popeye the sailor
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well......I'm glad to hear that you and Ninja Kitty are getting along better she'll never take her place, but you may find some common ground. it'll be good to see you back at the table. have you figured out a way to add to the bow, what you removed? if you still have the parts panel with the keel punch out, you could trace and cut a new one. then you could remove all of the bulkheads from the old one and add them to the new one. it's a bit of work to be sure, but it would be a great opportunity to adjust the keel to the specs that you needed to do in the first place. -
very hard to do Piet.......very nice progress though the diorama is looking really good....your improvements made a big difference.
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I just shocked the admiral........first the model.......then the PE...........I just asked her about buying a book single edge razor blade Carl.........one of my go to cutting tools
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yea that's a P-47 on the desk.......it's missing the canopy though. it's from a kit put out by Lindberg models for the Discovery Channel "Legends of the Sky". it's a 1:72 scale kit that features two planes...a P-47B thunderbolt and a German He-111 Bomber. I tried to get a canopy for it, but since the Lindberg is defunct, and the molds sold to Round 2 Models, there's no chance of getting one. I'm just tinkering with it I might try and make one using clear cello and window maker .....now that the mini model is here.....I can bag it I was going to play around with the Adam West Batmobile.....It's about 3/4 finished. what can I say.....I'm a modeling nut! {I'm a slave to my own hobby} that's great Sam........poor Carl is gonna wake up......and glue an unpopped kernel to his model {scale's about right?!?!?! I've been pre drilling the holes in the main deck and looking through the instructions. I brought out a new razor blade for this one.......I've even had thoughts of using a freezer bag when I cut the parts off the sprues, so the part won't go flying .....so many tiny parts. I do have to admit though.......this kit is detailed fairly well........not a whole lot of flash either. so I'll be getting my bearings......and getting myself acclimated to micro modeling. Vendetta had many refits.....either from damage, or what roll it was to play. are either of you two gents going to do the two white bands on the funnel, for when she was part of the 7th destroyer flotilla? she wore the solid black pendent I 69 at that time in 1940......and the solid black pendent D 69 in between 1925 and 1939........before that she had the white with black outline D 69 pendent {1st or 5th destroyer flotilla}. how about Camo?........around 1940, she had the two tone camo, and soon after, a single tone camo. this lady went through a lot of changes. I guess it will depend on at which period your modeling her at. there were five ships that comprised the Scrap Iron Flotilla.....Stewart, Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager, and Waterhen. I've been looking through all of these vessels, as there might be a snippet of info that didn't get mentioned in Vendetta's article. I'm using this site for them all: http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-vendetta-i
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nice work on the sub so far.........your very handy with the brush you have some really neat detail going on here........you've made quite a bit of progress since I last looked in.
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thanks.......look'in forward to when the DVD set comes out {I hate commercials} it will also be a great addition to my collection. my collection so far...... Walking Dead Game of thrones Badlands The Night of American Gods {if they get their butts in gear for season 2} The X Files and anything Stephen King
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good to see your making progress Jim......nice work on the cross trees {one more to make, I see}. love the view of the whole ship, she's really looking great! rigging looks super too!
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this has been the making of a truly great model Nils.......not sure of how much more you can add to her. my congratz to you for showing us this fantastic project you've really done some extraordinary work!
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nice job with the dredge rollers....they look absolutely perfect! fantastic metal work love the view of the whole boat......she's really looking great!
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really coming into shape quite nicely the black top is really nice.......I see a real snazzy paint job on this one I wonder what she would look like if you were to use PE on her.......I'm sure there's something out there.
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I've never done a model using these joints....or I may have and was too inexperienced to know to do it I would say that if your in doubt, keep doing it the way your doing it. I can't imagine that the builders would change methods like that. after all, they were out to build a strong vessel.
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ship's boat is coming along quite nicely Mark sometimes when I need an aggressive bend, I will go with the grain. I get the added flex. it can make whatever it is I'm making fragile...I just take a bit more care with the handling
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hello Andy....good to see your back at the table no reason to think you'd have too hard a time.........you've done very well on the model so far. looking forward in seeing your progress
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not sure if you gents noticed this or not, but the information about the model has nothing to do with the Vendetta.....but about the HMAS Vampire. the HMAS Vendetta, along with three other V&W class destroyers {Vampire being one of them}, were loaned to the Australian Navy {RAN}, and were nicknamed 'the scrap Iron flotilla'. the Vampire was lost April of 1942...I book marked the article.....very interesting reading. Vendetta and Vampire were together on quite a few missions.
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thanks OC this morning I started to add the eye bolts on the mast. for the boom........I didn't have a kit dowel long enough, but I had just the thing in my dowel inventory. I went out one day and bought an assortment of different sizes........just in case I did another trawler {guess we all know that's a probability }. it's tapered and drilled, as is the gaff. update soon
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relative without being guawdy.........I like that doesn't tell me much though.....but that's alright, because I got a surprise today. I was out mowing the lawns, and pruning the bush along the side of the building {to me, the front faces Varney St}, when the mailman pulled up and gave a package to the admiral. I got done with what I was doing outside {ran out of line for the weed whacker}.......it's in the 80's here, so it was a good time to come in and cool off {lawns and bush look great again >Trump would be pleased<} now....I didn't catch the name of the guy I was ordering it from.....shocked the heck out of me when I did.......I think I found Mark's doppelganger the box is the same......... ......and I can attest to how small this bugger is.....the Jeanne D'Arc was 1:400....I figured that 1:350 would be bigger. I really like the decal sheet.......but wow! the PE is insane at this scale. nightmare scale
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ahhhhhhhhhhh!......Tuesday! I'm off today.......actually I came home early yesterday.....there was no work. I found one trailer I could work on, but I was finished with it by lunch time. we all decided to have a cook out for Memorial day, so I had a super lunch and came home. Wal Mart {even though we don't get the holidays off} will supply luncheons for their observance, but we as a shift planned on something a bit more elaborate. we got to bring some subs {sandwiches} home, because they brought some down to the shop. cold subs VS hamburgers, hot sausage, and Kielbasa {and all the fix'ins}....... what would you pick?!?!?!?! anyway........on the boat front, I was thinking of the boat numbers and name of the boat........I should make some decals. XF-103 is the boat number, and I thought up two cute little names for her. the problem came when I looked......all I have is white decal paper...I have no clear sheets. I went onto my bag of pre printed decal sheets {from past projects}, and found a sheet that I hadn't used the entire sheet. even though I sprayed it with decal bonder already, it shouldn't matter. I made 'em up......sized them down to the most probable size.......and printed them out. I sprayed them again with the decal bonder, and they had all weekend to dry. they should be good to go now. I have a couple of chores to do this morning........I hope to get something done for an update later on. thanks for all the likes.....glad to have yuns follow'in along {Piet's teaching me English}
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day..........I've lost count, of waiting for the kit your gonna lose me on your paint techniques Greg.......you always do.......you do such a cool job of it. what PE set was shown in one of the previous pictures? very nice work of getting things painted. I done some reading......all through her refits and service, she always had the depth charges. one thing strikes me odd, that the launchers were added later during one of her refits...makes me wonder how they were launched early in her career. the paravanes were never discussed, although they must have had some use during WWI. I saw a reference to having 4 oerlikons.......didn't know what they were......so I looked them up. they are 20 mm machine guns how tall are the masts supposed to be? if they are incorrect, it would be good to know, so I can see what I have handy. not sure about the bollards....if the kit is anything like the Jeanne D'Arc, they are gonna be tiny. are they really that large Greg? I'm still looking up stuff.......got a lot of the pictures you've shown so far. the waiting game continues.......
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looking really good carl.....nice paint work is there still a gap across the fore deck seam? haven't got the kit yet, although the admiral told me that she ordered the PE kit. I'm sure some work can be done on the model before it arrives.......Eduards is located in the Czech Republic, so it might take some time to get to me.
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I did finally start plotting the deck layout. the only way I was going to get the bow spirit set up was to assemble it. the bow spirit had a really bad angle to it....but I sanded the yoke base down and took some of it away. I also could have positioned the yoke further back from the bow stem.......with CA though, you only get a one time chance. it all starts with the post for the fife rail...the rail will have to sit on top of the yoke. I wish I had taken pictures from the beginning.......but this is what I arrived at. I probably will need another eye bolt or two......but I think I can add them without too much problem. I needed to see this in the flesh. the forward cabin was added to the deck layout. this was measured from the diagram. the first pair of posts were added as well. I could have brought the bow spirit & yoke back a bit further, but I don't think it would have done much more to relieve the slight angle it's on. now it's get the mast fixed with it's eye bolts, so I can position the sail winch and horse. hard to tell if there is much in the way of standing rigging, but I am going to run at least one fore stay.......a good portion of the bow spirit's length, is the run for the traveler for the jib. there is what I would consider a flying jib....I'll see what factors in for it. I.m taking Tuesday off.........more to come thanks for look'in in! thanks as well for all the likes...your too kind
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thank you Bob good to hear I'm going in a positive direction
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