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Great post, Glenn. This is a really nice tutorial. Are these all parts that came with the kit, or did you replace any?
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Wow! You’ve gotten a lot done and it looks great!
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I would like to know from more experienced modelers which brand and model of hobby knife you prefer. I like the K1 aluminum model from Excel, but the threads give out after about three blade changes and it won’t tighten up anymore. I’m sorry if this was covered in an earlier thread, but I couldn’t find anything. Thanks for any advice you might have.
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Hi Tom. From personal experience, save the baltic birch for something else, where fairing will not be required. It's a little like trying to sand granite or case hardened steel. If you read my log, you'll see that my first attempt was with baltic birch. That set is now hung up in my shop as a decoration because my printer defaulted to "fit to page" instead of "full size" and I had a 0.95 scaling factor on the prints. That's a different problem, but I could already see that fairing that set was going to be impossible. My second and current attempt is with the cheapo "birch plywood" from Home Depot. It's much softer than Baltic Birch. However, I've said several times in my log that cutting my own has been the source of most of my build problems. If I had it to do over, I'd shell out the dough and buy Chuck's laser cut set. If you're really good on the saw, have plenty of time to put into make sure everything is right, and double-check your final contours on each bulkhead, then that might be a good solution for you. But if you can spend the money easier than spending the time, then buy the laser cut set from Chuck. Just my 2 cents.
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I see what Christian is saying. In this photo from Post #66, the stem does look a little too thick. It needs to be tapered as Chuck describes in Chapter 1. It's clearly not too late to take care of that and you have to be careful to not overdo it. If you have the figurehead, you'll see that she won't fit as you have it now.
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Siggi, your moldings look fantastic! I love how you finished the ends so they look like proper returns. I also just looked back at your photos from post 373 through the gunports. What great photos!
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It’s looking really good! I have this kit on the shelf. It looks to me like a great subject, and the history of this model is interest to me. I’ll pull up a chair and follow your build log. Good luck with your build!
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She looks so beautiful, Rusty. Your work on the stern and on the paint is amazing!
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What amazing work, Chuck! This is a phenomenal project you’re putting together and sharing with us!
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Hi, I'm Neil. Gonna scratch build Orca from Jaws.
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Rusty, this is a beautiful kit, and you’re doing a fantastic job on it. How did you plot the waterline for your masking tape? It came out so perfectly.
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What an amazing workshop you have! You have obviously put a lot of effort into setting that up. It looks like a builder’s paradise. I counted six space shuttle models. That’s an impressive collection!
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It looks fantastic, Kathy! I’ve been to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and been on this beautiful ship.
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I’ve spent the past few weeks working slowly on the stern. I have several errors, but on the whole, I’m pretty happy with it. I don’t know how you guys make these columns look so perfect. Maybe I need to build a few more of these before I can get it. I know one issue is that my spacing is a little off, making the columns shorter than planned. I think that is also why the bottom molding on the counter is a little high, creating a gap that I had to cover with a second molding. I also broke Poseidon’s trident. I have an idea from Chuck on how to fix it using coarse wire, but I’m not ready to work on that yet.
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