Old Collingwood

I would imagine that extra strengthening  will add strength to the join, I remember  my late farther  building an R/C  boat  for me  - he basicaly  over engineered the hull  - strengthening  the hull and applying coat after coat of  dope  to the inside and outside  hull followed by about 100 layers of paint.

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Really nice work there    - you did fab my friend.

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I won't confess  to knowing much about the subject  (kind of missed learning about it)   but I will say the info here  is  really  first class,   just waiting for the building to start now  - I will start on the "munchies" while we wait.

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57 minutes ago, drjeckl said:

Thanks Jack; did not know about the Follow button, will make use of that.

 

John

Also  an easy  way to  show interest  just by a way of saying  "Hi"  without using words  - is to  look down the current  activity  down the Right hand side list  and click on any subjects  that you like / have some interest in / or subject you know about, even if you dont leave a comment  you can just click  "the like button".

Our site is without doubt the lovliest  most friendly  site I have ever used in all my life.

Just keep chatting/liking  as like the Kevin Costner film  "Bulid it  - they will come  -   Chat and  you will make friends  / find answers to your questions"

Hope that helps?

And by the way  - a belated  Welcome to the family

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Excellent work  - really really nice  - hope you have somwere special for it to go.

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10 hours ago, lmagna said:

Nice looking first class section. Like Mark said, it is a shame that it will almost be invisible. 

Thank you kindly Lou,   hope your on the mend my friend.

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So impressed with your work  - so much devotion to your skills  - hats off to you.

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2 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Incredible detail work, OC.   Pity that most of it will disappear.

Thank you kindly Mark  - I really appreciate that, I am quite pleased with the decs so far.

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Evening all,   more progress   -  firstly I glued down the Two seats  then gave thier frames a few coats of Grey  (still need the cushions painting)  then I worked on the Two consol supports  these have sone subtle wiring that after fitting I picked these out with Silver dry brushing,  then it was the turn of the Instrument consol,   this was given a few coats of Black  then when dry it was  decal time  - these are Three seperate pieces for the instruments  - they went down without fuss, then when set I brushed over a few coats of flat top coat.

I then glued it in place  and  nest will be to paint the seat cushions.

Bulkhead  still just dry fitted.

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Mark will be along with the pop corn later  - he now owns a  Huge  pop corn maker, that might have to sit on the deck also.😃

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I'm here too.

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Thats a good start  - and that frame looks  like it will make a lot of difference  in taking the worry out of any miss-aligned frames.

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Thats a really tidy well executed job of your first planking  - very nice progress.

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Very nice tidy work on the tree nail work.

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I always wanted a full size replica Mortory Sword  but the admiral wasn't too impressed by the idea.

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Thats a really good save.

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25 minutes ago, Roger Pellett said:

It’s coming along nicely.

Thank you Roger.

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26 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Beautiful and impressive work.  Way out of my paygrade that's for sure.

Same as me.

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Evening all,   I got some good progress on this today,   remember I had masked up?   well I applied a few coats of a mid Grey  then dried  them  - this allowed me to remove the tape fairly quickly,    it turned out ok  with just a tiny amount of  seepage  - just a quick touch up fixed this, then I decided to weather the floor a bit as it would have seen a lot of  movement  - basic Earth  wash all over then using a wet brush I removed most of it - then finished off with a rag  the dried  - doesn't look too bad.

Next was to work on the cockpit parts - simple process  cut them off clean them up  - glue in then down, then  they were painted  Grey/Black and dried,  next I painted a few details  and  did a wash and a bit of dry brushing.

The pic with the  cockpit  bulkhead is just dry fitted  as it will go in when the seats are painted and fitted.

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Yep  at Chris said  - just drag and drop them here in the box below your writing   from your picture  album.

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Looking  like a good start.

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That is looking so busy and excellent with the crew  - really looking the part.

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16 minutes ago, Louie da fly said:

 

It pretty much is, for many people. I remember a re-enactor's surprise when I told him we were not going to get married in mediaeval costume. I said re-enactment was my hobby, not my life. He found that hard to accept, too.

Yep, I know some who would spend months even taking thier family  on skirmishes  they would turn into long holidays,  you would see them all dressed fittingly.

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Yep, echoing   what Denis  said  - hope all is Ok with you and your family?

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15 hours ago, shipman said:

Old Collingwood, I have something very similar; it's called an Olfa 'P-cutter'. Like any other sharp tool, if you don't give it your full attention it takes off with a mind of its own.

 

I agree with the visible detail assessment of the 1:98 kit. I was meaning the smaller ship scales as I mentioned earlier.

Also good for smoothing round  masts using the inside curve.

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