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Welcome aboard! Good luck on your adventure doing tallships in 1/700 -- not impossible, but definitely a challenge at that scale.
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Well, turns out that adding the strip wood didn't take much time at all, especially after it dawned on me that many of the spaces between bulkhead extensions were the same width, which allowed for some mass production of filler pieces. Anyways, that part's all done now. Next it gets a little trickier. There are laser-cut plywood pieces to fill the remaining gaps, but of course the inboard sides of those pieces must match the curvature of the bulkhead extensions. The instructions suggest removing some wood before adding the pieces, but that struck me as a dicey proposition. I decided to try a couple of test pieces by gluing them in and then carving them down with a chisel. That seemed to work well enough. When those are done, I'll do the final shaping with some sandpaper.
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The next step was to fit the glazing for the stern and quarter gallery windows. A slight bit of sanding was needed to get the pieces to fit, but not much. The clear plastic is covered on both sides with a protective film, which of course has to be removed from the back side before the pieces are glued in. You can see that on one stern window I accidentally removed the film from the wrong side -- that piece is now temporarily protected by a piece of cellophane tape. The quarter gallery panes are also painted black on their inboard sides, since otherwise one can see right into the model's internal hull structure. The next step is somewhat lengthy and not very exciting -- the inner bulwarks must be built up from multiple pieces of strip wood and pre-cut filler pieces. Again, I'll post pics of that after I'm done. Cheers!
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kit review SMS Sleipner by Hamburger Modellbaubogen Verlag
ccoyle replied to ccoyle's topic in REVIEWS: Model kits
That would be fine, since you would be making the enlargements for your own, not-for-profit use. Paper modelers often make copies of their kits in order to have a backup copy in case something gets boogered. It's also not unheard of for modelers to do exactly what you're suggesting, i.e., using the kit parts as templates. It's kind of off-topic here, but always bear in mind that the guiding principle in intellectual property law is that the IP owner (HMV in this scenario) is not defrauded. Once you buy the kit, you can pretty much do with it what you will -- except make copies and sell them. 😉 -
Your dory looks properly scruffy -- just as a working boat should!
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Roter Löwe 1597 by Ondras71
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USS Iowa BB-61: Anybody knows the structure midship?
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That makes perfect sense. I found them online in the instructions for a kit, but they weren't labeled -- they looked gun-like, but without the rest of the gun it was hard to say what they were. -
Welcome aboard, Dindsy, and good luck on your project!
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Congratulations on completing the set!
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I should note for those that hate spiling, like me, that only the last plank on each side required any shaping. All of the planking is laser-cut and pre-spiled, but it's understood that every model will be slightly different in terms of fit and coverage, so the last plank needs to be shaped to fill the last bit of remaining space. I had to remove ~1/3 of the last planks to get them to fit.
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Are you talking about the forestays, or the need to run some of the running rigging through the ratlines/shrouds?
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ccoyle replied to Museumvillage's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
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I feel your pain. I don't use the waste basket for builds like this, but I do have a "shelf of shame" where incomplete models go to languish in whatever state my lack of mojo left them in.
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