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AndyB_11
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Alert by AndyB_11 - Krick - Scale1:25
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The build has started. I’ve dry fitted all the bulkheads and the deck mainly to make sure I’ve got everything in the right place and if needs be I can still take it apart and file/sand anything that isn’t correct. The good news is that everything is a tight fit and it lines up. It will certainly benefit from having the deck pinned with nails while the glue sets because of the curvature of the deck and the bulkheads need setting at the correct height because one of two are maybe 0.5mm down on the height of the spine but nothing serious. so far no complaints 👍 Andy
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It looks much smaller scale if you go by the length of the keel so I’m not convinced it’s the 1:25 the manufacturers say it is but initial views can be deceptive. I’m sure I’ll alternate between really enjoying the build and swearing at it for hours but that’s the point of it really, I want something that’ll be fun but equally challenging.
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Hi all, The kit arrived today (along with a lot of 'toys' for building it) so I suppose I'd better start a build log. Firstly it's going to be a laborious task in many ways because the instructions are very detailed if you're fluent in German but very limited if you aren't. Well thankfully I can ask for directions, order food, order beer and ask if a hotel has any beds in German so I'll be fine. The quality of the wood looks to be very good, 3mm ply for the keel and 5mm for the bulkheads but any flex in the keel can be removed up to a degree by installing the deck and pinning it to the bulkheads when I've got the keel held in a straight line. Well that's what worked for me before so why shouldn't it work now? First job tomorrow is to check everything is in the box and use a pen to mark part numbers on everything before it gets detached from the sheets and then dry fit the bulkheads and deck to see what we've got. Tonight I've got to walk my 5 month old Labrador pup to the pub and have a beer then consider wrapping Xmas presents for my granddaughters though that'll probably be postponed when beer induced build fever catches hold of me 🤣 Photos to follow at some point. Andy
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Thanks for all the welcoming messages, I’m looking forward to getting started on my ‘project’ and will try to get a bit of a build log on the go but I have to admit right now that I’m not great at keeping progress on any build and a log recording it going at the same pace. Last time I built a model ship I had two advantages over now, the first one being but the biggest one was that I could make parts and jigs at work because at the time I was a model maker making scale models for wind tunnel testing though none of them were made out of wood. Life becomes easier when you just go to the stores and take out whatever type of file you want or CNC mill plank formers in your meal breaks 😀 I still have a workshop with 2 lathes and a small milling/drilling machine but it’s 250 miles away in England (I now live in Scotland) so I need to either get a decent sized timber workshop built at home or rent somewhere so they’re staying where they are for now. Andy
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Hi all, just a brief introduction. I've joined MSW for purely selfish reasons with the biggest one being access to a monster source of information regarding building a model ship from a kit. It won't be the first one I've build but there's been a very lengthy gap between the last one and my re-entry to the hobby because the first was completed in the late 1980s but then children, work and other activities put a halt to things but now I'm what I'd classify as being semi-retired (I work from home) and have stopped travelling as much it's time to go back to it. Last time I built a US cutter as a plank on bulkhead kit with a single layer of planks and it went ok when you consider there wasn't the internet to use as a database but sadly over the following years the finished model got broken during house moves and attacks by small children so it ended up in the bin. It seemed like a good idea to have another go at a cutter so I'm awaiting delivery of the Krick version of the US Cutter Alert. Krick seem to be fairly well respected for the standard of their kits and being 1:25 it's a large enough scale for my fading eyesight to be able to cope so it's give it a go time 🙂 Andy
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