ccoyle
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Well, two weeks after placing the order, everything arrived safe and sound. You can add Seahorse to the list of conscientious shippers -- all was securely packed. First glimpse inside. I believe Tomek has described his mast sets as something like "just sticks," but they are reasonably priced, and I like the fact that I don't have to source dowels of the right diameter and cut them to length. They will need to be shaped, obviously. Pre-printed sails. These include suggestions for dying, reinforcing, and adding boltropes. The kit itself. Believe it or not, my knife slipped while slicing open the protective plastic sleeve. Fortunately, I only damaged the back cover. Whew!!! Some parts . . . . . . and diagrams. And, of course, laser-cut frames. Looking forward to starting soon
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Hmm. I got a couple of the lines mixed up. 20 is definitely an outhaul -- you can see it attached to the jib boom traveler. The foresail doesn't have an outhaul, since it is bent to the forestay -- it can only slide up or down the stay. So 16 is the tack, and 18 is the downhaul
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I can't say. Just because I can't figure it out doesn't mean that the designer didn't have a plan -- he just didn't communicate the plan very well!
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Maybe. I have to wait until I get home to check the mail.
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Have you tried searching for scale bolt heads? They are available as after-market parts for the scale armor modeling community. I don't know if they are available in 1/50 scale, but 1/48 scale is a certainty.
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This is more of an example of shopping by designer rather than by publisher. As loyal readers may recall, some publishers print the work of multiple designers, so the name of the publisher is not always a reliable indicator of kit quality. There are exceptions, of course -- Pawel over at Kartonowa Kolekcja only publishes his own work, at least for aircraft (I'm not familiar with any of KK's ship or armor designs), and his designs are always top-shelf. But WAK is a mixed bag. Interestingly, this kit is advertised as "suitable for beginners," but it's another 'beginner's kit' that would've stumped me as a beginner. This kit also illustrates the fact that one designer's work can show up under multiple publishers. The same designer of this kit also designed the Hawker Nimrod kit from Answer that is in my stash. Needless to say, I'm not as enthusiastic about that kit as I once was. 😑 On the other hand, at least one of the other WAK kits I have in my stash is designed by Lukas Fuczek, whose kits have not always been easy to build, but they are definitely detailed and have nice graphics; the two of Lukas' kits that I have finished were published by Orlik.
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Welcome aboard! We have a few members who have dipped their toes into the forbidden waters of aircraft models. Some of us spend quite a lot of time wallowing there! 🤫
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Playing around with the wing-to-fuselage fit. As I said, there is virtually no guidance in the instructions or diagrams about how this structure should go together. To begin with, I stiffened the bulkhead extensions and then doubled them. Then I added the ribs, both the original 0.5 mm original and its 1.0 mm replacement. The structure is now quite rigid and guides the wing right to where it (hopefully) is supposed to go. And then there's this part: Once again I have no clue about how the upper and lower edges are supposed to be brought together, and wing roots do not seem to have been the focus of any photos found online. So, this structure will be treated as one of those "no one will notice it, so I'm going to guess at it" structures. My plan is to add a fillet to the gap and paint it to match the kit colors. Tune in later to see the result!
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We have some exceptionally fine examples on this site of this impressive kit being built, and yours is one of them! I'm very impressed by the detail painting -- well done!
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Me neither! Good luck with your project, Emily!
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16 loks like the foresail tack, 20 should be the foresail downhaul, and 40 looks like the topsail downhaul.
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Here's a bit of progress on the wings. First I'll give you an idea of the lower wingspan. The Salmson is about half again as wide and half again as long as the diminutive Nieuport 11. The design of each wing structure is not ideal. There are few clues on where to place the internal frames, and though there is a joiner tab in the area of the aileron cutout, no joiner strip is provided for the rest of the wing. Well, that just doesn't cut it for me, so of course I had to add some additional structure from scratch, including a joiner strip and some internal cladding for the frames. Fitting the joiner strip required trimming the ends of the ribs. And here's everything glued together, except for the wingtip. Only three more wings to go! Fitting the lower wings to the fuselage might be tricky. There's a single rib to be added at the inboard end of the wing, but the kit provides precious little guidance on where exactly to glue it. Its location will determine the placement of the wing-to-fuselage joint, and there are no locator marks printed on the fuselage. Hmmmmm.
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Another of my favorite lines from the same film: "You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
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https://www.answer.pl/en/planes/4637-j-20-re2000.html https://www.answer.pl/en/planes/4701-harvard-iib.html
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Ouch! Glad to see you were able to return to modeling!
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No. If they were, I probably would have already bought them, cuz WAK has the best shipping rates in the business. No, sadly, they are both published by MSModel.
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That's not the same kit, Keith. Thanks for looking, though! EDIT: I'm not terribly enamored of the Italian Eastern Front camo scheme depicted on the Orel kit. I think it looks kinda garish. Moreover, the graphics and level of detail don't look that great, either. I've never built one of Orel's aircraft kits, but I've never been impressed by any of the finished examples I've seen.
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So, while I'm sitting here killing some time, allow me to share one of the Great Criminal Enterprises in the world of card modeling. Shown below is a screen capture of my shopping cart from an actual publisher/vendor in Poland, who shall go nameless. Pay special attention to the shipping charge. How many models do you think are in my shopping cart? Two. Yes, that is the shipping cost to get two kits (plus frames, wheels, and canopies) shipped from Poland. Which is a shame, because I'm really quite interested in these two particular models (a Swedish J-20, i.e. Reggiane 2000, and a North American Harvard IIB). But I'm not $72.24 interested. Sadly, these two kits are not available at the sites I usually buy from. Card models -- it pays to shop.
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