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Holy moly, that's a lot of holies. I agree with Canute. Wire bits with a slow electric hand drill will get the job done when a lot of holes are required. I rigged one up using a micro sized chuck and a hand held electric (rechargeable battery) screw driver. -
It's fun watching you guys tackle this ship with all the upgrade parts. To be honest, it looks rather intimidating at 1:350 scale. This could be a very long term build if I was the one doing it. The rigging for the torpedo nets looks particularly daunting.
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After 9-11-2001, the US saw the need to implement COOP (continuity of operations) and COG (continuity of government) plans across the entire united states. Every state and local government organization are required to have up to date and current COOP-COG plans in place and to have personnel who are trained and qualified to run (ICS) incident command system structure/systems. Part of the US government's overarching plans include an acronym "bible" which every local and state government must utilize to ensure we all speak the same language and can understand one another.
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And you've spent enough time in the military to be indoctrinated (should I say brainwashed?) into the use of acronyms. We had an acronym for almost everything, and that's no joke.
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Maybe it's too late for this now, but Amazon has reliable vendors who sell laptop replacement batteries for as little as $20. I presume there is some form of Amazon sales in the UK?
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On a whim, I bought a scroll saw from Harbor Freight one day and almost instantly regretted it. Before that, I had a Dremel scroll saw. Honestly I didn't like either saw and had a hard time staying on track with them. It's quite possible the problem was me, the operator. But I didn't find either saw very comfortable to work with and they left me with a desire to find a better saw one day when I can afford a good one (whatever that is). I've seen some builders on this forum do marvelous work with a hand saw. I never owned a good hand saw either. PS: The kits that came to mind when I said die crunched mahogany parts were the old Sterling ship model kits. Dumas had them as well.
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What's the thickness of the mahogany sheets? I recall a lot of splitting on the old die cut (die crunched) parts of models that had those. Seems like a very fine blade is needed to cut them without splintering. Maybe score them with an XActo knife or similar, first. Wonder if that would help?
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Where you run into problems is having enamel as a base coat. Enamel dries very slowly and takes a long time to gas out. Acrylics dry much faster. Even lacquer paints like Alclad use acrylic as a recommended base coat. Way back when, we used oil paints as our washes. We used turpenoid, an artificial turpentine, as a reducer for the oil paint wash. You can find turpenoid in the art supply stores fairly cheap in quart size cans. It's also known as a "spirit", and is clear like the substance Semore is using here. Turpenoid will not harm acrylics.
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Yes, that's the one. The kit came with the long bottle-nose as a way to update the kit to a GR3 (?) if one wished to do so. Sounds like you have some good memories of your Dad with model building.
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I must agree with you Nils. Every time I look at Denis' work and admire it, it gets even better the next time.! Looking really great, Denis.
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Oh, by the way, don't do a general search on Ebay for "uschi", particularly if your admiral or children are standing anywhere near plain view of your computer monitor. Been there, done that, and got the tee shirt.
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Fabulous website, Richmond. Thanks for sharing those links! There is an online shop here in the USA, Florida to be exact, who carries the Uschi products. BNA is a go-to online shop for me. Even though it's on the other side of the world from here, his prices are competitive even with the shipping on many things. And his product selection is huge. Great shop.
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And lord help 'ya if one of those "ant legs" pops out of your tweezers while you're assembling the guns. You will be plain lucky if you find it. Good quality tweezers are a must for this small stuff, not our wive's eyebrow pluckers.
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I've never built a Z-M kit myself, Ken. So this will be a new adventure building my first one. Something very fascinating about the airframe designs of the Shinden and Horten aircraft. Way ahead of their time, almost like Sci-Fi machines. Here in Tampa at MacDill AFB, we saw F-4's for many years. Always loved the lines of that brute. She was big and fast, with that distinctive dark vapor trail behind her. Then there were F-16's and now nothing but tankers. Before the F-4's, there were B-47's.
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To the best of my knowledge, I have not visited the uschi site. Do you have a link for it?
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Yes, I do have the wood grain decals for the Horten, along with several other detail sets I thought would be nice for the kit. Likewise with the Shinden. Part of the reasons I haven't started the Horten yet is trying to decide exactly how I want to finish and display the model. I like the wood grain, but don't want to do the entire model in wood grain. There are beautiful details in both models, but the Horten shell is molded in clear plastic. I'm not a big fan of leaving parts of the shell clear, so need to decide whether to display the model with some of the details removed (such as the engines) or to display with open panels to expose the details.
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How did you like the Airfix Harrier GR-1? That's a 1:32 model I never owned, but I did own the 1:24 Airfix Harrier a long time ago. I had the complete Parkins update set for that model, but ended up trading the set for something else. Besides the J7W1 Shinden, I also have the Horten 229 flying wing. Both are from the Zoukei-Mura Silver Wings Series. The Horten is going to be a fantastic model.
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This is the start of my 1:32 Zoukei-Mura J7W1 Shinden build thread. The J7W1 Shinden made her maiden test flights in early August, 1945, after a very quick design phase that started in started in February, 1944, and saw her initial design completed in November, 1944. She was designed and built to counter the allied bombing of the Japanese mainland by high altitude B-29 bombers. "A superior high speed land based fighter aircraft capable of mastering the shooting down of enemy bombers". She was a single engine monoplane fighter with forward airfoils. She was a design that had never been seen before. She was powered by a 2030 HP 18 cylinder radial engine which turned a massive 6 blade prop located at the aft end of her fuselage. Her maximum airspeed was 405 knots and could climb from ground level to 8,000 meters in under 10 minutes 30 seconds with a maximum altitude of 12,000 meters. She was armed with 4 30mm cannons. Zoukei-Mura is a relative newcomer to the injection molded model manufacturing scene, and has hit the scene with some incredibly detailed models of iconic World War 2 fighters and bombers. This kit is no exception and is regarded as the finest model of the J7W1 Shinden on the market, regardless of scale.
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Polite company does not ask questions about, "how many more of those do you have to build?" It's just too darned traumatic. I'm going to guess there are a couple of dozen of those guns, total. 🤨 Does Pontos provide the photo etch magazines for the racks as well? Those could be hasseliferous.
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Hey, it doesn't really matter what the actual season is at the moment...if the Admiral says, "move it", I move it. Just like a good soldier, 'cause I am. Anyway, while shopping for some last minute food items this morning at WalMart (a plug for Denis' work establishment), I found this sheer material in their fabrics section. I believe this will perfectly suit my needs for a torpedo net material. Will either dye or paint it the color I want. Will test it to see which is appropriate later on (2019). Cheers!
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My wife has our house decorated up like Santa's workshop/wonderland. She is literally using every bit of space available for her seasonal passion, bless her heart. She loves doing this so much every year, but it really takes patience.
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This is just to serve notice that I will be out of the model building business until after the holidays are past us. No more progress on the Mikasa until after New Year, 2019. Hope everyone has a great holiday season!
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I wish I knew that answer. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will help us solve this mystery. I stared, looked, and wondered the same. How the heck do they get these big boats off the ship?
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