popeye the sailor

I went a bit further by adding the cabane struts and touching up the decals. I also added the struts for the stabilizer wing with flash........ and without..........

so this is where you got off to?!?!?!?! I'm glad I found your log before the plastic started flying! 1/350 is certainly small......I have the Vendetta that I still need to finish. look'in forward in seeing your progress great conversation by the way! speedy recovery Jack.........at least you can still lift a tankard rest up and get better!

superb job on the torpedo tubes......they have the caps for them, but I think it would look cool to have the front tubes showing a torpedo in them. you've done a great job!........wonderful!

very nice metal work

you've done very well with this kit. second hand projects usually have the little surprises you mentioned nice look'in model

I think it does.......I'll check it out thanks OC fleshing out the aft deck now....raising the area another 5 mm. perhaps I can even do the catheads and get further with the head gear.

look'in forward to it

yep......seen it too. I have a few instrument panel decals from the bombers.....I'll cut them to fit. of course, once together, it might not be very visible.

adjusted the 'toe' did ya? looks pretty good I had some of that with the funny car...hate bending stuff.......always afraid somethings is gonna break hate the way some instructions are done......there's always that one part that you just can't seem to figure out how it goes really nice progress though.......nice!

....a bit of a soaker over here too!

look'in great Mike...........quite a bit of surgery there I agree with Lou......easier to service if the wings were down.

came out look'in really nice OC..........the horse came out super too

I have the dashboard pieces on my desk........thinking what I can do about instrumentation. gotta clear the Fokkers first

thanks Lou........I wish I had found it sooner. I try now NOT to keep my soda so close to the printer

pok'in my head in here looks really good! yea......I wouldn't recommend this kit as a 'first build', but then again, when I started, I didn't pick the easiest model to start out with either. you did something rather neat with the copper plating......just paint below the waterline copper, and dry brush it with flat medium green...downward strokes to the keel. the kit does have it's shortcomings......the railings are the worst. if your following my log, feel free to copy my method. there are links there too....one will take you to a museum that has some really nice pictures of the rigging. your able to zoom in and rotate the pictures, so you can see different angles. the rigging is similar to most clipper ships that you'll find here, but pay a mind to the Cutty.......at one time she had barque rigging. the belaying pins were another aspect I replaced...you'll read it in my log as well. one thing you will learn with this kit is scratch building.........a very good bit of experience. I learned it early on, but then......I didn't see it that way......I thought I was just being creative I got a lot of my stuff from Cornwall Model Boats - Static display and radio control model boat kits including period wooden model ships.Model Ship fittings, Caldercraft Boats there is a lack of life boats with this kit too........you can find them here.......just bear in mind the scale of the model, and you will do fine I don't know of too many folks who have finished this kit. I hope to get back to mine. keep up the good work........and don't worry about how it looks now. it will all come together when you finally get some paint on her look the best when finished.......just think of it as riding on a train........miles of track and many curves along the way. mind if I follow along?

are you sure I can't con you into another one of these builds? just kidding who threw the pie?

the deck is finished.......I still have enough wood strips to do the aft deck. I also found that I had cut a fore deck. it still needs to be fitted if I intend to use it. I wanted to flesh out the catheads too, but the errand changed the plans. I will try. here you can see the contrast between the two decks the grate has been cemented in place. more to come

today was deck planking day I already started it.......the fun continues. I'm still getting used to the new camera......these beginning pictures are with flash. as I was planking, I fleshed out one more mast collar and painted the grate and the collars flat black. I added the couple extra lines for the butt staggers. it did add a bit of confusion, but in the end, it creates a fairly interesting deck. the flash started to get blurry...... now with the other camera, I never used flash........I didn't have to with the lighting I've been using. at this point I turned it off. Almost to the portside bulwark......I thought I had waited too long to take the picture. cameras with auto focus usually go out of focus if you wait too long.....I took a second. here I only waited a couple seconds......something to get used to the port side is completely done now. I had to leave it here.......seems the admiral wanted to go shopping. I'll finish the starboard side when I get back.

dug this one from the archives.......two problems with this model are the control cables to the top wing.....I cut 'em too short. I don't have enough to cross them, so I'll run them straight {small problem}. the bigger problem is the time factor........these decals are junk. the one on the underside of the bottom wing has shrunk and split.......I have it back down at the moment, but the cracking is still there. this and a few other areas that are now chipping, I will need to touch up with paint. the rudder is now prepped out with the cable levers and decals have been added. this is using flash........I had to retake the next one due to the flash whiting everything out......the step and grab loops have been added, but not painted yet. no flash equals moonlight.........that's amore {nobody did it like Dean}

the new camera is better than the other one......very short window for the auto focus. better than none at all I suppose there are only a few parts left to add to this model.......as mentioned, a larger scale would present more detail and challenge. it's an effort to clear the table. definitely need to take'em in better lighting, rather than rely on flash the decals were a tad on the brittle side....a couple did pose a bit of an effort to get them to line up.

I put a bit more to this model......really not warming up to the scale very well. perhaps a larger one will turn up......one day I found that I had a couple of pictures from June that I hadn't posted yet. I had added the stabilizers and braces. ....and that's where I left off. in moving forward with the model, I put the decals on. I should have pictures soon.

look'in good

interesting assembly very nicely done!

nice progress Chris...will you have to calk in the seams?

nice start Bob......I've wanted to get one of these kits. the Germans had a plane like this that I've been interested in as well welcome to Plastiland!