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  1. mtaylor
    Well, ordering is reading, not building. I like your thinking.
  2. mtaylor
    With the wood going in all directions with bending, it sounds to me like either the wood is going from a controlled environment to un-controlled one or vise-versa. Just seems weird you're have so many warpage issues.
  3. mtaylor
    Seems to be .MPG for videos or post to say Youtube the video and a link here.
  4. mtaylor
    Tough question to answer, IMO. I'd say flip a coin.... heads for the left one, tails for the right one. There's no room to have two boats?
  5. mtaylor
    I'm in. Brings pack memories of some great times...both the models and the real deals at the track.
  6. mtaylor
    Welcome to MSW, Marco. We do have card modelers here... quite a few doing both ships and and non-ship models.
  7. mtaylor
    Not enough wow's in the world to express how great that looks.
  8. mtaylor
    Kick back and let it heal, Alan. Pushing it may not end well.
  9. mtaylor
    Simon, welcome to MSW. Sorry I can't help, but perhaps go to the Billings website and contact them.
  10. mtaylor
    Beautifully done. Adding the crew on the decks really brings this ship to life.
  11. mtaylor
    Feel free to open a new topic in Shore Leave. There's some interesting stuff in post and probably much more in the boxes.
  12. mtaylor
    I go with the flames/cannon balls except for the drawing in the upper left corner. That looks like a lion to me. Was "bomb" ship firing mortors as those kinds of symbols were common themes on them.
  13. mtaylor
    Alternately, if you wander about the scratch area, you'll see that most just make their own building slip. I originally had one of the Billings but it was really more trouble than it was worth limited in size so making a slip is simple and very satisfying once you sort out what's good and what's not needed.
  14. mtaylor
    Let's not forget Star Trek as the model for that beast was huge also althouigh they did have several smaller ones. Also all hand built. To my eye, those "old" movies and TV show look more "real" than the CGI used today.
  15. mtaylor
    Welcome to MSW, Viriato. As the others have pointed out, please use a translator such as Google Translate. MSW is an English language site. When you're ready, do feel free to open a build log in the Scratch area for your model.
  16. mtaylor
    I took the liberty of enlarging what you posted as large as I could without loosing too much detail.... I'm not sure what this is now. They are boxy looking Almost seem to be two parts... upper and lower but other that, I have no idea.
  17. mtaylor
    Beautiful model, Maciek. I hope you'll do a build log for next one.
  18. mtaylor
    I remember that also now that you mention it. One of the guys in my school did manage to get to the big ceremony and judging and won a scholarship. Not the big prize but big enough.
  19. mtaylor
    Wow... that looks like a real figurehead and not a model.
  20. mtaylor
    Can you give us more a context maybe some more photos that are larger? From here it seems from the shape to be part of a winch or two.
  21. mtaylor
    Al this Indy talk brought back some memories of sitting in the back yard listening to the race on the radio (no live tv coverage... had to wait up Wide World of Sports showed the excerpts). My science teacher in school was a Miss Meyer. Her dad was THE Meyer of Meyer-Drake/Offenhauser and she got him to give a presentation at the high school.
  22. mtaylor
    Heic is basically an orphan format that Microsoft came up with but it never caught on with website developers or anyone else for the most part.
  23. mtaylor
    Welcome to MSW, Cristian. Basically, start "small"... no masts or at most one. Get a good kit (not a rip off with while usuallly have bigger issues than complexity such as "fit" and "finish". Also, look for a copy of zu Mondfeld's Historic Ship Models. While there are some errors in it, it is a good reference to period ships, how they were built, fitted out, and rigged. It's a pretty much general purpose book and specific to any particular vessel.
  24. mtaylor
    Welcome back home, Andre. Real life does get in the way at times.
  25. mtaylor
    There were a lot of internet slowness here in Oregon on Saturday. Later that day, things got back to "normal". I got mixed answers from my ISP tech support so who knows what happened.

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