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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:14 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Jun 03, 2018 8:24 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:17 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:20 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:02 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:29 am | |
| he's the best lifeboat coxs'n you could ever wish for matey...…….never ever leaves his post, |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:38 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:12 pm | |
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gribeauval Master
Posts : 500 Join date : 2011-06-11 Age : 73 Location : West Yorkshire
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:44 pm | |
| Nice job Neil. | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:09 pm | |
| Cheers matey......….i'm even tempted to take em for a sail tonight, lol. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:32 pm | |
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barriew Captain (moderator)
Posts : 2631 Join date : 2011-11-26 Age : 84 Location : Thaxted, Essex
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:05 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Jun 24, 2018 1:39 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:16 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Jun 24, 2018 6:48 pm | |
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battleshipbuff Gunner
Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:55 am | |
| Neil asked me earlier if I have been following this double build.The short answer is not for the last few days as I have been fundraising,for the RNLI,and cooking myself in the sun in doing so.My nose and forehead,despite copious applications of factor 50 sunscreen,resemble a cross between a blanched tomato,with the skin partly peellng off,and a piece of pork crackling.However the three day total of 26 hours,resulted in £555.43.Margaret and I are a bit pleased with that! A little while ago,I said that I was not going to comment further on some posts,because of some remarks that did at the time upset me greatly,but i decided,hell my alternative nom de plume is Rottweiler,so Im back,with hopefully less of the agression previously given and received. However I must say,this build,by my great friend,leaves me lost for words.There are so many superlatives that could be used,that really dont sum up my feelings.As most now know,Neil is doing this for me,the same as my other good friend Gribeuval,aka Mike Pendlebury is doing with a model of the Severn Class the Will. My emotions are still very much very high,when I just think that these two wonderful modellers (which I am not in any way or form)are dong these builds for me.They both make things look so simple and easy,and both are helping other modellers overcome their problems,by dealing with any obstacle that comes up, with what seems to them so simple a solution. With each stage of the builds moving on towards completion,I am really so amazed and remain so grateful.I will even make a solemn promie to learn how to steer these rather fast models,hopefully without bumping into anything. Thank you BOTH from the very bottom of my heart,(yes I do have one honest!) I will shut up now and let you master builders get on with what you do in a top class way. Mick F | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:06 am | |
| ahhh, you are so sweet, matey...………its a pleasure, lol...…..you keep collecting for the noble cause mate...……….I'll still keep building. mind you the rest of the build will be much slower as almost everything else will have to be scratch built so will be now switching to the Speedline model to build. |
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gribeauval Master
Posts : 500 Join date : 2011-06-11 Age : 73 Location : West Yorkshire
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:47 pm | |
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Specialbuilder Able Seaman
Posts : 25 Join date : 2018-06-25
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Mon Jun 25, 2018 4:20 pm | |
| Hi, I was wondering if you do crews for 1/16th scale and if you can supply nude or nearly so (ie no bulky clothes). I need some 1/16th scale crew members for my Crash tender and then a couple for my Victorian cutter and projected Norfolk Wherry. So all around 4 1/2" tall in no very particular pose. I can modify and dress them accordingly and you'd be welcome to mould them and cast them for your own use, once I have a set.
Cheers, Martin | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:39 am | |
| sorry martin only 1.12 to fit my lifeboats, but if you google MOUNTFLEET MODELS, you will find a good variety on his site at 1;16 scale. |
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Specialbuilder Able Seaman
Posts : 25 Join date : 2018-06-25
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:41 am | |
| Neil, no mention of crew figures on his site. Very high quality mouldings and white metal though, if that's the kind of ship you're into.
So, still looking. I may have to make them myself, but moulding and casting? Yuchh!
Martin | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:11 am | |
| he might not have put them on yet martin but he does do them......I produced 3 sets of 1;12 lifeboat figures or him, but he bought in an expansion of his business the 1;16 and 1;24 and 1;32 figures that a guy called Adrian clutteruck used to sell...……….give him a phone call and tell him nei from Fleetwood put you on to him...he's a nice chap and very amenable. |
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Specialbuilder Able Seaman
Posts : 25 Join date : 2018-06-25
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:16 am | |
| OK, Neil, thanks. I think I've heard of Adrian's models. I tend to find that too many model figures have an almost cartoonish look about them. I'm not looking for Hobbits to crew my Crash tender, or Weirdos from the wood on Vanity, furry footed elves skippering a wherry. You know the sort of thing, where heads are twice the size of shoulders and hands are like plates of meat!
I'll try a phone call. Cheers, Martin | |
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Specialbuilder Able Seaman
Posts : 25 Join date : 2018-06-25
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:15 am | |
| Just checked Adrian's website, but he does very few figures in 1/16th scale and I can't say I liked them much. They are also a frightening price! I will have to make some patterns. I have a chum who moulds and casts slot car shells, so I'm sure he can do people.
Watch this space.
Cheers, Martin | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:46 pm | |
| - Specialbuilder wrote:
- Just checked Adrian's website, but he does very few figures in 1/16th scale and I can't say I liked them much. They are also a frightening price!
I will have to make some patterns. I have a chum who moulds and casts slot car shells, so I'm sure he can do people.
Watch this space.
Cheers, Martin no martin, Adrian doesn't do them anymore...…..he sold all his moulds to mountfleet models......it is they who sell them . now back to my build. I like building kits from now and then, as you can learn how other people do them, for ease of others to follow and build..... but even when building a kit, I can make a huge cockup, but then you wouldn't learn if you didn't. and its no good blaming the manufacturer...…..being a kit designer myself...…. you design them for idiots beginners and those of few tools or little confidence to build….but you never are able to facilitate someone who is a bigger idiot than you can image. I.e. me!!! I cut the aft end of the cabin that takes the rear 3D printed …..so have had to fill it with a piece of plastic, a section of the grp cabin that was cut out, some epoxy and then some polyester filler...….but it is a great kit, needing some thought not a blundering numpty with size 10s wading in. the battery was used to make sure the area glued correctly. |
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Specialbuilder Able Seaman
Posts : 25 Join date : 2018-06-25
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:04 pm | |
| Neil, I knew he'd sold out, but figured the easy way to see his stuff would be to see if his website was still open. It is and I wasn't impressed. Whilst I have done a lot of figure patterns over the years, 1/32nd scale was the biggest. Now I have to do twice that size! Damn, that's a lot of Milliput! I might even have to buy some more!
Thanks for your help.
Cheers, Martin | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:23 pm | |
| and again, back to the build...….the rest of the parts of the main flying bridge structure have been either glues in place or dry fitted by sanding to fit...obviously each person will find their own level of accuracy here a there are no serious plans available to give a fixture angle, but using a metalworkers set of try squares one can gauge pretty accurately what position and angle each part should fit into, and just light sanding is needed to make them fit. tomorrow the grp moulding will be given a final sanding so that the top side covers supplied as mouldings will be ground dous to take the "lip" off the top and then the rest of the structure will be fitted. And believe it or not apart from the silver soldering of rails, pulpit etc and making the radar tree, this part is the major part of the "building" done. But I've had enough for tonight, my usual reaction to cyano [superglue] has taken effect and I am now full of the symptoms of a summer cold....cough, sneezing, runny nose, etc so I've had enough for tonight. the fiddly bits come next!..all the small bits. |
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davidjt Forum Sponsor
Posts : 534 Join date : 2013-01-08 Age : 72 Location : n wales coast
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:08 am | |
| hi neil , what thickness is all that cabin, as it looks very strong and not flimsy as some I have seen. the detail looks exceptional to me. david | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:51 am | |
| The cabin grp moulding davit is actually quite flimsy at less than 1.5 mm in parts but the 3D printed stuff ranges from 3mm to 6mm thick in parts so really stiffens the structure up.......but the main beauty of the speediness boat over the MBA boat is that the superstructure is glued and fixed to the deck and the whole deck and cabin come off the hull as one piece giving total access to the inside of the boat. |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:58 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:14 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:06 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:31 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:28 am | |
| SLOWLY AND SURELY, and contrary to what others are trying to do, moan constantly and turn it into a supakit by replacing loads with their ownbrass uprated stuff........I shall be building it "from the box" |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:08 pm | |
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battleshipbuff Gunner
Posts : 174 Join date : 2012-03-16 Age : 78 Location : Cornwall
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:20 am | |
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raaartygunner Deck Hand
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-06-14 Location : Brisbane, Sunshine State, Qld, Australia
| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:31 am | |
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| Subject: Re: like a kid in a sweet shop Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:03 am | |
| hi raarty……….I've always found them really useful little tools...……..got 3 of them somewhere lying around, and although I don't use them often well worth the outlay of a few quid, for just when you need something circular……….I've had success with them cutting up to 3mm thick plasticard with patience, lol. |
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