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Passed the test. Great result. Now it looks like 13th century building to compare with the yesterday's wreckage. If you pay more time for sanding, it will be a 21th century modern style building. There is a warning point. The modeling paste dries quickly, but it tends to be... gummy. It seems to be a solid rock and very tight, but it can be easily removed by sharp knife. When you remove the rubber film without care... it will bite the nearby stones like the upper picture. This is my methodology. Just sand it. Don't try to remove the film with knife easily. Hard work will make looking better. Don't spread it. Fill the crack only. It can be a kind of paint, but it is very weak paint for long period of time. Just use it to fill cracks.

This is the most important part of my project. I didn't pay attention to the gap between blocks. The result after sanding is catastrophic, but I wasn't disappointed because it is part of my plan. Which one will save more time? Polishing each blocks? or filling the gaps? To get the answer, I executed my plan that using acrylic modeling paste with block dusts. The color is ok, viscosity is ok, and the drying speed is a bit fast, but better than mixing with PVA glue. It seems promising after filling the gaps and broken edge blocks, but it's not solid answer yet. I'll slightly sand the excessive pastes and check the final result tomorrow.

Yes. The Chinese sellers moved to their country's flea market from the middle of 2010s. At first, they increased the price on the Ebay, and then removed listings. The Ebay still offer much better customer protection, but I don't use it anymore when I purchase chinese cheap items. Of course, I'm always aware of a chance of loss money at Aliexpress.

Although the Aliexpress removed some pirate items such as ZHL ships this year, there are many similar items that don't have enough quality original has. I also ordered another belt sander at first, and then cancelled it soon due to bad feedbacks. This is one of the caution points when you purchase something from the biggest Chinese store. - Find the best, not the cheapest item on the list. All the items may not be same. Some cheap items can be a lower quality item that couldn't pass QC or copied item by the other shops. - Read feedbacks carefully. If no feedback, avoid the item if you can. - Buy the reliable item as someone recommended. However, don't estimate that the seller sell the same item in the next time. - Be patient. the shipping speed from them is always terribly slow before and after COVID-19. It will take 2~3 months. You can cancel it after 3 months.

Oops. I turned off a notification setting. Thank you for many replies! After I read replies, I gained enough confidence and got much clearer plan to replace broken masts. Thanks again to your advices!

Wow, the page went to 2 page. I didn't notice your comments. Sorry. Popeye the sailor : Exactly. But, I think I didn't need to care about leveling if I drew horizontal lines on the MDF. If I used the original cardboard paper, the leveling would have been 100 times easier than now. I should have to draw the lines when I made CNC MDFs. mtaylor : Here is the link I ordered. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33014864680.html?spm=2114.13010708.0.0.60d44c4dmqrYLv In your case, the type 6 is the best one. (Type 1~3 : 15mm width, Type 4~6 : 25mm width) If you choose the 25mm belt sander, you can purchase additional 25mm width sanding belts from here. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000510159483.html?spm=2114.13010708.0.0.60d44c4dmqrYLv Also, I recommend you to buy this speed controller. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32945884969.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.67964c4dyI7vVg This one makes the mini belt sander perfect. When I tested it with the sander, I was able to slow down the speed to make it less aggressive and more slience. I think the sander with this speed controller will be very useful for my next wooden model ship project.

I fixed them. All things are connected, so I had to finish rest of wall parts to fix it. By the way, I have only a few days until the birthday. No time to rest and sleep. The walls are almost done (90%), but placing a rooftop takes lots of time to fit tightly. The wood blocks are balsa wood. I'm running out of sanding paper.

Hello. I have a picky question about lead free soldering. Today, I purchased a Revell 1:450 HMS Victory. Unfortunately, the masts in the kit are broken due to under 1.00mm thickness. I want to replace them to brass rod with soldering. The only thing I worry about soldering is a lead corrosion. https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Resources/Curator-of-Navy-Ship-Models/Lead-Corrosion-in-Exhibition-Ship-Models/ According to the NAVSEA, the lead corrosion is caused by lead parts. I have soldeing station and have experiences on lead free solderding. However, when I checked the compositions of the "lead free wire', I found that the wire has a very tiny lead. http://www.almit.com/dloads/Specs/leadfree/spec_kr19sh lfm48.pdf There is 0.09% of lead in the 'lead free' wire. This is a SAC (Sn, Ag, Cu) solder wire. Do you think the 0.09% of lead component will cause a lead corrosion in the future? Do you think it is considerably or strictly ok for 'Museum grade model'? I want to use the solder wire in the future if it is ok. It is scary to handle torch for silver soldering. If it is not a 'proven' issue, I'll wait for a conclusion. Thank you for reading.

Sorry about late post. I was been busy with care of child. When I finished the first chimney and tried to place the first roof, I realized that the tiles don't maintain level! The biggest reason is that I made the part at side direction. (Couldn't check out the level with my eyes.) Also, I became careless after long time same work. Fixing the trouble was really horrible. It is super sturdy, and not possible removing blocks without breaking it. I used brush with water and art knife. Fortunately, I was able to remove the wrong blocks roughly without structural destruction. I don't want to imagine if I didn't use the MDF inner skeleton instead of original paper cardboard.... If you have same problem, I would recommend to bash the part with hammer, and buy additional blocks. 🙂 Most of removed tiles are not usable... It is a kind of boring job, but needs great attention on leveling each stage for the finest result. Lesson 256.

WHAT? 1/10 ? ARE YOU KIDDING?! By the way, no Korean will go to the museum by historical reason... The company or the artist is looking for investors. If everything goes well, he will sell the full kit to western area inlcuding the US and Europe. As you expected, we Korean don't have enough market for hobby, so he will sell it to Korean by custom order unlike yours. 😂 I think you should wait for a long time until the kit is completed. (I don't know him personally, so it is up to you to send him an e-mail directly. The e-mail address is in the link.) This gun part is made by 3D printer and resins. He said that he will use several manufacturing methods for each parts to lower the final price.

(source : https://mmzone.co.kr:40004/mms_tool/mt_view.php?mms_db_name=mmz_media&no=5913 ) One of South Korea hobby company is designing a 1/35 fletcher class destroyer model. This prototype is a part of the ship, and the price of this gun is 90,000 won which is equivalent to $73.44. I have no space to display it...

Thank popeye worrying about our family. The answer is no. A few days ago, I've read about post that grandfa was looking for good basic wooden model ship kit for working together with his grandchild. The post made me to think about the best kit for family-cooperation work. In my opinion, this easy and simple stone block construction kit is much more friendlier than conventional wooden model ship kit for kindergarten students. Wooden model ship is relatively complex, and use various and dangerous tools for preschoolers. However, this kit requires only PVA glues and sanding sticks when parents or grand parents take charge of making blocks with that mini belt sander machine. Of course, I don't say this is the best kit for both of parents and children. I just compared this kit with wooden model ship kit only . Probably, the best kit for cooperation with preschoolers should be the Lego or plastic kits for juniors. I don't want to expand discussion to that, so I conclude it like this. "When you consider cooperation with your children, this stone model kit is relatively safer than making wooden model ship kit. Also, you won't need time to educate children how to use knives and motor tools properly."

Thank Mark. If I worn about the virus more explicitly from my experiences a month ago, could it help people in this forum? What I can say now is that you should wear a facemask or scarf when talk with any people out of your house, and stay away from people who don't equip any protective gears. It is a valid method proved by many cases. The only problem is that many countries doesn't have enough masks for people and doctors. It is the biggest reason some governments don't recommend it, and only time with more product lines will solve it. I hope you are well, and hope this pandemic will come to an end very soon. It is not fun that hobbies I can enjoy became only one.

Hello. Today is the last day of march. It's been busy days, so I had no chance to touch the stones. My parents came back from the US after a month of journey last week. I planned a schedule to move them from airport to home safely. It was so detailed like a military operation. We used a private car instead of public transportation, and we wore face masks in a car and nobody didn't take off it until we arrived at home. 😷 Now my parents are doing self isolation. It's not regulated by government because they didn't have any explicit symptoms when they passed quarantine office. However, the COVID-19 is really good at hiding. Therefore, they won't go outside for two weeks voluntarily. For the self isolation, I've already purchased and filled storages with lots of frozen foods and a bundle of toilet paper. Because of the reason, I'm doing my parent's errands and delivering fresh foods to in front of door. (I don't go indoors.) Fortunately, they said that they have no symptoms such as fever or cough yet. Anyway, The mini belt sander proved its usability. I was able to sand 360 blocks in an hour. Honestly, it was not a fun job. I spent 2 hours and accomplished about 15% of all work of wall. I stopped today's work earlier than before because of lack of blocks. The new process is several times faster than previous process, but it also consumes several times more polished blocks at once. If you have will to make this kind of stone kit with your tiny children, you should distribute tasks into two parts. When you sand tons of blocks tediously, your children will ask for more blocks with a joyful scream. 😂

Day 6... Approx 40% of wall completed. (4~5 hours) I bought some tools for the next process. Theses are niddle piles. I also bought mini belt sander to optimize sanding work. This is really small and tiny belt sander. 120 x 100 x 150mm. It uses 775 RC motor. The motor speed is variable, but it is controlled by power adapter as most of chinese cheap tool does. The structure is too simple, so I don't worry about quality of it. It is a durable piece of steel. I attached 120 sandpaper belt. I was scared by huge noise and too fast speed at the lowest setting. It sounds like a band saw. I finished installation. After some trials, I concluded that this is a must have item for sanding blocks! I used to spent 10 seconds to pick up neat block ready for gluing. However, if I couldn't find neat block and had to sand askewed blocks, I had to spend 60 seconds to sand the block. This machine makes perfect cuboid at 5 seconds! It will really save my time and increase productivity dramatically! The mini belt sander's price is $41.83 including shipping cost. It uses 330mm x 25mm sanding belt. Here are downsides. - No dust removal system. It scatters stone chips everywhere. It is the reason I use it just under air duct. - Noisy. However, if you use it just under ventilation duct, the exhaust sound will exceed the noise from the belt sander. - Default minimum speed is too fast. You may need PWM speed controller to get lower noise and suitable sanding speed. - The edge of steel is very sharp. It cut my finger slightly. I highly recommend to sand sharp edges before use. I hope the remaining half side will be done faster than now... 🤪

In case of special contract such as license between a book writer and an owner of a ship, it can be a problem indirectly. It is common when it is a commercial building by famous architecturer. In the US, werk der baukunst was established in 1990. Also, license between model kit maker and original maker is very common like gun and car models. However, they are 18~19th century ships. You don't need to get any permission from Queen Victoria.

Thank you for comments. Posting progress is not an entire reason I build, but your interests definitely accelerate my work. I've never been in Europe before. I added the Bibury to my bucket list for tour to Europe sometime. This 'masonry' work is completely different from wooden model ship work in my opinion. It doesn't need deep and various knowledge about each parts. The most important thing of this kit is patience with the greatest care for each blocks. It feels like a meditation. 🙂 It is very flat work and takes lots of time, but very new experience for me and would have made me ease if I don't have due date. In addition, this kit's price per time is exceptional! Maybe it is the best kit when you are in a shelter and want to waste time. 😉

Day 3, 4, and 5... approx. 20% of wall completed. (6~7 hours) I'm pretty sure that I can finish entire kit at the end of this month if I don't sleep and eat.

Wow... I can't believe she was 6 years old when started. Her way of using sander and power tools is very skilled. Probably I have too underestimated children's ability. It is time to change from gifting plastic kits to wooden model kit!

I've never seen such detailed and comprehensive review. Thank you.

Day 2. I made a pre-made pillar because of too narrow space. This way is a lot easier. Well... I spent 3 hours today, and not a big difference... I calculated total amount of work by surface area. The total surface area of wall is approx. 1,800㎠, and these are my work area per day. Day 1 - 55㎠ (3.1%) Day 2 - 58㎠ (3.2%), 3 hours spent. Based on my calculation... I need 30 days or 90 hours for completing the wall only. ...... 🤪

Wow. The giant's hand is really big.

That's the exact same reaction when I saw this kind of kit. If you want to build one of the Aedes ars kit, I highly recommend you to equip these devices. (1) Good ventilation system. Tons of sanding works are waiting, pile of stone dust will make your hand pale. (2) Any kind of belt sander, disc sander or electric sander. The stone blocks are not perfect cubics. You need to adjust each blocks one by one. I use a dremel 3000 with 2 inch sanding disk bit.

I expected the kit has kind of tar glue which has volume, but the bond was just a regular PVA glue. Of course, the titebond is much better than this. I have to use modeling paste to fill gaps between blocks later. I didn't want to sort blocks, but sorted some blocks to make a kit nice. The center is regular whity blocks, and the right is more pinky blocks. I laid the pinky blocks on the bottom of wall. The upper blocks will be whity one. From here, everything is pretty much repeatitive work. Sanding, gluing, laying, and sanding again. I added some detailed on windows and doors because manual's example is too boring. I made two kind of walnut strips. (1.0 x 2.4mm, 1.5 x 4.8mm) The day 1 finished. I hope I finish the walls within a week. I can't finish all in a week. It is pretty much boring job more than I expected. However, if you are interested in carving work, you will find plenty of attractive spots for additional details such as window sill.

Thank you for advice, Mark. This is the second project I'm digging in. The first project was a La Recouvrance from last year. The first project is locked down due to technical barrier. I packed the hull and won't open it until I solve issues regarding metal cored mast. The next project will be the half-hull planking kit, and I wont't start it before I finish this kit and get a rest.