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  1. puckotred
    OK, bought a 3d printer yesterday and thought I'd try to build a serving machine. Right now I'm busy printing crap for the kids 🙄 They want dolls heads, Fallout 4 gadgets, tanks and god knows what. But it's a perfect way to getting to know the printer and technique well. So if you don't mind I'll be nicking a little design here and there and see what I end up with...
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    That looks fun Cristi... What is the name of the printer? Have you tried to "smooth" the cannon with acetone? It depends on what plastic you use but I've seen som pretty good results with brushing acetone on "low res" prints...
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    😱 Chinese chain??? It must be pirated.... 😜 What did the chain cost on your side of the water?
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    Missed you 😊 Wow! That's some extra work you undertook with the strops and chainplates... And it looks fantastic! I'm planking the hull now, but it's slow. The dark wood is so stiff I'm struggling with the bow even with a plank bender...
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    charts Vallejo model air and Vallejo model color Could may be of some use...
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    I have no use for this and hardly know what it is for but I REALLY REALLY need this set...
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    For a beginner it's GREAT. You should be satisfied with your build!
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    Great solution to those awful PE stairs from the kit.... I'll steal that design from you 😁
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    Looking good. It's fun isn't it when things start to work out. I admire your patience continuing after a couple of drawback kits.... If you need any help in Swedish feel free to PM me. (Det kan vara svårt ibland att uttrycka sig på ett annat språk) 👍
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    It was your thread that got me going all in on this Terror thing. As mentioned elsewhere I came across your thread here and on Building HMS Terror . Shortly after this (a week or two) I stumbled over the book by Dan Simmons and then the TV series (where they hired you as historical advisor I believe it was) ... And two weeks later Occre released the kit... So, I read your blogg, listened to the audiobook, seen the series, read the book and building the model
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    I'm building this kit and I'm satisfied with most of it. The instructions could be a little more specific with measurements etc but you can work it out eventually... The plywood sheet with the smaller details I got was missing a couple of parts, production fault at Occre as I got one of the first kits from the factory. Occre sent me a new one within 3-4 days so good service there. Building sequence is all wrong for me, but that seems to be common with Occre kits. I ordered new blocks though... And the 2x4mm ramin as the supplied strip was enough for about half of what needed. I also skipped the metal you should use for the bow plating, too hard to handle, difficult to bend etc. I used the strips for the second planking and grain filling filler that gave the plates a distinct difference in texture from the hull. I payed 99€ from Occre and you get a lot to build for that price.
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    I guess they call them that because they go around the gunports 😁 Edit: Just found the missing strips... They had rolled behind the cupboard where I stack the boxes... 🙄
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    She's looking great!!! Lovely detail! Did you have enough of the 2x5mm white wood strips called "gun port lining"? Instructions say I should have 56 of them left but I only have like 30...
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    I was referring to the cleanliness of your workplace.... 😊
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    Do you have one worktable for building and one for taking photos? 😁
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    Nice!!!
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    Good, there is a biiig difference between 2 and 3 mm blocks. only 1 mm but it's one third of the size difference!!! If it's rounded blocks they appear even smaller than the square ones... (But you know all of this.... I'm just pretending being wise 😁)
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    How many mm are the blocks? You could always buy from here: clasic model
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    And I have different barrels from you... 🤨
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    Well, now I'm starting to get annoyed with Occre... 😡
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    I also got a wrong plywood sheet, or I got two of the same sheet and one sheet missing. I wrote Occre and they sent the missing one within a week.... no problems for me... I got a lot of wooden belaying pins with the kit, more than I needed. I think Occre likes me better than you guys.... 😀😀😀 (In the spanish part list it says wooden belaying pins, but in the english one it says metal for some reason...)
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    No they're not. No, it does'nt.
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    That's spot on, on the other side you are quite proud when you actually made a ship of that heap of wood...
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    Laurvig is today Larvik in Norway F.Y.I.
  25. puckotred
    My first wooden model was HMS Badger from Caldercraft. Except for the quality of the wood (that almost put me off the whole shipmodel thing) the kit was a wonderful entry to wood ship building. The instructions are step by step all the way. The rigging part took you from start point, up to this block, down to that block and behind this line down to belaying point.... I still take a glance at these instructions when I do the rigging on models where rigging instructions are just a bunch of red lines on a drawing...

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