Jeff59
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Want to bundle about five oars each side to complement the details on the boats, maybe even a mast lying up the middle since they were also sailing boats, seen a few photos confirming this 👍 Have to try and contact Micro Master and see if possible to get some boats made that they don’t have in their selection. The small twenty five foot boats and the thirty six-seven foot open pinnace, I’ll try anyway. I recon using the actual kit boats must have been very tight on the room to install, especially with the pinnace being so oversized. Try and put a photo on showing kit boats beside the Micro Master boats to show how tight everything is, the Micro Master boat two the front is a twenty seven footer, recon I need a twenty five footer. Did buy a open motor launch hopping I could make a open steam pinnace from it, length was fine but just two fat in beam to work, beautiful boat though, try and take a photo of this as well, cannot believe when I cut the spruces away how delicate the propeller is. Unbelievable.
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Just starting to paint out the next pinnace, difference with this one shall be funnel up and a three pounder gun mounted, think I’ll be able to finish the rigging mast stays and a few other bits. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips on making oars for the open boats, the etch ones supplied by Pontos don’t cut it for me. ?
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At least they’re the right way up now, apart from this the iPads brill, except I haven’t a clue. 🙄
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CDW Thanks very much, just put two photos up, Jacqueline holding one button in while I pushed the photo button on a count of three, honestly you couldn’t script this. 😂
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Sorry about that last post guys, have to get used to this iPad, did it the usual way but for some reason photos turned upside down, maybe had the iPad upside down when using camera, see if I can improve my zero skills in computing. Was at my local modeling club a few nights ago, speaking to a gentleman who used to be in navy and retired, asked him about the green ball on the rigging, he recons it was a signal that the ship is at anchor. On the rigging side of things, it’s down to looking at as many photos as you can of MIKASA and similar class battleships and making your best judgment. Managing to get a resemblance I hope.
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Hi guys, hope everyone is well. This is going to be stressful, trying to work with this new iPad, frustrating is the word. Spent quite a lot of time painting and trying to add some extra details to 50ft steam pinnace, using the etched boat wheel, brass portholes and anchor from Pontos along with some boat hooks fitted onto cabin sides, the rest was down to painting, some spraying but mainly small paint brush picking out details, also used Micro Kristal clear to get glazed effect on portholes and cabin windows, also did this on port side of the ship itself, think it works okay. 👍 painting the open boats much the same procedure in trying to highlight details of these little gems, the one downside is the plastic these boats are made from is extremely brittle, so advice here is buy extra. As usual with my build I have to work outwards and upwards, so had to do a little tricky rigging on mainmast from small yard arms with pulleys on upper searchlight platform, fitting some fine Lycra around pulleys and tying of on bridge structure hand rails, on starboard side on this rigging there seams to be a green ball like item, can only guess it’s something to do with navigation for port and starboard sides ? Anyway made this from plastic spruce for kit parts just filling and scraping till I ended up with a ball, drilled this with a 0.3 drill before cutting from spruce, a tiny spot of thin glue pinned ‘‘this in place, then painted. This worked a treat, more effective than I thought it would be, lucky white heather 👌 I will try and put some pictures up now, your bound to be getting fed up reading this 😂 here goes.
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Sorry for long delay in posting, took quite a while painting ships boats, trying to get best out of them then when I did try to post nothing worked on the eye pad was like it had froze. So this is new iPad , obviously working now👍 shall do a little more painting today and make a post up showing progress soon as. This is aimed at the modellers still alive following this build log. 😂
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Glad to have you on board and thanks for the compliment 🤛 Regarding the ships boats from Micro Master they are bit expensive but trust me if you like quality and detail well worth it, they are very very delicate though, better to buy extra so you learn what not to do 😂 Another learning curve I’d say. They do have these boats in a range of scales including 1/700 I’m totally sold on them, by the way you ought to see some of the weapons armaments, superb. 👍
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My queue is longer and my time shorter 😂 give you a laugh I have Bismarck, Titanic, Hornet, Hood, Iowa and an Arizona not started, considering buying Yamato Scharnhorst and Rodney and this is just in 1/200 scale and I kid you not there are hundreds of other models some of them serious, even want to buy the x wingnut wings 1/32 Lancaster, have been building Mikasa for two years past, what do you think my chances are, and don’t say asylum 😂
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Hi Ed, first of me starting to look at other build logs, your Mikasa build log and CDW’s got me hooked on doing Mikasa, I bet without realising it was such a challenge, that’ll teach me for biting of something to big, love your workmanship and can only aspire to keep trying. Your lack of glue is baffling 😂 And I do like the tool you purchased for forming curves, can I ask were you purchase this cause I can instantly see the need for this ? By the way I also have the Hood to build, still to buy Pontos set for it though, so I shall start working my way through your excellent build log and enjoy looking I bet. Thanks.
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Extremely precise photo etch work here, love it looking forward to working through your build log, still can’t believe we’re the glue marks have gone 😂 just jealous. 👍
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Thanks Yves, it’s been quite a journey to get here, but have to say this part of the build is the most pleasurable, just seeing it coming together, never thought I could achieve this, think Jacqueline is surprised as well, especially if I finish it 😂 a wee bit to go yet though but it will all add up in the end. 🤛 thanks again 👍It will feel strange to actually start on the Bismarck when the time comes, but I do feel it shall be a less stressful build, fingers 🤞
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It’s hello again from Jeff, some acrylic paints and brushes arrived today for me to experiment painting some detailing on ships boats so fortunately I have some extra boats for practice work, so going to dive in the deep end and see if I can swim. 🤪 took some more photos in a better light as my camera skills are zero. Still trying to tweak the masts slightly, might just manage to steal a little bit I hope, no pain no gain as they say. 🤞
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Hi guys still trying to get to end of build, fitted the main mast, almost managed to get it right with the gorilla glue, just slightly out of being vertically true by a couple of millimetres, just have to live with it you ain’t moving this mast now 🙄 certainly a challenge when your trying to get it level in two planes, spars ninety degrees across deck and jib at a certain angle across to boat deck, in ten seconds 😂 Sod’s law when I tried cold fit I managed to locate mast in hole in deck almost right away, but not when I had applied the glue, must have taken about three precious seconds, could feel the panic rising 😂 but just managed or at least I thought I had, a well I’ll live with it. That’s some glue 10 seconds and solid. Tied in a few bits of rigging. My next goal is work on those lovely boats from Micro Master and continue with rigging as in fore mast. Does look more like a Mikasa now though. 👍 Put a few pictures up to show progress 🤛
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Next stage is to fit mast to model and change its appearance forever. 👍 fingers x I’ll be back on the 10 second gorilla glue. 😳
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Started on fitting the jib to this mast had to make some minor alterations because of gun tub position, the wire etch running down to jib support had to be rethought and reworked ie passing through the gun tub. My answer is total speculation as there’s no information as to where the cables run to, Pontos just stop the etch at the jib support to the mast, they must have gave up as well, I would have thought the winches on main deck were for the jib, but can’t even remotely see how it might work, plus no winches on forward mast so I’m just burying my head in sand on this one. 😂 also altered some of etch from pulleys on mast as deemed them a little heavy, so cut of and replaced with 0.2 wire, did this on fore mast as well, much cussing and swearing trying to get this all to work, have came to the conclusion that metal etch rigging can be a bitch. 😳
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Whilst on the subject of Mikasa mast spars being wrong, I’m not correct in this assumption, they are right for the 1905 version but wrong for the 1902 version. But I don’t know what period they are displaying present day? Show some photos for reference.
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Hi guys, a quick update on my Mikasa build. Still on the mast, have added more rigging and etch.
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