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good morning everyone thank you for the likes and comments MAIN DECK all the decks are brass and sit on top of the kit plastic ones (after all the surface detail has been removed this is the main deck 18 inches long, to save metal, various parts have to be removed these areas are covered over later, by the forecastle and bridge first all the rivets have to be knocked through from the other side (about 500 on this piece) marks are provided to show where they are and a centre punch is used to do the work the sides are then folded upwards and soldered in place, im not sure ca would do this very well and then two long strips as long as the whole piece are soldered against the folded piece to represent rivet lines i did use ca for this
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So sorry to hear mark we will stiil be here to support you and follow your build when you are ready to return,
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CONGRATULATIONS on a successful completion and launch, its been a pleasurable experience watching from start to finish
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i copied this idea and it never worked for me, i have no idea what was supplied to me as 60/40 solder since then i have changed it and the flux, and getting much better results will post photo later of what i am using
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the estimated count is 10,000, i have seen a build in the last few days where a punch had been used to simulate rivets, and yes i have the idea to use C/A to simulate the heads NOT MY PHOTO, but shows rivet detail
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lovely build, well done
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Thank you, the main mess is out of the way, but still a lot to do to remove seam lines and sort the bow out
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Very labour intensive
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after the disastrous first week of the build, i have made a few conclusions i was totally overwhelmed by the amount of shiny stuff, in the addons, everything had to be opened and played with, im sure others can relate to this Soldering, is my way ahead for this build, no i didn't know haw to do it and never had the right stuff, now sorted and will show in a later post the hull having made up the 4 sections the keel has to be removed and fared into the plates at the bow, also the hull plates are to thick and porthole eyebrows need to be gone, a bulk of the work has now been done but many more hours still required to make it presentable
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Good morning popeye the instructions do call out for so;der in quite a lot of the build, as some of the brass bits are quite large, i sure you could get away from it by using C/A and 2 part epoxy, and my challange this build was to try it
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Thought you might like to see this
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Bismark, Victory, Fife, St Nectan and bluebell have all had their mug shots taken on there
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good evening everyone thank you for the comments and likes well after trowing all my toys out of the pram, i made the decision to rip it all apart and start again, must learn to de-solder one day as well, lol for me it just spread hot solder every where taken apart a real mess cleaned up and this time i put the shed on first part of the instructions my copyright, every build has been on the wheelie bin for photos im much happier tonight
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i dont think i have been so dissapointed with my own work as I have been with this build, a week into it, and i have already thought about abandoning it, i just cannot get my head around the soldering, i get one joint perfect, the next one is rubbish, i rework it and the first one falls apart, i am knocking bits off and it all looks so messy and untidy
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good evening everyone please ignore the mess the pieces are in, they will be cleaned by the next post the bridge work continues, apart from looking and playing with some deck parts earlier but for now this is my priority, it may look a mess but it does look better in real life, LOL had i known they would look this bad i perhaps would not have posted them photo 6 took me 3 hours to redo time and time again, at last i then got the finish i wanted, to realise it was meant to be stepped up,
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hello OC im quite pleased at my progress wrt learning soldering, i have now started spot soldering and then using a larger hot iron and doing the seam, so the heat is not on the ectch so long therefore previous work is not falling off, LOL i have cursed this build several time and learnt new swear words, something to chuckle over a pint with a like minded friend, but that dont happen any more
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Jason, good morning the whole of the after superstructure is a big piece of brass (or whatever PE is) and their instructions strongly recommend soldering throughout the build, i am getting better, but have a big issue of heat transfer, where i make a join, then add another big piece to it, and the first piece falls apart again
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well that explains a lot, i fine tip that i use is wrong, well i better go and change that hope Paul dont see any of my work, lol
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good evening everyone made some progress over the last couple of days, not pretty though, lots to learn, and enjoyable but shameful to show everyone, but im happy to share the rubbish, as i like to think i will get better this is the bridge area
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thankyou for the likes and comments, this soldering is harder than i thought, last night i finished a unit, and so impressed with it i showed the wife and dog, came back to put another bit on, and heat transfer took over and i ended up with everything as it was hours earlier, Dog laughed, wife was asleep, oh hum
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