willz
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willz got a reaction from qwerty2008 in dummy cannons by william butler
no need for this extravagance you can just slice them off with a razor saw at the thickness needed, then just glue to sides flush with the bottom, you dont want the wheels lifting the carriage off the floor, finally you can drill a hole in the base for a secret steel or brass dowel to decure the carriage in place
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willz got a reaction from hollowneck in Newsworthy updates from Chris Watton
a true scratch build now theres a question, think to be honest theres very few. personally i think if everything is made by the modeller then thats a true scratch build no matter what tools they use electric or not, to prove a point the pic below shows the victory emblem and the band that splashes across the stern, they were both made with hand tools and the aid of a dremel, the are both unique and one offs, so in my opinion they are 100% scratch
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willz got a reaction from Jaxboat in Newsworthy updates from Chris Watton
a true scratch build now theres a question, think to be honest theres very few. personally i think if everything is made by the modeller then thats a true scratch build no matter what tools they use electric or not, to prove a point the pic below shows the victory emblem and the band that splashes across the stern, they were both made with hand tools and the aid of a dremel, the are both unique and one offs, so in my opinion they are 100% scratch
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willz got a reaction from fnkershner in Newsworthy updates from Chris Watton
a true scratch build now theres a question, think to be honest theres very few. personally i think if everything is made by the modeller then thats a true scratch build no matter what tools they use electric or not, to prove a point the pic below shows the victory emblem and the band that splashes across the stern, they were both made with hand tools and the aid of a dremel, the are both unique and one offs, so in my opinion they are 100% scratch
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willz got a reaction from WackoWolf in Newsworthy updates from Chris Watton
a true scratch build now theres a question, think to be honest theres very few. personally i think if everything is made by the modeller then thats a true scratch build no matter what tools they use electric or not, to prove a point the pic below shows the victory emblem and the band that splashes across the stern, they were both made with hand tools and the aid of a dremel, the are both unique and one offs, so in my opinion they are 100% scratch
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willz got a reaction from tkay11 in Microlux Tilt Arbor Saw Problems
just a shot in the dark here, with it being a 230 tooth blade try putting it in the wrong way round as we know it, it will not do any harm if it doesn`t work. When i need a fine cut on my box wood strips i.e. no splintering i turn the blade the wrong way round and it works. (stops those little grabbing moments)
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willz got a reaction from Jeronimo in HMS Victory by willz
Hi everyone, been building a 1/72 scratch Victory for quite a while now. keep going off the boil and back again (is this normal) and at the mo I`m building or trying. I picked the Victory at 1/72 simply for the fact that jokita do a fine example at that scale thus giving me a wealth of top notch parts to add to my scratch, cannons, photo etch, e.t.c.
It will be made as simply as possible with no fancy interior although i am toying with the idea of full cannons on all decks but we will see
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willz got a reaction from mtaylor in Newsworthy updates from Chris Watton
sorry Chris, didn`t mean to be brash, its just that at the mo i am myself constructing the stern on my 1/72 scratch Victory, and digging around found it very difficult to find info, the best i could find was on page 94 in john mckays book, i must say at this point that your stern is the best i`ve seen, i am a complete novice and this is my first build and the time it takes is unreal, so when it came to scale my balustrades i counted them and as a cross reference i counted other models, when i counted jokita`s i noticed there was only 67 per row but didn`t think much of it till i counted yours, so then started to think is there a drawing of the stern that i haven`t seen, so again i am sorry i was just curious.
heres a pic of my balustrades
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