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Moin moin, Marius! Cala Esmeralda is a beautiful ship -- I'm very fond of topsail schooners. Good luck on your project!
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Welcome to MSW, Sam!
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As Allan said, you can certainly spruce up your model however you like. That being said, I would probably shy away from adding ratlines. All of the sails on a small schooner could be raised and lowered from the deck -- there was simply no need for sailors to go aloft, so ratlines would look a bit out of place.
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Hoping for a speedy recovery, Glenn. Backs are weird -- they can go out for the most seemingly innocuous of reasons.
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Looks great! What's the new project?
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If you want to take your oars up a notch, you can try flattening the blades and slimming the shafts. Fiddly work, but I think you'll like the result.
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Chaz, 1/96 scale for sailing ships is a real challenge in any medium. I think you would find it very helpful to try one of the simpler free models that dot the internet landscape. You can find links in the card modeling tutorial.
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Nice work, Bob, and congratulations!
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First cuts 'n' glues. I've never built a kit like this that has the wing spars as part and parcel of the cockpit framing -- just seems to me like a good way to snap the spars off accidentally. But I will try to be extra careful moving forward. As I said earlier, the Wildcat is not as beefy as the Hellcat, but it's still bigger than I had imagined. The next -cat I build will have to be the relatively diminuitive Bearcat. But don't get your hopes up -- I don't actually have one in my stash.
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How to edit build log properly
ccoyle replied to Isaiah's topic in How to use the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT**
Short answer: You don't. Only an administrator can make changes like that, and I don't think they can do it for individual topics, i.e., it's a site-wide setting. Page length is determined by the number of posts in a topic -- I believe each page is currently set for 25 posts. The only way to shorten your content is to post fewer pictures. That's probably a good thing to do in any case, since scrolling past endless photos can be a turn-off for some users, not to mention all those photos can take a long time to load on older systems or slower internet connections. Best thing to do is to select a few photos that best show your progress on your build. If you still want to post lots of photos, you can try posting them in installments -- more posts with fewer photos per post. Cheers! -
That's literally why I have never gone out of my way to purchase a P-38 kit. 😆 But I have caved in to temptation in the past by acquiring big birds like the Whirlwind, Tempest, and P-47. Not exactly sure where I will display them when I get around to building them, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
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Not so much a monster as the F6F I built last year. This one should have about a 2 in. shorter wingspan. It may actually fit on a shelf! Speaking of shelves, part of the reason I picked this one as my next project is the appalling lack of American aircraft on display in my man cave. I have only completed two American-built planes, and neither of them is wearing American markings! 😮 That needs to be remedied!
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Congratulations, Rusty! That is simply a fantastic model!
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