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ccoyle got a reaction from thibaultron in PWS-10 by ccoyle - FINISHED - CardPlane - 1/33 - CARD - Polish trainer c. 1930 - Two for One build
Thanks, Popeye. Not much has been done on this project lately (a little bit, though), since the canoe is currently getting all the available free time.
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ccoyle got a reaction from Canute in PWS-10 by ccoyle - FINISHED - CardPlane - 1/33 - CARD - Polish trainer c. 1930 - Two for One build
Thanks, Popeye. Not much has been done on this project lately (a little bit, though), since the canoe is currently getting all the available free time.
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ccoyle reacted to popeye the sailor in PWS-10 by ccoyle - FINISHED - CardPlane - 1/33 - CARD - Polish trainer c. 1930 - Two for One build
nice progress Chris........I think with the finished planes side by side, one would never see the difference. the only thing I see is a longer aileron surface. the wings came out really nice!
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ccoyle got a reaction from popeye the sailor in SB2U-1 Vindicator by Landlubber Mike - Accurate Miniatures 1:48
Only four of them are wooden kits. Card kits take up far less space -- and they're waaaaay cheaper, too! For the price of a wooden kit, I can buy dozens of card kits.
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ccoyle got a reaction from popeye the sailor in SB2U-1 Vindicator by Landlubber Mike - Accurate Miniatures 1:48
Once I finish my current projects and then decide whether I should start the SB2U or one of the dozens of other kits in my stash. 😂
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ccoyle got a reaction from popeye the sailor in SB2U-1 Vindicator by Landlubber Mike - Accurate Miniatures 1:48
Sweet! I have a card model version of this aircraft, albeit in wartime camouflage.
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ccoyle got a reaction from CDW in Vought F4U-1A Corsair by Edwardkenway - FINISHED - Revell - 1:32
My el cheapo tweezers have a bad habit of initiating that phenomenon. 🙄
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ccoyle got a reaction from EricWilliamMarshall in Vought F4U-1A Corsair by Edwardkenway - FINISHED - Revell - 1:32
I love the Corsair, and Baa Baa Blacksheep was one of my favorite shows as a kid (even wrote a letter of protest to NBC when they announced its cancellation -- received a glossy, Robert Conrad-autographed B&W print of the cast as a thank-you gift). The few available card models of the F4U aren't particularly detailed. I'm waiting for Halinski to publish one, then I will be all over it.
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ccoyle got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Airplanes and Tanks in plastic by Jörgen
Looks fantastic!
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ccoyle got a reaction from thibaultron in PWS-10 by ccoyle - FINISHED - CardPlane - 1/33 - CARD - Polish trainer c. 1930 - Two for One build
Bingo! If one were a scale foot shorter than the other, I would have had much more to say about the two kits -- and not nice things, if you get my point. 😉
P.S. Last night I finished the horizontal and vertical stabilizer components for White Tail same as for Spanish Nationalist, so now the two planes are at the same point in their build sequences.
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ccoyle got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in PWS-10 by ccoyle - FINISHED - CardPlane - 1/33 - CARD - Polish trainer c. 1930 - Two for One build
Finally time for an update. I don't know why, but this 2-for-1 build is taking me twice as long as a regular build. 🤔😆 Anyways, I do a little here, a little there, just plodding along. The enormous parts count for the wing didn't help speed things up any. So, here's the wing for White Tail. Once again, the 7-piece set of skins for the center section defeated all of my efforts to obtain a neat result -- oh, well.
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ccoyle got a reaction from lmagna in Hawker Sea Fury by Danstream - FINISHED - Airfix - 1:48 - PLASTIC
Absolutely. People do it all the time.
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ccoyle got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Hawker Sea Fury by Danstream - FINISHED - Airfix - 1:48 - PLASTIC
Outstanding!
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ccoyle got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Ancient Mongolian Ox Cart by Bill Hudson
Nice execution of a beautiful and unusual subject!
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ccoyle got a reaction from BobG in Amati vs Vanguard
We have to be careful to distinguish between Amati kits in general and Victory Models kits in particular; Chris designed the latter. I have HMS Fly from the Victory Models line in my possession, and I can attest that the instructions are definitely written and illustrated to facilitate ease of construction for intermediate builders.
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ccoyle reacted to SigEp Ziggy in RMS Titanic by SigEp Ziggy - Revell - 1/570 - PLASTIC - built as the wreck discovered in 1986
Still working on the details...
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ccoyle reacted to Robert29 in HMS Victory 1805 by Robert29 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Will, MD and Heinz thank you for your comments. Thank you also for the likes.
My intention was to do the boats in between the rigging. Although I started some work on the shrouds I got carried away with the boats and continued working on them. The boats are a project in themselves. I will try to put as much detail in them as possible because I think they will be very eye catching when you are looking at the complete model.
On the Launch and the Barge, for the second planking I used the 0.5mm Walnut as indicated in the manual.
For the Pinnace and the Cutter I did not use the 0.5mm Walnut supplied with the kit. I had some left overs of Sapele from the model Bluenose II. It was slightly thinner, 0.4mm and more flexible, which I thought made it a better material for the second planking because of the small size of the boats.
Outer hull brushed with watered down PVA glue, left to dry, sanded, then gone over them with a fine filler and left to dry.
When filler was thoroughly dry hull sanded with fine sand paper and inside bulkheads removed.
Robert
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ccoyle reacted to Keith Black in USS Tennessee 1869 by Keith Black - scale 1:120 - Wood Hull Screw Frigate - ex Madawaska 1865
I'm adding three photos of individual blocks to better show the resulting coloration as the photos in the first post didn't do the end result justice.
Thank you, Mark, Tom, and Tony.
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ccoyle reacted to Baltic_submariner in Polaris by Baltic_submariner - FINISHED - OcCre - 1:50 - kit-bashed
Polaris has has been finished. I added two dinghys on her and covers of gun holes.
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ccoyle got a reaction from lmagna in Which Scale 1/200 or 1/350 Kit is the most detailed
By virtue of the fact that is a larger scale, 1/200 will naturally allow for more detail. However, if you have seen some of the incredible detail sets that are now available in even 1/700 scale, the issue of detail per unit of scale is almost a non-issue. I think for many modelers it would be more a question of cost and available display space.
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ccoyle got a reaction from hollowneck in OREGON DLOG - developing the BlueJacket kit
Which is awesome. Some manufacturers might have simply shrugged and used the off-the-shelf fittings.
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ccoyle got a reaction from mtaylor in Which Scale 1/200 or 1/350 Kit is the most detailed
By virtue of the fact that is a larger scale, 1/200 will naturally allow for more detail. However, if you have seen some of the incredible detail sets that are now available in even 1/700 scale, the issue of detail per unit of scale is almost a non-issue. I think for many modelers it would be more a question of cost and available display space.
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ccoyle got a reaction from Canute in Amati vs Vanguard
We have to be careful to distinguish between Amati kits in general and Victory Models kits in particular; Chris designed the latter. I have HMS Fly from the Victory Models line in my possession, and I can attest that the instructions are definitely written and illustrated to facilitate ease of construction for intermediate builders.
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ccoyle got a reaction from tomas1970 in Amati vs Vanguard
What you need to know about this is that Chris Watton, who started at Caldercraft, designed the Victory Models line for Amati before starting his own company, Vanguard. Chris is an innovator who doesn't rest on his laurels -- he is constantly seeking ways to improve his kits, including design features, materials, plans, and instructions. There's a learning curve for this trade, as for any profession, so Chris's early work, though very good on its own merits, is not quite as splendid as his later efforts. So, Mercury, being one of his last designs for Amati/Victory, is roughly 2/3 of the way along Chris's career arc. It's a very good design with great instructions, incrementally better than his Caldercraft efforts, but it won't have all the latest bells & whistles seen in his most recent Vanguard offerings.*
Basically, you can't really go wrong with any of Chris's designs.
* I think that's a fair assessment of Chris's designing career -- he may feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong.
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ccoyle got a reaction from mtaylor in OREGON DLOG - developing the BlueJacket kit
Which is awesome. Some manufacturers might have simply shrugged and used the off-the-shelf fittings.
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