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Old 18-01-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Hi all,
New bloke here, ireally don't know why i have not become a member here earlier Still i'm here now.

This is the work i've done so far on this project, i do have earlier pix if you there is anybody that would like to see them.

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Either the pic is really small or I cant open the full size pic.. I click the link, but I get the same size..
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Twitch ya right, same happens to me, bugger it.
I had a lot of trouble loading the pix as it kept saying i was exceeding the size thingy.
Leave it with me and i'll do some tinkering and see what happens.
Sorry about that.

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Right try this...

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/attach...1&d=1200697104

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Hi Savvy, welcome to the forum.

You will have to resize the picture to ensure that it is below 195 kb and also make sure that it is one of the supported file types such as .jpg.

Did you have a look at my own build thread of this model?

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2410
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looking good so far. cant wait to see some more work done on it and yes! we would love to see the previous photos!!!

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Hi Bunkerbarge,
Just had a read through your thread, very interesting and the first i've seen RC'd. Be careful with those deck's, my wife put mine in the conservatory over Christmas and they curled up down thier whole length to an alarming degree!! They did however return to normal once warmed up naturally back in the house.

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I will post more photo's later today as i have to resize them all to show up, i really should have read the instructions but hey i build models so i don't need to right!!?

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Ok, seem to have cracked the photo posting.

Both hull halves were scraped with a half round blade to simulate the oil canning effect, VERY messy and time consuming.
I also wanted to open up the flood holes. This was done by grinding away the rear/inside of the hull right down to the holes with a mini drill and round tip burr. This was finished off with a scalpel to clean up the holes.

Next came the long flood hole's above the saddle tanks. I cut the plastic away by scribing through it with back of a craft blade. Once cleaned up i replaced all the ribs with 1mm square plastic rod.

TBC,

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I know what you mean about the deck which is why I sealed the undersides with planks and varnished it as well as painting the upper surfaces. Consequently they should be reasonably well sealed from water but I wouldn't leave the model in a humid environment.

Opening out the flooding ports makes a big differrence to this model and there are actually resin sets that you can buy to add internal detail in the hull that can then be seen through them. Unfortunately I didn't have that option for mine!

The oil can effect is very ineresting and something I haven't seen before. I'm looking forward to seeing how this will look when painted up.

Thanks for the pictures, very interesting so far and you have only just started!
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Hi Bunkerbarge,

I looked into buying the resin pressure hull by Yankee Model Works, but decided to hold off until such time that i could bring the two halves together along with the deck in place. Reason? to see just how much would be visible. Answer, not very much at all!

With this in mind i decided to save some money and make a simple one of my own. I did this by drawing around the hull onto some plastic card. This was then trimmed until it sat snuggly into the hull on top of some simple angle brackets, again made from plastic card.

Anything seen through the holes is effectively in sillouette becouse of the light seen from the holes behind it if you see what i mean?
So you could get away with adding things in 2D just by cutting sheet in the right shape! I have a collection of odds 'n' sods that will pass for internal structures, i'll post pics when it's all installed.

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