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Hi Ed, Nice work! In my humble opinion, your filler blocks are still a little fat. If you were to leave them as is, when you start to plank… you’d see how the nice fair goes to a swelled hind end. I looked at every build plan I could find while doing the stern and all the fillers. I’m still not done… I’m new to the “filler” process. 👍 -
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Dave_E replied to wernerweiss's topic in Photographing your work. How to do this.
It was absolutely the orientation of you picture taking device. I’ve use my iPhone and iPad… never had an upside down issue. 👍😀 -
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Dave_E replied to Blacklab's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Do you have a build log going for this beauty? 👍😀 -
I sanded down the stern piece so I could plank it without it being so fat it wouldn’t fit and look way out of proportion. I’ve got the planks. I glued a bunch of them together and made a “plank” board and thought about tracing the stern onto it and cut out the window openings. 😳 Or… glue each plank on and cut the openings piece by piece. That sounds better to me now that I ask about it. What do you think?
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Hi Bruce, Welcome! 👍😀
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Spent the afternoon looking at build logs and any completed paint schemes I could find for the Rattlesnake. I love it when the instructions have written words for what color and where, but no references on the drawings… and they don’t match the model on the box cover. 😳 I like the thin blue lines I see on some of the build logs.
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Ah, those darn airplanes… hard to stay away. 😆 I have a plastic and a couple metal kits that I hear in the closet. But I say “no”. 😆 I’ll watch! 👍
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Good thought. I’ll look over the build logs and all the finished photos I can and then decide. I’m going to assume that if I was building for physical accuracy, it would surely be planked. The fashion piece is next… I definitely have to open it up.
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Hi All, Think I’ve got the stern piece figured out… little sanding here and there. Stumbled upon this… What did you do to make the window frames fit, shims? Would the windows have been flush with the inside or the outside. I was thinking outside, then there would be a “window sill” inside the structure, just like in our homes. I’ve seen build logs that go both ways. Opinions?
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My hat is off to you Sir… unbelievable miniature scratch building! The pot metal binnacle that came with my Rattlesnake is horrible, seeing your work just might persuade me to give it a try. 👍😀
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Go Man Go! (But not too fast) 😆 Looking good Ken! 👍😀
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Hi Steve, Welcome to the forum! 👍😀
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1936 Rolls Royce Phantom III by CDW - Revell - 1:16 scale
Dave_E replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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I’ll watch.👍
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Welcome to the forum! 👍😀
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Late welcome, I’m following your build! 👍😀
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Hi Marty, Absolutely Brother, look at not only mine but there about 4 other builds of the Rattlesnake going on. I am here to tell you, the lazer cut parts are NOT perfect. Having been in the manufacturing business for many years I can tell you that every so often, a company has to recalibrate their tooling. In this case Model Shipways is WAY past due and their drawings could use some tune up work... in my humble opinion. The very thing you mentioned has been the constant in all the recent builds of the the Rattlesnake on this forum. Nothing that cannot be overcome however. Welcome aboard! 😀
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Thanks Everyone, Will work on it later today, let you know how it goes.
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Then the bottom of the stern is way below the contour block… 😕 Here is a picture of the Britannia stern carving… let’s just say the fit is terrible, doesn’t come close to the drawing. This pot metal will snap if I try to bend it. I have reviewed all the Rattlesnake builds I can… and there is a mix-mash of fits, some good, others not. I have double checked my stern counter block, all pretty close. 😑
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Good Evening Fellow Ship Dudes, I need help from those of you who have built the MS Rattlesnake. As you can see by the pictures below, the stern doesn’t come close to the drawing. Did you have this condition? If so, what did you do to remedy? if not, what did I do wrong? 😖
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Really nice Glenn! 👍😀
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Hi Dan, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
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Outstanding Dan! 👍😀
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Hi Fellers, Well since I knew it would be dusty… I went to the workbench in the garage, 45 degrees and windy outside, got some righteous 70’s top 40 on the speaker and got the bow filler blocks pretty roughed in and started on the stern blocks. My mother in law is living with us for the month of November, that and the weather has turned to winter… I think I’ll be in the shipyard a good deal this month as next month we’re off to Hawaii for the whole month. Kids bought us tickets… who could say no to a month and Christmas on the Big Island? 😎🌴 I do not like shaping solid blocks! My hat is off to you guys who fill in between the bulkheads or carve solid hulls!
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