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9 hours ago, John Ruy said:

thread storage units are sold in Fabric section of WalMart or JoAnn Fabrics.

Thanks. I will check these out. My rigging storage is a plastic box of tangled thread. 

She is looking real nice, John. I feel like I am a year away from starting rigging right now;  progress has been slow.

Some observations. I like your rigging thread storage unit.  Is it custom made?

also, it looks like you have one of Model Expo’s shroud/ratline  jigs but don’t seem to be using it. Is that because it is useless?

Ron

Well, back in 1965 I couldn’t afford any car at all. I had a 1952 Plymouth with plywood covering the holes in the floor. I think my parents bought it from a relative for $25.  So, if I was going to fantasize about sports cars it was Porsche Speedster. If you are going to dream, dream big😇

Very nice work and great painting. 
 

at the risk of starting a war, I never understood the appeal of the Mustang. When they came on the market my first thought was: why buy this when there are so many great European sports cars.  The  early Mustangs were built on Falcon chassis, that is no sports car 

I have a copy of Chapelle’s American Fishing Schooners.  I would swap this for Bill Ottinger’s  "Napoleonic Plastic Figure Modeling"
PM if you are interested

changed my mind 

ignore

14 hours ago, JohnLea said:

Bill Ottinger has a very informative book on this ~ "Napoleonic Plastic Figure Modelling".

I will look into that. Thanks

Another use for the dental brushes is to transfer tiny amounts of CA glue to parts being joined. 

I have more kits around that I probably don’t have enough years left to build. And now your beautiful army is urging me to try figure painting 🤯

Pilot waiting for his 109 to get built

Weird thing with the paint guide is that not all parts are shown.  Also the instructions are very vague as to where some of the parts go.  Anyway, here is the engine. I think the paint needs a tad touching up.

The Dolittle aircraft seem to have the turret back near the tail. So I will still need a turret 😐

15 hours ago, marktiedens said:

If you click on the little circle at the left of the log title it will take you to the first unread post.  If the log title is in gray with no circle at the left,then there are no new posts in that log since your last visit.

 

Mark

It doesn’t seem to do that.  It seems to jump into the middle of the last page.  I guess that might have been the last posting I read .   But that doesn’t do what I want.  I want to jump to the most recent posting regardless of what I’ve looked at before.  This would be analogous to listing email starting with the most recent message.  Last in first out. 

At this point, there is no way to access the nose, so glued down she stays. I now have a kit missing the turret. I wonder if I could smooth out the top and do a Dolittle version.

Thanks for the nice comment

the starfighters  are neat looking aircraft

I received my duplicate kit and added the top turret.  So she’s done. 

And around the corner

When i open a specific build log, say, "HMS Terror by clearway - OcCre - upgraded"

It opens to page 1, with the very first posting for this log at the top.   I would like to have it open to the most recent posting for this log.  I haven't been able to find the proper menu item to sort this way.  Probably operator error😇

Where can one display this monster. It’s over a meter long!  That will be one impressive model. 

On 7/22/2020 at 8:37 PM, Old Collingwood said:

I really need to come up with some better painting  blocks  instead of my paint tubs  for while I paint them, I will have  a look in the house and see if I can find anything.

 

OC.

Maybe some plastic prescription bottles?

The galley and store room are coming along.

Is there a way to list build log entries starting with the most recent posting and going down to the first.  It would be easier than haveing to drop down through all the pages to get to the latest status.

23 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Thanks for sharing your work on this.  Did you consider insetting the walls into the deck as opposed to having the walls sitting on top of it?  It's a little tricky as the kit doesn't have a sub-deck on which to add the planking.  I have been working on other projects, but have been thinking about how to handle the deck and various deck items.

Actually, for all the other structures, I did cut away the deck and put  coamings around.  For some reason it never occurred to me to do that for the galley and stuff at the aft.  Its too late now.  I will have to fake it.  Just building these structures will try one's patience to the limit, without the added difficulty of fitting into a cut away deck.

I started studying the ME 109 plans and found that the color call-outs are all on a single page showing each part to be painted and the color. I’ve never seen this before. 

1 hour ago, David Lester said:

That forward wall fits nicely. I found that to be a particularly finicky thing to do on mine. Did you make a cardboard template? I must have gone through ream of cardboard until I had a template that fit.

Looks great!

David

Many pieces of cardboard and sheet wood.  What finally worked was using multiple pieces pushed in to fit.  Something like those contour finding tools with all the fine sliding pins, only much cruder.  Even then the final piece needed lots of fiddling to get right

I’ve been building models for close to 70 years now. I must have been 8 when I started with some wooden airplane kit. Perhaps Strombecker. Not sure when I did my first plastic one. The quality of plastic kits has improved fantastically over the years.  The prices seem relatively higher to me now, than as a kid.  I recall buying kits for maybe 89 cents to a bit over $1. But a 1959 dollar is only worth about$10 today. And many kits are 3 to 4 times that.  Some are even in the hundreds of dollars.  Are there any young people making models or are we all old!