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    Has anyone ever bought directly from Euromodel?

    in Traders, Dealers, Buying or Selling anything? - Discuss New Products and Ship Model Goodies here as well!!

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    Has anyone ever bought directly from Euromodel before and had stuff shipped to the US?  If so, was the shipping reasonable and reasonably quick?

     

     I would like to buy a set of plans from them (Ajax), but I was wondering at other people’s experiences with them.  

     

    I always do research before buying from a new vendor.

    Prince de Neufchatel by GrandpaPhil - FINISHED - 1/72 - CARD - from Chapelle Plans

    in - Build logs for subjects built 1801 - 1850

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    Thank you very much for the kind comments.

     

     I don’t know if I would say that building from card is more difficult than timber.  It’s  just different.

     

    It’s definitely been a learning experience.  It’s been a lot of fun too.

     

    Next time, I will likely reinforce the bulkheads, the keel and the deck with 1/16th inch basswood.  That’s to prevent the warping and the twisting that I had in the hull.

     

    Planking went really quickly.  It usually takes me a couple weeks to plank a hull.  I went from a frame to a painted and coppered hull over a four day weekend.

     

     I would probably plan out the gunports better and maybe use a precut piece instead of cutting through the hull again.  That caused me some grief.

     

    I need to figure out a better way to laminate large pieces together without warping.

     

    It’s definitely worth trying.  

     

    Ab Hoving made an excellent tutorial on this forum.  It’s what got me started on this model.

     

     

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