Rob, while I was typing my last post you lickidy split pumped out the lattice!
Really came out great!!
Thanks, Professor!
Jim
Really came out great!!
Thanks, Professor!
Jim
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Rob
Thanks for the lessons maybe you should move it to the "HowTo" pages and get Ron to add his tips.
barry
Thanks for the lessons maybe you should move it to the "HowTo" pages and get Ron to add his tips.
barry
Hi all
Just a quick up date on the lattice work for the crane.
Finished the build on it.
Just some joint cleaning to do as it's been so long since I last done work this small I mucked up some joints. It is strong enough to take a rubbing down without problems.
Then I will paint it with a matt paint used for plastic models. it won't be fixed down yet as it may get damaged.
More later tonight
Regards
Rob
Just a quick up date on the lattice work for the crane.
Finished the build on it.
Just some joint cleaning to do as it's been so long since I last done work this small I mucked up some joints. It is strong enough to take a rubbing down without problems.
Then I will paint it with a matt paint used for plastic models. it won't be fixed down yet as it may get damaged.
More later tonight
Regards
Rob
Hi all
Back again
Added some of the deck fittings and some touch up work.
Not much more to do on the stern, another four to fives hours work should see this section done
Regards
Rob
Back again
Added some of the deck fittings and some touch up work.
Not much more to do on the stern, another four to fives hours work should see this section done
Regards
Rob
Hi all
Just a note with regards to the next ship to build.
If any one has any more ideas please lets have them by the Sat 12th July. The reason is I think Yamato will be in the last stages of construction then and I will need time to get ref material together if it turns out not to be in kit form.
So any more ideas lets have them, I will cast my vote then.
So far Missouri has it with two votes!! (should keep Jim happy) :lol:
Yamato build up date later
Regards
Rob
Just a note with regards to the next ship to build.
If any one has any more ideas please lets have them by the Sat 12th July. The reason is I think Yamato will be in the last stages of construction then and I will need time to get ref material together if it turns out not to be in kit form.
So any more ideas lets have them, I will cast my vote then.
So far Missouri has it with two votes!! (should keep Jim happy) :lol:
Yamato build up date later
Regards
Rob
Rob,
So, Missouri is in the lead? Super!!
Did you locate a kit yet? Let me know, if that is the one, if you haven't been able to locate a kit yet (assuming you are going to build one of the out of print GPM kits) and I might be able to help. 8)
You did mean Saturday, July 10th, right?
Just about finished with Mexico Victory and hope to post some of the finished photos tonight...I just have to add those little life rafts along the cargo boom shrouds and that's it! Did the last railing work today, and they seem to have come out okay.
Then, on to the USF Constitution!!
Jim
So, Missouri is in the lead? Super!!
Did you locate a kit yet? Let me know, if that is the one, if you haven't been able to locate a kit yet (assuming you are going to build one of the out of print GPM kits) and I might be able to help. 8)
You did mean Saturday, July 10th, right?
Just about finished with Mexico Victory and hope to post some of the finished photos tonight...I just have to add those little life rafts along the cargo boom shrouds and that's it! Did the last railing work today, and they seem to have come out okay.
Then, on to the USF Constitution!!
Jim
Rob
What a brilliant job! I hope I am as successful with the Graf Spee as you are here. If you're not up to a solderng tutorial, I might be able to squeeze one in tomorrow after the football game if anyone is interested.
It's another one of those things that the Burns Sr. passed on to me
What gauge wire did you use for the lattice? If a job doesn't come my way soon, all the railings on my ship will be done that way
All the best!
Ron
What a brilliant job! I hope I am as successful with the Graf Spee as you are here. If you're not up to a solderng tutorial, I might be able to squeeze one in tomorrow after the football game if anyone is interested.
It's another one of those things that the Burns Sr. passed on to me
What gauge wire did you use for the lattice? If a job doesn't come my way soon, all the railings on my ship will be done that way
All the best!
Ron
Jim
Yes I did mean Sat 10th. I had been looking at construction drawings for a job due to start on Mon 12th. I have written that date loads of times to day it was automatic :roll:
Ron
I don't mind doing it, but it would be at least a few days before I could get round to it as I have so much on (Yamato, design on Tennesse, Two kids, and that nasty thing called work). My grandfather showed me the tricks with the soldering iron. The ones you had to put into a flame to heat up.
The wire I used for the lattice work was 0.25mm coax cable core. Yamato does not have a lot of rails due to the blast given off by the main guns. The few she does have I will try to do these out of 0.20mm wire
Always willing to help in any way I can
Regards
Rob
Hi all
Started to fit some of the forward deck fittings while I wait for the second catapult to dry. The dif in the shade on the deck is that the deck kinks downwards at this point.
The upper bridge has only just been started with a lot of work to do to get it to look right.
The last photo is of some artists water colours my wife bought me due to the fact that anything that will hold paint, can lids, egg cups and small bowls keep going missing. I think this is her hint that she is fed up with it.
Good way of getting the other half to buy my paints :lol:
More latter
Regards
Rob
Started to fit some of the forward deck fittings while I wait for the second catapult to dry. The dif in the shade on the deck is that the deck kinks downwards at this point.
The upper bridge has only just been started with a lot of work to do to get it to look right.
The last photo is of some artists water colours my wife bought me due to the fact that anything that will hold paint, can lids, egg cups and small bowls keep going missing. I think this is her hint that she is fed up with it.
Good way of getting the other half to buy my paints :lol:
More latter
Regards
Rob
Looks better all the time Rob has the wife started leaving leaflets about shed's lying about yet.
Embroidery holders one day paints the next thing you will be building aircraft and putting perspex in the oven and getting away with it.
No comments from you wunwing I know what's coming on that one
barry
Embroidery holders one day paints the next thing you will be building aircraft and putting perspex in the oven and getting away with it.
No comments from you wunwing I know what's coming on that one
barry
Hi Barry
Did once use the oven to make a styrene mold for a ships hull for a mate.
Never heard the end of it :lol:
She still says she could smell the plastic for a week.
These things just have to be done :lol:
Regards
Rob
Did once use the oven to make a styrene mold for a ships hull for a mate.
Never heard the end of it :lol:
She still says she could smell the plastic for a week.
These things just have to be done :lol:
Regards
Rob
T
Texman
Looking good! Just love these building threads. I do like the
watercolors you got there. Where did your wife acquire these?
...and I have never noticed a styrene smell...
Ray
watercolors you got there. Where did your wife acquire these?
...and I have never noticed a styrene smell...
Ray
Ray
I have never noticed any smell either, but you know females can notice things us mortals can't :lol:
Still goes on about it now and then :roll:
If only she new the full extent :twisted:
Regards
Rob
Hi all
Just small stuff done tonight, bollards ect.
the reason for the crane in the air is I want to hang a plane from it after I rig the crane up.
Main work left to do now is the island section and the last of the hose reels. And of course loads of touch up work.
More later
Regards
Rob
Just small stuff done tonight, bollards ect.
the reason for the crane in the air is I want to hang a plane from it after I rig the crane up.
Main work left to do now is the island section and the last of the hose reels. And of course loads of touch up work.
More later
Regards
Rob
Rob
May sound a silly comment with all the other great bits around but that is a really, really good hose reel, the rest of course is top class anyway.
barry
May sound a silly comment with all the other great bits around but that is a really, really good hose reel, the rest of course is top class anyway.
barry
T
Texman
watercolours bought by wife
Take care: the most expensive they are, the longest they last. ( I paint with watercolours for twenty years)
And about printing, I had an experience with postcards a shopseller complained to me about : so I decide to hide half the surface of my postcards and let them exposed to the sun. Afte only two weeks, some of them, all offset-printed, had already faded and turned out to blue, on the contrary others, offset printed too, but elsewhere, are just as they were in the beginning, and it is now one month since I let them under sunrays! Although I am sure about the result, which seems definitive to me, I go on and my best postcards will still remain under the sun until they begin, in turn, to fade out.
Before I did this experiment, I believed that the lasting of the colours only depended upon the printing method. I did not suspected anything about the quality of the inks.
Take care: the most expensive they are, the longest they last. ( I paint with watercolours for twenty years)
And about printing, I had an experience with postcards a shopseller complained to me about : so I decide to hide half the surface of my postcards and let them exposed to the sun. Afte only two weeks, some of them, all offset-printed, had already faded and turned out to blue, on the contrary others, offset printed too, but elsewhere, are just as they were in the beginning, and it is now one month since I let them under sunrays! Although I am sure about the result, which seems definitive to me, I go on and my best postcards will still remain under the sun until they begin, in turn, to fade out.
Before I did this experiment, I believed that the lasting of the colours only depended upon the printing method. I did not suspected anything about the quality of the inks.
Hi Renaud
Know what you mean about the nasty UV rays destroying all are hard work. Before I started the build I sealed the pages with a fix it spray used by artists for charcoal drawings. After the build is finished I will give a good shot with an anti-UV spray.
I will do all I can to stop the rays wrecking it.
Thanks for the reminder though.
Regards
Rob
Know what you mean about the nasty UV rays destroying all are hard work. Before I started the build I sealed the pages with a fix it spray used by artists for charcoal drawings. After the build is finished I will give a good shot with an anti-UV spray.
I will do all I can to stop the rays wrecking it.
Thanks for the reminder though.
Regards
Rob