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  1. DocRob
    Well nice, but... ...Italeri Cheers Rob
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    I used to be an engineer with a solid education and practical skills in metallurgy in a former life. No margin for poof though . Cheers Rob
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    Thank you Phil, I used Pledge sometimes with PE, when I had flat surfaces to attach. Here the mating surfaces are mostly very tiny and I trust CA a bit more. I use two types, a thin fast curing and a gel like slower bonding one. Cheers Rob
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    They might have taken it from the Javas, those scrap collectors might have visited the earth sometime. Decaling looks great. It seems even more tedious, than stenciling a Mig-31. I never thought that possible. Cheers Rob
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    Thank you Maru, I do love these thingies too. It's the second I built and that says it all, as I'm not a friend of redundance. And there is more. Tamiya gave us one of the best plastic kits ever made with the gullwing series. They are a pleasure to build and a perfect and sturdy canvas for advanced painting and weathering techniques. Cheers Rob
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    I continued with the funnel, another delicate construction. The casemate housings on the side where annealed for easier bending the radii. Luckily the PE parts are very well designed and the general fit is great. The Eduard manual lacks a bit especially with continuation. The exhaust hole on top was drilled out, using my relatively new Tamiya conical file for the first time. A great tool, which will also help a lot for my wooden ship builds. Cheers Rob
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    Thank you mis amigos, had the same thoughts, but wanted to advance the build a bit further, before bothering with the decks. I considered cutting the decks into smaller pieces, as well as cutting through the carrier film for dry fitting. This will be neccessary to determine, which components can be installed prior to the decks. Peter, I think I will hide the underwater section exactly where it belongs, under - acrylic - water. Since a long time, I wanted to try a water dio and it is more fitting, as I have figures for the Arizona. Cheers Rob
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    Thank you Peter, with a little bit more of progress, I will prime this section and put some color on. Let's see, how it shows afterwards. I started with the superstructure, because I was not sure how to tackle the decks building and painting sequence. The problem here, the wooden deck is adhesive and there is no way to test fit it. Some of the on deck components need to be glued into place and painted before applying the deck, others need to be added later. Before installing the deck, I have to decide, how I want to display the model and depending on that decision, I have to paint the hull first. I'm leaning towards an acrylic water base, only to hide the abysmal propellers, shafts and rudders. Decisions, decisions,... Cheers Rob
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    Thanks for the cheers, Carl, I will need them. From the start this project feels uncomfortable and I'm working on getting into some kind of groove with the build, as is usual with more demanding projects, where I focus after a while of irritation. I guess there are differences with the PE on our projects. With the Vosper, the added PE is more in the detail work, where it is more structural with the USS Arizona. In the end it doesn't matter, both are demanding projects, which keep you on the heels. Cheers Rob
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    Looking at your pics, there is no trace of the difficulties you had, except the culprit's shot Peter. The airframe under primer shows all the distinctive lines of a Kingfisher and you could only guess, it's an ancient kit. Good to hear, you found a second kit soon, but I'm a bit jealous about that too. When I make a mistake or forgot to buy something for a project, it's minimum two weeks of waiting until the goods arrive. Cheers Rob
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    I'm with Hubert, these panel lines are really ugly and don't fit the look of the rest, but worse, they look totally sci fi to me. There is no sense in the layout, technically. Pics may prove me wrong and I'm not an expert, but they cry for filling and rescribing / riveting. Cheers Rob
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    Your foiling job turns the plane into something magic, Gary. One day, I have to try it. Cheers Rob
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    Thanks Hubert, you picked out the meanest angle, which luckily doesn't show that dramatic with the real eye. I add two brass columns later under the rangefinders and hope, I can correct this, as you said. Cheers Rob
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    I ran in some trouble again with the build up of the superstructure, as I realized, al compartments folded from PE have a 'roof'. I hadn't checked it and left a bit of the structure on the underside of the platforms as a guide line for the compartments. This was easy fixed for platforms one to three, but the top one was already finished with fragile PE and printed parts. On the pic you can see the underside before surgery. Somehow I managed to get rid of the plastic without destroying the assembled parts, using a bench full of tools. Dabbing the sweat from my forehead, I continued with building up the superstructure, which is only stacked on the above pic. Platform by platform, I continued, until this was done according to the manual. I hope all 'connections' to other component fit, which is very difficult to check beforehand. Now this is what I achieved, I'm not entirely satisfied, but I'm still completely out of my comfort zone with this build. Slightly strange angles only depict the state of the art of American engineering scale wise . After: Before: (Find the 1247 differences ) Cheers Rob
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    Wow, Carl, what a beauty - err - -ful build and paint/decaling job. The Falcon looks hyperspace ready. Cheers Rob
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    Modeling and photographing are both passions of me, so feel free to write your thoughts about both, Peter. I have to admit, that I became sloppy when it came to digital photography and my old exploring spirit of analogue times never recovered full. I still experiment a lot with photography, but documenting my modeling steps, with the camera, I'm often a bit lazy, when it comes to perfect lighting, the best aperture or even the best setting and I never post process my pics, except for size reduction. The X's and O's of photography are still etched into my DNA, but I would need more time to regain the experimenting spirit, I had earlier. Quality photography is important, documenting work in modelling, I think, because it's the only way to explain or judge, except using words. Cheers Rob
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    Thank you Gary and Bill, I completely understand what you mean Bill and I'm not sure, If I may follow your path soon. The only exception are wooden ships, I really enjoy to build. It's rewarding and more of a flowing process than this Arizona project, which is more of a fight sometimes. Cheers Rob
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    It's not so much about critique Peter, I'm my worst inquisitor here. To me macro shots are a part of my style of documentation and the macro lens is my standard, when photographing my work, not only because it is able to show the detail close up, but also, because with it's 90 mm focal length, it depicts correctly, without the strange effects, wider angled lenses have. I often refer to others build logs as a reference and appreciate detailed information, bein it pics or written content. I sometimes used my own logs, where I failed to remember certain steps of long finished builds. Cheers Rob
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    It's not old, Hubert, ageless is the term . Thanks for the links, there are definitely a lot of similarities above the deck line with the ancient Revell kit and mine. The hull is different, halved vertical and has different portholes and casted railings. The superstructure looks very familiar though, as are the turrets. Whatever Hobby Boss had in mind with this kit, they failed. It's maybe cheap, but it's not worth the money and I wouldn't have touched it without the extras in the Eduard boxing. Cheers Rob
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    That is interesting Bill, there is no soaking and bleeding? Cheers Rob
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    Absolutely Ernie, the wheel could be a bit thinner. Wood effects on the interior look great. You could easily pimp the backseat area with some leftovers from WNW kits, like camera and canvas bag. Foe my Hansa Brandenburg build, I applied a map and some ruler and triangle, made from PE-residues and added some pencils made from wire. Cheers Rob
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    Have you forgotten to embed the link Hubert? I'd really like to see this old kit and determine the difference between nostalgia and crap, in my case. Cheers Rob
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    I know about your dislike for macroed model pics Peter, but I want to show what I've done in my build threads, ugly or not. I've learned a lot from detail photos, so Iwil provide them, at leas until I can't rectify the build quality anymore . Cheers Rob
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    I've done crazier things than this, but this must have been long ago . Today I assembled one platform with PE and printed parts. This is something else than adding some PE parts here and there on a plane kit. I definitely have to burn my macro lens. The tiny stuff looks ok to my blurred eyes. Cheers Rob
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    Thanks for your thoughts and condolences, I think Kevin is right . I've never seen the old Revell kits, but I can't think of a design as bad as this, mind, it's not an ancient kit. I hope for your Seydlitz to be a better kit, I have a Queen Elisabeth from Trumpeter in stash, which looks decent. Cheers Rob
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