Dion Dunn

Now that I’ve update my own build, it’s nice to see your progress Chris. Keep up the solid work!

My apologies for being so far behind on my posts. I get so little time to work on the model that I forget to add my updates. I’ve made some pretty good progress as of late and have found myself getting prepped to make the first set of guns. I’ve decided to roll the barrels myself. A royal PITA, but a good learning experience.

Nice work Chris. I'm jealous that you have been able to do so much high quality work! Congrats on a great build.

I blinked and Chris has another build 2 pages down. Nice job man!

I bought it instead. 😂

Tornado GR.1 and the D3A1 Val. I’m partial to prop planes, but the Tornado lends itself to card modeling nicely.

Beautiful job Chris!

It’s funny, I’m thinking of interrupting the Arizona build for an airplane build, the only issue is my airplane stock is only Halinski kits. That’s not a quick interruption.

Chris, you need a warning email that goes out when you start a new build. I finally get a round to checking and your almost done! fine job!

The deck is secure. Multiple steps and layers, but the raised wood and drains add realism and worth the extra work.

Hello Mr. Burnham! Want to take the Capri out with me tomorrow? I’ll text you. Today was too hot, so I did some cycling early morning and some building mid day. She is on her base now.

Aero - looks like you are right across the Ohio River from me. We sail full scale on the Ohio every week from the Louisville Sailing Club just North of the new bridge. Let me know if you'd like to join!

Well, I haven't quit yet. 😁 It's Summer, and if I'm not cycling, sailing, or driving backroads with the top down, then I'm having a bad day. We also haven't gotten a lot of rain, and that is usually the only time that I will sit down and work on a model. But I have managed to get some stuff done over the past few weeks. Not a lot, but it is progress and I'll take it. As reported on the German card model site, the designers of this kit missed a bulkhead near the aft end. Knowing this, I made my own out of scrap and it worked out great. I'm also in the middle of the prop shaft assemblies, and as you can see I opted for aluminum tube instead of rolled paper for the shafts. I'll paint them hull red when it is complete. I'm learning a lot with this build, and also resisting my temptation to get frustrated when I make mistakes. It's all part of the process of learning how to build card models after spending 40 years of my life on wood and plastic kits!

Nicely done Chris. It's Summer so I've been away playing with the full sized toys, but the completion of your build is something that has been nice to check in on.

Thank you!

Thanks. I’ve been backward and forward through that build log many times! This weekend was more about playing on my real sailboat than the toy boat, but I did manage to get some hull plating done. This is hard! But I’m not going beat myself up on the first ship build, however I do have a lot to learn.

well, my brain is now in dry dock after catching a head cold earlier this week. So no work on this ship for the last few nights. But I can't complain. First cold in over 3 years, and still no Covid. I'm good with that.

good guess, but it is not. It is a 120" span version of a 1938 free flight design called the "Big Gull". I scratch built it from the original 1938 plans, added R/C and a motor in the nose. I also had to build fixtures for the gull wing portion of the wing, and that was a project in itself. Not the easiest project, but very rewarding. I tend to go straight for the hardest thing

That SD 14 would probably be the end of me too. That is ambitious!

Well, here we go. First build log on this forum, first paper model ship kit (I’ve built a few HO scale railroad structures in paper), but I am a long time builder of various mediums. Building is my stress relief, and after 30 years of building large radio control stuff and running out of room, I finally figured it out. Discovering paper models has been a whole new world for me, and I’m loving it so far. Back in 1991 I was a young professional traveling between clients listening to NPR news. When the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor was being showcased on NPR news, they ran a story of the USS Arizona that I could never forget. It about brought me to tears, and I locked that memory away in the back of my bucket list that someday I would build a scale model of the Arizona. Then I discovered paper models, then GPM’s version thanks to other members of this site, and the rest as they say is history. I help run a large consulting company, have a busy family, and spend my Summers sailing one of my two sailboats, but tinkering in the shop is one of my life’s pleasures. This will not be a fast build (my Wife thinks 3 years), but it’s not about rushing to the end, it’s going to be about the journey as they say. But to help a little, I did buy the laser cut frames and the laser cut detail set. So after a week, here we are. The hull is framed up, and I’ve started attaching the seam strips. I’m afraid the easy part is done. The laser cut frame set was probably the best, most accurate laser cut pieces that I’ve ever assembled. I wouldn't say it fell together, but absolutely nothing needed modification. soon, the hull plating. Yes, it scares the crap out of me. 😉

Looking good. I really like the trailing edge glue technique

I just bought 2 Halinski airplane kits off of him, and trying my hardest to not look at the ships and keep my focus on the upcoming Arizona build.

Chris - do you use Google Translate? I was reading through my latest Halinksi kits over the weekend using my phone to translate the polish text real time through my camera. It was pretty awesome and allowed me to go through and make notes and annotations on everything that may be confusing. I'm sure I'll get tripped up a couple of times, but it sure is helpful.

Looking good!

Reminds me of all of the highly detail plastic interiors that I spent weeks making perfect only to realize once again that you can't see it anyway once the cockpit is closed up. But.....you know it's in there.