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  1. CDW
    Where are you buying your filament? Here in my hometown of Tampa, there is a 3D product warehouse where filament, resin, 3D printers, and all sorts of related supplies and equipment are sold. They also offer 3D printing services. I saw one room set up with a large number of 3D printers all doing their thing. Just for the heck of it, I may check to see what they would charge to print my Corsair. Probably its not cheap.
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    Decided to take on the smallest, most fiddly guns first, the quad .5 inch guns and the PomPom guns. Another test of patience.
  3. CDW
    Great project Yves! My best wishes for your success. A few years ago, I got into the printing of a six foot wingspan F4U Corsair R/C model aircraft kit that I purchased to plans/code for online. After about 25% through completion, I learned that the software I was using needed to be upgraded as the airframe shapes were so complex, my software could not handle it. At that point I became distracted and boxed everything away, never got back around to finishing the project. Amazing technology and lots to learn. It's a steep learning curve really IMHO. Notice with my project, the entire inner airframe is printed inside the outer skin.
  4. CDW
    Next up are the various gun assemblies.
  5. CDW
    Got a collection of fragile bits going on here. Lots of mini-kits required to build the HMS Hood.
  6. CDW
    The finished main mast. Will need to take care not to damage mast before final assembly of kit, very fragile.
  7. CDW
    Nice! Hard to believe how realistic the 3D printed chain looks. Technology is something we could not have even dreamed of 10 or 20 years ago.
  8. CDW
    I started this IJN Mikasa several years ago and never finished it. Need to get back on it to call it done.
  9. CDW
    During the course of completing my model, a very small part was lost while I was spraying paint with my airbrush. Today while working on my HMS Hood model, I looked down on my workbench , lo and behold there was my lost part. Never thought that would ever be found.
  10. CDW
    When I first thought about doing a card model, someone suggested Rocket Glue to me and I bought some. Unfortunately it's just sat on my shelf as I never started a card model. Have you tried that brand? This I found to be an excellent glue for clear canopies when I was building and flying RC models. Does not fog and dries clear. Super strong bond, but I have never tried it on paper. It's water based, and I do believe it should work with paper. I have never tried this particular dealer, I just came across it in a random internet search. It's on the shelf at my local hobby shop. ZAP Formula 560 Canopy Glue – Strictly R/C Hobbies (strictlyrchobbies.com)
  11. CDW
    Your diorama is coming along beautifully Alan. I had missed your post that showed the acrylic case you built. Very nice indeed. Does TAP plastics also sell the little corner clamps? I'll have to search them out as I need a source for clear acrylic. Thanks for sharing that.
  12. CDW
    It's been released? Wow, I am slipping. All this home renovation business has totally interfered with my hobby the past few weeks. 🙂
  13. CDW
    I see several or more varieties of glue on the work surface, are all of these various types used in the construction of card models?
  14. CDW
    I love everything about these models, Chris. Beautiful!
  15. CDW
    Thanks Mike. The week leading up to the storm event was much worse for rainfall than the actual storm itself.
  16. CDW
    Bottom half of main mast. It’s important to temporarily align the mast legs in their appropriate deck locations as it’s glued together.
  17. CDW
    The main mast platform provided a nice exercise in patience, eye strain, and photo etch folding. There is a lot more of this sort of exercise with this kit. The photo etch sheets add hundreds and hundreds of parts to deal with but they all add up to enhance the basic Trumpeter kit.
  18. CDW
    Not that I am aware of.
  19. CDW
    Battle of Dryfe Sands, Lockerbie Scotland, 1593. Clan Caruthers and Clan Pollock (Polk) joined opposing forces of Clan Johnstone and Clan Maxwell in a deadly battle. John Pollock was killed in this battle. John Pollock was my 10th great grandfather. My grandmother Julia Polk is a direct descendant of John Pollock. My grandfather Percy Caruthers is a direct descendant of the Caruthers Clan. What are the odds that a young pair of farmer's children from these warring clans in Scotland would meet each other in a little town called Newberry Florida hundreds of years later, fall in love and marry? Whatever the odds, it happened.
  20. CDW
    Glad to hear you got one Roger! Welcome. I am enjoying my kit.
  21. CDW
    Great model, love the progress. Do you have any info on the pilot of the plane that carried these markings? They had some very good pilots from what I have read with victory counts that rivaled the German aces in many cases.
  22. CDW
    For whatever it's worth, the kit color guide calls for Medium Gunship Gray for the sides above the waterline; Mr Color H305, Vallejo 868, Tamiya XF-58. Superstructure pieces Gray; Mr Color H308, Vallejo 990, Tamiya XF-19 They call for Cocoa Brown below the waterline, so their whole color callout may be "off" for all I know. I am going to do a shade of gray darker than Gunship Gray below the waterline in keeping with what OC said.
  23. CDW
    Oh, I forgot to say: the storm named Ella passed by last night without hardly a wimper. I fell asleep around midnight and never woke up until 7 AM. Got up and looked around in the yard, found hardly a branch out of place so I guess we never got a whole lot of wind at all from it. Very thankful we were spared yet again.
  24. CDW
    Despite all the dialogue that could go back and forth over a correct color of gray, I am going to take the easy way out and use a Mr Color gray modulation set to paint my Hood. It will allow me to start with a dark shade of gray then modulate to lighter shades of gray as I see fit to add depth and shading to my model. The gray modulation set consists of four shades of gray, from dark to light. Technically, it's labeled for German tanks. It might be a shade or hue off here and there but I am not enough of a purist to pursue a gray color down to the inth degree.
  25. CDW
    In this case the photo etch is way too fragile for double sided tape. It breaks it when you try and pull it off something it’s attached to. Yes there are sometimes pre etched fold lines but in this case no. You get a very small straight section of rail that must be bent to a radius that fits the searchlight platform. It was completely bent to a round shape when I was adjusting the size of the radius to fit the platform. While doing that, it sprung away from the tweezers and was gone. Unfortunately, a plastic bag distorts the view of a small part like this to an extent that blurs vision of it.

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