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It truly is amazing what can emerge from flat sheets! Love watching this develop...

Nice! Watching this build is an ongoing reminder of what is possible... i look forward to what comes next!

I think reading - something to do during those long waits on the flight line!

Jeroen- that last piece looks like part of the engine pylon...? all very very cool - and it makes me profoundly grateful that I wasn't living that history at the time...

Awesome tutorial! Many thanks.. My first attempt on this will be a 1:24 scale wooden bucket from Shapeways. I'll need to do the interior, exterior and bottom - so I'll use the bottom as my practice bit... i have had a set of wood grain decals in 1:24, but I'm really not thrilled with them (they're intended for use on model cars and seem a bit crude), so this is a great chance for me to learn a new technique

So arming and fueling, plus last-minute attention from the crew chief - lots of activity and to-and-fro. This gives me context for the people and vehicles.

I can't give "realistic" feedback as I have exactly zero experience with carrier flight decks at work. One thing I can't tell is whether the dio is built around mission prep (arming, fueling) or post-mission maintenance/repair - or is there even a distinction in the vehicles and crew between those two activities? i'm curious now... what's the story that you want to tell?

Many thanks! I'll give this a shot as I have some bits and pieces that will make perfect tests

I have a stupid paint question... With the oils, how long do they need to cure after painting? My only current experience with oil paints is on canvas, and they take days/weeks to cure. I somehow suspect that you have a way around that issue...?

Would that "Shake and Bake" resin kit be the one from HpH?

Thanks! I'm going to need this myself in then it-too-distant future

I've procrastinated on the B-17 - I will have it on the way by Friday! In the meantime, I donated to the crowdfunding effort - this is a truly worthy cause!

That's just hilarious! Making the transition from no wings to no fuselage... I suspect that a naked engine with a seat and controls may be what comes next!

The stands are taking shape. Once I wrapped my somewhat ancient brain around compound curves on butt-joints, everything came together handily. Started on rivets today...

I look forward to watching that V2 build...

Sweeet! I love the Japanese approach to SciFi... I keep hoping to find some models from the Last Exile series... I'm jealous!

Love it! This mounting tells an immediate "story" which is one of the greatest joys in modeling

It's getting a bit crowded in there! Lots of small parts to fit inside an ever-shrinking space... I expect that the plumbing is going to be quite the adventure. great work, and thanks for sharing all the steps

Very very nice work! Particularly liking the research involved...

Reminder to self: thick plastic does not bend and shape the same as thin wood... I'm working on parts of the display base, in this case one of the boat stands. Re-learning how to do curved joints in what will eventually be a pair of "iron" stands is kinda fun - I'd forgotten how tricky it can be to get precise curves along edge joints under tension. The good news is that it's all coming back to me and I might actually be able to use this one after a moderate amount of sanding and filling. The bad news is that it shouldn't have *required* a moderate amount of sanding and filling! The core of each stand is 1mm evergreen sheet (as these will bear a good bit of weight when finished), to which I'll add seams, plates and MasterClub resin rivets, all finished with Uschi's metal powders in a mix of iron and steel. I'm also badly mistreating a lovely new map, to make it look like a lovely *old* map. The first wash of strong coffee and food-coloring is done. After it dries I'll borrow one of Mrs. Poet's irons to make it nice and smooth again before I mount it to the board and hit it with some tinted varnish.

Is that Pro-Tec scale hose on those fittings? I was just trying to find something that looked like what you were doing and came across them. Seem to be oriented towards auto/cycle modeling, but would seem to work for some of our topics as well.

Thanks! I think I figured out the "how else could it be" approach for the through-hull fitting on the seawater pump. A screened pipe with a sealed/riveted flange just makes sense, and I've not been able to find anything that would indicate otherwise. So that's the approach I'll take. Meanwhile, I finished the ball-peen hammer. I carved the head from a 3/32" dowel and the handle from a sliver of cherrywood left over from a different model. The only headache was drilling a 1/16" hole through the 3/32" head... a bit of CA for body made it doable... Finished the head with graphite, and a coat of future for the varnished handle. Not the the greatest picture - I need to track down the macro lens I picked up for the iPhone - but the gist is there. I made up a few silk bags and I'm putting them through the coffee/food-color/ammo wash treatment to get the appropriate level of grunge. I collected a few acorns of various sizes and some dryer lint with which to fill them - works a champ for that "odds and ends in a bag" look...

Nice!

I appreciate the comments! They truly help to keep me focused on days like this when about four hours of work resulted in some (hopefully final) drawings/plans of the supports where the boat will rest on the base, filing a hex socket out of brass tube for the valve key and a rough start to carving a ball-peen hammer head out of 3/32" dowel... Translating the designs from my head to paper then to wood/plastic/brass/whathaveyou is always a challenge! My imagination has *infinitely* finer resolution than my fingertips and tools can reach... meanwhile, I have a dilemma... The engine drives two different pumps in addition to the prop shaft. One of those is a recirculating pump for feeding water from the condenser back into the boiler. No problems there as all the connecting pipes, fittings and related bits are neatly hidden and invisible under the deck. The *second* pump however is used to pump seawater straight into the boiler when it needs filling. Again, most of the connecting plumbing is neatly invisible under the deck... HOWEVER the associated fittings on the outside of the hull, under the waterline, are an utter mystery to me. I have no clue how these things were done and I've so far found no useful references online. i hate it when things like this which were once "common knowledge" become cryptic puzzles...

That's some impressive CAD, and a great print!