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    Looking very good. Makes me want to start yet another project. I've not tried a Shipyard model yet but I'm so tempted. But, I don't think I've quite developed the skill set yet. Liquitex and Aleene's... What more does a modeler need? Well... maybe some sort of blade.
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    One of my favorite WWI aircraft. And Rickenbacker is such an interesting character. I read his autobiography and 'Seven Came Through' while I was in high school. He's stuck with me ever since. Years ago when I lived in Columbus, Ohio, where Rickenbacker grew up, there was an effort to conserve his boyhood home. I always found it interesting that at Mott's Military Museum, not far from Columbus, they had built a reproduction of the home rather than move the original structure. I suppose it was cheaper and less bureaucratically restricted to build the repro.
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  17. Jsk
    Wanted to pop in again and say thanks for all the useful information. Maybe after we retire and move next year I'll actually take the plunge and get my own resin printer. Until then I'll try and make my *.stl files more print friendly though it sounds like experimentation is the best teacher of this black art. 😉
  18. Jsk
    I really like the idea. One of the reasons I like card modeling is because of the limited waste it produces but it does require constantly sharp blades. However, I'm constantly snapping off the fine point of the scalpel as I cut small curves of some card models. Would the harder metal of the better blade really be an advantage in that respect?
  19. Jsk
    Once again the cleanness and consistency of your building amazes me. Job well done!
  20. Jsk
    Hmmm.... The SM B3 handle seems difficult to find in the US.
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    Wow, a lot of information to absorb here. Thanks so much. It's all good. Most of the parts I get back from the printer still have the supports attached so I can determine the orientation in which they were printed. Does it make sense to orient the model and model the supports in the modeling program? The few slicer programs I've looked at do that for you. I assumed it would be rather slicer/printer specific but perhaps it's just more for convenience sake. I've been rather old-school in my modeling thinking that the fewer triangles in the model the easier and more effecient to print. But it sounds like that's not really the case.
  24. Jsk
    Bah, you say that about all your builds!
  25. Jsk
    Thanks, guys. I'll give UMM a bit of support. I've got blades that will fit both handles though I almost always use the #11 blade.
  26. Jsk
    I've found that scalpel blades are so much better than hobby blades. But I don't like the standard flat #3 scalpel handle. I like that it doesn't roll away, but I find it rather difficult to hold and determine if I'm holding it the right way. Are there any alternatives? I've got a Fiskars finger grip knife, which I really like. But it doesn't hold a #11 scalpel blades, only #11 hobby blades. Suggestions? TIA
  27. Jsk
    Is there any indication as to who designed this model? I'm struck by how similar so many of these card kits are to each other. The instructions all look the same, too. Of course, you never find out what's missing in the instructions until you get to building!
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  29. Jsk
    Me, too! When I started working on the Seahorse Revenue Cutter a year ago I think I read your entire blog soaking up a lot of ideas on how to approach the build. Very inspiring! I'm really glad you're back to working on the Wolf.
  30. Jsk
    Sounds delicious. I'm going to have to try that. Sounds like a Netflix series about pirates. That interior coating of epoxy is an interesting technique. This is a static model, right? Not built for actual use on water?
  31. Jsk
    Thanks. Yeah, they're small. The small guns are suppose to be 3 and 4 pounder Hotchkiss (I think). They're no more than 0.5 inch from muzzle to butt. I've tweaked the model with beefier barrels and shoulder stocks and will try again.
  32. Jsk
    These are for a 1/200th scale model. So the 8" gun (the big one) is 68mm in length. I'm not sure what slicer the guy printing the items is using and I'm assuming his program allows him to add the supports. This particular part came without supports attached but it looks like there were 10 in-line running along the bottom. The 6" gun did have a number of supports attached similarly. Other pieces do seem to be adequately supported.

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