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    Welcome to MSW. Indeed, define "Northern California"...
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    Super fine work, Dave. I never thought about scratch building a model car.
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    Very nicely done, Sjors.
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    Beautiful work on the xylokastra.
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    Plastic sprue that's been heated and stretched? Or use the Ez line but starch it or spray it with lacquer (hairspray works)? Can you reinforce the davits with some wire in them? Maybe I don't understand the problem....
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    I'm wondering if 8000 rpm would still be too fast for machining brass. My mill and lathe both only hit about 2500-3000 rpm which works for wood and metal.
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    I'll add a suggestion to Spyglass's solution. Use a foam filled sanding tool like a disposable nail fail (but cut it short so it only hits maybe 3 BH's at once) to go over several frames at once. Slow and easy and if you get one frame finished first, move the sanding tool. Check frequently with a piece of scrap wood planking.
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    It's great to see an update, Sam. Looks most excellent.
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    Nice work. Your builds fall into the tutorial class easily. Well done builds and you show us how.
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    I can't speak for others, but I never use just sandpaper and fingers. I use sanding blocks from a beauty supply house, or rubber cement some to a piece of scrap wood wherein the shape I need to sand is roughly carved/sanded on the scrap wood before gluing on the paper. My rule of thumb is the roughest I go is 100 grit, medium is around 200-300, fine is 400 and over. But then, I don't keep a lot of different sizes as stock. Size of mini files... length? Width? Number of teeth per inch? Depends on the manufacturer really. Usually they tell you how long it is overall and maybe some generic fine, medium, etc. for the teeth. There are some that usually come from China that so miss shaped that they're unusable (looked like the metal was still too soft when they cut the teeth and were bent and distorted) even if the picture looked nice. I bought to sets on Ebay and ended up just tossing them in the trash as it was too much money to send them back.
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    I'm with the others, Chris. It looks great. I had to go back and look at the title to see that it was/is a card model.
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    The vac hose in chrome would be great. Maybe add a zoomie strip. Seriously nice improvements, Alan.
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    Ah, the downside (if there is one to this hobby), becoming a toolholic. I started simply also Now I have one room filled with goodies.... be afraid, be very afraid as it is contagious. I must be doing better though as I haven't bought any new tools in a couple of years.
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    Other than to open each port while planking, the only other way I've seen or heard about is to use a Dremel (or similar) with a small bit and drill the opening by making a lot (the more the better) of holes just to the inside of the port. Then use your knife, small saw to shape the port. It is a time consuming process but not nearly as bad as tying ratlines. .
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    I'm liking that Toni, not for the fire but for the message it sends. Any oil, motor, tung, etc. on a rag is a fire hazard.
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    That does resemble something like a Star Destroyer from Star Wars. I wonder if that was the intention or influence? Nice work all around her, Patrick.
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    What Ken said... we are exactly that.
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    Looking at the pictures of the last couple days, it's really hard to remember this started as a solid block of wood. Impressive.
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    Do you have any machine tools such as a mill? There's lots of different methods with Russ's being one of the better ones for doing it.
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    Such detail... love it.

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