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  1. CDW
    Wow, great site with lots of detail sets. Thanks!
  2. CDW
    Is this something local? I can't find XY Models in a search engine.
  3. CDW
    I think I've reached my outer limit at 1:700 scale.
  4. CDW
    Those chains look fantastic. Good find!
  5. CDW
    You have a very manageable number of projects in waiting, unlike some of us (me). 🙂 Nice work getting it all together.
  6. CDW
    With the Arado 196 painted and in place, moved on to the ship's boats. The molded on detail is very good, but will go ahead and use the photo etch provided. The 2 boats on the right have the photo etch attached while the others need surgery before the photo etch. I have a book coming in the mail to help me with the rigging. Could not find internet examples of the rigging sufficient for me to rig it.
  7. CDW
    Fantastic!
  8. CDW
    Denis, I love that blue fishing boat you built in the 4th photo from the top. Great looking model. That's been several or more years ago, right? A Billing boat?
  9. CDW
    Great! Glad it helped you out, Alan. For the next tip, once you have glued your railing down with Gator's Grip and the glue has become tacky, use a paint brush dampened with water to remove any excess acrylic glue. Clean the brush often and re-wet it as necessary. It will leave an invisible bond between the railing and the deck. Works like a charm, just don't over-do it and remove only the excess glue.
  10. CDW
    These tiny pieces help comprise the finished Arado 196 seaplane. Not pictured with the pieces are the photo etched canopy, antennae, pontoon supports, and rear cockpit machine gun. The number 11 XActo blade is used in the photo as a size reference. I need another few pair of very good tweezers if I continue to build small scale stuff like this. It's just too small to handle without the proper tools.
  11. CDW
    My wife loves to paint the house, inside and out. She re-paints the inside every few years and goes through it like lightning. Me, I would have paint all over everything if I didn't have covers on the floors and furniture. Even then, I always seem to manage to get paint somewhere unintended. Sometime before this coming Fall, I have to strip all the furniture out of our bedroom, put down new flooring and repaint everything. Not looking forward to that.
  12. CDW
    It's the same thing, just a different label. Primary differences are color and diameter.
  13. CDW
    I'll be using this .1mm rigging line from Mig Ammo
  14. CDW
    Look at the first photos on page 2 of this build log. Popeye has good photos that show the S4 part locations.
  15. CDW
    With 99% of the PE railing completed, I am ready to move on to the final details including the ship's boats, the aircraft, life rafts, flag staffs, and rigging. A few other odds and ends as well. Almost there.
  16. CDW
    It actually has a very good bond once it's dry. The thinset version gets tacky quickly, within a couple of minutes.
  17. CDW
    The good news is, it cleans up with water.
  18. CDW
    Here are those railings after cutting, shaping, and attaching them to the secondary gun deck. Complicated shapes require patience, trial and error to get them just so.
  19. CDW
    For PE railings, I use Gator's Grip acrylic thin glue, from this fellow right here who makes it: (4) Gator's Model Studio | Facebook Cleans up with water. Very good alternative to CA glue, with more time to adjust and move things around, exactly where you want it. Any excess can quickly and easily be cleaned up with a paint brush dampened with water.
  20. CDW
    Might also mention that it's helpful to cut the long sections of photo etch railing into shorter lengths for better control and ease of installation. The long sections often just don't work well because of the lateral and vertical twists and turns of a deck. I cut mine right adjacent to a vertical post then give an ever so slight overlap when gluing them in place. It's almost impossible to detect they have been cut after assembly, but it sure does make the job of installing them so much better.
  21. CDW
    If you ever decide to build one of these 1:700 scale ship models with the photo etch railings and all, you may want to consider shaping the rail pieces prior to assembling some of the deck pieces. A case in point is the small deck on which the ship's AA - secondary guns are located. This particular deck is shaped with several compound curves, zig's and zag's on each side. Trying to shape the railing pieces after the deck and guns are in place will be much more difficult than doing it before assembly. I am installing the pre-bent, pre-shaped railing pieces now after deck assembly. Will have to touch up some paint work on the rails.
  22. CDW
    Excellent!
  23. CDW
    I'll have to check out their 1:72 armor. Don't own any of that yet.
  24. CDW
    No. There are standard and deluxe editions. The deluxe editions come with photo etch and brass barrels, sometimes resin pieces. Wood decks are extra, not included. Deck painting masks are another optional extra. It's far more economical to buy the deluxe edition rather than buy the PE and brass separately.
  25. CDW
    New release model kits from Flyhawk 2021 Flyhawk Model CATALOG 2021 – toylandhobbymodelingmagazine.com Will likely buy one of every new release unless I already have it. Most all the RN cruisers are new or a different version than what I have now.

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