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  1. Kevin
    what a lovely informative log
  2. Kevin
    wife has bought me a few of these kits for Christmas, but they are a smaller scale, looking forward to something a little different
  3. Kevin
    good evening everyone Day 66 fore 1/2 deck thank you for comments and pointers, im loving this build, im in day 60 odd and not thought about any other build, not even the Bluejacket schooner that might be on sale this time next years (not thought about that much at all) (but dont ask the wife, she will lie to you lol) using 5mm lime strips the fore 1/2 deck has now been planked, at present i am sorting out the forward bulkhead, and making up the bulkheads for the sail room, and carpenter store
  4. Kevin
    thank you Mark one side became unattached a while ago, so now its been noticed by others i have sorted it out
  5. Kevin
    how about a miller, i recently bought the Proxxon MF-70 for myself, i dont need anything, so will go without this year i will purchase another build like the new CAF Grando, or the under development Bluejacket (begins with a W) but i may be ready by then to do the Triton scratch
  6. Kevin
    Bradley good morning the wood quality is very good, and well lasered, requiring very little to remove the parts from the billets, the after sales is excellent, Tom really understands the service he supplies, a few bits have been replaced without issue i have not looked at the actual metal parts/windows yet, and have them locked away to stop me playing with them, as i decided to do this in some sort of order Plans are 1/1 and well drawn, instructions are basic, and most if the text is in Chinese, but with a couple of builds under your belt the drawings become self explanatory there are some build logs out on the web, but they belong to a site where the bad boys from here go (mainly building pre licienced kits or on the MSW banned list (hope you know what i mean) the kit an be supplied in 3 parts the kit is not that expensive for what you get and the time taken to build posting and packing is expensive, as the covid is restricting/dictating cost of available carriers, this is doubled by the time the import duties are added the cost, depends an how you rate a kit a rough estimate puts my build at about £900 total (including p+P and duties) there are no books that cover this class of ship, but the Pandora book is about as close as you will get. recommended by me
  7. Kevin
    Good evening everyone day 64 fore 1/2 deck supports having learnt lessons from the pointy end, today i manged to do what took two weeks making a level 1/2 deck i traced a deck beam onto a piece of plasticard, and temp glued it to the beam , the beam was then put into position and held with clips whilst a deck support was shaped to fit under it, this support was glued and pinned and the deck beam with card removed, this was repeated twice, then two strips of wood placed between the new supports provided a template to fix another 3 beams in place without any issues
  8. Kevin
    Thank you Mark, i keep looking at the triton, and do that in 1/48, but i will have seen many other possible projects before that times comes along, today i fancy the new under development from @Bluejacket WYOMING.
  9. Kevin
    wonderful work Sjors, coming on a treat, you will have this finished by Christmas, and starting another project
  10. Kevin
    perhaps the best photo of her so far, maybe i should get rid of the shiny bits
  11. Kevin
    im available on 30 February
  12. Kevin
    Good evening everyone After 1/2 deck hatches day 63 i am still messing about with this part of the ship, had hoped to have moved on by now, but the hatches are made now, i need to learn how to make ladders soon
  13. Kevin
    good luck with the projects Al
  14. Kevin
    i will be following on with interest Great start
  15. Kevin
    thankyou for the comments, very much appreciated
  16. Kevin
    can anyone please recommend a profile/contour gauge to copy internal details, its to help me get more accurate detail inside my 1/48 Enterprise hull
  17. Kevin
    Very nice, was the interior intended, or just a what if, and had you thought about taking sections of the turret out
  18. Kevin
    i would love to see the tiger
  19. Kevin
    Good evening everyone Day 62 After 1/2 deck compartments finished i decided not to rip it all out again, seams very pointless for something that wont be seen, otherwise, im never going to progress from here, yes the doors are to thick, and all different, lets see if i can improve when i move to the front, the lower deck beams now fit over the bulkheads, and thats made me happy always happy to post on here things that are not as good as they should be, getting rid of the white edges is next
  20. Kevin
    nothing i have put into the hull is part of the kit, and no internal detail is shown on the plans The deck beams are for the upper deck, and i will need to reorder them, the references i am going by for the internal details are for another class of vessel, but similar in design
  21. Kevin
    good evening everyone day 61 still on after 1/2 deck i dont think i have ever been on a small project for so long, well not since the copper plates and the gun ports, (i still loose sleep over them) on the 1/72 Victory, lol, that seams so very long time ago, infact that was april 2011 it was make or break time this afternoon, commit to the work that i have prepared, or do the bulkheads again, this time with a bit of depth to them the reason for not doing that, was that very little of the bulkheads will be seen, and in a few months time none of this will be either, unless i remove some of the frames the adapted lower deck beams that will be fitting over the area were checked paper tape removed and i started to put the bulkheads in place, test fitting the deck beams as i go along, and adapting where necessary
  22. Kevin
    Very nice indeed, what next on yr build list
  23. Kevin
    welcome and im sure you will do a far better job than myself
  24. Kevin
    Lovely work OC, coming along a treat
  25. Kevin
    good evening everyone Day 60 most of the after 1/2 deck bulkheads are now made up, although they seam ok, nut im so very tempted to do it all again, to get a feel for the finished look, im adapting the deck beams to make it all fit

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