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Thank you very much! I have the conning tower built up and ready to paint. Working on my old nemesis, ladders: Slow but steady definitely wins the race here!
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Advice on French 2nd or 3rd rate ship of the line
GrandpaPhil replied to James Flynn's topic in Wood ship model kits
Don’t forget AAMM! https://boutique.aamm.fr/index.php?route=common/home That is one of my favorite places to buy model plans from! -
The local restaurant is a great idea, especially if it’s one you really like. Another idea is that I’d bet your local Navy recruiter would love to have that model in their office.
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And done: Thank you everyone for watching and for all the likes and comments! Quick note, I’m not too happy about the canopy, but due to the fact that I am most likely going to be building a lot more aircraft for the next couple of years, I ordered some canopy glue.
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Welcome! I have the plan set for the Victory Models kit of the HMS Vanguard, which I believe the Model Shipways kit was a licensed version of. It looks like an awesome project! I plan to build mine eventually, most likely from card.
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The decals are on and I’m waiting for the Max Hold CA that will hold the HF antenna to dry so I can attach it to the mast. Following my experience with my last round of plastic models, I sealed the model immediately following adding the decals to prevent them from curling up. I used the technique of putting thinned down glue on thread for the long-wire antenna, as is typically done with card models. I would have just used an eyebolt like in times past, but there’s not enough material to drill into on the rudder, so I kind of made my own EZ-line.
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OC, Thank you very much! Much appreciated! Those helped me quite a lot and answered a couple of questions that I had! The Shangri-La is fully painted and assembled now and just awaiting decals, final highlighting and final sealing:
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Glen, That’s incredible! I sincerely believe that is one of the absolute best SIB displays that I have ever seen! I can’t wait to see what you make next!
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It’s now olive drab and gray: And the prop hub is painted: I am going to glue the prop hub on and then let the model sit overnight.
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It’s mostly assembled now: Yes, that is a wooden antenna, lol. Time to paint! I’ll start with my usual priming with thinned down black paint and move on to the olive drab for the plane itself. I need to paint the propellor hub assembly and nose red. I figured I’d attach it after painting the plane itself the olive drab.
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Skoda 30.5 cm 1911 Cannon by RGL - - WIP3D - 1/35
GrandpaPhil replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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The interior is painted and assembled: The fuselage is now glued together: The fuselage for this one was warped out of the box. The fuselage halves were banana shaped like the Spad I just built. I used force to reshape them prior to gluing.
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I haven’t built the Mamoli Black Prince, but I built another Mamoli kit (the Endeavor) several years ago. It was pretty nice. The Black Prince looks like it is modeled after a standard privateer with a Baltimore Clipper rig.
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Here’s my rendition of Captain Gentile in 1/48 scale: I still need to paint the whites of his eyes and his pupils. 1/48 is too small for me to worry about irises. That’s just outside of my resolution. He’s leaning up against Oryol’s conning tower.
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I am building “Shangri-La”, a P-51B Mustang flown by Captain Don Gentile as part of the 336th FS of the 4th FG in March of 1944, using a set of War Birds by Kits-World decals! The kit: The decals: This will be a fun build!
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Skoda 30.5 cm 1911 Cannon by RGL - - WIP3D - 1/35
GrandpaPhil replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Eberhardt, It’s a character from one of Disney Pixar’s movies “Tow Mater”. It’s a play on words of the term Tow Motor which refers to a fork lift.
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Skoda 30.5 cm 1911 Cannon by RGL - - WIP3D - 1/35
GrandpaPhil replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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I also run my rigging line through beeswax prior to use, and then put superglue on the last 1/8” - 1/4” of the rigging line. I then bevel the end of the line into a point to facilitate threading through blocks and deadeyes. Sometimes it is helpful to clear the holes on the outside of the deadeye or block with the tip of a scalpel and/or I run a microdrill through it from both directions.
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