Azzoun

Hey there,

Or you can buy them second hand.  I actually have two kits for sale, 
 
1:100 Model Shipways Bluenose  $80 shipping included
Model Shipways BENJAMIN LATHAM 1:48  $150 shipping included 
 
PM if you're interested,

Joshua  
 

Private message me your address - I'm happy to just send it to ya - if your parents want to make a donation, they can to the Philadelphia Ship Model Society but there's no obligation.    
 
Joshua Fichmann
President PSMS

For free...   you're a young person wanting to build a model, happy to support that.   If you were an adult with a job, I'd charge. 
 
Joshua   

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Been needing to satisfy that PE itch again, granted that taking close up pictures can be a bit brutal.   I overworked this grating for the bridge and it became many pieces.  After 6 attempts, I landed with this.  A bit glazed but it's a relatively small part and once painted, won't look so frumpy.      I did straighten it out a little bit after I took this pic, here it is compared to its plastic counterpart.  

This part of the Superstructure turned out nice so far.  The seam gaps won't be noticeable once other portions of the superstructure are layered on.   For now, I'm working as much brass and build as I can before pulling out the airbrush.  Dry fitting as needed to see the progress.   

I'm always amused how you try to sit down to do what you think is a small isolated project for your main build, like building a motor launch only to realize it needs to be integrated sooner than you think.   Last night, I said, "Self, we'll need these eventually, let's just build a motorlaunch."  But as I scoured the details and dug into it, considering all the fine detail that the photo etch kit provides, there's no way that I can think to safely handle this part once its completed.   You can see an example below of how small the propellor and rudder is in the sheet.    Therefore, I decided to build out the underside with the stands, prop and rudder, then glue it to the main project and build off the ship all of the topside details.   From a painting perspective, the initial coat of the launch will be the same as the rest of the ship and then I'll still have access to detail paint the other parts.   Below are pictures the overall instructions and as always, love to show the comparison of value that the photo etch offers compared to the stock part, which is shown complete as the kit alone intended.   This is how far 2 hours got me between planning and executing on one motorlaunch.  As you can see in the instructions, there are several more parts to be added.   I need to figure out a good material to coat the grating once it's in place, maybe 00 silkspan soaked in diluted pva.   Added an overview of the Mogami status with most structures only dry fitted to the painted deck.  Thoughts?  

Ah  when 3 parts become 20ish!   Detailing out this motor launch became a small project in of itself.   I threw up my hands after the detail kit instructed me to cut off the plastic molded supports to stack the motor launch on top of the barge in exchange for brass only to discover that they're not tall enough.   And then, entertainingly, the exampled photo doesn't show all the parts offered being used!  I worked it out as best as I could for now and this is what I ended up with.   Couple discoveries along the way,  Blue Tack is great for holding small parts to a build plate and Duco is best used for super small parts like that the bow flag staff, which took about 10 attempts to achieve the picture.   In the end, I love this stuff!  I love the madness of the hyperdetailing and it's great practice, and I really loved when I shared this picture below to laymen friend of mine, he thought the penny was a coaster!.    

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Great progress so far!

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Great progress so far!

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Along with new toys, work continues which includes the radar array, the aft masting and planes, planes, planes.    I tried adding PE to the given plastic mast, screwed things up, tried to use a lighter to clean up the glue.   Yes, this was a bad idea, before I knew it, the part was a cloud of plastic floating particles.  Somehow I knew I was going to building this part from brass because of the rigging I plan to do, so it just became a self-fulfilling prophecy.   To accomplish, I took the angles from the drawing, made a jig by sawing guide slots in the wood and soldered the part together.   Second attempt was better than the first which in below, it's the left most part that needs to be trimmed.    Otherwise, the Mogami has 13 planes, which I'm deciding on the final presentation which all had PE detail parts along with their related carriages.  Finished a good portion of the aft bridge and crane, however I did notice I had the hooks on backward.  In order to get these PE parts to sit right while the glue sets often requires, for me at least, to orient the part to allow gravity to assist, so to fix, the whole model had to be mounted upside down to fix the hooks.   Other wise, blue tack and patience is the order of the day!

 
 

Hello all,
 
All I can say is what I've heard in many places, photoetch is a love/hate relationship!   But!  To put more into the love bucket out of the hate bucket, I bought a new tool that I found in the circuit hobbyist section of Amazon, a digital microscope.   I wasn't sure how useful this tool was going to be but I had some Christmas money.  I'd say it's great for things like getting in close to line up your knife to the PE tabs when cutting out a part, bending certain individual pieces and lining up the seams with the bender tool, or to determine which side has the textured side.   General assembly seems to still prefer the headgear magnifiers hunched over two pairs of tweezers.     Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who has trouble seeing this stuff!   

Here is another quick angle with some Photoshop.  I added some reference to where the wales would be.  I needed to check some angles and this was the perfect tool for the job.   This is of course just an estimate to where they will be.  I just eye-balled the placement of the wales best I could in photoshop.  I wanted to see what the framing would eventually look like after planking.  How much would be exposed.
 
Also, Just a note to say it would be great to have a disc sander for the bow timbers,  but I know that many of you who will be building this do not have one.  So I have been working all of these parts on this project only by hand just like all of you will have to. It is quite possible to get fairly tight joints just using a sharp chisel and #11 blade along with some sanding sticks.   Its just a matter of going slow and being very careful.