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Thanks for the link and explanation. I did a similar thing back in my RC days only I used monofilliment and fishing crimps: https://www.amazon.com/American-Fishing-Wire-Diameter-100-Pieces/dp/B004VZKO4W/ref=asc_df_B004VZKOH4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312154679201&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16609551059774552113&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033346&hvtargid=pla-569615872019&th=1 Worked quite well and looked pretty scale on what was supposed to be 1/48th steel rigging. -
Great work and certainly major progress. I do have a question on your "zip seizing" though. Could you go into a little more explanation? I think it is pre-glued line that is slipped over the other doubled lines and secured into place, but I am not certain. Again great work.
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Craig I'm sorry to nitpick, but you missed a very noticeable design feature. The prop had angled tips, not straight!
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Put it in a case with a mirrored back panel! That's funny Wallace. We posted at the same time and I was at first going to say turntable!
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Great find Mark.
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You need to put a plow on the front and put it to work Jack! Looking pretty nice.
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One small step for Sultana, one giant leap for Patrick!
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Thanks for the pictures Patrick Your fore deck is really starting to fill in!
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Glad to see that you added the rigging Jack. It made the ship look much better, so did the weathering. Thanks for letting us come along for the build.
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I had also thought of canvas but if they did then it was a special cut pieces that go around the boat davits and deck furniture. I thought that was somewhat unlikely. I had not thought of it being Linoleum. I thought that it was also interesting that the seams seem to be about every six or seven feet apart then after the four strips the seams appear to completely stop all of the rest of the way inboard. Oh well I will go back into my watch mode and continue to wonder.
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I have been trying not to interfere with your build Greg but is the picture of the real ship coaling the same ship? It appears that your ship has planking on all decks while the ship in the picture appears to have a painted steel deck. Same ship, different time? Different ship?
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I am not totally certain about the Smit Rotterdam, on many ships the bow thruster prop looks black. But I do know that many ships use a stainless prop as well so that would add another color to your possible choices.
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Hi OC Fantastic work as always. What happened to the right hand gunport in picture #1? looks like it took a direct hit just above the cannon barrel!
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Looks like another clear cut case of "OH SHINY!" I tend to suffer from the same condition! At the rate you are progressing on the Shinden though you will be done with it before the Nick even comes out!
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Thanks Craig I stand corrected. It is clear in the close ups that the canards did have movable control surfaces. They even have a small trim tab close to the fuselage and several balancers. I did think that the plane was intended as a ground based high speed interceptor not a carrier based aircraft though. It appears that the military version you are building is out of stock or as you say possibly out of production, but the "Ah My Goddess" version is still available. It appears that it is the same kit with additional parts to build the fictitious version. All the additional PE and other parts are also available. Amazon is listing the kit at $130, but Volks USA has one left at $95 I read some of the "Concept" PDF on the company site and it made some interesting reading. Looking forward to continuing with your fantastic build.
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I think that OC will confirm this as he is for all intents building this kit now, as the Black Pearl. This model started out as the Black Pearl from the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies made by Zvezda. At some point Zvezda replaced the figurehead with the swan and I think they started selling it as the Black Swan. Now the kit is being sold through Revell Of Germany as just a generic pirate ship, and I think is still available as the Black Pearl. If that doesn't completely confuse you then I have failed in my attempt. So in one respect it is a real ship in that one was made for the movie. In all other respects it is totally fictitious depending on how you look at it. If you look at OC's build you can see that either way it can be a very interesting ship to build and like any other plastic ship I am sure you could bash it into any number of real period ships. Or like him just have some fun with it. https://stage.revell.de/fileadmin/import/images/bau/05605_%23BAU_PIRATE_SHIP.PDF Hope that helps
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It looks like you did so well that you made Patrick back up and do his over as well. Nice complement on a job well done.
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It looks like at about 1:33 they may have had a little prop clearance problems on either taking off or landing. But it is pretty clear it flew. I kind of fine it odd that the canards have no accommodations for movement or control surfaces. It would seem that if they were the aircraft would be much more maneuverable. Are you going to build a diorama? Or just display it with covers off?
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I ALWAYS know where I am, I just don't always now how to get to where THERE is Ken! On the other hand My wife is lucky if she can find her way across the street and back! Jim, do you have an average time it takes you to make and average painting? It seems like you are a little like Bob Ross, cranking out another beautiful rendition every day or two! Also I can't help but wonder what you use as inspiration for each painting. They seem to run the gamut from aircraft to ships, calm weather to storms, modern to ancient.
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We should really thank OC. He found the company a few months ago when he wanted to get a pretty heavy and large dollhouse I have, sent to him in Wales. The dollhouse never got sent, but I kept the link because who knows when like now it can be useful. I think they will even do domestic shipping. US to US or UK to UK or other countries as well. It does not seem to need to be international.
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Looks like you have already made quite a bit of progress on the LVTP Jack. Are you going to do the camo like on the box top? Your figure certainly has a strange pose!
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You might look into this company: https://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk/parcel-delivery/ They are located in the UK but deal with worldwide shipping at reduced costs. Enter in your size, weight, and shipping information and I think you might be surprised. If you like what you come up with you can contact them and they will supply shipping labels etc and off it goes.
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