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Looks great Glen! I'm pulling for it to be leakproof! 🤙👍
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She's looking really nice, Bill! Now that you've mastered plastic and wood, the next change of gears is an RC model.....😏
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That would have been quite the opportunity to have fine detailing, and fine crew figures too.
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Is there a typo there? At 1/72 scale the 197ft Panay would be 2.7ft long. This is the Panay PR-5?
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That's amazing! Your Bambu X-1 does a fabulous job. I just bought a Bambu A1 but I'm a complete newbie, hoping for the best. Bank account didn't extend to buying the AMS Lite multi-colour system for now but I've seen incredible pictures of what can be done. Your build is inspiring!
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Agreed.....I just bought a 3D printer capable of printing large sections of a ship's hull. Would be way cool.
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Loved Hawaii. Recommend taking a beginner surfing lesson for fun! Have a great time!
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No, you can't have seen it because I grew up in Bramalea just north of Toronto airport. Moved to Ottawa in 1981 after university but Lion hasn't seen water since. I just started on ship models again a few years ago and only joined the local RC club last year.
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In the case of Glen and his wife, "junk item" could be construed as "a short section of railway track".
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Yes it was nostalgic to find the note, and remember my young self. When the time comes I will put the note back, along with a new one dating the rebuild. Full disclosure: build quality was helped by my dad. He turned the main gun barrels from aluminum in spare time at work, and made the turrets on a mill. The secondary armament and fittings I bought somewhere. The rest was me. I think the funnels are balsa too; I recall wrapping them in silkspan to improve the finish.
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I think I had David MacGregor plans for Hood too! Many more sheets than the two for Lion.
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Short update. I needed to patch the bow but while doing so I found it is balsa ahead of the first bulkhead. Delicate choice; I decided to chisel off the balsa and will replace with pine. I did cut the curve of the forefoot into the proper shape . Before I removed the balsa she looked much better than the old squarish forefoot. Also found a dip along about 4" of the port forward sheer while I was trying to align supports for the A/B turret baseplate. Clamped on a thin piece which I will shave. This project has evolved into more work than I expected initially but I'm excited about the final outcome. Still thinking about the smoke unit. We're going away until later in Nov so this log will be quiet for a while.
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Now that all the ballast is out, the hull weighs next to nothing. I'm guessing 1-1/2 pounds, maybe? Maybe even less?
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Thanks Patrick for taking the time for a long drive to get it straight from the horse's mouth.
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George - another magnificent model meeting your exceedingly high standard! Fantastic at this scale, or indeed any scale.
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Suggestion: 3D print.
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Removed the aft deck to find more ballast and more sytrofoam in the inaccessible aft compartments, and also a time capsule note for posterity...... 😏 Aft compartments, with rudder linkage. Here's how much metal ballast was enclosed aft. Speaking of posterity..... Here are the timing gears and belts involved in pivoting A and B turrets in unison. I laser cut a plywood baseplate to set A and B shafts at the correct centres for the first belt, and also set the micro servo's arm axis at the correct centres for the second belt to B shaft. I hope to assemble and test tomorrow.
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Nice pics of scenic landscapes. An area I've never been to.
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Funny you should ask....I just recently ordered "British Battleships of WWI" by R.A. Burt (I'm re-detailing an RC model of HMS Lion I scratch built in the 70's). This book obviously includes Dreadnought. Here are a few pics which might assist you. In the line drawings of profiles in this book, signal halyards from the yardarms just kind of fade out in mid-air but they all were cleated on the flag deck which at least on Lion is one deck above the shelter deck which is one deck above the weather deck. One of the photos shows a set of signal halyards pretty clearly. If you need a pic of some particular view, let me know and I'll check the other photos. By the way, she looks great! I've never airbrushed a model, I'm such a dinosaur....😭 Ian
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Hi Glen; FYI usual practice is to hang long weighted lengths of thread for shrouds on the wall to stretch them out. For days. When rigging them, they can then be pulled nice and straight without too much tension.
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