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The last part of the redraw is complete. Finally did the aircraft. I made no attempt at redesigning. I regret not reworking the ships boats....the original design do not take well to upscaling. In fact, they suck. The airplanes are a different story. I took a few pics midway through...

I thought I'd pass on an idea that finally seems to have worked. Rather than spend days trying to roll paper to a small enough OD tube for the liferaft sides, I tried forming the liferafts from 18 gauge copper wire, like Scorpio makes his portholes. I used two dowels placed side-by-side for a...

May have solved the problem. For the last pic, it seems that even though the file size displayed by Microsoft Explorer was safely under the 45K limit (it said it was 43K), the posting software condisedered it greater than 45K and wouldn't accept it in the attachment string....and when attmpting...

The wife has been giving me grief this past couple of weeks about the more I work on it, the more white spaces show up. Finally to the point of elimination.

I thought I had this attachment system figured out, but again I can't seem to get more than one picture attached to a posting. Guess you are going to have to put up with one posting per pic....I've spent enough effort on a string that appears to be eliciting little interest.

Barry, the design is looking really good. As far as my experience goes, the most critical factor is not how superadvanced your graphics software is, but rather how comfortable you are in using it. If you haven't run tried it yet, I would recommend downloading a copy of Cursor Art's Image Forge...

Very nice work, Ted. What material did you use for the masts? Does it require breaking out the soldering iron?

Figure 3 doesn't look nearly as dark and grungy in real life....screen shots, image size reductions, etc. again take their toll.

Glad to see there is interest in this string, so I will keep on trucking with it. No progress pics tonight (the other half monopolized the camera taking pictures of the new little goslings we have running around in the goose pen. I have encountered the first major parts misfit problem, and it...

HELLO......Is anyone still alive out there?

A few pics of the secondary armament. This seems to be as good as I'm going to get on photo quality (at least while using flash indoors). The first turret resulted in a bad case of the dreaded glue shinys. I built that one from the base up, with the turret top being the last one to be glued...

It doesn't have any cannons, but the Maly Modelarz Cutty Sark is not all that difficult a build. The old version left something to be desired in the way of printing and paper quality, but the parts fits were very good. I haven't gotten my hands on the most recent version (the reprint released...

Cute lil Flying Flea. I can understand the distraction.

Final shots for this week. The second pic of the D and E turrets is just to show the gun barrel elevation can be changed....MOVING PARTS. I wimped out again and didn't make them individually adjustable. Next cut at the design and I might try adding that level of complexity to the build. I...

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The software seems to be acting up again....just lost about 20 minutes of irreplacable prose in the attempt to add the photos. Try, try again. Hull sides are now redrawn and in place. Biggest problem was one of the ink bins in the color cartridge going dry just before printing, so the hull...

Ralf, your checkout system appears to be broken. I've attempted making a purchase three times today. Each time I make the attempt, it refuses to go past the mailing address page, and keeps telling me that small parcel by US mail is not an appropriate delivery method to my US address (at least...

A few more. Ted, you aren't the only one struggling with multiple pic posts.

Nice sunny day with no wind, so managed to get some pics. As stated before, the purpose of this build is mainly to make the main structural parts fit together....quick and not necessarily pretty. I have made a couple concessions to detail, like prettying up the WT doors (the simple rectangle...

Just a quickupdate to let you know progress is being made, albeit slowly. The bridge now rises four levels above the deck....another two layers and I can start on the after portion of the superstructure. No pics to show yet (part of the reason for slowness of the build is a couple of days...