Spaceman Spiff Posted Friday at 01:37 AM Author #151 Posted Friday at 01:37 AM Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Stalled a bit now because I have zero idea how to make that mini mast. Zero. 😂 mtaylor, GrandpaPhil and Canute 3 Quote
GrandpaPhil Posted Friday at 01:47 AM #152 Posted Friday at 01:47 AM (edited) Happy Thanksgiving to you too! Wire and toothpicks are your friends for making small masts and spars! The stiff wire that comes in balsa model plane kits for landing gears is perfect for that. Toothpicks and bamboo kitchen skewers can be shaved down to very thin diameters and are some of my go to sources for masts and spars. Edited Friday at 01:50 AM by GrandpaPhil Canute, mtaylor and Spaceman Spiff 3 Quote Building: 1:200 Russian Battleship Oryol (Orel card kit) 1:64 HMS Revenge (Victory Models plans) 1:64 Cat Esther (17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships)
ddp Posted Friday at 04:00 AM #153 Posted Friday at 04:00 AM are you talking about the one that you posted a picture of at the top of pg 5 or on the island? Spaceman Spiff and Canute 2 Quote
Spaceman Spiff Posted Friday at 01:54 PM Author #154 Posted Friday at 01:54 PM This one. Two different attempts just plain sucked GrandpaPhil and Canute 2 Quote
ddp Posted Friday at 03:34 PM #155 Posted Friday at 03:34 PM what is going wrong as i thought we worked out how you are going to make it? Canute 1 Quote
Spaceman Spiff Posted Friday at 10:03 PM Author #156 Posted Friday at 10:03 PM It’s the “connector” area where the two mast and spar/boom/whatever meet Canute 1 Quote
Spaceman Spiff Posted yesterday at 01:30 AM Author #157 Posted yesterday at 01:30 AM I think I’m getting close on the little mast. I cut decal paper to make the connectors. It’s a start - let me know what you think… GrandpaPhil and mtaylor 2 Quote
ddp Posted yesterday at 01:52 AM #158 Posted yesterday at 01:52 AM (edited) wrong shape as looks like it should be a 4 point diamond as in baseball with home & second base the verticals & 1st & 3rd the horizontal bar as that is what it looks like in your previous picture. what are you going to use for the angled supports as thinner then the horizontal bar which is thinner then the main vertical post? Edited yesterday at 01:55 AM by ddp Quote
Spaceman Spiff Posted 7 hours ago Author #159 Posted 7 hours ago Working on a fix and should have the next version tonight. For the supports and part going above, I’ll use stretched Sprue, if that doesn’t work then maybe lead wire but I believe the sprue will be fine. For the loops at the end s, I’ll use lead wire. Great stuff that I use in wheel bays and cockpits of the planes Quote
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