Hello everyone how are you all doing today? Well someone had to do it and I decided to give it a try, Its going to be a long long haul so please feel free to ask questions and any requests you may have about it. Contact me for anything you might be wondering.
Well I managed to save enough pennies up to purchase a copy of the SD 14 GCS from Marcle Models in the UK. http://www.marcle.co.uk/sd14.htm I have had great experience with Mr. Cooke and he was more than helpful with some hiccups during the order. (Thanks to the Irish Postal Service for threathening a Strike as soon as my order shipped) but anyway...
The kit arrives in a large package and is quite huge, Ill get into price later. Its over 180 pages of very heavy cardstock with the Parts as B&W Photocopies onto the pages themselves, Its an old kit, from sometime in the 80's and is hand drawn. A simple but effective tool kit of a steel ruler, long tweezers(which has saved my sanity so often) and a knife with snap off blades. With this dense cardboard, You would go through a lot of them.
Basically you are building the ship piece by piece as if you were a giant machine cutting steel plates shaping them and welding them in place, from the bottom shell plates and the double bottom to the top of the crane masts and everything in between.
The Price.......well its messy here. Its quite expensive, $400+ and if I had not needed something to do while I was laid up it woud never have been an option. I do not think that it was ever meant for modellers but for exhibitions and design firms as a center piece so that may be its fault as I do not believe production could be the reason.
But thats that....
I decided I was too chicken to attempt cutting the origional kit first go so i copied it to approriate stock and began by cutting the Bottom Shell Plates...
So it begins...
Well I managed to save enough pennies up to purchase a copy of the SD 14 GCS from Marcle Models in the UK. http://www.marcle.co.uk/sd14.htm I have had great experience with Mr. Cooke and he was more than helpful with some hiccups during the order. (Thanks to the Irish Postal Service for threathening a Strike as soon as my order shipped) but anyway...
The kit arrives in a large package and is quite huge, Ill get into price later. Its over 180 pages of very heavy cardstock with the Parts as B&W Photocopies onto the pages themselves, Its an old kit, from sometime in the 80's and is hand drawn. A simple but effective tool kit of a steel ruler, long tweezers(which has saved my sanity so often) and a knife with snap off blades. With this dense cardboard, You would go through a lot of them.
Basically you are building the ship piece by piece as if you were a giant machine cutting steel plates shaping them and welding them in place, from the bottom shell plates and the double bottom to the top of the crane masts and everything in between.
The Price.......well its messy here. Its quite expensive, $400+ and if I had not needed something to do while I was laid up it woud never have been an option. I do not think that it was ever meant for modellers but for exhibitions and design firms as a center piece so that may be its fault as I do not believe production could be the reason.
But thats that....
I decided I was too chicken to attempt cutting the origional kit first go so i copied it to approriate stock and began by cutting the Bottom Shell Plates...
So it begins...