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cog got a reaction from popeye the sailor in IL Leudo by SHIPSCAT (Jolene) - Mamoli - scale 1:34
Well done Jo
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cog reacted to Bedford in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
And just like that, her beautiful lines come to life
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cog reacted to druxey in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
I suspect that an expert builder like Michael will use fillers, Dan.
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cog reacted to shipmodel in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Hi Michael -
Sweet work, and done with a hand saw. Impressive.
It's probably an artifact of the photo, but my eye says that the space between your 5th and 6th bulkheads may be too large to support the arc that the planks will need to take. As usual, I could be dead wrong.😉
Dan
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cog reacted to michael mott in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Thanks for the visits.
Making sawdust. The first set of bulkheads these are cut to the inside of the ribs.
These are the set for the port side and I have been reworking them, most needed to be jumped to give enough wood to allow for the new shape.
The #11 was trimmed from the #12 and so it goes.
I will use the port set as templates for the starboard set.
Work continues.
Michael
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cog got a reaction from Piet in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
Thanks for your warm welcome mate
Roll the PE around a metal rod ... that's the easy (not very creative) part. Getting it glued, without the rod inside, and keeping it round ... now that is a different muddle. You do, however, get the hang of it when I look at the picture. i am more curious as to how you will make the open end for the tube, that is a lot harder
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cog got a reaction from Piet in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
That should be enough if you are a fervent Ikea modeller ...
They just would have to cope now, wouldn't they ... When I look at Musashi (old tool) with FlyHawk and Pontos PE sets, that would be about the same, instruction-wise that is. You just start at the beginning and muddle through. A bit like every model you've made ...
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cog got a reaction from Piet in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
I thought you were upto something ... to silent for to long ... very nice radar mate
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cog got a reaction from Piet in Red Dragon by Vivian Galad - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - modified
Good to see you back at the workbench Vivian. Congratulations on your marriage. I am very happy for you, you found someone to share your life with, besides us digital chaps.
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cog got a reaction from SHIPSCAT in IL Leudo by SHIPSCAT (Jolene) - Mamoli - scale 1:34
Well done Jo
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cog got a reaction from Canute in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
Thanks for your warm welcome mate
Roll the PE around a metal rod ... that's the easy (not very creative) part. Getting it glued, without the rod inside, and keeping it round ... now that is a different muddle. You do, however, get the hang of it when I look at the picture. i am more curious as to how you will make the open end for the tube, that is a lot harder
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cog reacted to Vivian Galad in Red Dragon by Vivian Galad - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - modified
Hola, Ulises! Thank you for the welcome! I may be a little slow in my builds, but won't give up on them! I'm really happy to be back.
Ty, sir. I'm a lucky girl for being so well received by a most respected crew as It happens in these shores! Well, World os getting crazy all over again. Hope we can live It through.
Thank you, and I'm happy for my marriage and for having you, digital chaps, as friends. It's always great to come back.
My many thanks! Won't bem promising much, but will try to stay a little lingerie this time.
Hey, Scott! Thank u. I'm already full of myself after the first one. The other two are waiting for their time just this weekend. Hope to be rigging them on place very soon!
Be welcome mate! Thank you 😊
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cog got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Red Dragon by Vivian Galad - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - modified
Good to see you back at the workbench Vivian. Congratulations on your marriage. I am very happy for you, you found someone to share your life with, besides us digital chaps.
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cog reacted to mtaylor in La Belle Poule 1765 by mtaylor - Scale 1:64 - POB - French Frigate from ANCRE plans
Thanks Sam. I thought of the locking tabs. I'm going to run a couple of tests to see which I like better.
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cog reacted to src in La Belle Poule 1765 by mtaylor - Scale 1:64 - POB - French Frigate from ANCRE plans
Mark,
We are using our CNC routers more and more at work for cutting parts and speeding production. Many times we are make frames similar in method to what we do here with false keels and bulkheads. Something I have found benificial is cutting a slight taper to the alignment tabs between sections of what would be the the false keel here. It doesnt take much a few degrees, less at this scale. I have also gone as far as making the pattern different between for instance join AB and BC. It makes it harder to get parts mixed up - not that I have ever done something like that. Nope! Nor Sir, not me!
Just a thought.
Sam
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cog reacted to Bob Cleek in La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette
I was watching a British-made television documentary about the development of naval ships last night. ("Heavy Metal" it was called.) They were interviewing the curator of Victory aboard the vessel right next to a gun and carriage. The gun had a hammered lead cover on the flint lock, exactly as do yours! I expect you may know that, but I was very impressed with your eye for detail. If it weren't for this thread, I'd still be wondering what that "lead patch" was on top of the gun.
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cog reacted to RGL in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
Ah ha! Cog’s back!
Nearly every PE instructions I have seen have some type of beni g instructions not the finished product that just mentions the part numbers.
For instance, the rear end of the torpedo types require rolling then wrapping around a drill bit to even come close to being right, and I’m yet to see any instructions for that.
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cog got a reaction from Canute in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
That should be enough if you are a fervent Ikea modeller ...
They just would have to cope now, wouldn't they ... When I look at Musashi (old tool) with FlyHawk and Pontos PE sets, that would be about the same, instruction-wise that is. You just start at the beginning and muddle through. A bit like every model you've made ...
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cog reacted to mtaylor in IL Leudo by SHIPSCAT (Jolene) - Mamoli - scale 1:34
I'm smiling at the re-work. As for the "blue line", hold off until you get the bulkheads installed and can check the "flow" across the top to it. Better to wait and see than wonder how to put the wood back if it needs to be there. It does appear that the "slot" is also too high but... I'd hold off as long as possible and check the fit after the bulkheads go on.
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cog reacted to RGL in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
So next, think Ikea flat pack but with this as the sum total of instructions
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cog reacted to RGL in USS Fletcher by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC
Fletcher amidships, there are two lots of torpedo tubes to go yet.
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cog got a reaction from Old Collingwood in British Bomb Ketch by GeorgeKapas - FINISHED - Pyro - 1/150 - PLASTIC
Iwould sooner try my hand on tissue,or rice paper as those are thinner. Tissue ... you can even peel layers ... just ideas at the top of me hat
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cog got a reaction from Vivian Galad in Red Dragon by Vivian Galad - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - modified
Good to see you back at the workbench Vivian. Congratulations on your marriage. I am very happy for you, you found someone to share your life with, besides us digital chaps.
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cog got a reaction from mtaylor in Nulli Cedo by peveka - A Dutch War Clog
Not surprisingly with earthen-ware druxey.
Sorry Pieter couldn't resist it either.
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