photos I found showed the cradles painted the same color as their parent ship. That makes total sense. Since the whole point of painting the ship dark blue-gray is concealment, it seems to me that it would defeat the purpose to paint the cradles a highly contrasting lighter color. So, for this build they all ended up being painted dark blue-gray. Here are the 22 on the starboard side. There are 14 more on the port side. And that finishes off the construction for diagrams 5 and 6. Onward!
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5, 6: Superstructure (cont'd) All of the port-side elements except the depth charge cradles are now in place. This brings the total number of parts added to the superstructure to 153. The depth charge cradles will push that total to 229. 😬
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Nice work on your two-for-one!
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Congratulations on finishing your project!
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Welcome! Your post title made me instantly think of the musical Camelot -- perhaps that was the intent?
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Wow, great collection! They're all nice models, but the weathering on your plastic WWII models is particularly convincing.
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I should have done this ages ago. Once again, crappy cell phone camera doesn't begin to show the difference. Top pic shows old lighting setup, bottom pic shows work area under new 4000 lumen LED light. The difference is HUGE in real life!
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Correct. The deck should match the curvature of the bulkhead tops all the way out to the edge. Often in this sort of design, the bits of deck between the bulkhead extensions can still flex up or down, creating a bit of undulation fore-to-aft. One way to address that would be to add some appropriately cambered bits of scrap wood on either side of each bulkhead for the deck to adhere to.
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There are still plenty of smacks serving as pleasure craft these days, so be sure to do an internet search to get additional ideas for finishes.
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We have an entire thread on this topic HERE. Warning: It's long! (As might be expected when soliciting opinions about something as varied as music!)
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Yes indeed. I'm working on a WWII destroyer escort, and in pictures of thin-hulled warships one always sees what looks like sagging skin between every single frame. 😬
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I would happily take your average Brit weather once our Deep South summer sets in -- not my favorite time of year.
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Dave, I think that if you can complete Lady Nelson, you will be well-prepared for a kit like Supply.
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Beautiful! That's a great kit and a great result. Cheers!
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5, 6: Superstructure (cont'd) They may be hard to see in some cases, but all of the starboard elements have been added except for the depth charge cradles. The parts tally for this task came to 67. Adding the 22 cradles will finish off this side, but I think I will do the port-side elements first and then do all of the port and starboard cradles in one go. That will leave me one end of the superstructure that I can safely grasp without knocking stuff loose.
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This is one of Chris Watton's very early Caldercraft designs, and the spartan instructions are typical for those early kits. Still, Ballahoo is not a complex vessel, and the kit makes an attractive model. Be sure to check out some of the other build logs for her if you haven't done so yet. Good luck and enjoy!
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I don't think I've seen one bad example of the Winnie being built. This has to be one of the premier group projects in the greater wooden ship modeling community and is a testament to both the project itself and to the skills of its participants.
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I didn't even know there was such a thing. Might be a bit of overkill. Sometimes I use my knife tip to pick up a part -- just stick the part and lift. It doesn't leave a visible mark.
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Nearly every card model that I have ever built calls for some parts to be made from plastic rod or wire, even if they are subsequently sheathed in paper. Landing gear strutsare just one example. Some of the parts in this kit are indeed optional, e.g. parts for doubling, such as the electrical boxes and such, which are already printed on the parent part; doubling just adds depth. Laser-cut parts either replace paper parts that are less detailed (e.g. radar) or that would be very difficult to cut out neatly. As an example of deciding whether to use certain optional parts, just this evening I completed a "chest of drawers" (I don't know what this would be called in WWII naval parlance) -- it has three lids on its top, plus three large and twelve small drawers on its front. All of those features are printed on the basic structure, but parts are provided to double all of the lids and drawers. If all of the optional parts were to be used, the resulting tiny structure would consist of nineteen parts! The small drawers are each only 0.5 mm square. In the end, I decided that the hassle of cutting out, edge coloring, gluing, and properly aligning the small drawers wouldn't yield an appreciable increase in the visual interest of the model. Big drawers yes, small drawers no -- a kind of "law of diminishing returns" thing. Cheers!
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Great story! I'm a California native, so I enjoyed all of the geographical references. I grew up in Humboldt County and lived in Mariposa for 12 years before I moved to South Carolina -- I tell folks around here that I'm from "the other California." I also tell them that they have "cute little mountains" here. 😄
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Some of JSC's designs date all the way back to the 1960s, which is old for a card model, though perhaps not for a card modeler.
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5,6: Superstructure Details I added all of the flat elements to the superstructure first, then moved on to the grab rails -- still a work in progress at this point. I ran into a teensy issue. See if you can spot it: Yeah, the color of those laser-cut details doesn't match the color of the printed hull parts. I'm going to have to paint them, as I did with the far right grab rail in the photo. Oh, well!
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