Veszett Roka
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Hi Bill, Although the wheel is good in this form, you might try to solder a blob at the end of the copper wire. But before try this, you must remove the wire out, because the soldering heat will melt out the wheel. Other thing i can think of the 'magic sculpt' epoxy putty, easy and cheap to order. But after all, i'd leave the wheel as is now. -
Back to the searchlights. Aren't they painted on the real ship? I think everything on board exposed to salt sprays must be protected from corrosion any way. Well, nickel plating is good for it, but the searchlights i saw on other ships (actual museum ships) were all painted. I've found this color photo, most probably a colorized one, so more fantasy than reality. This shows the searchlights on lower position as black (or gray?) and on mast mounded ones as ochre (possibly brass?)
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Agree 120%. I was followed an other, russian modeling forum. I thought that the modelers are smarter than politicians. Well, on that forum the vehicles section flooded with Z trucks, and the comments are cheers the occupants, 'our heroes' and so forth. To be honest, i found it disgusting, and i'm not a member anymore. Also, i have to tell you that in the shipmodels section no any politics occur.
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Third hand is for newbies. Professionals use their own two hands only. Chuck Norris builds models without hands.
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Aahah, a BeoCenter 2300 You're a man! Listening it must be a pleasure when modeling.
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That gorgeous. Will be a challenging task in this scale, but knowing your works; not for you.
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Privet Valeriy, Will you imitate the spark mechanism inside? Excellent work anyhow.
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Hi Bill, I believe Marie C was a "general" ship of era and any ship's rigging would fit for her too, with more or less accuracy. I'd use respective parts of any barque, of course for 2 masts brigantine and omit the surplus masts.
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Thanks Valeriy Thats explain the dual purpose. I'd be curious how they blind the target, but rather talk of the topic beside a (couple of) beer in a tavern, not in Ras' thread.
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Did they use the searchlight for signalling too? Or reverse, did they use the signalling reflector as searchlight? This one looks too big for signalling, but the target scope and morse shutter handle suggest the opposite. Interesting!
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Unlikely. As an electronics engineer, i can tell they are way ahead of this size. Chip technology uses photo etching and/or metal steaming-vaporising to build the circuits. They are really in nanometer scale. Nowadays a semiconductor in a chip is 5 nm wide, and now trying to reach 2 nm, but due technical difficulties (not the size, but the intereference between neighboring transistors: electrons can travel between them) those chips are not yet reliable. I bet diagnostic and precision instruments industry who can use this level of accuracy in printing.
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Hi Mike, please be aware, the wavefronts must be straight even on light sea:
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Hi Ian, My copy just arrived from UK. Yummy! It is a Grafton 1981 paperback, but well preserved.
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Hi John, thats the same, and you're correct. If you measure an inch on the model, thats 78 inches on the real thing. Or, other words: a foot long model would be a 78 feet long boat in the reality. If you have a Bavaria 35 yacht which is exactly 35 feet long, its model will be 35/78=0.448 feet, so 5.378 inches in 1:78 scale. If someone can give you the exact plate sizes, just divide them by 78 and you will get the scale size.
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Very impressive Bill. Your Vic made me to want another one for myself, but my Pamir is stalled due other projects and i will finish her before start any other.
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Those brackets purpose primarily the direction and elevation measurement. On the picture, you can see a bearing scale ahead of the crew, and on his left side you can see the elevation scale. With those scales the watchmen can give precise direction of incoming threats. Their binoculars were equipped with a very basic rangefinder in the right eyesight.
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Hi Jan, yep, same situ here in Hungary. However, i was in a shipmodelers' meeting once, and a guy came with a 40*40 cm chess set, with all the board and figures was constructed from card. Of course, the figures were all different type of ships. The pawns were small boats with a single latin sail, the knights were frigates with 2 masts, the king was a ship-of-line and so forth, of course identical ships with black and white sails. You should have seen the dropped jaws there (mine included). I think the hobby shops just followed the demands, shipmodeling is not too familiar due small scales, much more modelers interested for armor and planes. Also i remember when i had to order my Titanic abroad (Academy 1:350) in 1995 because nowhere i found a kit before the 1997 film, which skyrocket the interest again to her lately. Still have the original Korean instruction sheet
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Unfortunately not yet. There is no available copy in local antic shops, so i'm checking the internationals.
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Varery, wish i could send more help, wish all of that aggression and war never happened. Keep up.
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Simply marvelous. It is real, not need to think what this or that could be, all of the fittings, ropes, rods, and other things are perfectly recognizable at first sight. Few models can present this 'feature' for me. Accept my congratulations, even it worth nothing.
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Sorry Yves, i can't resist. Hope you listening THIS on your hifi, while looking the Snowberry between the loudspeakers Beautiful work!
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Please send me a few 'doubler beers' and i will stare my bank account after. I think it worth a try
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It depends on the wind direction. In full backwind run there is no lee side (of course there is, but the spi must be on luv), and sometimes no space to steer the boat closer to the wind, therefore need to collect the spi in full 'energy'. This must be controlled by the sheets behind the foredeck crew and need great attention of the skipper. I never used the lazy guy configuration either, but seen this one on a 35ft daysailer. Although our soling had double sheets, but the small sets used in very light breeze only when the stronger one kept secured. Anyways, since the fashion of reachers and fixed bowsprits, our spinnaker knowledge is a bit obsolete.
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