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  1. Old Collingwood
    Very nicely said Lou - true words there indeed.👍 OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    Tom If that was me I think I would use different gradients of sand paper to shape the hull/tower - starting with a medium/coarse and going through to a very fine one - as you need to keep that wood as smooth and splinter free as possible, after that you could lock in the wood grain with a presever before detailing and painting. I suggest sandpapers as tools like rasps/coarse files can be a bit to rough and tear at the wood. Hope that helps a bit mate. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    A bit more progress please find the winch, needs a bit of tidy up. fiddly thing to fit without guide holes etc. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly Tom. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, I managed to get the bottom of the wokka finished today - this consisted of plenty of blade aerials and the Three cargo hooks, the center one that can carry the most weight is folded up when on the ground (on mine) need to be careful not to knock any of these off while handling her. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    Excellent I used to see a few of these (her sister ships) quite often infact they bacame quite a regular sighting - Here is a close up showing procedure Alpha. Top one HMS Monmouth, Bottom HMS Argyl. OC.
  7. Old Collingwood
    Between you and Lou - "Blimy" can imagine a Full on play mayhem Nerfs and potato/tennis balls going everywere.😁 OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Blimy Lou - can imagine you lot playing - play battle in your house with Nerf guns and mortars - bet your admiral would be pleased walking into the house - Full on battle of Lou's Land.😊 OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    All of us? wonder who the cheeky one is?😃☺️ OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Certainly is Tom, I would imagine quite effective aswel - sat n the hover with fire in Three consecutive directions. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Breath taking😃 OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    Was the same for me as a Ten year old with Scalextric slot cars on those tracks with the 12Volt connections from a transformer running through those male/female conectors that were a pain to keep in good order. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    Thank you Mark,, I was reading a small article the other day about ACH47s Wow they looked the business almost like AC130 Spooky's in heli form. Yep our little princess is doing better - still on the couch "Feed me dady - I'm too poorly to move" think she is milking it a bit now though. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    How you gonna moderate from all the way up there - hope you have one of those long pointing sticks. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    I should have worded that better - I meant the 70s style boots with big heals - good for extra hight. OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    Certainly does mate. OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    Thank you Edward. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, a bit more progress this evening - I have made and fitted the Two Flare defence systems and the other Two outer devices, a few more bits and bobs to fit before it can be primed. OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Very nice work mate - with the shrouds I made mine the same colour for all, and with the spacing of the deadeyes I used some thick wire with a 90deg bend at each end - I used this to attach at both ends to try to get an even gap between the "Eyes" OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    No problem James - fully understand mate. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    And building paper mache tunnels hills etc - tried it as a kid (not very good though) OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Fabulous work mate - looks so real. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    That's gonna be some kit when she is finished - some size aswel. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    Hi, I planked over the plastic decks in my Black Pearl kit - firstly I sanded the details of the plastic deck to get a smooth surface, then I just used wood planks (you would be best converting the scale of the model to get an idea of how (scale wide) the planks would need to be). After the deck/s have been planked (again using wood) you could make up some gratings frames and either buy some gratings kits or somehow mix the plastic ones in with wood frames. It will enhace the decks considerably. OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    Can I also add another tool that members can use if the normal drag and drop from thier hard drive is giving problems - https://postimages.org/ OC.

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