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  1. CDW
    Overall hull length is about 13", maybe a little less. Plastic is on the soft side, making it easy to sand down. Molded on details very clean and crisp. Just wanted to capture some photos of it before laying down primer.
  2. CDW
    After I open the parts bags, I want to photograph the sprues. You won't believe the fine detail of the molded parts. Makes you realize how far this hobby has come in the past few years. The parts molds nowadays are light years ahead of what we thought was great 10 or 20 years ago. I didn't want to open the parts bags until I am ready to use them in fear of breaking and/or losing the parts. They are that small and delicate. With this one started, I am now interested in the other 1:700 ship models Flyhawk makes. I never much cared for 1:700 scale before because it was so small and often parts looked out of scale and cartoonish. Not with Flyhawk. Downside is, they are a little on the pricey side.
  3. CDW
    Finally made a humble start on the shiny horse last night, gluing together the upper and lower hull parts then a little sanding and filling of the seams. Now that I look at this kit more in detail, it becomes obvious the model can be built quite nicely straight out of the box except you would need some photo etch railings. The plastic parts are extraordinary, fine details and molded very much to scale. Even the metal barrels are not entirely needed. I'm even thinking I may have been better off with a precut masking set for the deck (cheaper) rather than the wood deck. I'll wait until I have more done before taking some photos. I think this is going to be a fun little build and quite pleasing to the eye with the molded details.
  4. CDW
    It is weird how bamboo sheds it’s bark like a lizard sheds it’s skin.
  5. CDW
    There's a row of trees and vegetation that grows along the back fence line between me and my commercial property neighbor. I've got bamboo back there that rivals anything you ever saw in Vietnam. What you see is as high as this climber is going to climb and the wife says I have no business doing that, even. Women...what do they know? 😄
  6. CDW
    Thanks Denis. Tree trimming on top of me shed today. Spring has sprung, Fall has fell, and it's very very warm today.
  7. CDW
    I've had those Small Shop pieces for several years now and they work great!
  8. CDW
    Today I am going to search for an appropriate size piece of wood to mount the model. I am considering cutting off part of the full hull and mounting it on an ocean diorama.
  9. CDW
    I've been quietly building a stash of IJN kits as well. But the Scharnhorst and Roma are two favorites.
  10. CDW
    Thanks! I'm going to need it.
  11. CDW
    Hope I can pull this off at this micro scale. Time will tell.
  12. CDW
    This will be the beginning of my build log for the 1:700 Flyhawk German Battleship Scharnhorst, 1940, full hull version. This version of the kit comes with two large photo etch sheets and brass gun barrels, ship masts. The parts count is quite high and the details very tiny, finely molded. I'll be ordering a much finer, cleaner cutting set of sprue cutters before I undertake building the kit as I will surely break parts just trying to cut them from the sprue without an appropriate set of cutters. Pictured are the kit contents, the exception being the wood deck which I purchased separately.
  13. CDW
    Yes, the decals are 1:24, but the tire sidewall decals are WAY too big. You'll have to cut them to reduce the radius of the circle. A good decal solvent like Solvaset will make them lay down just fine, because after you cut the circle and reduce the radius, it will leave the decal a little "puckered". No problem at all on the color/version you choose. Do anything you like.
  14. CDW
    My kit version is for the 1970 edition McLaren. However, the kit contains parts to backdate this version to the 1969 version which had a high wing rather than the shorter wing struts seen in the previous photos on my last post. With Imagna's help, I learned my kit instructions showed the installation of parts that interfered with the optional installation of the high wing struts found in the 1969 team McLaren version which I want to model. Pictured are my kit instructions and then the photos of my kit with the correct long struts installed for the high wing. Note that I needed to make my own bracing rods that run from the roll bar to the long wing struts. My kit did not include bracing rods long enough for the high wing struts, but it's no big deal to make a longer pair of rods from styrene rod stock in the correct diameter. If you decide to build the high wing 1969 version like I did, leave out part numbers C53, C56, and C57, and attach the longer set of struts directly on top of the rear axle hubs.
  15. CDW
    The only thing I've done with it so far is in the photos except for the work I've been doing to cut open the doors and trunk lid. I'll be scratch building hinges and door jambs later on. Will provide some new photos soon. Thanks for dropping by.
  16. CDW
    Need to add the decals, windscreen, and a few small parts then this one is done.
  17. CDW
    Wow, that Rainbow set looks amazing. Probably would make my eyeballs bleed trying to do all that photo etch in 1:700 scale. I just ordered the Hasegawa full hull version in 1:700 scale off Amazon. Haven't ordered a detail set yet. Did you order the Rainbow set direct from them?
  18. CDW
    I've got the 1:250 DeAgostini Akagi kit for a potential future build, a composite model of wood, cast metal, and photo etch. Downside is the sheer size of it when finished. I am seriously considering the 1:700 Akagi kit and detail sets instead as it makes for a more practical model for display. Also, it's less than half the cost of the 1:350 with almost just as much detail packed in (with the update sets).
  19. CDW
    Here's what the aftermarket tire sidewall decal looks like in place. As is true with most all aftermarket decal sheets, each and every decal on the sheet must be carefully cut out individually as they are not "die cut" on the sheet. Three more to go. The kit comes with molded plastic racing harness buckles as well as material for the belts. I made my own belts in the color I wanted and used only the supplied buckles.
  20. CDW
    I painted over the aluminum but I should have put down white primer first, just to keep a consistent shade of orange. It's a tad off, darker, but nothing that worries me over it.
  21. CDW
    Thanks OC
  22. CDW
    If I had left the center panel out, it might have fit. Too much going on around the engine for the center panel to fit. Will probably fabricate a little scaffold for the rear assembly to rest upon off the ground.
  23. CDW
    Inching closer to the finish. You really have to work to get the tires over the wheel rims. Very tight fit. On the front and rear tires, there is only one way the rims will fit. Trial and error. Will try the tire decals I bought, but they look like they may be a little too large. We'll soon see.
  24. CDW
    With the front body assembly and doors attached to the chassis, the next steps will be to mask off and paint orange the area of the silver chassis below the doors. The rear body assembly will be left off to display the engine, transaxle, and rear suspension. It's important to note that if you wish to attach the rear body assembly to the chassis for display, you must leave off most of the engine plumbing as the body assembly will not fit with all the plumbing attached.
  25. CDW
    Mike I painted the orange directly over the white plastic of the kit without any primer. However, the undersides of the body panels must be painted flat black. In my kit, the white plastic is rather translucent and I am concerned the flat black will alter the shade of the orange to a darker color. Because of this, I will first paint the underside with a white primer, then paint flat black on top of the white primer. This should cancel out the negative effects the black might cause to the orange. A coat of white primer before the orange would be beneficial as you could skip the concerns about the black undersides.

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