Richmond

Messis Tamiya and Creos are my go to paints along with Creos levelling thinners, I am not a great advocate of Vallejo, good value but they have their issues. Personally, I think the fact that Tamiya and Creos (Mr Colour) are not true acrylics is, at this time, to their benefit, however one would assume the true acrylics will eventually, by default, take over, irrespective of quality, due to their environmental friendliness. For primer, I carefully decant the Tamiya rattle cans into jars, for later use in an airbrush. You have to be careful with decanting, there are a few good videos on YouTube on how to decant rattle cans. As you note, a benefit of Vallejo over Tamiya is the colour range, however Creos have a very extensive range and by the way have, I believe, a true acrylic range (aqua?) Richmond.

Messis Not at all, I was just commenting that it would require to a lot of paint to cover such a large area. Richmond

Looks like you would have got through a lot of paint.

CDW Are you able to advise the name of the outlet in the Ukraine? You are not the first to confirm re GPM PP and I wonder what other members do when dealing with them. However I did note that another member dealt with them and stated in their post that their PP was reasonable.. Shipyard are even worse, I wrote to them to complain and they never responded, so maybe in their case they are gouging. RICHMOND.

Just tried to order 2 detail sets for the Mercury from GPM, cost of sets 60AUD cost of PP 60 AUD, what's happening in Poland with their PP, how can they justify this?

Sorry to sound repitive Dan.... Wonderful work! Richmond

Great photograph, welcome.

George Looking forward to see you addressing this issue Isn't there a 3rd one above this missing as well? Or have I misinterpreted the photograph. Richmond

Nice, neat work George

Vossy google brings up a few pandora kits, one looks to be manufactured in China so check back with the banned manufacturers list. Richmond

Mark, Looking at this and your other builds, your eye for colour is superb. Richmond.

Wonderful log.

I really don't think the 1/200s are any easier to build than the 1/350s, as you go bigger the more detailed the model will be especially in terms of aftermarket. The greater realism provided with the 1/200 and the builders modifications provide for a very interesting log. I look forward to seeing further great work. Richmond

Wonderful

Great workmanship in regards the PE

Having read the construction manual they suggest scoring all the printed edges of the planks with a razor blade and then after placement painting the gaps caused by scoring to represent wood (you have to imagine you would want to match the coloured printed part as well) I believe Clare raised the availability of 'Shipyard' paints in one of his build logs. After some digging I found the website and shop of the manufacturer /distributor of their acrylic paints - they are Polish of course. I was going to check them out in more detail to see if they can ship to Australia, or whether they have overseas distributors (which I doubt). One would imagine postage from Poland would be exorbitant, it usually is! RICHMOND .

DRUXEY Historical highlights from the kit (I can't vouch for the accuracy) 10 Gun Two Masted Sloop rigged as a Snow 1752 Built in Chatham and launched in 1754 Participated on the attack of Le Havre April 1759 which destroyed the French invasion fleet - captained by Hugh Bromedge Minor participation in War of Independence Sold in 1781 for 262 GBP Length 76' 6in"; Breadth 28' 7 1/2" Armament (1759) 10 x 3 pounders ; 10 x 0.5 pounder swivel guns.d I believe the ship you refer to preceded the above and was wrecked in 1748. Whether the current build is an accurate depiction of the 1752 Wolf is another matter. RICHMOND

CLARE The rear most page calls up as follows (in my words): Colour Photos of Finished Model (these are pages 1 and 2) - CHECK [double sided] History and Construction (pages 3 & 4) - CHECK [double sided] 8 Pages of Printed Parts (pages 19 to 26) - CHECK - [single sided] 14 Pages with Drawings and Templates (pages 5 to 18) - Pages 15 & 16 are Missing - [double sided] Laser Cut Ship Skeleton - CHECK [single sided] I contacted Cornwall on Monday and they said they would send an email to SHIPYARD but they haven't got back to me since. I will have to chase them up tomorrow. RICHMOND

CLARE Your Shipyard card builds have been a great inspiration to me. I did consider the Syren blocks, but this is my first quality card model and the numbers didn't stack up. Once I get to the Mercury I may consider some more expensive upgrades, that said I am hoping that Chucks cannon and carriage sizing work out for me. One thing that has dissapointed me, apart from missing assembly pages, are errors in the assembly instructions, absence of lamination detail on parts that according to the pictures require lamination, hopefully I can address this during the build. HEINRICH I think a kit bash is beyond my capabilities at this time, for me this build is all about getting the basics right and the quality reasonable. Refer also my response to Clare re assembly instructions. I am particularly concerned with the planking, I think this could go terribly wrong if it is not thought through. Doris, Paragraf et al seem to scratch this element of their builds. RICHMOND

Abe It would be greatly appreciated if you were able to share your paper modelling techniques. Richmond

Danny Funny enough I was thinking the same thing about the razor blades, he seemed to pick it up with confidence though. Thanks for the hint on the PVA. Richmond

Danny There is a YouTube video of them here Richmond.

The V108 has been on the back burner somewhat as I struggle through the RMS Mauretania skeleton and dedicate a lot of my spare time to some building work at home. Anyway I am pleased to announce some minor progress, with the skeleton assembled along with the top deck. I will undertake some minor trimming and sanding before I attempt the skin. I think I will need to weigh down the ends before I skin to rid myself of the longitudinal warp.

I have recently purchased the HMS Wolf, a Shipyard paper model, from Cornwall Model Boats in the UK, I also purchased the extra sails and masts sets but was reticent to splash out on the laser cut blocks, however after receiving the model and seeing the size of the parts, each just a few mm and all containing multiple parts I have decided to save my eyes and will place an order for these as well. I was considering purchasing laser cut timber blocks however it seems an extravagance for a simple card model. However I may purchase wooden gun carriages and associated brass guns depending on how I go with cutting and assembling the card parts and the model generally. I have only one complaint in that there was a couple of pages of assembly instructions missing from the kit. I am really hoping that Cornwall are able to convince Shipyard to email me a pdf of the missing pages. Hopefully, as its assembly details and not parts details that are missing there will not be any issues. I will email Cornwall tomorrow. The beauty of this card model is the skeleton is laser cut. I have recently been struggling with cutting and assembling the skeleton for the RMS Mauretania and I find it very time consuming. I have been on that build for several months and have still not progressed beyond the skeleton! Following Dan's lead I have been busy cataloguing all the parts into a spreadsheet with part numbers, page numbers, thickness of any laminations, names of the parts/ assemblies and any relevant comments and then cross references to assembly pages. Anyway here are few some photographs of the kit - The cover, and example assembly and parts pages. Note there is only one colour page of assembly details the rest are black and white. Other than the rigging details all assembly detail is by photograph (no words). A close up of some of double blocks parts as you may be able to discern in this example each block contains 7 parts all of which need to be laminated to either 0.25mm or 0.50mm card. The length of the block in this example is just a few mm. An extract of the assembly instructions for the blocks in question. The assembled skeleton - the majority of the skeleton has been assembled - I think it took less than 15 minutes to dry fit it. I really must say the quality of the laser cut card is absolutely top drawer.

I am sure Cornwalls's basket takes into account where you live. You will not be charged VAT if you live o/s Europe. I am living in Australia and my Cornwall basket now takes account of the new Australian import GST rules but we do not get charged VAT. As a previous poster stated we can buy from U.K and even with pp you are more likely to find cheaper pricing then model kits sold within Australia, which is quite maddening! One would suspect that they couldn't undercut prices for outlets in the US given the larger market there. If you think you are getting ripped off by Cornwall, try buying direct from Poland, there PP is ridiculous and they probably don't deduct the VAT! I can buy Shipyard kits cheaper from Cornwall, then I can direct from the manufacturer in Poland, now that's total madness!