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CDW reacted to JesseLee in Syren by JesseLee - FINISHED - Model Shipways - scale: 1:64
Been plugging along slowly. Haven't posted until now because there would be too little to show until I got a little more done. By the time I rig a line or two I am in so much pain I have to leave it and come back later so it takes a while.
Since my last posting I have rigged the main & fore topmast backstays, main & fore topmast stays, main & fore topmast preventer stay, fore & main topgallant shrouds, main & fore topgallant backstays and the main royal backstays. It doesn't look like that much in the pictures. When trying to rig the block and rope coil for the main royal backstay I snagged the door to the companionway and snapped it off. It went right down the hole below so I have to make another. I have accidentally cut a line or two and have had to re-rig them. I found it very difficult to rig the lanyards for the fore topmast and fore topmast preventer stays. There is very little room to work with. I am still not satisfied with my mouse making but they are ok.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Evening all, I started work on the cranes today I decided to make the kit one and compare it to the pe version, after cleaning and thinning some of the support struts, I decided to go with the kit one, I decided to make up some platform gantrys also some railings, not foregeting the ladder, also I added some pe bits and pieces just to give it some detail.
Next off was the actual crane lattice boom, this is a alum pe part that comes with the kit, the main part is folded in three and then has the bottom glued to make up the box work, then there is a upper sheave with control wheel that I fitted on both sides, I even fitted the hook up inside the sheave.
Here are a few pictures showing the state of build minus the guy lines.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Thank you kindly lou, its supprising just how small the pieces are, and the level of dexterity just to hold them takes some doing.
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CDW got a reaction from Piet in IJN Mikasa by CDW - Wave Models - 1:200 scale - PLASTIC
Ventilators and superstructure dry fit.
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CDW got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in IJN Mikasa by CDW - Wave Models - 1:200 scale - PLASTIC
Ventilators and superstructure dry fit.
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CDW got a reaction from src in IJN Mikasa by CDW - Wave Models - 1:200 scale - PLASTIC
Ventilators and superstructure dry fit.
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CDW got a reaction from yvesvidal in IJN Mikasa by CDW - Wave Models - 1:200 scale - PLASTIC
Ventilators and superstructure dry fit.
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CDW got a reaction from Piet in IJN Mikasa by CDW - Wave Models - 1:200 scale - PLASTIC
Baby steps. Nothing big, just baby steps.
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CDW got a reaction from J11 in USS Hornet by CDW - Merit International - 1:200 - PLASTIC - Scale Aircraft Carrier
This model has the entire hangar under the main deck. A real opportunity for super detail if one wished to do that. A novelty, the main deck is molded in clear if someone wanted to leave either part, or the whole deck visible to the hangar. I won't do that but it will be a good place to park the flight of aircraft while the B-25's are lashed to the main deck..
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CDW got a reaction from J11 in USS Hornet by CDW - Merit International - 1:200 - PLASTIC - Scale Aircraft Carrier
Oh, will build both sets of aicraft for sure.
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CDW got a reaction from J11 in USS Hornet by CDW - Merit International - 1:200 - PLASTIC - Scale Aircraft Carrier
Those gale winds had to have helped the B-25 bombers lift off the carrier deck. A little additional airspeed by way of mother nature.
Watching the video, the short run down the deck seems even shorter than I had remembered it.
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CDW got a reaction from Piet in USS Arizona by popeye the sailor - Revell - 1:426 scale - PLASTIC
Just found your Arizona build log. Will follow and enjoy it with you.
I think projects like this one are some of the most fun you can have in modeling. No AMS is required nor needed, just build it and detail it as you see fit...the only rule is to have fun doing it. Besides, it helps many of us re-live a great childhood past of long summer days of building our models, then floating them in puddles, streams, and ponds. I know I did a lot of that.
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CDW reacted to cog in G Class Destroyer by cog - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - from Tribal Class kit
I've been cleaning desk ... saw it had a wooden top haven't seen that in year (tells you sumink about my cleaning skills ... So next victim ...H class distroyer, next build log
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CDW reacted to cog in G Class Destroyer by cog - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - from Tribal Class kit
Thanks 'arry, good to see you come out of your lurking habbit ;) Saw you've got some of that modelling mojo back ... so get to it mate
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CDW reacted to cog in G Class Destroyer by cog - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - from Tribal Class kit
Thank you Steven, not half as brilliant as your dromond with it's rubber "yard garters". Much appreciated though.
Glad to have been of service. Maybe I will try my hand at a diorama in 1/700 from her final heroic moments, that would be a real challenge ... first a few more 1/350 builds, and then I would like to start on the Arno XI, it has been boxed far to long
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CDW reacted to lmagna in G Class Destroyer by cog - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - from Tribal Class kit
How you built her is your choice. You built what made her came alive for you. Just being able to see her after reading about her so many times in books through the years was a reward enough for me. There are far too many ships like this that deserve to be remembered but are never manufactured or built for some reason.
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CDW reacted to Jack12477 in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Try living in the Finger Lakes region this past week. Seneca Lake, the 2nd longest (38 miles, 61 km) and largest (by volume, estimated at 3.81 cubic miles or 15.9 cubic km) lake in the Finger Lakes saw the lake level rise 10 inches between 3:30 AM and 1:00 PM on this past Tuesday after 5-9 inches of rain fell in a short period of time over the southern end of the lake. Seneca Lake, for those not familiar, holds about half the total volume of all the other Finger Lakes. Cayuga Lake, its neighbor and the longest of the lakes( just under 40 miles, 64 km), experienced a water level rise of about 3 inches. That's a lot of acre feet of water. The system sat off the New England coast pumping moisture off the Atlantic into central NY in a counter clockwise pattern, dumping most of it over the Finger Lakes area and central Pennsylvania.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Evening all, pom pom number three - kit bashed, assembled pe fitted and painted then glued down.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
I took a shot this evening with my dslr, it was a low light shot using the camera flash.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Evening everyone, again - sincere thanks to all for the looks, likes and comments.
Right! I thought I would do a mini blog on the building of one of my pom pom units, I thought I would do this as its the last one to be built and perhaps it will be useful and hopefully interesting.
So lets start -
First job was to cut the base and the left and right barrel units from the spru, then they were tieded up removing the join pips - after the two halves of the barrel unit were glued together, and the ammo feeds were filed smmoth all the way round, then the base recieved some attention starting by the fitting of the motor body made from 2mm dowel sanded down slightly and cut to a legnth of about 4mm, it was then glued using ca and heated by hairdryer to speed up setting.
Next I cut and filed off the plastic interpretation of the barrel guard.
Here are the pictures showing the barrel unit assembled, and the base with the motor unit -
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Then I turned the base over and set about removing some of the framework by filing it (the idea is to reduce the height they sit on the deck) next was to remove the pe barrel guard and clean it up slightly around the edge also filing the inside a bit to aid gluing the center strip against the body, then after drying I had to bend in both wings of the guard and glue it to the base -
Pictures show this sequence starting from the flat guard.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Next was to cut away the two hand rails that go on the front of the base - again pe units, these were cut using my sharp scalpel blade, with a small amount of trimming the pips that come away with it, to aid fitting in place - I scored a slight channel in the base (only a scalpel blade width) then I dribbled a small amount of ca into the channel using a tooth pic size dowel thats been pointed, and used my scalpel to place the rails carefully nudging them into correct alignement.
Pics show the pe fret with the rails highlighted inside the red circle, and me cutting them away with my scalpel, then showing them placed on the base.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
So were getting there piece by piece - next comes the barrel units that were fiited with the left and right ammo unit frames, these were cut from the pe fret then bent into a U shape bending in their wings, these were then placed over the ammo boxes (but a little trick was to hold the units upside down so the frames were placed with gravity keeping them in place) then some ca was applied over them - this found its way behind the frames by capillary action, this was repeated front and back and on both ammo boxes, then dry heated.
Next off was to cut away the top details that simulate the ammo, this was attached to other parts of the frames on the pe fret, then it was just a case of applying some ca and placing the two ammo plates ontop of the ammo boxes.
These pics show the completed barrel unit and the base.
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CDW reacted to Old Collingwood in HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC
Nearly there - Next was to glue dow the barrel unit to the base and in doing choose what elevation I wanted, then after drying I fitted the final small pe items including the sights unit that was fitted ontop of the barrel unit, and a front sight unit that was glued to the edge front of the base.
So apart from painting, this is the completed pom pom unit - and last one I needed to build.
Hope its been of interest and helpful in building these interesting assemblies.
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