Old Collingwood
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This is what I have read up on them - https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/chargers-pc.co.uk OC.🤬 -
A bit of a tale to tell folks with a warning in it, my laptop that I use to post here and communicate with the outside world, has been nursing a sick battery for most of the year - it has got to the stage where I get 10 minutes run time out of it, and now have to keep my power leed plugged in all the time - anyway I saw a PC/laptop spares place online based in the UK (where I live) and it was selling the exact battery from the original manufacturer, and at a reasonable price (not too low to make me susspect a dudd and also not over expensive) so I thought give them a try. I paid on my card then a few days latter recieved an email from a company I didn't know stating a parcel was being shipped and gave a tracking number - I have since wound out that a few international transaction card fees have also been taken out, and the tracking number is a dudd. I decided to do a bit of digging online about this company and found Absolute loads and loads and loads of negative complaints and Warnings as they are a Scam, and based in the Far East - all the contact stuff on thier website (that looks legit) is dudd - phone number taht doesn't exsist and there retail address on the so called website in the UK? is for a old persons retirement home. So I've been conned dont know if I will be able to claim my money back through my bank. Just shows how we can all be conned so easily🤬🤬 OC.
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I think even if I was making a model ice cream I would still heat it to glue/paint it. OC.
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Right then folks - catheads made holes drilled out - painted and glued in place, next the dogslegs OC.
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Superb work - she is looking Gorgeous, the sails add so much detail and give her a 3D look. OC.
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I stand corrected, I use Gorilla Wood glue its in a plastic bottle with a orange label and pic of a gorilla and a brown cap, it is so good un diluted I have glued plastic to plastic, wood to plastic, brass to plastic, brass to wood and of course wood to wood, it grips in about 10 minutes and I use heat to set it quicker and of course using a damp fine brush you can clean up around the part glued. Its my go to glue where pure plastic styrene glue isnt needed. OC.
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I hope your are keeping up mate - I will need a crew soon hope your ship shape my hearty...... OC.
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Evening all, thank you all sincerely for all the likes and replies, today I had a break from the canon building and started work on the catheads, in the kit these are plastic and attach to the outside of the hull, but I decided to make them from wood stock 2 x 2mm, these sit on the deck of the forecastle deck and protrude through the railngs there, first I had to file away a square cut out in the hull using my box file, I kept testing with the timber till I got a flat cut out. Then I cut the timber to length and drilled two holes in the end for the anchor support ropes. Here's the pics - OC.
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Excellent - you could almost do an "Under Siege" scene with the baddies arriving by chopper. OC.
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I used (later stages anyway) gaitor PVA glue, I applied a small amont with a thin dowel or sharpened tooth pick to the area, then placed the part with tweezers and moved into place using a small dowel/tooth pick type thing. OC.
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It deffinatley helps to heat up the enamel paint to force dry it, I used to work for a cycle manufacturer and when we painted the frames with enamel paint it was (in effect) backed on with heat on a slow moving track with heaters either side blasting hot air at them - hence why I use a hairdryer on full and hot setting. OC.
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I painted enamel (humrol) on all my brass effect parts, and just forced dryed them with a hairdryer then did acrylic washes over it and dry brushed highlighting again with acrylic - straight after the enamel, with no lifting or reacting of the different mediums. OC.
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Hi all, not much to report really - I have duly started on the rest of the canons, so four more have been made prior to painting and weathering. OC.
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So job for tomorrow (must keep the momentum going its for the wife) do I make and install the ten canons on the top deck, or continue with the lower gun deck port covers and ropes (as these are being closed) Decisions - decisions. OC.
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I had a few of those days as a kid trying to build and paint my first models - my late farther was less than understanding though, normally got a right back hand for it. OC.
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Thank you sincerely, I am trying to make her as ghost like as possible (for the wife) OC.
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Would love to get this kit in the future and build her as the Flying Dutchman - Pic curtosy of the net. OC.
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Evening all, thank you again for all the likes and comments - like everyone else it really inspires ones building, so last time I had assembled the wicked wench, it was now time to weather her same as I had done with the other brass bits - first I applied a coat of enamel brass, this was force dried then I used a diluted black and brushed that over into all the nucks and crevices, again force dried that last I applied a dry brush of white to highlight and age the lady. Here are the pics including her fixed in place. OC.
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