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    Sorry for your loss, Rick. Losing friends is tough and sometimes grief does make us lash out at others. Give it some time to heal and remember the good times with them.
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    Good choice, Nenad. Days like that seem to be rare but worth the effort go out and enjoy them.
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    Stunning carving work.
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    We have one hobby shop here where I am other than Hobby Lobby. It's been around a long time and expanded a bit for bicycles. Mostly, it's aircraft, RC cars/trucks and trains. They do have a small selection of plastic ships, cars, planes, etc. an surprisingly they do carry wooden ships.. mostly AL in stock and not many. On the bright side, they'll order any kit you want. I do support them for things like ply, tools, etc. when I can.
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    Just curious, James on the shoulder harness. I take it the instructions don't show the shoulder harness connected to the lap belts? If I remember right, they were on all the cars of the period. It's still a beautiful build.
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    That is the best news I've heard in awhile, OC. Suppliers like yours are treasures.
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    Welcome to MSW, Johan. For a first model, pick on without sails. You might start by reading this topic...
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    It might be boring but the satisfaction puts it right at the top. Well done.
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    What Bob said would work well. I use a piece of double sided tape that's bigger than the insert so it's uniform all around.
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    He may have warned the shipping department/company when he dropped it off, but no one talks to the drivers. Too many drivers just don't really care as they just want to get the truck empty and go home.
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    Yikes That is huge.
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    The question seems to be "when was the plane "bombed" up?". Did they do it on the flight deck at that point or was it done on the hanger deck?
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    Welcome to MSW, David. If you'll go here this sub forum https://modelshipworld.com/forum/133-kit-build-logs-for-subjects-built-from-1501-1750/ and use the search function, you'll get hits on the logs. You will probably need to do two searches, one for Wasa and the other for Vasa. Those logs will give you a good idea of what's involved as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the kits. In the past, the Billings kit was considered the most accurate but I've heard that kit mentioned above is excellent as the Billings kit instructions were, shall we say, a bit sparse. And from what I've heard, the quality of the Billings fittings aren't the best anymore. As for tools.... for a kit, basic hand tools. Here's like to the data base where they are discussed: https://thenrg.org/resource/articles
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    More and more details with every post, Daniel. Just incredible.
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    Looking more and more like a pirate ship. Nice work.
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    That would probably be an ideal place to show it.
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    Have you tried the drop of thin CA on the line to get it through the hole? I find that works very well.
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    Another route would be black paper such as construction paper. Not really archival but it does work. Use a good glue like PVA. To prevent fading of the paper, paint the band black.
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    No sin, Alan and everyone else. Build logs wander at times. I just thought you'd get more eyes on your experiment in an area where that might be discussed and not buried in an obscure build log.
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    Dave, Write up a post with the issues, your hardware, and software. Then post it here.... https://modelshipworld.com/forum/47-how-to-use-the-msw-forum/ It might get some IT eyeballs on the problem. I'm old IT but more hardware than software.... so I'm not able to help.
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    Beautiful and expertly done. I hope you'll be doing more models.

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