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Hope you don't mind that I changed the title to the English name rather the Turkish version on the plans.- 55 replies
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The humble moderating crew has corrected the somewhat confusing original title.
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Love it! Looks a perfectly questionable mode of transportation!
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Very nice! I think it is a particular kind of challenge to get a plastic model of a wooden subject to look just 'right', and you have achieved the proper look.
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You can do that yourself on your account settings page. Go to the edit signature page, delete the link for your build log, then re-post it -- but look for and use option on the toolbar beneath the image that says "share as link." Then save the edited signature. You should be good to go!
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Love the model, Keith, but -- I had to delete the stock photo in your earlier post, as it was from a pay site. I loved the photo, though, as it featured the steam donkey that was part of the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) museum in Scotia, California. I don't know if it is still there or not, as the company was sold some years back. When I was a fisheries technician with the CCC back in the 1900s, we did a lot of work on PALCO timber holdings. The story of how PALCO went out of business is a very sad tale. The company was the victim of a hostile takeover financed by junk bonds. To finance the debt, the new owners accelerated timber harvests above and beyond what was sustainable. The company went insolvent regardless. PALCO was a big part of the daily life of Southern Humboldt County, and a lot of people lost their livelihoods when the mill closed. The Scotia mill has new owners now, and as far as I know it is still operating, but I moved away decades ago and haven't kept up on how well they are doing.
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Some more progress to report. I now have all of the finish planking below the wales completed. I'm not happy with how visible the seams are, and I will be doing some work to correct that to my liking. If anyone is planning to build this kit using the laser-cut frames, here's a word of warning: DON'T throw out any of the scrap 0.5 mm card! There are plenty of parts that need to be laminated onto 0.5 mm card stock, and with care you can fit most of them onto the scrap 0.5 mm sheet. Before doing the upper hull planking, I decided to work on the interior cockpit planking. This will provide some extra rigidity to the upper bulwarks. You'll notice that I also added the uppermost outer bulwark plank -- this is to help with the positioning of the rest of the bulwark planking yet to be added. Someone asked in another topic about the stiffness of card model hulls. I can verify that this particular hull is now pretty solid by this point in the construction -- no fears about it being too delicate. Cheers!
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Carl, an essential skill for card modeling is simply learning how to work with paper: scoring, cutting, folding, rolling, etc. It pays to tackle a few simple card models, regardless of subject, before trying a more advanced kit. We even have a tutorial hosted here based on a free kit of a WW1 torpedoboat. Warning: Once you try card models, you may never go back!
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Yeah, they kinda are, sorta.
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A canoe in 1/2 scale is large. 🤔
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I was born in Tucson while my Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan, so technically I'm a native Arizonan, though I was only two months old when we moved to California, and I've only been to Arizona one other time since then. But, hey, connections, dontcha know. 😉
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A guide to using MSW
ccoyle replied to James H's topic in How to use the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT**
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About wooden replica of Seahorse's Speeljacht
ccoyle replied to Olli Sukunimisson's topic in Card and Paper Models
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Moving along with the finish planking. The first seven strakes have been added. This goes faster than one might think. Once you've been cutting out card parts free-hand for awhile, it becomes rather second nature, so cutting out one of the long planks doesn't actually take all that much time. I'm pleased with the progress so far. I was happy to find that the first hint of brown on the hull planking aligned perfectly with the brown on the stempost. That same plank came up a bit short at the stern, but the kit supplies extra colored stock, so it will be a simple fix. That's it for now!
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Doesn't look like much, but I got the second layer added to the keel, did some minor filling and sanding, and then added the finish layer to the keel. We're now ready to add the finish layer to the outer hull. 😬
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