Winnie

If you were in Canada I'd say yes to the 52... But it'll be pricy to ship!

Cheers! Some benchtime achieved!! Mostly pain free, but still some occasional bouts of pain. But I can sit at the bench comfortably here and there which is nice!

I'm recoveing from surgery, and as far as we know (prior to pathology) we're doing good! Hurts a bit, but we're off the stronger painkillers (had T3 for a bit), now onto regular Tylenol/Acetaminophen, which is good. also eating normal foods which is even better. May get to the banch today! Cheers H.

Just thought I'd keep the group in the loop of what's going on in my life! Not the most active member, but I do stick bits of plastic together occasionally. Got diagnosed with Colon cancer in October, going for surgery on the 17th of November, then after initial recovery I hope I'll have some time to spend at the bench! Should be off work minimum for a month, then we'll see what chemo will do. It's a bummer, because I'll have to stop flying until cleared again, which may take a year, and I was JUST granted Pilot Examiner status... oh well. My public service message is this: If you can get a colonoscopy, get one! Apparently my cancer started as a polyp that grew into a cancer over several years, although not extremely severe, still bad enough. Colonoscopies can detect and remove the polyps before they turn cancerous. Even if they are a bit undignified... You also get some wicked drugs! Cheers Harald

I did that mistake too, and with a TON of AM, but I managed to get one again from Harv... And a ton of AM again!

Minor progress... It's slow going, I did finally get the airbrush I need for the hull, now I just need to start on it, but it requires working in the garage... There's a ton of PE to attach, so I guess I may have to just bite the bullet and get at it... It's a little intimidating to say the least!! Here is the Fo'c'sle and forward well deck, not 100% complete, but the stuff I can do without knocking bits off as I maneuver etc. good fun though, and it looks good! a chunk at a time is how we do it!!

Ooops, should have read the thread again!!

Kotare just announced an Early Hurricane I!! https://www.kotare-models.com/articles/k32015 kotare 1-32 hurricane mk.i early announcement Cheers!

Yeah, nothon BUT small parts. Well a couple of very large parts... Pain in the ass, but also different. I'll post up some more progress shortly. Been working on fixing and plating the rear hull, so hoping I can have some paint on in the next couple weeks!

I got the set, and they've already been a great help. Really good when you just want a quick color rather than setting up brushes, painting, cleaning etc. Gets 5 stars from me!

A little more. Handrails attached. the long pieces are VERY difficult to get off the fret and cleaned up without bending them. then sticking them on making them all straight and even... Unfortunately I didn't notice that it focused on the wrong pieces... Again, this is 'A deck' and behind a bulwark so you'd have to use a boroscope to really see anything.

@DocRob, Midwest Modelshop also has some, but I'll torture myself with the brass ones, just to see... I've already sunk about $2K into this model, so we have to say somewhere that enough is enough!

Need more medium CA... Anyway, the white glue (using Mod Podge gloss), works a charm so far. Easier clean up, and does wonders in sticking small pieces of PE to plastic. A deck structures: One door missing, the handrails are a bitch to get/keep straight... Thankfully this will be behind a bullwark on A deck, 1 deck below the boat deck. Some of these windows have the "stained glass" from the KA set... Micro cutting with very fine scissors on slippery plastic... NOT easy, but whatever! Looks really cool The most time consuming part of any, is cutting the PE from the fret, cutting the nubs, then filing the nubs... There are 44 of the smallest windows on the longest structure shown... So there are TONS of windows. But, I think this is an excellent primer to more advanced warships, because even though there is a dearth of PE parts, most are easy subassemblies requiring a single fold, if any. Or a gentle curve. So there are thousands of parts, but they're relatively easy to affix! I'll probably eat those words later. Cheers H.

I like the AK for the color, but I have used the Tamiya and it's close enough for me...

I think that's the wooden ship, Occre or some such. I won't be doing any massive surgeries, I have a couple of Shapeways parts, like the B deck front bulkhead, that looks more correct. @DocRob I'm not using wood glue to glue PE to PE, only PE to plastic, a couple of the bulwarks had some tension due to the etching, and they are holding with wood glue, but not with CA for some reason. That was the problem with the hull-plates as well, the plates held for a bit then one edge would peel... pain in the canugies... The waterways, and expansion joints are flat pieces on flat decks with no strain, and they're holding down great with white glue. And it's easy to position, and they're flexible ish after setting, so that they shouldn't pop off... Your wooden ship is magnificent though...