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  1. Kevin
    Good Morning Waitoa just been through your build, and i am learning by my mistakes just as you did, however a few of my mistakes could have been avoided by looking through the instructions, oh hum, a good example is the filing of each layer to keep a constant level, i am now doing that, but have more than one wall going on at the same time to allow more building, my success with corners is hit and miss, the 90 degree ones are not to bad, its the ones where cutting different angles is required loving your work
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    but its not as good as yours, and i agree that i need to be more careful on the ends, im loving it, something completely different to anything i have done before
  3. Kevin
    Good evening everyone day 3 much the same as yesterday its slow progress, so i have more than one section on the go at a time, allows time for the glue to dry
  4. Kevin
    good evening everyone day 2 well i made a start yesterday, the card templates are of good quality, instructions are a bit like the CAF, just illustrations of the basics, i will learn more from watching the build logs on here and of course there is you tube the tiles are set diameter, but the lengths vary, like the 5mmx5mm of which there are 000's vary from 2mm to about 15mm you you have plenty of choice to pick the size required lots of sanding, some decent file sticks and sandpaper are the main things used so far, the supplied glue, is very much like a decent paper/wood glue, the 1/2 round building was hard to get the shape right so i made up a couple of 1mm bulkheads, which worked very well i am learning as i go along, like all of my builds you can tell where i started, i am sure there will be help and advice as i plod along, im happy to listen
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    thank you, seams like a lifetime ago since i completed her, but was only 5 months, and i am already on my 3rd uncompleted project, but like the Bismarck, Victory and this, they all get done in the end, and as soon as i restart, i wonder why i left it in the first place
  6. Kevin
    thank you, its just that i sanded my first wall quite smooth, and it just does not look right, i now have a smooth outside with rough mortar joint
  7. Kevin
    just something different for a while. to keep the admiral happy, lol she lives here as well, the Enterprise will be back
  8. Kevin
    just doing my first kit, how much sanding do you do on the outside face?
  9. Kevin
    its a lovely subject, i suppose you can add detail if the will is there lol your one of the culprits for me being here, its a much smaller scale than you are working on, but gives me an ideas about working in this material, i have a couple of castles from the same company for Christmas
  10. Kevin
    good evening everyone what the hell are you doing here i ask you say well i fancied a break from ship building, and wanted to try something different, i not expecting it to take years to do either, so i could be back to the sawdust within weeks well this is a kit by Aedes ars and they have a range of historical buildings in their catalogue, i picked this one, as the castle i fancy are now wrapped up for Christmas to me this is the link to the subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most i ordered it last night and it arrived 18 hours later apart from tools everything is in the box
  11. Kevin
    Good evening everyone day 68 Fore 1/2 deck nothing is fixed, if this works i will redo the stern units, this will be my last update for a while, as i am moving onto a non maritime project, something i have been asked to do by the wife, if anyone is interested i could start a new topic, but as stated non Maritime
  12. Kevin
    You made a lovely job of her, well done, another build log i will miss following
  13. Kevin
    change of plans, the wife must be reading this, and actually asked me that question today there is a few caveats though, she wants me to build something that wont take 7 years, must be completed, and fit on a shelf, so that rules out @chris watton 1/48 Royal George
  14. Kevin
    what a lovely informative log
  15. 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
  16. 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
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    thank you Mark one side became unattached a while ago, so now its been noticed by others i have sorted it out
  18. 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
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    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
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. Kevin
    wonderful work Sjors, coming on a treat, you will have this finished by Christmas, and starting another project
  23. Kevin
    perhaps the best photo of her so far, maybe i should get rid of the shiny bits
  24. Kevin
    im available on 30 February
  25. 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

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