mtaylor

Thanks Brett, I couldn’t agree more! For me there is nothing more relaxing than grabbing a book or a magazine and laying outside in my hammock reading. 

Thanks, i'm the same, i know its all very convenient having it electronically but for me there is no substitute for a real book that you can sit back and dive into with a coffee ! Anyway if i can't sell these as a job lot i will offer them individually so if there are any particular issues that you want let me know and i'll keep you posted etc. 

I love physical media and would kill to have a complete MSW set. If I lived anywhere near you I would jump to add this nice chunk to my own. Good luck on your sale Brett, I hope you can sell it quickly. 

My experience is that this is a hard road.
I put the entire MSW collection up for sale years ago and ... crickets mostly.
Websites like Chuck's rightly (?) make print obsolete, unless it is full-color and/or coffee table size.

It's never a problem to reply to an older post.
 
I hope you share your build with us  
 
Jim

Shipyard Kits are very nice.  

You’ll enjoy building them!

Ha ha... I'm not going out alone. "I'm taking you with me!" ☺️

Ha ha! You're doomed. 😮

I think that this was ccoyle's fault. I was looking around and accidentally stumbled upon a 'cardstock' build in the forum. Looked kinda interesting so I thought "What the heck!" I went to the named manufacturer, in Poland, and started looking around. Today, an international package arrived containing Shipyard paper model kits for the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Not sure when I'll actually start working on these, but 'by-golly' I've got them!     

I should add that my son is working on another lego build so we’re in the workshop together.  Here’s a sidebar update on his Lego Artemis.  It will have a place of honour next to his Apollo rocket. 

I can now look at assembling some of this heavy metal, as well as looking at how it'll be powered and displayed.
 
A substantial electric motor is hidden in plain view on this model, in the ancillary equipment which sits on the outside of the low pressure housing. Here you see the motor being fitted into that. You'll see the gearing too. I do pack this out with some model grease which isn't shown in the photos as it's fairly gunky.
 








One thing that doesn't need to be assembled is the control unit. This is a self-contained unit which has a shiny button on the left for engine sound, and a toggle on the right for simple engine on/off. In the middle is the working throttle. This is connected to the unit I just built to test that all is working. I left this for a minute or two to properly bed in.

The engine test cradle is now put together and the control unit bolted into position.




 
The engine needs to be built up before it can be mounted. The forward low pressure rings are now bolted together with a mix of both locking nuts and regular nuts with thread-lock applied.

 
 
Enter the large low pressure fan I built at the beginning. This is now slid into position and a high pressure rotor bolted into place from the rear.


 
More rotors now slid into position.


 
 
The electric motor needs to have a gearing system in place which turns the rotation through 90 degrees towards the main fan shaft. This little unit is now built and greased and then inserted into the intermediate green casing which will be seen in the next and last update.


...to be continued.

Assembling the high pressure compressor
The previous two assemblies cab now be fitted together. Whilst one of these rotates within the other, there's no need to add any lubrication as the centre assembly will rotate on the main drive shaft and is clear of the outside casing. 
 

Combustion chamber
The first assembly also has a cutaway window so the modeller can see the interior parts while the engine is running. 




A few small external details are now added to the completed chamber, namely the fuel branch pipes and distribution ring. 

 
High pressure turbine rotor
You'll start to see a pattern of seemingly similar items being built. The assembly of these is very, very similar, even if the completed units are physically different. 






 
 
Low pressure turbine case
As before, this has another viewing window and there are more stator blade elements that sit within. These are held in place by a black ring which sits atop them and is secured by four screws from the outside of the casing.


 
 
The various stator parts can now be fitted in conjunction with the rotary units

 
Now a large section of the case is fitted onto this unit, trapping the rotors and stators within. All of these circular assemblies are first secured with a small number of bolts and locking nuts. When everything is guaranteed to be central, the remainder of the bolts are fitted with regular nuts. Again, all are thread-locked.

 
 
This unit is now fitted out with cooling pipes and their connection units. Extra clips are fitted over these which hold the pipes into the correct position to each other. The pipes are also numbered so you get them in the correct sequence, starting with the largest diameter ones. As with much of this engine, this assembly is quite heavy.


 
....to be continued.

Thank you all very much!

“May have” ?? “
 
”Small order” ???
 
uhh huh…. Riiiight…. 😜
 
Nice job with the rigging BTW…. 
 
Andy

Got the wing bracing done. It was not fun! The last couple of pieces decided to be quite a pain in the tuckus. Once you've bent a stretched piece of wire, you can't re-stretch it if it gets bent. I bent the first three attempts at the last wire. Fourth time was a charm. 😑
 

 
BTW, I may have placed a small order with Halinski. Now I have to wait for the mail, so I'll keep you waiting along with me. 😁

That's so strange! From the Netherlands I can ship 1kg to the USA for around 20 euro's! Shipping from Poland to the Netherlands is somewhere around 10 euro's. Let me know if I can help you Chris. I also have relatives in the USA who visit the Netherlands 1 or 2 times a year.

Probably because it's all Greek to us ! 😛😉🙃😊

This stuff is so confusing that I inadvertently switched the definitions of these two terms in my last post. And none of you caught it!! 😂  It's fixed now.

Cross-eyed yet? 😁

I had to take a refresher course on all the rigging/bracing terminology for biplanes. So for those who are interested, here's a quick lesson:
cabane struts: the struts between the fuselage and upper wing interplane struts: the struts between the upper and lower wings bay: the rectangular space bounded by two sets of struts and the upper and lower wings torsion wires: the wires that brace the rectangles formed by the cabane struts, upper wing, and fuselage landing wires: the wires that run outward and down from the upper wing to the lower wing in between struts flying wires: the wires that run outward and up from the lower wing to the upper wing between struts; together, flying wires and landing wires brace a bay incidence wires: the wires that brace the rectangle formed by a pair of parallel struts and the upper and lower wings. The S2 is a double bay aircraft, having four pairs of interplane struts and four cabane struts. The model will have 12 torsion wires, 8 incidence wires, 8 flying wires, and 8 landing wires, for a grand total (so far) of 36 wires. That's 36 individual pieces of EZ-Line or wire to attach. I have 23 done so far. Stay tuned . . .

This is coming together quickly thanks to some of the clearest instructions I’ve seen in a while. Quite a contrast to Meng. Lovely detail on these molded parts.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Father’s Day tomorrow.  Scott

Thank you so much Gary.
 
OC.

Once again, beautiful job painting those figures, OC.  Nice perspective with the photography and shadows on the wall - really brings the scene to life.
 
Gary

Gary, I should have added a caveat: this trick won't work as well with metallic paints. Metallic paints are some of the most difficult to paint. With those, I try and careful build my layers lightly until I get the depth I want. A run or sag with metallics leave a trail of metallic particles as they bunch up together. Been there and done that too. All part of a learning experience.

Nice progress on this model, Gary.  Such clean work in the tub and I really like the added/upgraded detail - battery cables and braided hoses. etc.  Very cool.  Nice work!
 
@CDW great tip on mitigating paint runs/sags - would never have thought of that.
 
Gary