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  1. ccoyle
    Just today I began a certain build step with three extra parts on hand. One 'ping' and one 'simply vanished' later, now I have no extra parts. 🙄
  2. ccoyle
    Welcome! Quite a few of us are still around from MSW 1.0 -- the survivors of the Great Crash of 2013!
  3. ccoyle
    Ah . . . I see that these can be purchased online as after-market details, but not in 1/250 scale. This actually gives me an idea on how to up the detail on the baskets.
  4. ccoyle
    Step 22: Bow Details Step 22 shifts the action to the bow, starting with a couple of bin-shaped stowage nets (I think life preservers were stored in these). Three laser-cut brackets are attached to the superstructure wall, and a bin sits inside these. As you can see, the printed part makes a solid structure, which isn't a very convincing stand-in for the real thing. Darius built the prototype bins using some kind of actual mesh, perhaps tulle. That option seemed a bit intimidating, so I hit on a compromise. I made photocopies of the original parts, then cut away an original part's solid top and used one of the copied parts to create a double-sided mesh bin. I think this mid-level of detail is acceptable. Cheers!
  5. ccoyle
    I hate those! Almost as infuriating as tiny parts that simply vanish when dropped. 😠
  6. ccoyle
    I was able to complete my order last night. The first thing that helped was finally noticing that Przelewy24 has an option for changing the language to English. Then I discovered the PayPal button at the bottom of the list of supported financial institutions. After that it was a piece of cake.
  7. ccoyle
    Timely narrative, as I tried to make a first-time purchase from GPM yesterday and ran into similar issues. I'm going to have to try hunting harder for the PayPal link. Part of the difficulty in ordering card models or after-market parts is that the publishers rarely ever reprint stuff, so when it's gone, it's gone. In my case, GPM has some laser-cut frames for some older Kartonowa Kolekcja kits I have, so that's who I have to order from.
  8. ccoyle
    Step 21: Torpedo Mount England carried 21" torpedoes in a triple mount. This sub-assembly consisted of 31 parts, 17 of which are from the laser-cut detail set. BTW, I think the mount pedestal is upside down, but the diagram didn't give any hints about which side should go up. Don't tell anyone!
  9. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard! I enjoyed reading your story and seeing your work -- looking forward to seeing more of it. Cheers!
  10. ccoyle
    Step 20 is finished off with a couple of lockers, a binnacle, and what I assume is a torpedo hoist, given its proximity to the eventual torpedo launcher.
  11. ccoyle
    I was an exchange student in Aurich back when 1860 were still in the Bundesliga and Bayern's roster included guys named Sepp, Karl-Heinz, Paul, and Uli.
  12. ccoyle
    Nicely done!
  13. ccoyle
    Wilkommen! An important question for a Munich resident: Bayern or 1860? 😉
  14. ccoyle
    Step 20 Step 20 begins with adding the aft rangefinder platform. Twenty-one parts for that bit.
  15. ccoyle
    A few vents, lockers, and other miscellaneous bits bring Step 18 to a close. As you may recall, the instructions recommended doing Step 19 before finishing off Step 18, so the next update will feature Step 20.
  16. ccoyle
    Witam! Thank you for joining and letting us see your work!
  17. ccoyle
    FINALLY . . . after over three weeks of painstaking work, numerous itty bitty parts lost and remade again, and liberal usage of 'special words', the stack is done. It was a real slog (no offense to Captain Slog), and I'm relieved to be done with it so that I can at last move on to something else -- literally anything else!
  18. ccoyle
    Oh, I could show you plenty! But I appreciate the thought.
  19. ccoyle
    I always cruise around and look for stuff that I might be able to use down the road. Here's a bit more pipe. I won't go into detail about how aggravating it was to get this little bit done. With my headband magnifier I can see all the niggling mistakes, but I have to admit that from a stand-off distance, it's looking pretty awesome.
  20. ccoyle
    Got myself some new gadgets to toy around with.
  21. ccoyle
    Isn't it nice to have a choice? 🙂
  22. ccoyle
    Not in this instance.
  23. ccoyle
    Well, slight setback. I'm finding the paper pipes to be a bit tedious, so I've tried making the pipes from styrene rod by using the 2-D card parts as templates. The trouble is, I very rarely need to make styrene-to-styrene bonds, so I don't have any plain ol' plastic model cement on hand to join the sections together, and none of my other glues have been making satisfactory joints. I'll probably pick up a tube of cement on the way home from work tomorrow.
  24. ccoyle
    Never built one myself. I tend to shy away from anything bigger than my current project (destroyer escort) because of the added expense, the need for more display space, and the extra 'enjoyment', as you say.
  25. ccoyle
    I think we need a reaction button for something like "wow x 2."

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