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Magnificent. What a beautiful diorama with such a lovely and musical atmosphere. Yves -
Shelby 427 S/C Cobra by CDW - FINISHED - Fujimi - 1:24 Scale
yvesvidal replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Don't forget the Ceramic Coating for long term preservation.... 😄 Yves -
That is planned. There will be a shovel and there is the .....broom 🙂 Yves
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Thank you Folks for all these recommendations and web sites. Yes, I know all of them and have ordered a lot of parts in the past. Unfortunately, for this rotary, once you couple the tender, there is not much that can be seen in between. But I do appreciate your ideas and suggestions and my do it at a later time. Yves
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Doing the last finishing touches on the rear of the Snowplow: Railings have been added, a steam pressure gauge and the inevitable broom to clean up the floor: I can now glue (permanently) the roof. Yves
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Fantastic diorama, Dan. Yves
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Process made famous by Billing Boats, who was the first commercial company to propose that way of building hulls. You are making great progress. Yves
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Nobody will complain about that!! Bring it on !!! Yves
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Such clean and precise work. A pleasure to watch. I really like that green for the hull... Yves
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A few progress, although very slow: the anchors..... This set of anchors ia new set that was sent to me by Tom (from Caf Model). This set is slightly larger than the one provided with the original kit. Their size matches very closely what is offered in the Anatomy of the Ship book. I am using small piece of left over PE, to build the iron bands (hoops) used to secure the two halves of the stock. The sherry wood stock is treated with my usual orange/olive oil and the hoops are chemically darkened and then painted. The anchor is also chemically blackened and later on painted using Model Shipways gun black acrylic paint. One down, one to go.... These anchors are massive and will take some thinking to attach them to the bow. Yves
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The roof is painted with the "stinking" Floquil Grime Black: I am then fabricating the roof extension, used to protect the crew in charge of the furnace and boiler. This is done with a piece of plasticard of very small thickness, provided in the kit. A few rivets are used to attach it to the main roof: And the cover is also painted with the same "stinking" Floquil grime black: The roof is now ready to be permanently glued to the snowplow. I still have a few things to do on the rear of the snowplow, before the final gluing. Yves
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Beautiful finish. I love the fact that you can see some wood through the paint. It makes the model so much more realistic. Yves
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Very interesting project as we are not having too many aircraft carriers on this forum. They are always welcome. Yves
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Very interesting project. I like that you felt compelled to build a surface vessel to go with your nice collection of submarines. That is exactly what happened to me, after spending close to 2 years on the large U-552 Boot from Trumpeter. And if you feel like 1/144 is kind of small for a Flower Class, you can always look at this build log: I will be following your progress with a lot of interest. Yves
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Excellent start for this complicated model. There is a very good Build Log (in French) of that model on this site: https://www.laroyale-modelisme.net/t27110-croiseur-de-bataille-dkm-scharnhorst-trumpeter-1-200-de-dyphrologue The amount of details that the modeler is adding turns the model into a museum piece. You may want to look at it for inspiration. Yves
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Is that the Bentley or a Fiat? Yves
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Andy, you finished a real marvel. I still remember one of my best friends some 45 years ago, as he tried to build that model (or a previous iteration of it). His did not complete in such a nice way.... but we were just kids playing and the glues, paints and putties were not what they are today. HUMBROL was dominating the market in Europe and that is all you had. Yves
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That is exactly how the kit instructions describe the gluing of the paper. I decided to go with something which has a little bit more grain.... Yves
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I think we are due for an update. I have been working on the roof of the rotary plow which is actually much more complicated than it seems: Above is the final result before painting. It starts with two strips of wood and a few plastic frames: The cuts at the rear, are designed to accommodate the rear bulkhead. The original kit calls for a large scribbed sheet of wood that you have to cut. I decided instead, to go with a regular planking, treating it like a hull. Nobody on this forum will complain about that.... Planking is complete: It fits very rather well. The roof will be permanently glued, since I have no intent to detail the interior. The next step is to glue some kind of fabric. That piece of fabric was missing from my kit and so I decided to use some kind of fabric used for delicate packaging: it is glued with PVA glue, diluted with water. This is supposed to mimic the tar covered roof, used on this kind of Maintenance of the Way cars. Little by little, more details are added to the roof: And it is now ready for paint: Yves
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Beautiful hull. It is taking its final shape. Yves
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The front wall is now finished: The covers to protect the coal from the snow, are difficult to install. I tried to make them movable and got some moderate success: I may work some more on them, as I am not completely happy with the results. Overall, the snowplow is starting to look like the real thing: More pictures to come.... Yves
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I was in Annapolis this weekend attending the Sailboat show. The Pride of Baltimore 2 was there, docked and available for the public to tour. What a beautiful sight! That ship is quite impressive and the most interesting part is how slanted the masts are. I have never seen something like that on a period ship or even on a more recent vessel. The deck had all the guns in place plus (unfortunately) all the modern safety stuff that are now required, to navigate. Yves
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