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Bridge (cont'd) Added the back wall to the bridge, plus its detail bits -- 28 more parts in total. Yes, that's my craft knife handle in the photo, for scale.
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I was 13 when the original came out -- saw it seven times in the theater and dreamed of being a Hollywood SFX model-maker. Of course it's mainly CGI now. That was the only one of the nine Trilogy of Trilogies films that I didn't see in a theater. Pretty sad.
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This project has slowed considerably since I have been lassoed into watching the Marvel MCU movies in chronological order with my daughter. Thanks for understanding! 😉
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Moin, moin! Your English is very good, and no one will expect you to get all of the naval jargon correct. You have picked a challenging model for a first project, but you will find assistance here when you need it. Good luck!
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That's time well spent. I'm not entirely pleased with some of my early planking efforts and often wish that I had taken more care with them.
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Welcome! As a kid, I regarded my finished plastic models as something akin to sacred objects, but I did have friends in the "blow 'em up" crowd. The Swift kit has gotten many a modeler past the first-build hurdle. After completing her, I'd strongly encourage you to do an intermediate-level kit before taking on the Connie. Happily, these days there are many very well designed kits of schooners, brigs, and smaller three-masted sloops of that era available in kit form. Cheers!
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"Much malighned"? Yes, and deservedly so, but hey -- I built the box-scale USS New Jersey back in the day, so I'm game for a trip down memory lane. "Fool's errand"? Who's to say? That depends on your skill and creativity -- it might turn out fabulous. The important thing is to have fun. My only concern so far (and BTW I don't build in plastic, for whatever that's worth) is that there will be a significant and likely noticeable difference between the 1/535 scale kit and the 1/500 PE parts. The difference might not be glaringly apparent for smaller items like the light AA weapons, but I'm pretty sure it will cause fit issues with something as large as the superstructure. Carry on!
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Hi, Mark! The flattie was the second wooden kit I ever built.
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16: Bridge Work on the bridge has started. It began with an internal skeleton made of six formers. This was then wrapped with a single-piece wall and topped with a deck. The various control panels were doubled. Then work commenced on the many, many elements that will be added to this small structure. Here's the progress so far on the forward elements. These brought the bridge parts count to 29. Cheers!
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Do you use these, comments?
ccoyle replied to Dave_E's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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Beautiful job, Ras!
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13-15: stuff Yes, you read that right. Steps 13-15 cover a small handful of tiny lockers, valves, and watertight doors. I didn't take any pictures, because all of these would be difficult to spot amongst all of the already-added bits and pieces -- it's a very busy deck with a lot of 'white spots' to kill. I will add pictures once I get started on the next major assembly, the bridge. Cheers!
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Considering the vital role she played in securing the supply routes to Australia, I should think that USS Lexington (CV-2) was worthy of a piece of your rapidly diminishing shelf space. 😉 If you do a battleship, I'd vote for one of the South Dakota-class -- I've always liked them.
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SOLEIL ROYAL 1669 by michel saunier
ccoyle replied to michel saunier's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
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Considerably more detailed than the ones I will be crafting in paper for USS England!
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Cap San Diego by mikegr - 1/160
ccoyle replied to mikegr's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1901 - Present Day
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Congratulations, Jimmy! I built this kit myself, but bashed it into a West Coast lumber schooner, so I'm well acquainted with all of its many shortcomings. Finishing this as a first kit is definitely a noteworthy accomplishment! You will find the newer, better-designed kits coming out these days to be a breeze in comparison, should you choose to go that route. Cheers!
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I wondered about that when I was building HMV's tropical version of SMS Emden. It was very orange indeed and quite different from what was shown on the computer-drafted cover version.
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12: aft gun tub Step 11 consisted of only two wire parts, easily dealt with. Step 12 was the construction of the gun tub for the "Chicago piano" quad 1.1" AA mount. First the basic gun tub w/o edge coloring. And the finished tub glued in place. Total parts count for this structure came to 28.
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To repeat: Modellers Shipyard makes the kit; Modeler's Central is the soft-on-piracy vendor. It's confusing, but don't mix up the two -- as far as I know (for now), they're not the same entity.
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To be clear, the kit is being produced by Modellers Shipyard, not Modeler's Central. The latter is a vendor who also operate a FB group. And to be perfectly frank, I would not do business with Modeler's Central, since they do not share the NRG/MSW stance on model kit piracy. Their FB group does not allow any criticism of any manufacturer in any form, and that policy is extended to copycats such as ZHL. I just left the Modeler's Central FB group yesterday because of that very fact.
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Hello, John. I remember the news of Wawona being broken up. Sad news it was, too, since she was one of only two surviving ships from the Bendixsen yard in Fairhaven (the other surviving ship is C A Thayer, now at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park). I lived in or near Eureka for many years and worked on many of the old timber holdings of PALCO, Carson & Dolbeer, etc., so I have a particular fondness for all things related to the West Coast lumbering trade. You might already be aware that one of the largest shipbuilding yards on the West Coast, in addition to the Bendixsen yard, was that of the Hall Brothers in Port Blakely, not too far from you. As you probably know, ships like Wawona were built on the basis of half-hull models rather than plans, so details of their construction are shrouded in the mists of history. One of our members has been doing a digital reconstruction of the brigantine Galilee, which was another West Coast-built, wooden-hulled merchantman, though built at the Matthew Turner yard in Benicia. If you are interested, you can see that work here. Cheers! Chris
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