GrandpaPhil
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That is an excellent book!
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All ladders going down into the ship are made and installed:
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Alan, Thank you very much! Jeff, Lol, I enjoy the hobby quite a lot, and each build I learn something new! The challenge is what makes it fun! I’m having a ladder making party today: Second set for the day: Ladders are one of the hardest parts of a ship for me, especially modernish ships.
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Very nice!
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Thank you both very much! Mott’s Military Museum is a very neat place. I like it quite a lot and have been through there a few times. Captain Rickenbacker was a very interesting character. This one took me about 80 hours to build and is now done: I’ll deliver it to its new home this week. Thank you all for watching and following along! Have a very Merry Christmas! And it is now paper ship o’clock!
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The upper wing is on and the figure is base coated. It’s about time to finish the models for the diorama and assemble all of them. I already stripped the rest of the sprues and added the remaining extra parts to my bits box and extra bag o’ decals.
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Decals/markings are added: The figure is started: And here’s the base: Time to finish prepping for rigging and add the top wing!
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Have you seen the Venetian Galleass in Souvenirs de Marine? That looks awesome and I want to build that one day.
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Very cool!
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Harold Hahn’s books have his plans of ARW ships too. Some of them are buildable right out of the books with some resizing.
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The Smithsonian has plans available for most of the US sailing navy.
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The model is painted and sealed: The base is also made. It is time to add the decals and paint the figure. Then I’ll seal the model again and figure out how I’m attaching the upper wing, lol.
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One very roughed out base coated six color Western Front camouflage scheme: The next time I work on it I’ll touch everything up and do all the detail painting. Then everything’s getting sealed and decals are getting added. Then everything gets sealed again before I add the struts and the windscreen. After that I’ll add that top wing and rig the model!
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Very nicely done!
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I’m building a second Eddie Rickenbacker diorama for another friend of mine. This time I am building Captain Rickenbacker’s Spad XIII, with which he got the majority of his kills. A few notes about the kit. This one has been a completely different experience than the Nieuport. That one went together relatively well, except for the top wing. This model, on the other hand, has been a stark lesson in adapt and overcome. I am over 40 hours into this one and have just finished assembling/building the subassemblies, and priming the majority of the model black. I painted the interior but ended up cutting most of the engine out to fit the top piece of the fuselage on the model: I had the same problems that Modeller Masa did with parts fitting. I actually deliberately broke the top piece of the fuselage to make it fit and then glued it together in place, after unwarping it failed. The axles and some of the piping is made of wire and straight pins because the original plastic pieces were too short or made wrong. When I get to the plastic struts, they will have steel pins put in them to attach the top wing to the bottom wing (lesson from the Nieuport). However, the hard part is done now. It is time to paint the model after everything dries black overnight.
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