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good evening everyone build continues interior the rollers are 19mm long and wooden dowel is provided for that purpose, but i had some right dia plastic tubing, easier to cut, primed and sprayed with Ford antique gold rattle can paint the coffin rails are white metal stations with brass tubing slotted in-between, also in the kit rear wheel suspension was also made up, nothing of the metal bits has taken long to clean up
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im yet to find something that looks realistic, horse/pony
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lovely work OC
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Lol just what i want to do
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good evening everyone warm here in the UK at present, and we aint used to it, so not much done to the build, the carriage has had a top coat, i will fine sand again and do again the wheels are made up but nothing is glued, so i will strip them down again and do a much better clean up job on them, they can then be filed to shape to get realistic looking spokes
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the wheel kits are great, i roughly made 4 up today for my hearse
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Good morning Grant, tell the truth, i had never heard of him, just looked at some of his wonderful work
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it goes together very well,
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the floor has push out in which rollers are put in at a later date all the side panels are laminated by gluing one panel over another, the outer side is rebated to take the windows 4 sides and 2 end panel door/windows these inners bars will support the after wheels me faithful boi, struggling with the warm temperatures making up the driver position first full coat of primer, everything will now be sanded, filler if any, then reprimed
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good evening everyone some of you may have seen a recent post wrt to a 1/12 Tudor mansion that the wife found thinking i had thrown it out 10+ years ago to cut a story short a couple of hours discussions about what to do with it then perused thoughts of putting in a display case then turned into a diorama idea, which in turn made me look for a royal mail British horse drawn carriage, which i have ordered, however i saw this and it arrived first this is the box contents, looks quite good value for the money, off Amazon, actually it was 1/2 the price of Cornwall Model Boats and fleabay Britannia white metal, will need cleaning up a bit 5 sheets of plans all 1/1 at 1/12 scale
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lol well that spooky, dead spooky at that
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i must admit im surprised no one else on here has started this build i was one of the many that was not kind to Trumpeter over the design and pre release of this kit, there are still flaws with the design which they chose to ignore, to top it all they then put the funnels on back to front in the preproduction photos however, it does build into a lovely build, and i am looking forward to watching this take shape good luck @Winnie
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good morning everyone and now for something different BRIEF HISTORY Originally, the wooden or metal framework over the coffin was called a hearse. It was decorated with numerous spikes to hold burning candles. Sometime in the 17th century, people started using the word to refer to not only the construction above the coffin, but to the vehicle that carried the casket to the grave. Early hearses were hand-drawn. As time went on, families started to choose rural cemeteries instead of traditional church grounds. Caskets had to be transported greater distances. People wanted to go out in style and ordered elaborately decorated coffins in exotic woods. The hearses became fancier and heavier. They needed horsepower, not manpower. The first American horse-drawn hearses date back to the mid nineteenth century. A typical horse-drawn hearse of that period cost about $1,500. KIT FEATURES Historically accurate, highly detailed model Laser cut basswood parts Basswood wheel rims & spokes Cast Britannia metal axles & shafts Machine turned aluminium wheel hubs Photo-etched brass ornamentation 5 sheets of detailed plans 48-page illustrated instruction manual Instructions & prototype model by Ken Foran MODEL SPECIFICATIONS Length: 13” Height: 8” Width: 5” Scale: 1:12
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Amati Bismarck Cornwall Model Boats now has it on pre-order, ready for first batch in August Amati Bismarck 1:200 Scale 1300/04 | Cornwall Model Boats
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good afternoon everyone although i have the intentions of a break for a couple of weeks from the AV i have slowly been getting on with her most of the starboard side bowsprit lines are in and the lines for the Port side are made up ready it is much slower this build as i have to make the lines, then stain them, but im happy with the progress
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thank you yes the St Nectan is still my favourite build
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Good afternoon everyone just finished the display case, im happy with it
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good afternoon everyone i decided to continue with the front end of the build and take the bowsprit towards completion, i might then move back onto the Enterprise, as some of the comments on here made me feel more confident towards taking her forward i had , what i thought was a good idea, but i guess it wasn't as no one else had tried it, that was to use a different coloured thread to use as templates to ensure everything was snag free, for that purpose it works fine, but to get a sense of what its going to look like (dont work) as it carries no weight all blocks that attach to pintles or none rope tend to have round collets, i have tried to replicate this using and alternative evergreen tube this is my bowsprit rigging plan, and bears absolutely no resemblance to the kit plans, to tells me the size of rope and where it is belayed/ fixed to start of my coloured thread experiment to get a snag free runs some lines go to the same fixing point, so i am having to adapt my work (lol again) not a briiliant photo as the collets have bunched up up the middle one has to fixing point on the top
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Good morning OC, coming along so very nicely, going to look stunning when finished
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once printing has started, can it be paused, or switched off over night?
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good evening everyone well most of the foremast is complete now, brackets for navigation lights, and placing some of the blocks, along with rope ladders still to be made although temp in place for now i then run a few of the lines from the bowsprit through and im quite happy with the result next im thinking of making up the main and mizzen im getting used to just making bits, they are not always pretty netting completes the foremast top
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thank you i am perhaps doing more soldering than required, and i think i am getting better, the one thing about the metal work, is that its a lot stronger than traditional Evergreen (other plastic bits are available), and once i left the bare metal on the upper deck it seamed to make sense to me to follow it on through the build
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thank you for the comments, makes me feel much better i have always wanted to avoid sounding childish over comments made, but thats the main reason i switched to doing the Aedes Ars diorama over the charismas period, whilst i decided on actually getting on with the AV it is slightly more difficult to avoid the trolls and comments some times, being a MSW Social Media Moderator, and perhaps i over reacted, but the comments at the time went much further i have still quite a way to go on the AV, and would love to completed her now rather than switching back
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