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Why don’t we see people runing around on the deck. Oh wait, its 1:700 plastic. Looks lery much like the real thing, but those little people can’t move.
This is so convincing!
Jan
- Egilman, AJohnson, Old Collingwood and 4 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…
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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, Canute, 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
- Canute, chadwijm6 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
- mtaylor, ccoyle, GrandpaPhil 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
- Canute, wernerweiss, 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…..
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- Old Collingwood and Canute
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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
- Canute, Keith Black, chadwijm6 and 2 others
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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
- Canute, FriedClams, mtaylor 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 ….)
Jan.- Canute, thibaultron and mtaylor
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And: is the rigging part of the PE? Or are you an EZ-line wizard?
Jan
- Egilman, mtaylor and Old Collingwood
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Thanks for including your fingers in the pic. That helps to realize how small it all is.
Jan
- mtaylor, Egilman, Old Collingwood and 1 other
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Another OcCre "Save The Date" Release - April 28, 2024
in Traders, Dealers, Buying or Selling anything? - Discuss New Products and Ship Model Goodies here as well!!
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The limited edition (numbered 1-999) of last years launch is still available on their website
Relaunch to get rid of the unsold stock?
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