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Hi John, I have done some brass plating and nickel in the past (not Britania parts but parts for typewriters and tripod restauration). AS a former car mechanic I even did some chrome plating with car parts. I use a power supply for laboratories from RS (RS PRO Digital Bench up to 3.2A three outputs) which I use regulary but you get some decent ones from Amazon or eBay for round about 50-100 Bucks. Be careful with the units about safety since you "play" with electricity. Unfortunately there is no guide how to do it except experimenting since there are some factors applying to the process, thinckness of the material, grade of plating (thickness of the plating), size of the item you want to put the plating on. I would try to get some "left overs" to do some experimental shots first, the Britania parts can be pricey sometimes so I wouldn´t sacrifice one of those with my first shot. But yeah, can be a challenging path to walk, I would write down the settings you used for specific parts so you can repeat the process for the next time with the same outcome (I do this for example with my tripod's mounting plate and hinges, which I most likely do in brass). Micha -
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Hello and welcome aboard... Micha
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Hello Olli, nice having you here aboard at MSW and a warm welcome. Micha
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Halò from the Highlands of Scotland.
Scottish Guy replied to Highlander's topic in New member Introductions
Hello Highlander from Moray / Grampian, welcome aboard here at MSW. Micha -
Hello John and welcome aboard here at MSW, enjoy the community and the modelling... Micha
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Welcome aboard here at MSW and a warm welcome from the North of Scotland. Enjoy the community and modelling... Micha
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Ahoy, mates...from central California
Scottish Guy replied to Capt. Kenway's topic in New member Introductions
Welcome aboard here at MSW, a warm welcome from the North of Scotland. Enjoy the commuinity... Micha -
Greetings from the Nation's Capital
Scottish Guy replied to AreyPotter's topic in New member Introductions
Welcome aboard here at MSW Scott, enjoy the community... Micha -
I crossed the Atlantic ocean twice in a sail boat and I know what you are talking about. I also get your point of going as far as possible about building a scale model. I think I made my point not clear as I don´t judge anybody, especially not for being super acurate or trying to be as perfect as possible. I just tried to make a point that in the past not one boat or ship has been build with such a perfection that the planking was mirrored perfect or the planks ended equally at the same point. I dare even to say that they never had the tools to be that perfect and I doubt that they had the time to be that perfect, so I was wondering why we try to reach perfection in our scale models. That was all I tried to explain. I get the point that people try to get to the most perfect point, I try to be perfect in skills I know well in skills I don´t know well I try at least my best. But does a scale model have to be looking more perfect than the original? But that´s just my humble opinion and I definitely don´t judge anybody that tries to deliver a perfect scale model, I adore people that can bring a model to museum level perfection. SO don´t get me wrong folks, I just stated an opinion. If I made someone feel uncomfortable or even felt attacked by my comment I deeply want to apologise and hope you will accept it. Thank you all for your kindness. Micha
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Welcome aboard here Noggy at MSW. Nice having you here. Micha
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Welcome back Chuck here at MSW. Glad to see you not gave up at all, hope you enjoy and still get the support you require. Micha
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Looking for Assistance Completing Model
Scottish Guy replied to Robert in Austin's topic in New member Introductions
I´m sorry for your loss Robert, I wish you and your family all the best and the strength to go through this. Unfortunately I live too far away to be of any help but I hope there is someone on here that might be able to help. I would suggest to talk to the mods or admins, maybe they have a good solution. I think Chris solution would be also a good way to consider since this would be an easier fix that even you might be able to do yourself. Micha -
Welcome aboard here at MSW. Micha
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Welcome aboard here at MSW and all the best from the North of Scotland... Micha
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This is a piece of art what he archived there but sometimes I ask myself, should it really look like that? Did the real ships and boats really look that acurate and neat or were they just work items and no one spent so much attention to the details as we do in our models? Don´t get me wrong here, I really like the build he did, I like this build here and I like being as neat, acurate and perfect as my skills allow me but sometimes I really ask myself if this would be authentic? Just buy a new car, even Mercedes or Rolls Royce have a clearance between their adjacent parts which is not always acurate (especiall Mercedes recently has massive quality issues with that) and that with computers and quality control mechanisms in place which definitely not existed in the early 20th century and definitely not earlier. My humble 2c to this topic... Micha
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