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GrandpaPhil
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Looking good! This is a time consuming process, but you will be very pleased with the end result.
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If you’re looking for mediaeval miniatures, I’m not sure what the exact scale conversion is, but 32mm scale (28mm is 1/56) seems to be a very popular scale among the wargaming and rpg crowd these days. I just did the math. 32mm scale is approximately 1/48 scale.
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Very cool!
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Your work on the Tiger is simply amazing! Days like this are why coffee was invited.
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Yes, they’re still in use. They’re the nautical equivalent of a turn signal or brake light, (or reverse lights in this case) like you’d see on a standard car. They communicate safety information about who has right of way, whether a ship has restricted maneuverability, has divers in the water or that sort of thing. The day shapes are the daytime equivalent of the running lights you see at night.
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I believe it’s where you marked “or here”, but I could be wrong.
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That looks like a commercial x-band or navigation radar antenna. The day shape configuration is weird, but I think it means that the ship is anchored (I could be wrong). However, typically there would only be one ball for being at anchor, which is what makes it weird.
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Congratulations! Nicely done on Gull!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Prometheus is a good movie. The Constellation is looking good!
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I usually convert to imperial units of measurement. However, all of my measuring tools are in inches, which definitely plays a part in that.
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Life is very busy right now with the holidays and everything, but I think I’m going to give the hammock crane netting another shot in the near future.
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Congratulations! Nicely done!
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Looking good!
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My apologies, I phrased that poorly. I meant to say that building a card ship from a kit is a completely different experience than building one from scratch. Building this hull has been more difficult for me than either of my two scratch builds.
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Just a quick observation regarding card kits. This is my first card ship built from a kit. I have built two from scratch. This kit has been very difficult for me because I have grown used to, for lack of a better term, playing a game of make it up as I go along. A key example is that propeller. In a scratch build, I would carved the hub from a dowel rod, painted it, notched it to take the blades and then made the blades and set them into the hub. The whole painting thing is another difficulty that I have had. I have never been the cleanest with glue, and I usually just paint over my mistakes, lol. That is not as much of an option with a card kit where everything is precolored and not intended to be painted. Case in point, look at my lower hull. Even coppering wasn’t really an option with the structure around the propeller housing and the rudder. Although, I will watch for that with Magenta. All of the pieces for that model will be three times the size of those that came with the Solferino.
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Good Saturday Morning Everyone! Solferino has a propeller! And the rudder is in work!
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