ccoyle
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Good luck on this project! I built the 1/100 scale Agassiz from Modelik many years ago. I also have the HMV kit of USS England on pause; it's another product of Agassiz's designer, Darius Lipinski. He has a few 3D-printed parts available for Agassiz at his Shapeways store. https://www.shapeways.com/product/AWDN9DUAN/agassiz-js-0005-upgrade-for-paper-model?optionId=62825248&li=marketplace -
Sad news indeed.
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Awesome! I love to see some off-the-beaten path working boats being built!
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Very nice! Proves the point that even these 'basic' sort of kits can produce wonderful results.
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Nope. My kit is already boogered, and I have no great desire to take a second crack at one.
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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?
ccoyle replied to Dan DSilva's topic in Plastic model kits
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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No finished ones here, but there are plenty of finished gun brigs from that time period for more general reference.
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Thin CA is pretty darn thin and will make a horrible mess in a hurry if you're not careful with it -- I shudder to think about what "ultra-thin" must be like. 😳
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A fantastic result! Congratulations!
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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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Framing for dorsal hump and vertical stabilizer has been added -- calling it a night. Not all of the transverse bulkheads come up to the height of the dorsal profile piece; I'm not sure what the deal is there, but I'll find out once I start adding the skins.
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Welcome aboard!
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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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You may be able to loosen the bond with water if you used wood glue.
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