RGL
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I was fortunate enough to be with the UN in East Timor at the turn of the century, and a African bloke asked me why I couldn’t speak French, I tried to explain that Australia is the middle of nowhere, we don’t need to. He wasn’t happy with that answer but I didn’t have to go back to Africa.- 1,090 replies
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So finally arrived from France today (the French post office sent it back to the shop once because apparently Australia does not exist) I got a twin flack for Z-25 (I’ll get to it) and some signal lamps and Hedge hogs for the next Vendetta. Nice touch the chocolates
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This is my digital graveyard here. God knows what the kids will do with them when I drop off the twigg
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I got an Eskimo as well on the way. Well, maybe she’ll be an Eskimo, maybe something else.
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So I’ve lifted the bow, drilled new hawser holes, drilled out the portholes. I’ll need to replace ringols from spares where I’ve sanded them off. Serious it’s a pain to have to do this but can’t be helped.
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Time to start on the Zulu hull, apparently the bow is wrong so bash time. @cog did a really nice photo on his bow modification on his conversion of a Tribal. The stern needs work too. The hawser hole is really out of line so I’ll fix that and I’ve flattened the focsle so I intend to scratch a fair bit on that.
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Final guns, twin flack that sit immediately in front of the bridge. The kit only has the old 37mm’s which were discarded so I ordered some shapeways one horrible the Flyhawk ones were beyond my ability to produce so I doctored them up and added some spare barrels. That’ll do pig.
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Never seen them. Unfortunately anything from America to Australia is stupidly expensive due to trade regulations. Anything from ebay for instance costs $50 shipping where as from anywhere might cost $5.
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It’s certainly days of work, the fine motor skills skills fade after a few hours. The final guns, twin 20mm guns, (the shapeways replacements are somewhere in the worlds postal system, France Post does not know where Australia is as it gone sent back the the vendor.
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By 1945, Z-25 had all of its AA pretty much replaced with twin cannons, the kit provides some rubbish, the upgrade is all flat packs so I got brass single cannon and a shapeways twin cannon. Not to the standard of Micromaster but they’ll do.
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Next the masts, replaced them with brass so the rigging will stay on and not bend like a sapling
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