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Welcome! If you are aiming for the bar set by dubz (Dirk), then you are aiming very high indeed! If you have questions specific to the Krick kit, then may I suggest posting them in the General Ship Model Kit Discussions forum? Be sure to put 'Krick Alert' in the title -- I'm sure that will catch Dirk's eye.
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They probably don't make any corrections until they do a reprint. IF they a do a reprint. I think at Halinski, for example, they print one edition, and when it's gone, it's gone.
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New Member from Sunny Southern California.
ccoyle replied to ruben_dominguez's topic in New member Introductions
Hi, Reuben. You should try to make it over to one of the meetings of the Ship Modelers Association in Fullerton. You'll find them very welcoming and helpful. Tell them Chris sent you! -
It would take me longer to create the spreadsheet than to just hunt down the parts when I need them.
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Scharnhorst by CDW - Halinski - 1:200 - Card Model
ccoyle replied to CDW's topic in Card and Paper Models
Wow! We have had some ambitious card projects started around here recently. I wish you well on this one and look forward to seeing it come together. Cheers! -
I see you have the finished model in the gallery. You did a very fine job of weathering it.
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EZ Line -- that's the stuff I was thinking of. Gonna have to remember that. Post-It note on my forehead or something.
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I remember someone speaking about some kind of similar stretchy rigging line, especially made for rigging steel navy type models, although I thought it was black. If it works as good as all that, I might have to give it a try. Has it got a brand name?
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I have always liked the lines and sail plans of these vessels. BTW, a vleetnet is called a gill net in English. Good luck!
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I would respectfully disagree with Ron. I can't speak for Amati's regular lineup of kits, but the Victory Models line is very good. I have also seen some comments made on MSW to the effect that Caldercraft's quality control has in recent years been kind of hit-or-miss. Even so, I wouldn't hesitate to buy a kit from either company. I can also say with regards to Victory Models that even though the kits are very good, there's still some compromises made in the name of making the product profitable, same as for all kits. Thinking mostly of a few off-the-shelf fittings, kit-grade rigging blocks, etc.
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I have only built one kit from Answer, but that was a Fiat CR.42 Falco. The printing was very nice (I have the model on my desk here at work), but the diagrams were a bit lacking. I wish you well on this build, whenever you get to it.
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It's quite possible that the tiny white spots may need drilling out later, but OTOH they may just be locator marks. Double-check with the plans and drawings. BTW, a "cartonist" is the word that many of our European friends use for a card modeler (carton/karton = paper/cardboard).
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Master and Commander: The 24 minutes of deleted scenes.
ccoyle replied to uss frolick's topic in Nautical/Naval History
I hadn't seen either of these before. The History Buffs clip is particularly worth watching. As far as the deleted scenes go, I can see why they were relegated to the cutting room floor -- none of them really advanced the story line to any degree. -
Excellent. Love the additions!
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Welcome, Lawrence. Very nice work -- I applaud your choice of subjects. Regards,
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El Cid, we're aware that we're not the #1 source for info on plastic models, but we do enjoy seeing them built. So I hope Scott will share his build log here in addition to any other sites he chooses.
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Congratulations! As far as the issue with solvents and vapors, I would check with your health care provider. That's definitely something you don't want to gamble on. Regards,
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Plastic model Navy ship enthusiast
ccoyle replied to Blindluck64's topic in New member Introductions
Hi, Brian. I can't answer your question, but I will welcome you to the forum. It's true we don't have as many steel navy enthusiasts as some other sites, but we do have a few, as you can see in the build logs, and we encourage modeling ships of every era and in most any medium. Cheers! -
Chuck, GPM is a Polish publisher and retailer. gpm.pl
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Hi, zreef. I don't know of anyone who has actually attempted this, but in theory it shouldn't be too difficult. What you'll need to do is locate the waterline on your plans and then transfer that line to each of your station bulkheads. That will indicate how much of each bulkhead you will need to remove. Then I expect you'll need some to stabilize the lower structure of your hull formers, and there's several ways you could do that. One would be to use filler blocks in between the bulkheads, sanded down to match the hull curvature. Another would be to fix your hull formers down onto a flat piece of wood, much like plastic waterline models have a flat bottom piece included in the kit. To do this, you would need to remove extra material from the bulkheads equal to the thickness of the hull base plate, as well as sand the base plate to match the hull lines. I hope all that made sense. Perhaps some others will have better ideas. Regards,
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I'm looking for a good headlamp/ magnifier
ccoyle replied to Derek C's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I just bought the Carson Pro Series visor from Amazon. I've only had it a couple of days, so the jury is still out. So far, I can definitely say the optics are much better than on my old, cheap visor. I wasn't too happy that one set of lenses already had a few small scratches straight out of the box; however, they do not seem to affect my viewing. Durability of the lenses over time will be something I'll be watching for. Edit: Mine is the same unit as seen below in Dilbert55's post.
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