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Looks more like a muffler belt to me.

Mark

Welcome back!  Very nice,as usual.

Mark

You might also check at a Michaels craft store - the ones near me have a good selection of thin plywood (if they are open during this virus thing).

Mark

Marvelous job!   I see you have discovered the infamous OcCre rigging plans!  I had some of the same issues with the last OcCre kit I did - 2 lines going to 1 pin plus difficulty trying to determine the run of some of the lines.  Some were shown actually running from a stay in front of a sail & belaying to a pin behind the sail!  I ended up deviating from the plans in places just to make it look halfway believable.   Luckily,you only have 1 mast to deal with.   Love the lights!

Mark

Beautiful.

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Thanks.  This is the fifth hull I`ve coppered,so I`ve had a little practice.

Mark

Thanks Mike - The glue actually does ooze out from under the plates.  After positioning the plate I blot it with a paper towel to pull off the excess.  I do get some smears on the plates,but I use a cloth with some acetate to remove the smears.  It smells a bit,but the acetate does soften & remove the smears.  Just have to be careful not to use so much that it would get under the plates & loosen them.  It also needs to be done in a well ventilated area - besides the smell it is very flammable!

Mark

I`ve never seen the longest version for sale in a store.  Don`t know if it`s even available on DVD,although I have not actually searched for it.  Might do a search on some of the video outlets like Best Buy.

Mark

8 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

 

There's a version of Das Boot that is entirely subtitles.  I do remember seeing a lot of war movies prior to my military days.  Most.. had errors but usually the story made up for it.  

I have the three and a half hour directors cut & it has options for different languages with English captions.  Excellent movie!   One of the movie channels I used to have showed the full 5 hour version once in a while.  Kind of hard to sit through a 5 hour movie,though.

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I`ve always liked "The Longest Day".   Even though some of  the actual events were somewhat stylized or even wrong,I liked how the German characters actually spoke in German - very seldom seen even to this day.  I don`t know German language though,so the English captions were nice.

Mark

Thanks O.C. & Ernie - much appreciated!

I forgot to mention that the copper plates were glued directly to the bare wood with an odorless medium viscosity CA & are stuck so well that a chisel would be needed to remove them.   I have done it this way on other hulls & have never had a copper plate fall off.   The only prep I did was to clean the plates with acetone to remove any oily residue.

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Thank you very much,Edward.

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Thanks Richard.   Looks slightly shiny with my bright light on it,but should dull down somewhat in time.  The copper on my Victory has dulled down pretty good over time & it has the same copper plates I am using on this.

Mark

Really nice work!

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Hi all - coppering done (except the rudder)  Have to do a little shaping of the rudder before coppering it.

Mark

Amati is supposed to be coming out with a Bismarck - pics looked really nice.

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All nice looking aircraft - to me,the most menacing looking one I can think of is the F4 Phantom.  It just looks so mean & nasty.  Built one long ago & it was in a display cabinet at my local hobby shop,but it`s gone now - don`t know where it went.

Mark

What I do when I drop a small part is turn the lights out,lay on the floor,& shine a flashlight across the floor.  I usually find my part (along with reminding my I need to sweep a little more often).  Doesn`t work well,though,if you have carpet.

Mark

Very nicely done - sit back & admire it for a while!

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I agree - well done!

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All I can say is WOW  - super job!   All you guys doing plastic is giving me the itch to do one.

Mark

9 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Sounds like my earlier kits....

 

OC.

That`s the only kit I never completed - the fit was so poor that it was more putty than plastic.

Mark

You are doing such a fine job with this kit - the last JoHan kit I tried to build in my youth was so bad I just threw it in the trash!   Never bought another one.

Mark

Thanks O.C. - I`m not real good at metal work,so looking forward to making sawdust again.

Mark

Greetings - hope everyone is staying safe!   Hull coppering is about half done - not much else to do with most stores closed.  Still no T.P. or paper products in the stores that are open.   &^*%$#*! hoarders.    I would have preferred to use Amati plates,but the wind in HMS Visa`s sails is a little too weak for what that would cost.  Besides,I had to do something with the 3000 Caldercraft plates I already had.  I tried flattening the "nails" in them,but it distorted them too much so I just used them as is.   They are not as shiny as the photos indicate - I had a very bright light on them.  They have actually started to get a light brown patina on them just from my handling them.

Mark