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  1. CDW
    What a great looking model. I love these wooden work boats.
  2. CDW
    Main mast with working boom under construction.
  3. CDW
    This has been a great ride, watching you build the Warspite. Loved every minute of it, and the final pictures are just icing on the cake. Thinking back to what you went through to get this model finished, I think it's a special accomplishment on your part. I recall when something (maybe sunlight?) deformed part of the hull and you had to work through all that to finish her. Lots of guys would have given up, but you hung in there and really made something special. Kudos!
  4. CDW
    Thanks! I planned to do the 1:200 USS Hornet next, but have not yet acquired all the details pieces I want for it. The hangar area deserves a lot of love on that model, and lights, too. There's a lot that remains to be done before Mikasa is finished. Lots of small, fiddly pieces and parts. Particularly on the hull. All kinds of torpedo net rigging, booms, walkways, and the nets themselves. More guns, and lots of boats.
  5. CDW
    Thanks for the nice comments, popeye. The wife was really impressed by how neat and clean everything was in New Hampshire, besides just the beautiful scenery. She came back a huge fan of fish chowder.
  6. CDW
    All that prep work you performed pays huge dividends in a great finish. The hull looks magnificent.
  7. CDW
    Thank you OC. Looking forward to getting some paint and rigging on the masts.
  8. CDW
    Foremast preview. Still, much remains to be added to the mast, plus paint then rigging.
  9. CDW
    Ha-ha...they went to "Santa Town". The wife really loved New Hampshire. Said it is bee-you-tee-ful. Our daughter and son in law took her on a grand tour. She came home saying she wants us to find a summer home there. I don't know about that. PS: now you know where my grandchildren get their blond hair.
  10. CDW
    I picked up my Admiral from the airport this afternoon. She flew up and spent some time with our oldest daughter in New Hampshire this past week. Can you believe this beautiful bride I married so long ago is the mother of our 48 year old daughter as well as our other 5 children? Good genes.
  11. CDW
    At this scale, Pontos does a fine job in it's rendering of the masts. This is the top half of the foremast. All the proper rigging tie off points are reproduced. Even the lantern/light on top of the masts are included. Very impressed with the attention given to the masts at this point.
  12. CDW
    I'm in! Looking forward to this very much.
  13. CDW
    Finding reference material to show the tie down points for rigging Mikasa has been less than precise, much less in fact. So, am doing the next best thing. "Kentucky windage". One of the main objectives is tying down so the rigging doesn't interfere with the ships boats, to be added after the rigging is done.
  14. CDW
    Look at those two grandsons in the picture above, then imagine this...a true story: The big brother Wyatt was playing a video game while the little brother River was looking on. Wyatt told his dad, "River keeps telling me, kick his 'A'! kick his 'A'!. River (in his own defense) tells his dad, I did not say to kick his 'A'. I said to kick his ***! And that's what little boys are made of. Particularly River. He's a handful to say the least.
  15. CDW
    My 3 year old grandson, River, caught himself a snake today in the front yard. His older brother Wyatt looks on wondering, "how the heck did he just do that?"
  16. CDW
    If those pictures got any sharper than that, I would probably lose an eye. 🙂 Stunning detail.
  17. CDW
    Maybe that's why they include a set of gloves? Perhaps they are some kind of glove similar to what you wear when doing fish fillets.
  18. CDW
    Looks like a penny less than $400 from Micro Mark. Ouch.
  19. CDW
    Thanks Ken. I'm going to go look at that pic right now.
  20. CDW
    Funnels detailed, painted, and attached. Next, some rigging perhaps, then the masts.
  21. CDW
    Thanks for that photo! Hmmm...that would be an interesting way of displaying the nets.
  22. CDW
    Oh and by the way...I was talking to a life long friend and hobby shop owner today, and showed him my Mikasa photos. He knows a local author and ship historian who actually wrote a book on the Mikasa after studying, measuring, and photographing it in Japan some years ago. My friend thinks the author will be interested in buying my model. We'll see.
  23. CDW
    I'm thinking deployed. Have not seen any photos to know how they would have been stowed. That may be interesting, too.
  24. CDW
    Thanks Lou...and there is so much more detail yet to be added. Some very full sheets of photo etch and turned brass parts yet remain to be done. I'm trying to decide whether to use the Pontos supplied torpedo nets or build my own. I've seen some very convincing torpedo nets that can be made from readily available materials and they look much better than the photo etch ones in my opinion. Those won't be done until last, so I have time to experiment and decide.
  25. CDW
    Thank you kindly for the nice comments gentlemen. Much appreciated.

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