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  1. cog
    Easy for you to say with such a stunning vocabulairy! O so true ... fortunately I didn't do any plastic line cutting on the Dr I ... Deck furniture demands some preparations ... a lot of sprue bits to file off ... I got myself a new cutter for the plastic parts, this time a Tamiya, the older one started to wobble. Curious as to how long this one will remain in good working condition (no I didn't cut brass with the old one)
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    They'll do me just fine Jose. You show us what you've got in your own way, we'll just have to enjoy the view .... well done
  3. cog
    Must have taken you a while, very nicely done Thomas. You set yourself a real endurance challenge ...
  4. cog
    I cut the plastic on Vendetta, and didn't find it to hard ... You jinxed me ... vallejo air clogged my airbrush!!! Fortunately I was only spraying the white patches on the Dr. 1's lower and upper wings, but still, very annoying, very much so!!
  5. cog
    I'm making a tool to get the hull plating scratched onto it. After that, airbrushing the superstructure which is fixed to the deck, then adding parts of the wooden deck which will be impossible to add once the deck is fitted, subsequently mounting the decks to the hull, more masking and painting the hull ... wish I bought the new tool version, but that, my friend, is watching the cow in the hiney, as we say up here. Sorry, G class ... got it at not even half the price of this one ... you should know it, for you got the PE for it from white ensign models ...
  6. cog
    Very nice, it may be small, but it has quite some detail to it ...
  7. cog
    Or it's the climate. Hope the hull is big enough to keep you busy for a while. You'll be running out of space soon, if you continue with this pace. Besides, you may have complied to wifey's no-pub demand, I am most certain, you cannot fill up the house with models, grunged or not ... By the way, why don't you make your own hull, vacuum pulled, and than grunge that one, it will keep you busy for a while, so we can catch up with you ... North Star, bridge furniture, like a lazy couch for the cap'n, rocking chair for the bosun, slings for the monkeys, you know, the regular stuff ... I've got a G-type destroyer 1/350 coming in ... should arrive this week, another smallish build, trying to get my hand around details ... fortunately the Fokker Dr 1, it fits the palm of my hand, is hughe so that compensates.
  8. cog
    Odd, I used my H&S with Vallejo without that problem. I do have a problem with their primer on plastic. It just doesn't adhere to it. Masking will rip it of as if it hasn't bonded ... I now use Tamiya for that, and I do not have any problems anymore. Denis, For the hull I used Valleyo AIr fire red 71.084 with a few drops of white, could have added a few more, however, if you'll overspray, thin the red down, and follow gregs lead in layers. The thinning makes the primer shine through, as you'll probably know, useful if you use a light or medium grey primer. Normally I would use dark grey or black primer beneath red or dark green colours, but I need to readjust with airbrushing, just like I am used to mixing colours - like with painting with gouache, which isn't always necessary or can even work against you when using an airbrush. The grey is Tamiya sky grey XF-19 RGL, Looking like a well used ship, luckily I do not have a lot of your detail ... at least, it only seems that way ... I found some cable reals PE in my drawer with lost items for 1/700 which I will use to replace the one a midships. The ones from Musashi are far to big. Nearly ready with the steam winches used to tow the paravanes (drawing post #1) a missing item in the kit. Got informed Yesterday some resin parts I ordered, are finally shipped, took them about a month to tell those items were OOS, I can sit and wait for the postman to ring twice ... P.s. I think Lou is right, Greg, you are way past emulating ...
  9. cog
    You could just settle for an optivisor
  10. cog
    That's easy, my painting is far less elaborate than yours
  11. cog
    Little progress ... Somehow it looks better when painted ... hope the sailors refrain from blowin' their nose in it
  12. cog
    I certainly won't miss this build, Dick. You might like to have a look here as well, I thought about it when I saw your drawing ...
  13. cog
    You will get withdrawal symptoms ... maybe you even have them now already ... glad to hear the move went well, so you are back on the move again ... now we only get a two day update per week I will get withdrawal symptoms too ...
  14. cog
    Antony, Looking forward to your build. I bought the drawings some two or three years ago, and haven't gotten the nerve to pick them up and start on the (twisted) banana as Druxey called it so strickingly ...
  15. cog
    you're tweaked out my friend. a marvelous result.
  16. cog
    I could, but I would loose sight of me ship!!!
  17. cog
    Ken, No radar before WWII, at least not in WWI. I should have known (message to myself: idiot, idiot, idiot) just radio. Hence search to no avail. Bashed the range finder at 0.75cm width, 1 cm height. Next crow's nest, should be a walk in the park ... but for me eyes.
  18. cog
    Lovely work Mick, as per your usual
  19. cog
    Greg, Did you find anything on radar, I know those have been changed a couple of times type 251 and 271 but those numbers merely get me a description, nothing solid on images. The rangefinder I couldn't get any information on, although, the pictures show a far larger one than the kit supplies. Did you have more luck on those two items? The crow's nest at the front mast is sited wrong in the building instructions. There are two possibilities,: 1 halfway up the lower spar (half above, half beneath) 2 between the upper and lower spar (hight may differ, but no higher than half way) So I ripped it off again, and will make a new one from brass tubing (more in style with the mast) An interesting tidbit from the book: All water had to be pumped to the respective upper containers by hand, whether salt water for the heads, or fresh water for other purposes. That was done on daily basis. I can't imagine that to be much fun on the Notherly convoy duties!
  20. cog
    He tried enough times, didn't he! now that's a thought ... it still would be a penal colony though ... so what's the difference, the French being more/less lenient ... your ancesters loosing their heads to the iron lady - in that case, you wouldn't be here right now ... and it would have been the FRN Vendetta ... although I have to admit that you Aussies have used the kitchens of all immigrants far better than the other English colonies - penal or not.
  21. cog
    I do miss living in Rotterdam just across the Maritime Museum ... nothing comparible whatsoever in this neck of the woods ... just trees and shrubs
  22. cog
    Lou, if I'm not mistaken, the English terminology is "put in reserve", I presume corresponding in the 17th & 18th century with "layed up in ordinairy" ... masts and guns removed until Nappy changed his mind again to yet throw another affort after foolishness by invading England. Never understood, why the French didn't try getting a foothold in Scotland, and subsequently move South ...
  23. cog
    When I look at it now ... I'd say it's the Bat-boat ... looking good Patrick
  24. cog
    Ah, the: "On need to know basis only" phrase is popping up. Yes sahib, oh sorry you aren't British, yes boss-man. The 1/72 Fokker, nah, 't is a naval forum an' this particular one doesn't float Steven, Welcome aboard! I see you have read the instructions to enter the build as attendant/spectator! No, I won't let the Canberrans fool me, I leave that to the Balla- rats is this the wrong thread? Yes you are a righteous lot, you Aussies, and I for one am very glad you are a half day ahead, so we will be warned in ample time of mishaps or troubles ... I am very lucky I'm merely double Dutch, and thus mean by ancestry Glad I got them nettings put up, so you can slide off at the back where you won't be bothering the other attendants ... maybe I could get you straight into that temple of yours? (Lou, tonight it's salmon, spinach, taters, boild egg ... and to finish it off ... home made strawberry ice cream ... does that keep you awake?)
  25. cog
    what does it do unusually ...?

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