Jump to content
MSW Spring Donation Drive

ccoyle

Moderators
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,567

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by ccoyle

  1. ccoyle
    Hey, did this build ever get wrapped up?
  2. ccoyle
    I've no personal experience with them, but I'd be super hesitant to order anything from AliExpress -- they're a known platform for pirated merchandise, and some Chinese sellers have no qualms about using photos that don't depict the actual merchandise being sold.
  3. ccoyle
    These are (were?) IMO the most laugh-out-loud of all the Looney Tunes cartoons.
  4. ccoyle
    Congratulations, and nicely done!
  5. ccoyle
    There's no comparison, as you may already know. Chris designed both kits, but the Caldercraft kit dates to very early in his career arc. The Caldercraft kit is still a good product, but Chris' more recent releases for Vanguard Models are ahead in every respect: better designs, better materials, better instructions.
  6. ccoyle
    Gonna have to sideline this build for the weekend, but here's a quick update. The patch has been made (it's ugly), the aft fuselage completed, and the vertical stabilizer added. I'm getting a little itchy to get back to Phoenix. 😬
  7. ccoyle
    Head room, I feel certain. Analogous to a companionway on later designs.
  8. ccoyle
    "Special words." Congratulations on finishing your model!
  9. ccoyle
    I was born in Arizona, but I didn't like it, either, so I left. Actually, it was my parents who left, since I was only two months old at the time, so I can't really confirm that my opinion came into play. Probably it didn't -- my memory of that time is a little hazy.
  10. ccoyle
    Hello, Odi. Please remember that this is an English-language forum. You may use an online translator, if necessary. Bitte beachten Sie, dass hier Englisch erforderlich ist. Bei Bedarf können Sie einen Online-Übersetzer verwenden.
  11. ccoyle
    Greg, your build logs are a real treat. Congratulations on completing another stunning model!
  12. ccoyle
    Looks great! Congratulations!
  13. ccoyle
    But the original quote said "still to this day," so I was limiting the search of my memory to aircraft that still had flying examples. The De Havilland Hornet was pretty lickety-darn fast, too, but there are no air-worthy examples at present.
  14. ccoyle
    Depends on how one defines "hottest". The Mustang might win the award for best-looking, but there are still Hawker Sea Furies flying today, and the production Fury was 20 mph faster than the P-51D. (For what it's worth, I think nearly all piston-engined, propeller-driven fighters are beautiful.)
  15. ccoyle
    And your satisfaction is justified! I really like how all of the colors you have chosen, along with the patina you have achieved for the metal pieces, work so well together. Your model has a lot of visual appeal!
  16. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard! I, too, write for a living, but I write textbooks, so it's not terribly exciting work.
  17. ccoyle
    And so you should -- she looks great!
  18. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard!
  19. ccoyle
    Well, after all that doom-and-gloom reaction last night, I think I hit on a solution that will work. First I took a short break to finish off the cockpit canopy rails. Then, moving on to the aft fuselage skin, I cut a slit from the forward edge back to one of the small boxes printed on the spine. There I cut in two small perpendicular slits, creating two flaps. The two flaps can now spread apart when the skin is added to the cockpit section, forming a dart that will need to be filled in with scrap card. I will add a joiner strip between the two sides, so that the dart will have some subsurface to adhere to. There will be a visible repair after the job is finished, but at least I won't have to round-file the entire project -- yet. Cheers!
  20. ccoyle
    Ironically, I was actually planning to have the canopy closed on this model. I have one idea left to try on this train wreck before I throw in the towel. We'll see how it goes.
  21. ccoyle
    Well, my friends, it looks like this will be yet another well and truly screwed attempt at building a Halinski model. As you can see in the photo, in spite of all my best efforts to anticipate tight fits and sand the frames accordingly, there is still a nearly 2 mm height difference between the aft cockpit and the upper fuselage skin of the next section. No amount of gentle shaping has been able to coax that skin into place, and the joiner strips on the cockpit are degrading with the effort. Maybe I should just learn my lesson and leave the Halinski kits to the Poles, who alone among the peoples of the earth seem capable of regularly completing them. After all, I only have like 22 left.🙄 This is just so, sooooo frustrating and depressing -- makes me feel like the rankest amateur all over again.😑
  22. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard, Louise!
  23. ccoyle
    Congratulations on completing the set! They look good together.
  24. ccoyle
    The next fuselage section is ready to attach. You may notice that it is not actually attached in this photo. That's because the two sections have an incredibly tight fit. I'm not even 100% certain that I can get them to go together. But I decided to wait until the next session before working further on this conundrum. (BTW, I have been sanding down all of the bulkheads in anticipation of just such fit issues as this. It hasn't gone quite to plan. Also BTW, that's not a tear in the aft section -- it's a cut where part of the piece folds down to create part of the cockpit canopy slide rail.)
  25. ccoyle
    Beautiful, Maurino!

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...