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    HMS Eskimo designing ships for dummys

    Barry , try trimming the ladders from window screen material
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    Baltimore and clevelend class cruisers

    Did some checking , first helenas secondaries were essentially Porter class destroyers primaries
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    Baltimore and clevelend class cruisers

    Helena as JSC depicts it is a modified brooklyn class. After its loss. A baltimore class was named after it. The JSC Helena would be a good bassis for Brooklyn class which had open single 5" as secondary, followed by a couple like the helena Which shared its twin closed scondaries with some...
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    Baltimore and clevelend class cruisers

    Are there , or were there any kits of these?
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    1:250 Scale USS Helena

    Dont recolor it. As modeled the ship wore MS21 camo. Which is overall navy blue with darker blue on decks.As a matter of fact. The wood would have been painted over dark blue as well.
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    HMS "Prince of Wales"/GPM Nr 198

    Do you suppose this build could be condensed into an article?
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    DN New Year's Resolutions

    But we want it now
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    How can I do with this?

    If you rescale , make it 1/350th and take advantage of the plethoria of bismark etch parts in that scale. Although 400th exist too because of the Heller plastic kit.
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    Looking for a link

    LOL classic! Thanks Maurice
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    Looking for a link

    He used card kits as patterns and built them from plastic sheet. I need the link for a friend
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    Looking for a link

    Where was the german site where the guy was building comercial card kits , but in plastic?
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    Need basic anti warpage advise

    I plan to glue down all my formers to the keel plate . But "not" glue the slots where the go together. I read somewhere that helps prevent warpage. But what about where the keel plates sections meet? Should they be solidly mounted together? We're talking waterline model with typycal multi piece...
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    Need planes for legal maly AVROMANCHES

    I'm planning to display it with the cruiser Degrasse from the '61 maly CD. Which is designed like a JSC kit. Anyone know if either ship participated i the indo china conflict and if the discussed airwing would still be valid?
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    Need planes for legal maly AVROMANCHES

    Kit didn't have any. Any ideas? I think when the french first took it it had Hellcats and Avengers. In which case I could buy a gambier bay and downscale the planes to 300th
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    JSC's Shimakaze-The Hard way

    Stunned as always
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