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  1. ccoyle
    Bit of a hiccup on the Salmson. The sheet of laser-cut parts for the wings was cut from the wrong thickness of card -- only 0.5 mm instead of 1.0 mm. I suspect the sheet containing the fuselage bulkheads was likewise cut from the wrong thickness, but thickness was less critical for those parts. Anyways, I assembled one wing frame, hoping I could make the thinner parts work, but the resulting structure is very flimsy. So, I made the painful decision to ditch the laser-cut parts and use the printed kit parts after laminating them to some leftover 1.0 mm pulpboard. This means I will now need to cut out 28 parts for the wing frames. Also, because the frame pieces are so narrow in the vertical dimension, cutting out the notches where the parts intersect greatly weakens the pulpboard at that point, so I need to stiffen all of the cut-out parts with thin CA. Depending on how motivated I am, this task may take a few days.
  2. ccoyle
    Interesting video of a Salmson being readied for flight. I can plainly see some elements that the kit designer got wrong. 😑
  3. ccoyle
    EZ-Line
  4. ccoyle
    Empennage is done. I can't give this kit high marks for number and quality of diagrams, not for sufficiency of internal structure. I had to muddle through the former and scratch-build some of the latter, but it turned out okay, I think.
  5. ccoyle
    Close-up photography is the enemy of being satisfied with a job well done -- it highlights a wealth of tiny mistakes that no one will notice at normal viewing distances. I have to remind myself of this fact all the time.
  6. ccoyle
    She looks fantastic, Kevin!
  7. ccoyle
    That is a worthwhile fix!
  8. ccoyle
    I remember reading a long time ago that some very early paper models have survived surprisingly long times in museums. As for my models, they will probably survive until I die, but after that all bets are off!
  9. ccoyle
    Added the pilot's headrest and windscreens. The kit provide neither interior frames nor glazing templates for the latter; I made photocopies and used those as templates.
  10. ccoyle
    My priorities are in perfect order -- they just don't match my wife's priorities!
  11. ccoyle
    More cowl bits added. I mighta got more done today except I spent the entire day stripping the old finish off my fence. 😬
  12. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard, Marcel! Card models are kinda like Lay's Potato Chips -- no one can build just one!
  13. ccoyle
    Keith, It was I who edited your build log title. I did this as part of an overhaul of all the build log titles on our site, to conform them to our site guidelines. The job took nearly two months to complete, as we have thousands of build logs here, so perhaps you can see why I didn't ask everyone whose logs were tidied up for permission to do so in advance. As for your log in particular, I added the information about Madawaska because the 1869 launch date for Tennessee isn't the original launch date for the ship itself -- personally, I think that little bit of extra info is interesting, but if you wish you may strike the last bit from the log title, or I can do it for you. Kind regards, Chris
  14. ccoyle
    I didn't realize they were acrylic. Are these available from Syren? I agree that the metal versions are rather a pain to deal with.
  15. ccoyle
    I check the post tracker daily -- sometimes twice a day.
  16. ccoyle
    Seeing the results of your work, Chuck, one would not think that there are any modeling tasks that could possibly terrify you.
  17. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard! I'm always intrigued, and sometimes confused, by the English usage of "just," especially when they say "just about." In America, if we say "just about finished," we mean almost but not quite finished, i.e., not finished; in England, they mean just barely finished. I always have to think about that when I'm watching Premier League games and the announcer says, "He's just about done enough for a corner."
  18. ccoyle
    Eighteen cowl blisters done. 😵
  19. ccoyle
    What? You mean that film is historically inaccurate?? 😮😉
  20. ccoyle
    It's not really turquoise so much as sky blue. The Russians didn't seem to waste much time on experimenting with color schemes -- sky-blue undersides and two-tone gray topsides were commonplace. I can't say for certain, but I suspect they used the same blue for interiors and undersides simply because it expedited construction. The Soviets figured out early that simplifying their manufacturing processes got materiel into the field faster and in larger quantities.
  21. ccoyle
    That's lovely work.
  22. ccoyle
    And I know from experience how difficult it can be to post in foreign language forums (I used to post regularly in one of the German card modeling forums), so I really appreciate the effort you make to share your work here.
  23. ccoyle
    Hallo, Joelle. Happily, I read German, but most of our members don't. Please post in English. I followed your Millennium Falcon build, so I know you can do it! 😉 Thanks!
  24. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard, Lee! You have gotten your project off to a good start.
  25. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard, Fred, and good luck on your project!

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