Jump to content
Supplies of the Ship Modeler's Handbook are running out. Get your copy NOW before they are gone! Click on photo to order. ×

ccoyle

Moderators
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10,054

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by ccoyle

  1. ccoyle
    And yet again we have . . . Bridge (cont'd) More bridge interior details. Believe it or not, 24 more parts have been added since the last shot, but eight of them are support brackets, so you can't see 'em.
  2. ccoyle
    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.
  3. ccoyle
    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.
  4. ccoyle
    Oh, yeah -- for like the third or fourth time! 😂
  5. ccoyle
    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! 😉
  6. ccoyle
    What he said!
  7. ccoyle
    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!
  8. ccoyle
    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.
  9. ccoyle
    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!
  10. ccoyle
    "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!
  11. ccoyle
    Hi, Mark! The flattie was the second wooden kit I ever built.
  12. ccoyle
    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!
  13. ccoyle
    Left to right: no, no, and I made my own from purloined sewing needles and bamboo skewers.
  14. ccoyle
    Beautiful job, Ras!
  15. ccoyle
    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!
  16. ccoyle
    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.
  17. ccoyle
    You might have missed the announcement that Michel recently passed away.
  18. ccoyle
    Considerably more detailed than the ones I will be crafting in paper for USS England!
  19. ccoyle
    Brother, I laughed when I read that, but keep at it -- 0.5 net steps is still progress!
  20. ccoyle
    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!
  21. ccoyle
    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.
  22. ccoyle
    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.
  23. ccoyle
    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.
  24. ccoyle
    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.
  25. ccoyle
    Excellent result!

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...