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further progress on the Missouri. The second photo shows how I made the 5" mounts positionable.

Work continues on the Mo. Hull is now painted with gun fairings and hawse pipes cut in. Now for the superstructure. My intention is to cover the very crude wooden construction with sheet styrene to better simulate steel.

Well here we are Four coats of rustoleum prime and still lumpy,but it doesn't look too bad in the photo so I guess it wil have to do.

This will be a build log of the Sterling kit of the USS Missouri on 1/192 scale. I began with the AA gun arsenal as a way to avoid tedium late in the build Then I started framing up the kit.

Looks good Jens,I look forward to seeing the pictures of the frames and planking.  Bill
Welcome to the forum

Find a WOODCRAFT STORE ,they have a really good selection of woodworking books in all phases. I was just in one last tuesday
and spent 15-20 minutes just looking through the titles.

The origins of Tailgating at sports events.
 

I have a Billings ,Will Everard in 1/67 scale . Unfortunately its a wood kit. Id let it go for $25 +shipping if youre interested.
 

As to fixing the larger lathe- You can make small parts on a big lathe, but you can't make large parts on a small lathe.

I can not explain how devastated I am to be announcing this.  My dear and close friend Jim Byrnes has passed away way too soon.   Many have you know and have met Jim.  He was a fantastic guy and true original.   Many of you own his tools which are second to none in the hobby.    I have been speaking with his wife Donna who many of you also know.  Jim was diagnosed with ALS in February.  ALS is a nasty disease and there is no cure.  Jim had a particularly aggressive type of ALS and he passed away last month in October.  He was just 64 years old.
 
This news will be devastating to many...but Donna has asked if everyone would have patience and give here and their family time to grieve.  As you might expect,  the business will continue to be shut down,  but will reopen at some time in the near future.  Donna will continue supporting the hobby and their customers when the time is right.   But please have patience and allow the family to grieve at this sad time.  Donna will let me know when the shop will reopen.  I will make an announcement at that time.  
 
I am so devastated by this...I just spoke to him not too long ago and it breaks my heart.  His obituary is below.
 
Jim is survived by his wife, Donna; son, James William (Krystal) and grandchildren Julian and Sloane; brother, Peter (Cindy) Byrnes and sisters, Mary (James) Hayman, Catherine Byrnes, Veronica Byrnes and Elaine Byrnes (Robert Campbell); brother-in-law, Eddie (Marcia) Grissom; brother-in-law, Frank Marzovilla, and many cherished nieces and nephews. Not to be forgotten is his beloved English Springer Spaniel, Becky, who is waiting every day for him to come home to her!

He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Lorraine Byrnes; brother, Robert Byrnes; nephew, Michael Byrnes; brother-in-law, Pete Stuffer; and mother-in-law, Opal Grissom.

Along with restoring vintage cars, from a very young age Jim had a true passion for model ship-building. For many years he had done extensive research on the U.S.S. Constitution and was in the final phase of completing his scratch build of the Constitution as it was originally launched in 1797. Following a career of working with Defense contract companies, Jim worked many years with and became a partner with Conceptual Engineering in Sanford FL. In 2002 Jim and Donna formed Model Machines LLC. Jim designed and developed small modeler’s machines that are now purchased worldwide and used in many high school and college machine shops and in museums for their restorations. There have been numerous reviews and articles written about Jim which were published in various modelers’ magazines. Modelers using Jim’s machines range from ship, railroad, doll houses, doll house furniture, pen turners, segmented bowls and architects. In recent years guitar, harp and violin makers were added to this list. Jim was a remarkable craftsman and had many more machines in development stage for modelers. He was always ready to help and mentor others, many of whom soon became his very close friends.

 Jim was also a member of the Nautical Research Guild and attended conferences throughout the U.S. for 20 years, developing many close friendships within this organization.

Jim was a humble, quiet man who was deeply loved and will be missed by so many. Our hearts, as a family, are broken. Thru this profound loss, if we can ask one thing from this place of despair, it would be to embrace your loved ones every chance you get.
 
 

Well ,I guess any more recommendations are moot at this point. But I have the MicroMark sander and it works good if one is patient. If you try to force it,it will just heat up and shut down. One improvement I made was to take out the height adjuster, drill a hole in the hex head and tap in a small roll pin so that I could tell by feel how much I was trying to take off.I forgot what the thread size is but you can guess fairly accurately what you're taking off. Also you should have a micrometer handy. I'm sure I have saved the price of the strip wood I have used y making it myself.  BILL

You've presented a great set of pics and a great model. You should be very proud. Also wonderful research.

After my vacations, finally an update. I tried to finish the P-38 and mainly did over the last days. The prop hubs with black and white parts gave me grieve and now I airbrushed them for the third time, very annoying. That's why they are not on the pics.

I carefully applied the decals, which behaved very well and on the aluminum, you can barely see carrier film. The white pinstripes around the black nose panels, where a bit difficult to master, but thankfully the thin strips were robust enough not to tear. The stencils are not complete, but I don't know, if I apply the rest. There were quite a lot of differences, between the Tamiya decal plan for the stencils and the ones I used from Bombshell. I used only warm water with some drops of detergent, because I didn't want to spoil my surfaces with aggressive solvents.

I painted the navigation and formation lights with clear colors, picked up some other details and then added the non weathered wheels only sprayed in one black shade, untypical for me.
I used the kit wheels, flattened with a sanding stick, because my Ultracast wheels didn't look too good and the Eduard masks wouldn't have fitted. 
The barrels are made of brass by Master and got a treatment with a patinating liquid, which give a matte brown black look, which I find very convincing.
 
Cheers Rob
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lion is gradually moving toward the goal.
Now it is time to dock the paws.
 

 

 

Graham, Jzn, Bill ...
Thank you for the info and I would like to apologize for the delay in acknowledging it. 
I have one of the MicroModel kits due in. 
I have seen both the Sarik & Billings kits, but I have enough un-built wood around here as is.
Again, thank you for your replies !
 
John Ratzenberger

Thank you for accepting me. I’m 57 from Mexico City and I’m an old novice: I started a Mamoli’s Puritan when my daughter born 16 years ago and I left unfinished in my hobby room because a worker damaged it. (I built plastic armored cars).
Two months ago I had a health problem that changed my mind about “I will finish that boat later”… so I returned and I’m facing some troubles to fix some things in the model, but I hope with the guidance I foundhere, I will finish it with aceptable quality.
 
thanks for accepting me… Antonio 

I have a Billings ,Will Everard in 1/67 scale . Unfortunately its a wood kit. Id let it go for $25 +shipping if youre interested.
 

The ships boats after the upgrade detail from MK1 and the Mk1 cradles.

I have 4 more pages of instructions before the big Mo is done.

These are beautiful. Are they made after real ships or are they fictional?

White metal castings can be bent,but you must do it gradually and support the whole piece with your fingers as you bend the piece. You don't usually get a second chance as the metal hardens as you bend it. So trial fit the piece as you bend it to fit whatever you're trying for so that you don't have to rebend. I have done this with parts from the Bluejacket Constitution and had success. BILL

HI ☺️
18 pound guns:
 

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9 Pound guns:
 
 

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Hi, and thanks Johann, and thanks to all ☺️
 
Parts of the carriage  of 9 and 18 pound: