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  1. Papa
    Back in 1968 or so Model Shipway's Essex was $35 at James Bliss in Boston. That was way beyond my means as a graduate student. I eventually managed to save enough to purchase the kit and I spent the next 40 years or so working on it--with lots of breaks. My point is, to some of us model kits have always been expensive. There is nothing new under the sun. Ron
  2. Papa
    This will be my first card model and will be slow as I am also working on finishing up my Granado. The SMS Helgoland is Austrian Austro-Hungarian light cruiser of the First World War and entered service in autumn 1914. The model is printed on heavy paper in magazine format. Some of the pieces are to be glued to 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm card stock. I found after a bit of experimenting that I could get a 1.0 mm thickness by laminating the front and back covers of an inexpensive spiral notebook. The instructions consist mainly of pictures. There is one page of general instructions in Polish that I am translating bit by bit with the help of Google Translate. So far I have cut out one keel piece.
  3. Papa
    Looks very nice. i am impressed with the painting; it doesn't look like plastic at all. What is your technique for getting such a realistic finish? Ron
  4. Papa
    That is a ship designed by a committee.
  5. Papa
    nice model. The wood is so sharp and clean and nicely finished.
  6. Papa
    Well, Finished At Last! Just need to make a base. I apologize for all the clutter in the photos
  7. Papa
    very interesting ship and model. I am looking forward to seeing it in the water under its own power.
  8. Papa
    The ship looks nice so far. i will continue to watch this log. I am particularly impressed with your neat work-bench.I seem to be incapable of keeping my work area neat and organized.
  9. Papa
    Seems to be taking me forever to finish the Chaperon. Got the starboard lifeboat rigged up and am working on the port side.
  10. Papa
    Awesome detail!
  11. Papa
    Great idea, but way beyond my abilities!
  12. Papa
    Amazing detail in paper!
  13. Papa
    Looks very nice. I am thinking that a cross section might be a relatively painless way to do a scratch build. Only a few frames to construct!
  14. Papa
    Almost finished!. Just have to rig the lifeboat davits and the flagpole.
  15. Papa
    Beautiful model. Gosh, i love those old Chris Craft boats.
  16. Papa
    The instructions for Chaperon recommend that you attach the tie-down cables for the pilot house before adding the roof. I did not do this. Now i am paying for it. Threading a "rope" through the bracket under the roof and behind the decorations is not an easy task. Tweezers and lying the boat gently on her side is working, but it would have been so much easier to do it early on!. Ron Gove
  17. Papa
    Looks like doing this off ship would be easier to keep everything aligned but getting the lengths correct must be difficult. By the way, you mentioned beeswax. I have a lump of beeswax I purchased from Model Shipways when they were in Bogota, New Jersey. Miles of rigging must have gone through it and it is still going strong. The lump was about the size of a measuring cup.
  18. Papa
    incredibly neat rigging. Just beautiful. Looks real.
  19. Papa
    The detail is amazing! I've never been able to get a plastic model to look this good.
  20. Papa
    thanks for the advice.
  21. Papa
    Thanks. good idea. It will put my digital caliper to good use.
  22. Papa
    Is there a good supplier of 0.5 mm and 1.0mm card stock. I just received my first card model ship--SMS Hegoland and am anxious to get started. Ron Gove
  23. Papa
    The rigging is moving along. Not nearly as tedious as a full rigged ship but tying black thread over a black background (hurricane deck) is a frustrating experience.
  24. Papa
    I don't recall the diameter of the wheel. I think it was around 1" radius. I adjusted the diameter to fit inside the pilot house with what seemed a natural clearance. The decks are varnished and I haven't had a gluing issue. Sometimes I scrape a bit of finish off if i am thinking ahead. The varnished also saved my butt on a couple of errors where I was able to remove a previously glued item. see an earlier post (#42). The plans show simulated bolts on the paddle wheel. There are a dozen per paddle and a dozen paddles. I couldn't face making 144 tiny u-bolts! so they are left off. I looked at some other logs and they also left off the bolts.
  25. Papa
    Very nice work. Great to be able to see the entire build in one continuous posting. Ron

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