Veszett Roka
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As IT engineer, i have to agree with you, but keep in mind that those frustration comes from marketing (to push you to buy new gadgets). They simply cut out the older communication protocols, however those would be much smaller than a new menu system. This is why the new car cannot communicate with old iPad. Eberhard, i came initially grom GCOS (Honeywell-Bull) world, then moved to VAX/VMS, now using Linux. -
Nils, i'd go with bandaging gauze then. Thick paint will made it perfect.
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Hi Nils, will the railing covered by canvas or other material? The plan shows it something solid
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Bill, an alternative might be to display Victory slightly listed and some work performed under the waterline from a launch, maybe combination of lexan/epoxy resin. It wouldn't cause much confusion because you did not build Victory with full sail set. A few ropes from the deck to the launch could add to the realism, maybe you could fabricate a floating platform with handymen. In reality when they listed their ship they moved all the guns to one side, plus all the ballast too, let say they doing it hidden under the deck. Just an idea.
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Congratulations Bill, it is magnificent! Anyhow, for the margin of 'dioramic liberty' i can imagine the depicted situation. Le Soleil Royal is about to depart from Brest, they set sails in time but there is not too much wind as seen here. The sails mostly hanging on the masts thus Admiral Tourville ordered the crew to last minute ship in some extra barrels of fine french wine, and some timber because the ship's carpenter discovered a few minor leak since the departure. Adm. Tourville is a noble man, therefore the port authority immediately sent out a few launch with the desired reinforcements. And voila. And pardon me to take the opportinity to tell this silly tale. Really a good diorama.
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Tom - much of it can't be seen through the skylight so I can cheat. Don't cheat, you cannot go nowhere without that WD40 Keith! Can't see the duct tape however, that must be in the drawer.
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Unfortunately not. Maybe the author, Mike Maynard, who served on that ship? At least the readers cheered him because the model, but nowhere else mentioned who is the builder exactly.
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Thank you Nils. Fortunately she is still afloat in Bedford, Massachusets, could be seen there. But check out this excellent model, this was the one which ignited my interest many years ago.
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Hi Nils, You got another follower. My far plan is to scratchbuild the AMBROSE lightship WLV-613.
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Bill, if you intend to display Victory and Soleil Royal together, i think then Vic must have a sea base too. For making a realistic sea base, you might want to check out Ebroin's Miniatures on youtube: this Korean modeler is a master of waves.
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Hi Mike, here is a pic from May 1937, when the Graf Spee visited Spithead to greet King George VI. Maybe the stripes on the turrets were painted earlier, none of the later pictures shows them. The other warships on the picture is HMS Resolution and HMS Hood.
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Although she is not entirely finished yet, but only i can do is to praise this model and its builder. Fabulous work!
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Never ever step under a swung load sailor! If you feel the figurines a bit too tall, you might scrape/file a very little from their shoes - i think their feet a bit thick due casting, so it wouldn't harm them
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Didn't you consider to bash the motorboats a bit? Their shape quite off because the wheelhouse moved too far forward. They had brown wheelhouse and grey hull. Their aft deck was covered by an open top, not a solid structure though.
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Bill, i think Henry thought these reef lines on the foremast. I believe it is easy to comb them down if you pinch the sail forward a bit, then the sail's curve will push the reef lines down: I draw the three red curves just for illustrate what i thinking. The red arrow points to the backward curve of the sail whic (in my theory) need to push towards the bow to form the red curve lines.
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What do you do with your unusable rigging line?
Veszett Roka replied to capnharv2's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
We're continously doing that in different topics. Anyway, our local modeler club has regular market weekends, where all your surplus stuff could be sell or donate to others. The threads which is not suitable for you could be fine for other modelers, and not just shipmodelers: those market weekends (called boerse) often visited by diorama makers looking for photoetch rails, threads, chains etc. because they would urgently need only 10cm of chain, and they could pick it up from the 'garbage' boxes. -
What do you do with your unusable rigging line?
Veszett Roka replied to capnharv2's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
I did this (thanks for Heller):
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I wouldn't go for the blue. Check out the reflection on water, she's definitely green, although the wheelhouse color match (just darker a bit): I think the blue color on this picture is false white balance, maybe intentional editing. On my UNCALIBRATED monitor the RGB color is Jade Mist HEX061618, whilst the color of the green boat on the first picture is HEX060f11 - they are really close to each other
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I think we see here how another legend is born. Very clean work Keith! Wish you Merry Christmas, and all of you fellow sihpbuilders.
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Another vote for German Merchant flag. I'd assume that the flag change is rather an artistic, dramatic episode than real event. Captains were never play hero just for fun, they WERE hero because that times require them to be. So realistic flag +1
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Nils, Search for Litz, or Litze wire in electronics shops: https://audioverse.de/produkt/21-awg-up-occ-wire-litz-wire Usually they made from very thin, sub-0.05 mm wires, sometimes thinner than human hair.
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Hi Bill, let's ask Dafi. As far as i know the depicted sail set weared during battle, warships were kept their mainsails furled to let the deck clean and to minimize shrapnel damage. Anyways, this is a small Revell modell of Victory with its styrene sail set.
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Here is the link Kevin, but they didn't say more about the builders. Another one, this is a bit more detailed in German, unfortunately the pictures aren't shown there. Google translator worked for me (i know German a little however)
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Congratulations Vladimir!
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