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well, naturally, to far to drop in downunder ... so I'll just take the easy way ...
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You missed a spot: Needs signal lockers on the bridge's wings (4 of them)
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Ah, you're finally out of hibernation, mate. Thought I had to do it on me own! I'm just jealous ...
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Thanks Denis. There is still a gap, as it hasn't been glued to the hull yet As is the other one. Tonight I'll try to have the upper hull painted light grey. After that I can "install" the decks permanently, and you shouldn't be worried you might trip over that gap, or fall into it ... Yes you can prepare. You might start with building up the hull, and the other structures and - as I wrote earlier - paint them whilst you build them. Which structures depend largely on what you want to replace by, either PE or bashing. You got some old remains of wooden/plastic kits hanging around which may have replacement parts, better suited to your "needs". You can also prepare your paint mixtures, e.g. I mixed the brownish deck colour as described above, and the black I concoted from Vallejo black (7 drops) with olive drab (3 drops), takes the edge off the black. The red of the hull was Vallejo fire red and white. Can't recall the ratios ... Yupz getting old The bollards are truely horrendous. If possible, consider buying some large 1/700 scale ones to replace them. Souldn't be expensive at all. There are enough on your side of the pond. Study the drawing Greg supplied in one of his first postings. Have another look at what we did and improve on us You love to walk your own road ... here is your chance to do that in a slightly different way ... (Say hello to your lovely admiral, and give Gibs a pat)
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H.M.S. Atalanta - Drafting my own plans
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Your build keeps fascinating me. A joy to follow, Vaddoc. A real stunning hatch ... what did you use for caulk ... I presume it wasn't the old fashioned tar
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I changed my objective from 18 - 200 mm to a macro 0.3m. Got some more touch ups to do ... The painting of the forard and rear gun platforms I took from the drawing on page one of this build log, you can see the distinct differences ... One never gets the proper colour across on a digital image when you want to compare e.g. print with the "real" thing
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You are lenient Bill ... Marvelous work Dan. You are certain there are no plastic parts ........
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Thank you all for the likes, much appreciated Thank you Denis. Got that kit yet? At least you can avoid some of our mistakes - if not all ...
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Miter boxes----What is the best one.
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rocket launchers appearing from the sides, a mini copter, jet skies you've done that, so you need somtin else, an amfibious car ... lots of hot babes!!! or just make her take off, let her fly matie ... let her fly take the babes to the moon
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deck versus walls , masts, funnels etc
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I found I'd better get the decks painted before mounting anything else on it. When I look at the forard bridge, I've got myself into trouble painting the structure an' deck. I'll be having a ball getting the verticals painted now the horizontal is done <sigh> should have built it up per "story" Don't make the same mistake mate. It is as good as impossible to mask ... Need some minor touch ups. I think I prefer this colour over the orange brownish from the drawing, although in reality it differs only slightly Next: Touch ups, and colouring the stern, and focsle. After that, I'll start to worry what will be added, and what needs to change ... I look anxious the book to be delivered (postal services ... still waitin', like for me co-builder's promise a few posts back ...)
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Have been mixing potions ... The paint for Gunze stone-red-ish is not available in Tamiya, neither Vallejo, so I'm trying to get it right. Unfortunately I started out with the wrong base colour: Tamiya Hull-red, which is a dark brownish colour (XF-9) - I certainly won't be using that one on Musashi(!!!) - consequently I had to add to much of the other colours. So mixture turned out to be Hull Red, Flat red, Flat Yellow (XF-9, XF-7, XF-3) Don't ask ratios, for I mix by eye, as I add spices to my food ... (Talking of food Lou, that apricot ice cream ... yummy!!) Yesterday I got the deck with the main bridge structure primed as well as the deck where most of the interesting parts are mounted, like funnels, torpedo tubes, etc. Today, I hope to get the colour further "refined" so I can enrich those two decks and the gun platforms ... I'm still in doubt of the light grey for the hull and standing structures, as the Tamiya (XF-19) is of a darker shade compared to the Gunze ... decisions, decisions, decisions ... on the other hand, how true are the colours printed on a piece of paper
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I build their Fokker Dr1 1/72 stripdown which was not an easy build but the PE was good on it. Got PE from them for Musashi, still have it, but not on Musashi as meant to be. Used it for all sort of "additional efforts"
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Interesting ... hope those batteries do not have the same fault as those Samsung smartphone ones ... I see I'm not the only one waiting for "building materials"
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Moxis, I hope you are feeling better. Drop us a note ... John, That's rather easy, considering the number of logs you lot have to check ...
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Hmmmmmm...as ... well, Denis, patience is a virtue
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Unbearable ... I empathise with you ... almost
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I'm watchin' ... still watchin' ... still watchin' ...
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The PE looks so much better, however the paravane itself stays pretty poor ... not like e.g. Yamato's ... so it remains a poor compromise ...
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