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Kevin

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  1. Welcome to MSW and good luck on the builds, i enjoyed my Victory build, as with many others, so there is a lot of advice around the site
  2. just catching up, glad your feeling better looking through your log, i love your work, lol i was trying to read the writing under your last build photos
  3. mantua now seams to do there own, Panart and Sergal https://www.mantuamodel.co.uk/
  4. good evening everyome Day 19 full frames and cants i delayed putting the cants in for as long as possible, they seamed quite difficult, so best to leave them, but the time had to come i may have mentioned it previously. that there are laser etched lines on a lot of the ribs, these provide a rough fairing line, so the same goes for the cants, also there is a angle template provided for each numbered cant to help achieve the correct angle, this template is to set up the bench sander at the correct angle, mine kept moving so i devised my own answer by gluing the template to the cant and then sanding to the correct line, it worked having done that, i then found i did not have enough room to get access to pin the cants, so i removed the top level of the jig glued starboard cants 2 to 7 in position, when the glue set, i removed the hull from the frame to pin, this will be repeated on the stbd side the hull drops back into the jig quite easy, im not sure how difficult its going to be to put the top level back on
  5. its taken me 4 days to think of an acceptable answer, and i still dont have one, for me this works well, and it gives use without the skills to make a semi decent representation, in a much shorter time, however i wish i had the skills to do my own full scratch, after all this is still just a kit
  6. well done, she looks fantastic, on what is a old kit, im surprised there is not a retooled version by now Congratulations
  7. Many Happy Returns

    1. Davy Jones

      Davy Jones

      Thanx Kevin. Not been around for a while, I've had some RL issues to solve. But all sorted now, so sorry for the late reply.

      Davy.

  8. thats very nice indeed for a first build, wish mine had been that good, but that was before these sorts of forums were around Well done
  9. i did 34 years at sea, and on 3rd wife, lol so yes
  10. of course she is, and she knows that i know she is😁
  11. lol i told the wife and her reply was, dont understand why you didnt order it all at the same time, it would have cut down shipping costs and export duties
  12. i love the thought that has gone into the location holes, even i would find that hard to get wrong, doing a great job on her @James H
  13. good afternoon everyone bit the bullet today and ordered kit parts 2 and 3, not told the wife yet
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