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A useful tool, though I'm not familiar with that brand of paint. Perhaps it's only available in South Korea?
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Malcolm The usual tags to add would be the name of the ship (i.e. Victory, but without the HMS part) and the kit manufacturer (Heller). If you would like to credit particular build logs and direct members to them, you can do that by adding links to them in your posts. I'll show you an example: "You can see examples of the Heller kit being built here and here." For more tips on how to use MSW, read here. 😉 Cheers!
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Beautiful result!
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Beautiful! Calling her done?
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Very nice planking work!
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A rare bird and nicely done!
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Thank you for the nice compliment, Ab. I would like to try some scratch projects at some point in the future, but the ones I have in mind would be card models of smallcraft, not like most of what we see being built by our membership. I'm particularly interested in the boats designed by Philip Bolger; in fact, I have already built a simple model of a Bolger sailing pirogue. As for wood, though, I am one of those builders who enjoys the straightforward process of putting things together, like a puzzle, and not so much interested in all of the various tasks that a scratch builder in wood must engage in. This is why I particularly like the MK kits -- they appeal to my kind of builder. This might be my last wooden kit -- I no longer have any shop space in my garage, and the amount of sawdust and shavings even this sort of kit produces reminds me of why I stick mainly to card these days. Cheers! P.S. Here's a shot of my pirogue.
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Inner bulwarks sanded to shape. On to lining gun ports.
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Gun ports cut out.
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Welcome aboard! Good luck on your adventure doing tallships in 1/700 -- not impossible, but definitely a challenge at that scale.
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It's not a kit in the most fundamental sense of the word, so the scratch category is appropriate.
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Welcome aboard!
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Well, turns out that adding the strip wood didn't take much time at all, especially after it dawned on me that many of the spaces between bulkhead extensions were the same width, which allowed for some mass production of filler pieces. Anyways, that part's all done now. Next it gets a little trickier. There are laser-cut plywood pieces to fill the remaining gaps, but of course the inboard sides of those pieces must match the curvature of the bulkhead extensions. The instructions suggest removing some wood before adding the pieces, but that struck me as a dicey proposition. I decided to try a couple of test pieces by gluing them in and then carving them down with a chisel. That seemed to work well enough. When those are done, I'll do the final shaping with some sandpaper.
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The next step was to fit the glazing for the stern and quarter gallery windows. A slight bit of sanding was needed to get the pieces to fit, but not much. The clear plastic is covered on both sides with a protective film, which of course has to be removed from the back side before the pieces are glued in. You can see that on one stern window I accidentally removed the film from the wrong side -- that piece is now temporarily protected by a piece of cellophane tape. The quarter gallery panes are also painted black on their inboard sides, since otherwise one can see right into the model's internal hull structure. The next step is somewhat lengthy and not very exciting -- the inner bulwarks must be built up from multiple pieces of strip wood and pre-cut filler pieces. Again, I'll post pics of that after I'm done. Cheers!
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kit review SMS Sleipner by Hamburger Modellbaubogen Verlag
ccoyle replied to ccoyle's topic in REVIEWS: Model kits
That would be fine, since you would be making the enlargements for your own, not-for-profit use. Paper modelers often make copies of their kits in order to have a backup copy in case something gets boogered. It's also not unheard of for modelers to do exactly what you're suggesting, i.e., using the kit parts as templates. It's kind of off-topic here, but always bear in mind that the guiding principle in intellectual property law is that the IP owner (HMV in this scenario) is not defrauded. Once you buy the kit, you can pretty much do with it what you will -- except make copies and sell them. 😉 -
Your dory looks properly scruffy -- just as a working boat should!
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Exactly! The Germans weren't the only ones who could field effective self-propelled anti-tank guns.
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Roter Löwe 1597 by Ondras71
ccoyle replied to Ondras71's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Gorgeous! -
Ha! Take that, all you Wespes and StuGs!
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Wow, that is unlike any HMV kit I have ever seen. It appears to be hand-drawn, and the overall look and feel of the kit suggest it may be a reprint of an even earlier work.
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USS Iowa BB-61: Anybody knows the structure midship?
ccoyle replied to JackSix's topic in Nautical/Naval History
That makes perfect sense. I found them online in the instructions for a kit, but they weren't labeled -- they looked gun-like, but without the rest of the gun it was hard to say what they were. -
Honestly, it's not very noticeable. Remember that we modelers are the only ones who will ever look at our models from really up close. A lot of what we consider to be glaring mistakes doesn't particularly stand out at stand-off viewing distances.
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