USS ENGLAND (DE-635) by ccoyle - FINISHED - HMV - 1/250 - CARD

[BrianK]

13 hours ago, Captain Slog said:

Hi, I have used this and mentioned it in my build log.  It is very milky and it grabbed and set very quickly which made it ideal for gluing up smaller parts but didn't really give any wiggle room. I applied it with a small brush.  It also was good in gluing other materials to paper such as brass. 

 

I stopped using it when it turned to a chocolate milk colour in the bottle over time, but apparently according to the manufacturer this doesn't affect it's performance.  However I have still not used it in some time as old dried glue turns brown and crystallised. Doesn't affect where I used it as ideally shouldn't have glue/excess glue visible anyway but something to keep in mind. The already glued parts are still going strong though.   

Thanks Captain Slog. I had an old bottle that sat for 18 months and was chocolate milk colored too! I thought that was odd but I guess its common. It still worked but left a brown tint behind when I tried it on some hidden bulkheads. After this new bottle I may switch to something else... Maybe Chris's canopy glue. My Microscale Kristal Klear canopy glue bottle is still white on the inside and just as old..... 😃 

 

 

BrianK

[ccoyle]

38 minutes ago, BrianK said:

Chris are the tub walls edge glued or do they have tabs that insert somewhere or fold over? They look great!

 

They wrap around projections of the deck. No tabs. Like most of my models, they look great when viewed from the right distance and/or angle! 😉

[Captain Slog]

The discolouration is known by deluxe and something they are looking into. 
 

I don’t want to highjack Chris’s thread but know he, like me, is looking for the holy grail of glues but  I recently purchased Ammo by MiG Ultra glue for photo etch, canopies etc which is a thick acrylic glue which I may try on my paper build to see. 

[ccoyle]

41 minutes ago, Captain Slog said:

but know he, like me, is looking for the holy grail of glues

 

Found it! The "Great Golden Grail o' Glue"!

[Brett Slater]

On 1/27/2022 at 1:39 PM, AJohnson said:

I shall have to look out for these Polish "Card Ninja's" 🧘‍♂️  do any post on MSW?

 

If you want to see absolute card genius have a look at the work of DORIS on this site. Here is an example 

 

[Brett Slater]

Beautiful work i didn't realise these types of kits existed. I imagine they must take a huge amount of precision and skill to make them look this un-card like. Dread to think how tricky the curves must be.

[king derelict]

Doris work is absolutely wonderful. She is a true artist

Alan

[ccoyle]

2 hours ago, Brett Slater said:

If you want to see absolute card genius have a look at the work of DORIS on this site. Here is an example

 

Hey now! That's not fair to mention Doris in my build log. Comparing her to me is like comparing Rembrandt to Bob Ross. 😉

 

2 hours ago, Brett Slater said:

I imagine they must take a huge amount of precision and skill to make them look this un-card like.

 

If you're talking about Doris, her skills are even more awe-inspiring when one considers that she builds from scratch.

 

Anyways, back to us mere mortals!

 

8, 9: Superstructure (cont'd)

 

I don't know exactly what this next bit is, since I don't have any diagrams of a Buckley-class DE, but based on its location I'm inclined to believe that it must be the CIC. I also cropped part of it out of the photo, because I thought I'd already shown it -- sorry! There's roughly four hours of work shown here. Along with the presumed-CIC are some lockers for the #2 3"/50 mount.

 

[king derelict]

Your work is consistently a wonder to me. You rate up in the Pantheon too

Alan

[Theodosius]

Paper models build in such quality are they're own kind of art! 🙂

[Canute]

OC rates that Ultra Glue very good. I've been using Gator Glue to attach PE to plastic and resin. So far, I like it a lot. And water cleanup.

[ccoyle]

I have been experimenting with using the Evergreen Canopy Glue for paper-paper joints, and actually so far I quite like it -- has a few seconds of working time, but then locks up tight. Dries clear. And one important feature that pleasantly surprised me is that it can be applied to long edges in a nice bead without beading up, if you catch my meaning. It also fills small gaps nicely.

[ccoyle]

10: Superstructure (cont'd)

 

Not much in this post. I finished up the CIC roof. Not a whole lot to see on the top side, though I did make things only slightly more interesting by accidentally gluing in the inner wall upside down.

 

 

The underside has helped inflate the parts count thanks to its 15 support brackets.

 

 

A test fit of the roof was successful. Finally assembly will take place once the hull and superstructure are mated, which is next up on the to-do list. 😬

[BrianK]

Wow Chris, those 15 roof support brackets look so tiny. I would of flicked them all over trying to cut them out. 😃 

BrianK

[ccoyle]

10: Superstructure (cont'd)

 

This completes the construction sequence up through Step 10. The hull and superstructure are now joined.

 

 

I hope you are enjoying this "10,000-foot view." Personally, this bit left me with a bad case of the "Curse of the Headband Magnifier" -- can't work without it, but the trade-off is that every stinkin' little cosmetic error is highly visible while I work. It's a little depressing, honestly. Thank goodness for low-res photography!

[Old Collingwood]

26 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

10: Superstructure (cont'd)

 

This completes the construction sequence up through Step 10. The hull and superstructure are now joined.

 

 

I hope you are enjoying this "10,000-foot view." Personally, this bit left me with a bad case of the "Curse of the Headband Magnifier" -- can't work without it, but the trade-off is that every stinkin' little cosmetic error is highly visible while I work. It's a little depressing, honestly. Thank goodness for low-res photography!

I know how you feel Chris  at 1/700  scale  viewed under max  strength  oprovisors   a dust speck looks the size of a football.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

5 hours ago, ccoyle said:

Thank goodness for low-res photography!

Can't put a "like" on that, not even an "agree."

[amateur]

It still looks as if it can cope with higher resolution pics

 

I like the colour of this one. Has so much more depth in it than that bleak grey of some other ships from that period.

 

Jan

[ccoyle]

12: aft gun tub

 

Step 11 consisted of only two wire parts, easily dealt with. Step 12 was the construction of the gun tub for the "Chicago piano" quad 1.1" AA mount.

 

First the basic gun tub w/o edge coloring.

 

And the finished tub glued in place. Total parts count for this structure came to 28.

[BrianK]

Chris that is not a 1/4 scale penny is it? 😃 

I am continuing to be amazed by the quality of your work Chris.

 

BrianK

[ccoyle]

13-15: stuff

 

Yes, you read that right. Steps 13-15 cover a small handful of tiny lockers, valves, and watertight doors. I didn't take any pictures, because all of these would be difficult to spot amongst all of the already-added bits and pieces -- it's a very busy deck with a lot of 'white spots' to kill. I will add pictures once I get started on the next major assembly, the bridge.

 

Cheers!

[starlight]

Wow! That gun tub looks clean and crisp. Very interesting subject and what seems like a good quality kit to match.

 

-starlight

[ccoyle]

16: Bridge

 

Work on the bridge has started. It began with an internal skeleton made of six formers. This was then wrapped with a single-piece wall and topped with a deck.

 

The various control panels were doubled.

 

Then work commenced on the many, many elements that will be added to this small structure. Here's the progress so far on the forward elements. These brought the bridge parts count to 29.

 

Cheers!

[Canute]

Your bridge sure got busy, Chris. Cutting, fitting and edge coloring parts the size of a dust speck. You are a master.

[ccoyle]

This project has slowed considerably since I have been lassoed into watching the Marvel MCU movies in chronological order with my daughter. Thanks for understanding! 😉

[lmagna]

Could have been worse............ we just went through the Star Wars universe here and have a few more to go.  Also in chronological order. The good part was that we didn't have to wait in line and the pop corn was fresh! 

[Egilman]

1 hour ago, ccoyle said:

Thanks for understanding!

No understanding needed, ENJOY....

[ccoyle]

1 minute ago, Egilman said:

ENJOY

 

Oh, yeah -- for like the third or fourth time! 😂

[Ian_Grant]

43 minutes ago, lmagna said:

Could have been worse............ we just went through the Star Wars universe here and have a few more to go.  Also in chronological order. The good part was that we didn't have to wait in line and the pop corn was fresh! 

It was always my brother's dream from elementary school to work on Star Wars movies. He and his friend in grade six made a stop-action super-8 star wars film, including a bar fight scene where in the blink of an eye everyone fell to the floor 😃. After graduating as a computer animator, he did indeed join Lucas in time to work on the later three movies (chronologically the first three). His claim to fame is that he was lead animator for Jar-Jar Binks, the least popular star wars character ever 😆. As he says, "I didn't write the dialogue, I just had to deal with animating his flowing mane as he ran around corners!".

 

Personally I found the newer movies so terrible I didn't even watch the third......don't tell Andrew......

 

After this he worked on several other movies, such as  Hulk & Pearl Harbour. He emailed me one time to say that he had seen the model battleships for Pearl Harbour leaving their model shop on flat-bed trucks for the studio, and if only I could have been there....😒.

[ccoyle]

11 minutes ago, Ian_Grant said:

It was always my brother's dream from elementary school to work on Star Wars movies.

 

I was 13 when the original came out -- saw it seven times in the theater and dreamed of being a Hollywood SFX model-maker. Of course it's mainly CGI now.

 

13 minutes ago, Ian_Grant said:

Personally I found the newer movies so terrible I didn't even watch the third

 

That was the only one of the nine Trilogy of Trilogies films that I didn't see in a theater. Pretty sad.