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Just an observation: there is never any dust in any of your pictures.
Do you have a dust control-system in your workshop, or do you start each day by meticulously picking up all specs of dust from your bench and models by hand?
Jan
- FriedClams, mtaylor, Tony Hunt and 2 others
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You learn something new every day. I never realized there was this 'slack' in the antennae.
Looks great (as everything you show us does)
Jan
- mtaylor, DocRob, Old Collingwood and 2 others
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Why this aggressive reaction? James offered a solution as soon as you described the problem. You ignored his solution, and the help offered. That’s not polite behaviour….
From own experience: the forgot-password-funcyion does work. The only time it did not for me was when I changed email without changing it in my profile…
Jan
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Sanding it again helped to give the surface less of a 'plastic' look.
Just to get the scale right: what is the lenght of this blimp? Is it around 10 inch, or even smaller?
Jan
- Old Collingwood, davec, Egilman and 2 others
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I was wondering: what will be the finish of all this: will it be painted, or will you leave (some of) the metalwork unpainted?
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- mtaylor, Valeriy V, Keith Black and 2 others
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We have a non-ship subgroup. It is small, but perhaps theycan give you a ‘place to be’ for aircraft-builders.
@realworkingsailor Andy, do you have a suggestion?
Jan
- chadwijm6, Canute and Old Collingwood
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At https://www.die-kartonmodellbauer.de/forum/index.php?thread/14732-sms-sleipner-t97/ spotted the first log.
the turtleback is a tricky part indeed.
Jan
- Nirvana, GrandpaPhil, ccoyle and 2 others
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Sure I follow. Don’t bother the speed: as soon something shows up, I read the post.
Mars is turning out nicely.
one question: are upu sure the tips of the ‘zalingen’ are pointing upwards? I was expecting ‘backwards’: the holes are for the iron-work of the deadeyes to pass through.
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I read in a German formum that the site-owner has died last summer. His family has shut down the business and the website that was connected to it.
Jan
- wernerweiss, Baker, mtaylor and 2 others
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Quite a lot of fiddly bits coming together.
I have a question on your ‘build sequence’: in most kits the deck is glued to the hull before the remaining stuff is put on.
Getting it on before is helpfull in case hull or deck (or both) are warped, and a lot of rubber bands are needed to close the gaps.Hooe your deck fits without brute force…..
Jan
- Canute and Old Collingwood
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In vase you want something different: kolderstok is about to launch a cross section of a Dutch Pinas. I have seen the prototype (in real life, not just a pic), and it’s really nice one.
https://kolderstok.com/blogs/nieuws
Perhaps @*Hans* can tell us when it will be released
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Please do. We will be kind (btw we always are kind).
And welcome to the community of MSW! You will draw some more attention to your log (and therefore get more helpfull feedback) when you put a post in the ‘new member section’ of the forum.
Jan
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In addition to what Wefalck writes:in VN de Veldes time, the sprit was set in a sling at the foot of the mast, the sling itself was attached to the top op the mast: no need to lift the (very heavy) sprit ot of its sling: gravity helped the foot go up as the tackle on the lower end was loosened. It was not unusual to have this sling made from forged iron shackles.
The lenght of the sprit varies greatly between periods, regions, shiptype, and preference of the ship-owner. I have read somewhere that the high-peaked spritsails were thought to have an advantage at certain wind-conditions.
there are various books around showing these arrangements. But: far too heavy and complex for a small vessel.
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There are some card-models of liners. Only the famous ones of course: titanic, olympic, mauretania, wilhelm gustlow, carpathia, nomandie. Some more, but they are outside your time-frame I guess.
Beautiful ships, nice models, but by no means easy to build. (And quite an other medium compared to wood/plastic)
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I could look at your work for day’s. It’s art.
Stay safe
Jan
- Keith Black, mtaylor, FriedClams and 2 others
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In Germany they quite often use a material called ‘finnpappe’. Unfortunatedky, almost non-available outside that country. Cuts better than grayboard, and does not delaminate.
No idea whether there is a US-variety available. (Don’t think so, even unknown here, and we are not so far from Germany ….)
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And: is the rigging part of the PE? Or are you an EZ-line wizard?
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- Old Collingwood, Egilman and mtaylor
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Thanks for including your fingers in the pic. That helps to realize how small it all is.
Jan
- Old Collingwood, Canute, mtaylor and 1 other
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HMS Dreadnought 1907 by RGL - FINISHED - Zvezda - 1/350 - PLASTIC - revisited
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day
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I don't know whether or not MSW has a 'model of the year'-competition, bus as far as I'm concerned, this one is a very, very serious contender.
What a very convincing model this has become: camo, al the dirt and rust, the sea, the depth-marks, the deck-personnel, the antennae. I can look for some time at these pics and see something new every time.
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