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Welcome aboard, Gill! That is a fine starter set you have purchase and will set you up well for enjoying this hobby for years to come. Cheers!
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The "strange circle" is the helmsman's cockpit. If you search online for images of America, you'll get some idea of what it should look like. -
HMS Wolf 1754, 10-gun Brig (Snow) - Shipyard - 1/72 - CARD
ccoyle replied to catopower's topic in REVIEWS: Model kits
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Polaris by JDillon - OcCre
ccoyle replied to JDillon's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
Are you trying to cut through the entire plank in one motion? If so, shaving it away with small cuts made away from the hull will work better. -
Greek bireme 460 BC
ccoyle replied to Rebelnfl's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
I think you're going to need to provide some more information in order to get the desired answer, e.g. kit/scratch, scale, exact area in question, and possibly photos. -
What is meant by "better"? If you intend to paint your model, then the type of wood and plank length are not critical.
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Congratulations on a fine-looking model!
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Wow -- that sounds alarming. Glad you were able to recover!
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So, I solved the riddle of the radiators. As far as I could tell, the parts in question earlier were simply shown in the wrong places in the diagrams. I assembled them in the order that seemed to make the best sense and ended up with structures that look like radiators. IMO, Halinski kind of went overboard on engineering the radiators (surprise, right?), but whatever -- they're done now. Which means (trumpet fanfare) that it was time to mate the wing and fuselage assemblies (after adding gun blisters, of course), so here they are: Cheers!
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Congratulations! She looks great. I just now noticed that the US flag has only 20 stars, and I wonder if that was a nod by the manufacturer to the US state of Mississippi being the 20th state admitted to the Union? By the time riverboats of this particular type were being built, many more states had been admitted. Cheers!
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Looking for advice on making billowed sails
ccoyle replied to Biggsy's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
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'Twill be a piece of cake -- not like building a Double Wasp from Halinski. 😨
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Your miniature plaice reminded me of a funny story. In the US, there is a somewhat bemusing process for assigning allowable market names to different fish species. Surprisingly, only a very few names are spelled out in law. In my homeland of Northern California (i.e. around Eureka, NOT San Francisco, which we referred to as "Southern California"), fishermen once referred to a certain species of flounder (Microstomus pacificus) as the slime fish or slime sole, for self-evident reasons, and it was not considered a prime food fish, unlike Dover sole (Solea solea). Somewhere along the way, some enterprising seafood company got the idea to market slime sole as "Pacific Dover sole" to make the less palatable fish more attractive to consumers. The name is still allowed today by law because it is considered "a name that has been recognized nationally in the U.S. and commonly used by consumers to identify a species" according to the guidelines published by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council. So, remember that all of you West Coast members whenever you see "Dover sole" on the menu of your local seafood joint!
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Polaris by JDillon - OcCre
ccoyle replied to JDillon's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
As I am 99.99% certain that this kit models a generic vessel, you are at liberty to paint it however you like. -
All will be revealed in its time. 😉
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Ahoj, Demostenes, and welcome to the forum!
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It's the same diagram, and it appears to offer the same conundrum. Part 54a is clearly intended to sit inside the wing well for the radiator, but it won't fit there -- not even close. Like I said, I will research this and find the answer.
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Yes, but the problem is that's not where the diagram says they're supposed to go.
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Well, now it's on to the wing-mounted radiators. These have an insane number of parts. My recent Spitfire Vb had only one such radiator, but the Bf-109E has two -- great. I got the first parts in (parts 54) and then got completely stumped about how the next parts (54a and 54b) are supposed to go in -- they don't match the existing contours at all. I'm going to have to study some build logs.
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Wing skins done. Now I can test fit the wing to the fuselage and twirl it about my head while I make airplane noises. What? You tellin' me you don't do exactly the same thing? 😆
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Polaris by JDillon - OcCre
ccoyle replied to JDillon's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
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Nice! I lived in Mariposa before moving to South Carolina. Two of my kids moved away to Morro Bay to attend college. It's a beautiful area.
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A bit of advice when you get to the cockpit framing: I have found that the KK frame parts (the printed parts, not the laser-cut ones) need to have the spaces between the dashed lines that indicate joints cut out, otherwise the the frame assembly will be slightly too large, which may cause exterior skin fit issues. It is even sometimes useful to remove the top layer of paper fibers from the laser cut frame in those areas as well. Check your fits often.
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