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Very nice! Proves the point that even these 'basic' sort of kits can produce wonderful results.
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Coincidentally, the streets in my neighborhood got sealed today -- wife says they got the work done before the afternoon showers started. I'll have to see how it looks when I get home.
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Wappen Von Hamburg by MikeE - Corel
ccoyle replied to MikeE's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1501 - 1750
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Good luck on this beautiful little steamer! The original is still in operation.
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Lindberg Jolly Roger -- Can you send a ship back in time?
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That's a pretty long list of modifications, considering you'd be starting with a mediocre plastic kit in the first place. A complete scratch build might be easier. -
Here's the patched-up seam. I first filled it without about three passes of canopy glue, then applied a thin wash of appropriate edge color, followed by a shot of matte clear spray to take the shine off the filler. It doesn't look too bad -- certainly not the Polish Touch, but better than the untreated gap looked. Naturally, bright lighting and closeup photography makes it look worse than it does at normal viewing distances and lighting. And here's the rest of the spine.
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Yep, they are all card. They are part of the laser-cut frames set, cut from what the Poles call "beer mat" stock -- it is the same stuff used commercially to make disposable coasters. On to skinning the spine. The kit includes joiner strips, which is nice -- I would have made them myself but the kit spared me the effort. I glued the first four pieces together using their joiner strips, then glued the entire piece first along one side . . . . . . and then along the other. The color registration is good. I got a bit of a seam gap on the other side, which I'm going to try to remediate. We'll see how that goes.
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I wonder if the rust in those photos increases her radar cross-section? 🤔
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I was going to mention the 1:250 card model published by Paper Shipwright and still available from them as either a printed kit or free download.
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I have resurrected this pathetic, long-dead topic only to share with you what can be done with this very kit by those card modeling wizards over in Poland. Oh, that I should ever possess such skills! Curtiss H-75 P.S. Stumbled across that thread quite by accident while searching for info on an unrelated kit.
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Very nice! Much sleeker-looking than a typical cutter.
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With the cockpit closed up, it's time to start skinning the forward fuselage, beginning with the wheel wells. I'm now committed to eventually building the Wildcat's nightmarish landing gear. 😬 To this point, I've been following the sequence of diagrams pretty closely, but for anyone who decides to build this kit later, it's a good idea to add the flat skins of the wheel wells before gluing the frames together. You can still do it afterwards, but it's a little trickier, because that central girder is part of one of the frames, and it clearly gets in the way. Then we have the first two fuselage skins added. Fit and registration has been good, although there seems to have been a deliberate omission of certain joiner strips. I added homemade ones -- no biggie. There's a very slight color mismatch between the second and third skins, but strangely enough it's only on one side. The parts came from the same sheet, too, so it's kind of weird. But the difference is not as noticeable as it was for the GPM Hellcat kit, so I won't complain. Once again, the fit for this part was very good. I then decided to skip ahead a bit and add some of the wing skeleton parts, just to stiffen up the spindly spars a bit. They were beginning to get uncomfortably wobbly from being jostled around. Interestingly, there are multiple errors in the numbering of these parts between the diagrams and the laser-cut frets. This hasn't been an issue so far because it's pretty obvious which parts are which and where they're supposed to go. That's all for now!
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