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  1. popeye the sailor
    glad to hear everything is going according to plan I am envious good buddy!......love to be able to kick the job to the curb! seriously raising a glass to you !
  2. popeye the sailor
    Carl beat me to it.......nice looking kit.........very nice detail on the deck. is there a wood deck upgrade out there for this model? https://scaledecks.com/ you can have a look here.......I do notice that they sell their products through Amazon and E-bay
  3. popeye the sailor
    nice work on the fore castle deck........looks great
  4. popeye the sailor
    the structure looks really good.........PE adds quite a bit ! super job!
  5. popeye the sailor
    ...a little putty will fix them.....no problem scratch building is not a science......it's an art. looking very good Kevin.
  6. popeye the sailor
    you jest Bob....the coppering looks super! very well done. at this small a scale, the nails might have been overkill. if I did one that looked half as good as yours......I'd be beaming your PDN looks awesome thus far!
  7. popeye the sailor
    I know.......I'm just gett'in all 'peckish' the admiral is an enabler......she's the one that got me the new table w/ built in electric outlets. I was always having to run extension cords if I wanted to do something with the Dremel or soldering gun. all I need to do now, is figure out a better lighting system....without buggering the table. I plan to do this at my desk anyway......seems like a small enough model. she still seems a bit chirped that it'a a plastic model though......I still would like to do something along the lines of the Arizona, or the Missouri......or even a carrier. I'm as curious as you are hopefully I'll see it today
  8. popeye the sailor
    things happen for a reason.........testing you to see if you can outwit the model I'd give anything to have my grand kids climb all over me......I just don't see them enough { I'm sure to get my fill when I do see them though } nice repair........there is no real rule that all dead eyes are equal in length. if they are off a tad, it's fine. I feel it makes the model look more life like. I hope all is better now......your dedication to this model is highly admired you've done a superb job on her !
  9. popeye the sailor
    looks very nice Michael looking at the picture though, you lost a little of the camber. I'm sure that after the deck is locked in and the center posts are installed, you'll get it back how much planking are you going to do on this deck?
  10. popeye the sailor
    looks much better you'll have to be careful not to put any scratch marks on the plastic areas. the method of planking still bugs me though......I would thing they would want you to lock them together with butt shifts and such. but, double planking alone will produce a good strong hull. gonna look nice when your done though I'd still be the one to buy more planking and continue the job.....guess I'm not built for these part works models
  11. popeye the sailor
    WOW Piet....... the diorama looks great! you did a great job with the water........even like the 'missed' shell splash near the ship I haven't done too much with the diorama thing either.....the only one I have {still in the project state} is for an old Ambroid train, the B&M snow plow. if I were to do one on a ship, I probably wouldn't go as far as you have, concerning the smoke and gun blast........they both are very hard to get right. you did an admirable job with it though, but for the gun blast, I think I would agree with Lou. cotton balls......really pulled apart {to make it wispy and thin} might be a better approach. then again, looking at pictures of these guns in action, the cloud produced does look rather dense. but it does fall on you my friend.......if you feel that it looks fine....then it is far off, I'm sure it does look good.....cameras have that nasty habit of blowing thing out of perspective. it's your vision and view that matters....I love what you did 'bout time I got to see this! luv that little touch of red in the blasts
  12. popeye the sailor
    look'in sweet Chris! the railings look great! shaping up nicely
  13. popeye the sailor
    I'm still waiting.........hoping I would see it when I got home just as well though.......I have no idea if the PE kit is ordered either. I could badger the admiral, but that would just get 'er dander up
  14. popeye the sailor
    so good to see an update.........she sure shows her size on top of the bins! look'in real good........the bow is coming a long great!
  15. popeye the sailor
    really super looking structure Danny........so much detail. gonna look awesome when you start populating the deck
  16. popeye the sailor
    sounds like a really fun build.........I'm in as well
  17. popeye the sailor
    the admiral is going to order that PE for me...at least, I think she is.
  18. popeye the sailor
    I dunno.....this stuff was pretty thin. I'll be doing quite a bit of cutting when I start on the nordkap
  19. popeye the sailor
    yea.......I have a few running projects. never at a loss for something to do welcome Bilghty.........I should be getting back to this project soon. gotta get through another fun filled work week.
  20. popeye the sailor
    there were enough people camped around the place. from what I saw of it.......it didn't look very 'royal' not too glitzy
  21. popeye the sailor
    hey there Jack.......coming along nicely quite a bit of rigging that goes into one of these!
  22. popeye the sailor
    rudder looks great OC........yepper! Damn the torpedoes! go for it!
  23. popeye the sailor
    look'in very nice
  24. popeye the sailor
    I traced them out on that stiff thin plywood they supplied.......I should have gone with my gut, and cut them from a piece of 1/32 basswood flat stock. that plywood was the toughest stuff to cut with a box cutter! by the time I got done sanding the two pieces to equal size, they were narrower at the stern. so what was a decisive thought, turned into absolute must. I really didn't gain much. when it came time to do the cap rails, unless I cut them out to a traced template {which would have taken some time to work up}, I decided to cement them along the upper edge. the curve towards the bow is very aggressive.....never be able to bend anything that much without breakage. running strips along the inner bulwarks was an after thought.......I wanted the cap rails to be wider. that's where the balsa came in. the strips are 1/16 x 1/32 X however long, and the thickness was perfect........and I even had to wet 'em to make that curve. the funny part is now......I gotta lay planking along the bulwarks, and I have to work around all this. there's still enough bulwark back there, so I guess that's a good thing the deck is about half planked.......drilled my hole for the tiller post and one for the mast, so I wouldn't lose my place where it was. I still need to drill holes for the horse, but it can wait till I'm done {I'm marking the spots}. I have a diagram to follow anyway
  25. popeye the sailor
    score!

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