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To light up the explosion from the wing being shot off by Warspite. This sort of effect.
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This is looking amazing I have a model of this which I am putting in a dio so will be keeping a close eye on this.
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Well here is a progress report of todays work the guns are back on the Ju87 and have done a bit more work on that and the FW190.
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That the sort of thing I want but I was hoping for some sort of consensus on where to put it. Any way I've been working on the Stuka tonight and I don't know why this Stuka is still in one piece, I was doing the undercarriage and the canopy came off as did the rear guns(I stuck the canopy on to stop that happening ) so after half an hour wrestling with CM I won and glued the guns back on put it on the bench for the glue to set went to pick up the FW190 snagged the Ju87 with my sleeve it fell on the floor upside down, guess what came off, so 20 mins later wrestled them from the clutches of the CM went to glue them back on an ping off they went just found them after over an hour chucked them and the model back in the box. That's me done for tonight @@!!.
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Hi all not much to report tonight been working on the FW190 I have really made a mess of it so far and I've only just started it first I lost the joystick or whatever its called to the CM so had to make a new one then I cut the wrong bits off the foot peddle thingys so had to make some new ones of those ( I know they are not seen but hey )I do need help with the most important point of the dio Warspite (Whilst the mussus is out I,ve had a little play. Where should I put her Baring in mind I want planes behind her and in front, most of them will be in the front though. So if you have a preference lets just say pic 1,2,3,4 or 5
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I am planning on using levitation (only joking ) clear plastic rod. Is what I'm thinking but I may have to change that.
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Look what I got today Not allowed to start it till my birthday though(mind you I wasn't allowed to open it before my birthday)
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840x710 or in english 33" X27 1/4" X approx 36" high Hi all here is a little update on the Stuka I have realised from the pic on the box I have bought the wrong version, the one I've bought is the anti tank one, which, apparently has no dive brakes and no bomb cradle. I have tried to make the air brakes (I could only find one decent pic of them and that was on a model) I have no idea what they really look like so this is my best attempt at what I could seen. as for the bomb cradle would that have swung back up after dropping its payload as I obviously dont have a bomb so I want to do it as if its just got rid of it. I have glued the windscreen on before it says so in the instructions as I got tired of rescuing them from the CM after breaking them off, seemingly every single time i picked it up, Hope that decision dosent end up biteing me in the bum Also made a start on the FW190
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Hi all I am getting excited have ordered the Warspite (although swmbo) says I can't have it till my birthday (we'll see) thanks for the suggestions but this is going to be huge I can't see how I would have room to make it a shadow box (I assume you mean boxing the whole thing up and cutting a window in it to see it through)
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glad to have you, and anyone else along for the ride, it will be a long ride. I will be using the Academy 1/350 version with the dx detail pack (can't seem to find the Academy premium edition anywhere ) so this is the next best solution not too sure about the PE first time I used it on my Titanic kit I swore I would never use it again, we will see if I'm pulling my hair out when I start.
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I will be avidly watching this as I intend doing a diorama of the Warspite (not scratch built like yours) but I will get lots of useful details from your build if you don't mind.
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Yes that's my idea the ones closest to Warspite will be the smallest and lowest, the ones furthest away and higher will be the largest. Hope it works.
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Hi all I made a start on what is going to be a massive project in which HMS Warspite is involved in an air attack by the Germans. I will be using Academy's 1/350 Warspite and several other scales of model aircraft also will be using led's for the explosions and lighting the water spurts from near misses with bombs. I wont be getting the Warspite till my birthday in roughly a fortnight but have made a start on the base and some of the planes I will be using. Here are some picks of where I am at, at the moment. the smallest bombers are 1/350 scale kindly donated to this project the 1/144 stuka's are zevada the 1/72 Stuka in the process of being built is Academy and I have a 1/72 Airfix FW190 to go on the Dio too. as you can see it will be a long term project.
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I saw from the instructions that I could leave attaching the decks till last so took advantage of it. It's ironic got my mojo back for this kit and start my hols tomorrow, off to Tunisia for a week. Or as I like to say Africa (sounds more exotic)
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Hi all, sorry its been a while but every time I touch this model something goes wrong, It's lucky it's not been thrown at the wall or been used for target practice, don't get me wrong it's not the k, it went together perfect all fits great it just seem not to want to be built. after the last post I tripped over the step into my model room and emptied a cup of tea over it. Well anyway I've glued the decks to the hull all there is to do now is the rest of those blooming seats some rigging and some rails round some of the decks,oh and the lifeboat hoists.
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Hi all sorry its been so long but I am back on it now here is where I am now, all the lifeboats are on and a few of the PE crane gantries
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Mississippi stern wheeler by kpnuts
kpnuts replied to kpnuts's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Hi all well I've removed the rigging to aid cleaning. as you can see I've also removed part of the deck to show the boiler as you couldn't really see it before ( also it helps with cleaning access). -
Mississippi stern wheeler by kpnuts
kpnuts replied to kpnuts's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Hi all dont know what happened to all the other pics but have picked her up again after a long while so I got her off the shelf and the first thing I notice is she needs lots of cleaning(I must remember to cover her up when not doing work on her) so done the saftey rope round the crews deck next is a lot of cleaning may have to remove all the rigging to do that properly (don't mind as i have some proper rigging line now)then I have to figure something out for the tops of the funnels. -
Thanks I wish I had done that in the first place, should have known it would just keep bending, trouble was you could not correct it with the rigging as the bend was traveling in the direction the rigging was going
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Hi guys well the other night I had a bit of a disaster I was trying to straighten the mast, which had started to bend again and it snapped off Oops said a few choice words which I am sure you can imagine words like umm....... Flipping Heck!! and Oh my gosh!!! that sort of thing. Anyway today i resolved to cure it .I tried a piece of copper wire but being the same width all the way up it did not look at all right, so i thought about using the end of a paint brush and that worked extremely well. Here is the result, I think if you didn't know it was snapped you wouldn't know.
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Thanks hexnut yes I did think maybe I would need some more leds inserted in the top decks but I think cutting the holes in the decking to let the light through seems to have worked quite well.
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