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  1. amateur
    Two tips from my own practice: Whenfairing your frames, make sure you go all teh way: the plank should make contct everywhere, most of the time that implies that the whole charring on the outside has gone when you're finished Second: dont start a new plank on the frame, but in between, and glue a part of wood behind the connection, that way, there will be a smoother run of the plank. Jan
  2. amateur
    Why only 'relatively happy', why not just unconditionally happy? From the pivctures it looks all fine. Jan
  3. amateur
    Thanks, would never have figured out that one. Jan
  4. amateur
    What is the rightmost part? The other two i recignize (atbleast, more or less) Jan
  5. amateur
    Actually, i dont think this will be a rewarding kit. It looks like a bunch of slightly-out of-scale-put-together-parts. It is not size as such which is the determining factor, it is scale. Anything below1:64 is kind of fiddly. A large scale model of a small ship is easiervin that respect. Plastic is a different terrain, but not necessarily easier. Most plastic models are small scale, and therefore have their problems in painting, and detailing. Mking a convincing model out of a plastic kit is something quite daunting:) With respect to starter: I would choose a model of a relatively snall ship (not a rowing boat;) ), from a fairly known company (so you can find fellow builders) Solid hull or pob? Each their own problems. I did a couple of solid hulls when i was a kid. Problem was that the raw hulls in the kot weren't symmetrical. Took me ages to get them reasonable .... when the basic is OK, it should be easier. Jan
  6. amateur
    Is this th link you meant to include http://steamboats.com/museum/lossingmodels.html
  7. amateur
    I dont see major errors, but then, I've only your version which looks pretty good. Will the model be live-steam? Jan
  8. amateur
    Sorry Sjors, Couldn't resist this one. Here is your lion!
  9. amateur
    That's something quite different and interesting! Jan
  10. amateur
    i used these pushpins lot cheaper, and essentially the same functionality. Jan
  11. amateur
    Hi Piet, Still evading Musi? Jan
  12. amateur
    Neither did I, but I found a discussion that only after titanic sank, there was a ruling that said that they had to be painted red/white. Before that, it was cork covered in white canvas. Jan
  13. amateur
    Hi Nils, She's looking great. With respect to the buoys: the ones on the Titanic and the Lusitania were just ordinary plain white ones. Jan
  14. amateur
    The joints are looking very sharp . Make sure the paint of the paper doesn't bleed out as a result of the finish you are going to use. Jan
  15. amateur
    Hi Carl, Question on your tools: Where did you get your tweezers? Mine have problems in keeping the points neatly centered opposite to each oher when I try to hold something small. (resulting in potential loss of parts, as they are launched into outer space....) Jan
  16. amateur
    Fun, the end of the booms, yellow disk of around 1.5mm diameter. Don't even think of breathing while you try to pickthese up. Fun: the designer made a mistake: heprinted 12 booms, while there should be 14 of them. A well, what would a kit be without small problems? Jan
  17. amateur
    Not a log, but to show I did some modelling these last weeks... This guy is sitting on one of my shelves for ages (not as long as my others, but still....) So I decided to give him a kind of boost this week. Modelling at the dinigroom table has it advantages when it is cold upstairs The model is made by Scaldis, a dutch company. She shows MS Axeldijk, one of the ships of the HAL shortly after the war (she is a coverted victory ship, as you will probably see) All in all the model is around 55 centimeters, still workable, but small enough to drive me mad with the tiny pieces of paper. No scale 1:500 PE models for me And no, I don't know why my iPad turned some of my pictures 45 degrees .... Jan
  18. amateur
    With all those interesting builds, there isno time to do something myself...... Jan
  19. amateur
    Great. Would definitely like to give this a go. Still trying to find a type of paper that is good enough to do these kind of models, but also acceptable to my printer..... Jan
  20. amateur
    The carvings are nice, but why did you choose not to model rge knights head on the main knight? Those carved heads were quite typical for the ships in this period. Jan
  21. amateur
    Great! New updates coming! (although I have to admit: cheating on your side takes a while to accept on our side....) Jan
  22. amateur
    Progress would be nice Is that deck plated, or planked? Jan
  23. amateur
    I thought something completely different: these ships must have been quite daunting for new crewmembers: how much drills did you need to find your way in this maze of turrets, gangways, decks and guns. And not only in broad daylight in harbour, but also at see, in darkness, in the heat of battle. Glad I wasn't there (nor on any other battleship in action) Jan
  24. amateur
    Nice! Jan
  25. amateur
    Would be nice. By the way: how's the model?

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