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  1. Dan Vadas
    The answer to those questions is - "It depends". What era, country, type of ship etc etc? Basically the sizes are, as you mentioned, whatever can be walked on without getting stuck between the timbers. And yes - most kit gratings aren't the right size (one size DOESN'T fit all ). Someone else may be able to give you a more definitive answer. Danny
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    I was thinking the same thing Pat . Danny
  3. Dan Vadas
    From what I've read on a Bismarck site that would be correct . The "things" sticking out are indeed Rangefinders. Danny
  4. Dan Vadas
    Chuck, unless you want to be totally OCD about the Pump Tubes there's really no need to bore them all the way through. On my Vulture Cross-section I only bored the octagonal tubes about 15mm in at the top and 25mm in at the bottom. You can actually only see a couple of millimetres into the bore at the top once the chain is fitted. I cut out the bottom section (a cross-section within a cross-section ) to show the chains on two of the tubes. See HERE. The chains are also truncated. Danny
  5. Dan Vadas
    Four little 20mm singles, and the four big 380mm Main Batteries (aka "Anton", "Bruno", "Caesar" and "Dora"). The turrets on Bismarck weighed 1,056 metric tons each . The barrels alone each weighed 100 tons. They fired a shell that was 1.7m long and weighed 800kg, and had a range of over 35km. I wish I'd have thought of that, it would have saved me a lot of work . Danny
  6. Dan Vadas
    Thank you again Pat and John . The 150mm guns are fitted to the deck : Danny
  7. Dan Vadas
    Barrels are painted (mid grey) and fitted. I made some Boots for the barrels from manilla folder. It took a couple of tries to get the right shape : Fitted to the barrels. I'm happy : I painted them a shade of olive brown : Ready to fit to the deck : Danny
  8. Dan Vadas
    The last two 150mm guns were a little different to the other four as they were fitted with Rangefinders, so I made them separately to avoid confusing the parts. Here are the parts for them in various stages of assembly : The two guns ready for the barrels : Danny
  9. Dan Vadas
    My first card model used Tabs, my last two didn't. I found the first one a lot harder to do. NO tabs is definitely easier, especially on small parts. I usually add extra card, folded, to give something bigger to glue to on the inside of a join. Now that you've bought the punch set you'll wonder how you managed without it for so long - a very good buy . I also have the larger set, and use them both a lot . Danny
  10. Dan Vadas
    Bismarck has six 150mm Guns as the 2nd Battery. Construction of these was fairly easy, but I had to add extra card to the few laser-cut pieces in the kit. I modified the bases to enable them to be swivelled : The finished turrets. The bases still need to be glued to them : I've primed the barrels, but I need to get another can of dark grey spray paint to topcoat them : Danny
  11. Dan Vadas
    That was the first thing I thought about the kit too . I reckon maybe a pack of 100 scalpel blades might do it . That's a really nice model Denis, congratulations. Danny
  12. Dan Vadas
    Thanks Popeye. The Yamaha (and 5 others) is a free download which I've already done . If I decide to build one I certainly will post it in Shore Leave . Danny
  13. Dan Vadas
    Crikey, that was some reaction . Thanks for all the nice comments guys. Thanks David, I consider it an honour to have you view my humble work . Denis - I downloaded the card model Yamaha in your link to see what it was like. WOW . The assembly instructions are "out of this world" - by far the best I've ever seen. A pity that you weren't involved with the artwork for this model - I'd have loved to see how it would have turned out if you had. The Rendering on your CAD "HMS Pegasus" is absolute magic , and would have made a huge difference to the Yammy. By all means - I'd love to see it . Such a pity I ordered (and paid for) the Halinski HMS Hood only two days ago, and it's already on it's way from Poland. One of the Yamahas would have been a nice diversion as my next model . Danny
  14. Dan Vadas
    Thank you Popeye, John and Reg. I've finished the rigging and fitted the planes and cranes. I've shown one attached to the crane and the other preparing for takeoff : Danny
  15. Dan Vadas
    Thanks Pat and John . I've finally got to the stage where both Superstructures need to be fitted to the deck. I hadn't been looking forward to this stage much, as I wasn't sure if they were going to fit properly. I needn't have worried - there were only two slight mis-calculations (one each side) where the side walls didn't quite line up with the marks : Before gluing anything down I dry-fitted both assemblies and checked out the fit. Then I ran around the white edges of the deck with a grey PITT pen in case any white showed after gluing (I learnt this lesson from Amatsukaze, where I had to do a bit of rather difficult touch-up after installing the superstructure ). Next I taped a couple of stops to the deck to make perfect alignment easier, and only THEN reached for the glue bottle. I'm more than happy with the result : With both assemblies now fitted I could finish off the rigging. First came the two Forestays for the main mast, which ended on either side of the funnel in two "turnbuckles" made from 0.2mm wire which I'd fitted earlier : Then the rest of the antennae between the two masts. Four of these were a doubled line with a spacer at each end to keep them apart. There's probably a name for this arrangement, but I don't know it : To set up these antennae I first separated the wires using a short length of 2.5mm square wood. I made the spacers from 2.5mm lengths if 0.3mm wire, which was glued to the lines with a tiny dab of PVA at each end. When these dried sufficiently I applied a tiny drop of CA to each joint. These will be painted black : Danny
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    I think it's OK Pav, I found some leftovers from Amatsukaze. Thanks anyway. Danny
  17. Dan Vadas
    Which is exactly what my Option 3 was. You explained it better . Danny
  18. Dan Vadas
    I agree Jan. Unfortunately I don't have any spare guns to fit one in each plane. I'll think about scratch-building a couple. They were actually twin 7.92mm machine guns. See HERE. Danny
  19. Dan Vadas
    Yes . Thanks Carl and Paul. Two Cranes are used for (among other things) recovering the floatplanes. These took me two days to make. They were very fragile until everything came together : The finished articles, ready to fit to the deck. The "cables" are "Fine" EZ-line elastic (black). The keen-eyed among you will note the temporary brass wires keeping the hooks from tangling until the cranes are fitted : Danny
  20. Dan Vadas
    Yeah, I know. Here's an overhead pic of mine (note how much simpler my details are compared to yours ) : One more alternative if you have any SOFT 0.2mm brass wire : fabricate the bracket from that by first gluing the yard to the mast, wrap the wire around the mast and yard, CA glue it on, and then trim and file it to shape. I'd probably have to draw a picture of what I mean. Once it's painted you wouldn't notice the difference. Danny
  21. Dan Vadas
    If it's too much of a problem - leave it off altogether. Who'd know (besides you and me )? An alternative would be to cut (or file) slots into the ends of the holes and open the holes up enough to slip over the yard, glue the yard in and then close up the bracket again. You'd need really good cutters though. Or maybe make a whole new yard from wire that WILL fit through the holes. BTW - those are Range Finders, not Radars . Danny
  22. Dan Vadas
    No. I think there's a problem with the ignition . Danny
  23. Dan Vadas
    Yes they do Scott - 20mm AA guns Danny
  24. Dan Vadas
    Not in this kit Popeye - what is fitted is all you get. I think the rear section slides in under the main part to open it for the tail gunner - maybe? I have no idea Walt . Thanks Hof . BTW - after posting the pics above I realised I'd forgotten to fit the radio antenna. I've corrected that omission now. The antenna itself is some ridiculously thin (0.01mm) elastic thread, and the wire part is 0.2mm nickel-silver wire : Danny
  25. Dan Vadas
    Thanks for the compliments once again John, Pat, Reg and Mark. There are two Arado 196 Floatplanes on Bismarck. These took me three days to make. Once AGAIN the Instructions were pretty woeful - luckily I found a couple of good pics of the "real thing" online. Here's the best one : The parts for both planes : Fitting the engine cowling edge piece : The major pieces of the fuselage, wings and tail rolled, folded and glued : The parts for the floats : And some pics of the finished planes. The float supports were not easy to cut and fit : Danny

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