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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. -
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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The riverboat's name has caused the Rolling Stones to be stuck in my head. 🙂
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Thanks again for all the positive and encouraging comments. As for the photo backdrop and lighting, no purchase has been made as of yet, but I am inclined to go the route described by Dubz and others who suggested a separate, improved backdrop with LED lighting as required or even natural light outdoors. I guess I am too impatient and lazy to wait for daylight hours and /or good weather to photo my models by depending upon natural light alone. My work on the torpedo net continues as I look for appropriate material to create the net. I'm just not sold on using the photo etch net in it's entirety as it comes from the Pontos set. On the other hand, my experiments for a suitable material to replace the photo etch has not yielded the results I want yet. My search continues. I did acquire a set of IJN battle flags from this company: http://becc.co.uk I like what I received from them.
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Neat, clean, and professional. The Pontos set adds amazing levels of detail to an otherwise good model without any aftermarket at all. I have yet to find any other photo etch sets that come close to the realism that Pontos provides. You're going to have a lot of hours invested in this model when it's finished. Doesn't it make you glad we are not getting paid by the hour to build model ships? I'd probably be earning about 10 cents per hour.🙂
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But they look SO good. These boats will add a lot to your finished model. You've done a superb job on them to this point.
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I'm trying to figure out how I will attach the all torpedo net booms so that they hang level. It seems I need to devise some type of jig to keep them all uniform. The booms attach to the hull by means of a hook/swivel at their base point against the hull, then by cables at the top that serve to "adjust" their level. However, the cables are not functionally adjustable, rather the adjustment takes place when they are glued to their attachment point on the hull. It seems to me that what I need is a strip of some material (probably wood) that runs parallel to the length of the hull at the elevation/height needed to attach the torpedo net.
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You're a brave man, Channell. My wife would knock knots on top of my head faster than I could rub them.
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How much thought have you given to where you will display your model when it's finished? I have a few ideas of how I might display my large scale ship models, but that's another project all it's own. Very soon, it's going to be a necessary undertaking for me.
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Thanks for the encouragement Lou. I appreciate it friend.
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Here's a look at the catwalks after they have been installed.
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These are sections of the catwalks, provided in the Pontos update set. Each side of the ship gets seven catwalk sections to finish a side. These are the last three I assembled and are now ready to be attached to the ship, completing the tedious catwalk assemblies. Once these are installed, along with the torpedo net boom assemblies, it becomes more obvious why I decided early on that these assemblies must be among the last assemblies installed to finish the ship. Once they are added along with the props, handling the model becomes much more difficult without inadvertently knocking something off and possibly losing it. At this juncture, my mind is made up to go ahead and install the extended torpedo nets and booms. I thought maybe I would not, but have changed my mind. I was concerned the nets may easily be broken off if the ship was handled, but I now believe the boom assemblies are sufficiently engineered to support the extended nets. Hope I'm right, we shall soon see.
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