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Issue 5 joined onto previous issues. Noted ply parts a lot harder material than previous re cutting out. Thought issue 6 would be with five as due date 10th., but after inquiries told that we are going to stay one week behind now with issue 6 only next week.   Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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Looking good I can't wait till next Tuesday  Previous builds Bounty, Cutty Sark, Red Baron Triplane, Bismark,Titanic,Endeavour http://jockspage.webs.com/
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jock wrote:Looking good I can't wait till next Tuesday Hi jock.  Yes I think they are just saving their bums by being one issue behind even though they may already have it. If there is another shipping problem then they've got that week to overcome it before next is due. It is annoying.  Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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hi george,doing a great job,starting to look the part. well done.  Current builds: SotS, USS Consitution, San Felipe, D51 loco, HMS Surprise, RB7, Arab Dhow, Jotika HMS Victory Completed builds: HMS Pickel, Thermopylae, Mississipi river boat, Mary Rose, Cutty Sark, San Francisco II, HMS Victory x5, Titanic Lifeboat, Panart HMS Victory Launch, Hachette Titanic, Virginia Schooner, Endeavour Longboat. http://www.model-space.com/gb/
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Hi George. You appear to be making good progress. Perhaps it was worth the wait. I noticed a comment suggesting the issues are out on Tuesday's! Share my anguish as I have to wait until Thursday. But I do get to enjoy your progress in the interim.
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Nice work George, like I have said before, at this stage you are always way ahead of your issues / deliveries and it can be frustrating to have to wait before continuing. When you start planking however you will find that the issues are arriving at twice the speed that you are progressing so you should then be getting your deliveries just when you are ready for them Steve
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Nice work george Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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karl1113 wrote:hi george,doing a great job,starting to look the part. well done. Thanks karl. Your comments always appreciated. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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bb1949 wrote:Hi George. You appear to be making good progress. Perhaps it was worth the wait. I noticed a comment suggesting the issues are out on Tuesday's! Share my anguish as I have to wait until Thursday. But I do get to enjoy your progress in the interim. Hi bb1949 Yes mine came thursday. (Yesterday Number 5) Like they say when planking starts we might be wanting extra time. I'm still envious of those with up to issue 7 though. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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stevie_o wrote:Nice work George, like I have said before, at this stage you are always way ahead of your issues / deliveries and it can be frustrating to have to wait before continuing. When you start planking however you will find that the issues are arriving at twice the speed that you are progressing so you should then be getting your deliveries just when you are ready for them Steve Hi stevie_0 Thanks for comments appreciated always. Yes regarding planking from the builds I've looked at it will be a lot more time involved each issue than the current all done in less than two hours. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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arpurchase wrote: Nice work george Hi arpurchase Appreciate your comments. Getting there slowly. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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Hi George1 I've been around a bit, I've been a member here for a while now...... I'm just collecting at the moment as I have several other projects that I want to complete before I reopen the shipyard to another ship...not enough dry docks available ..... Regards Phil You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
Building - Bismarck, Akagi, Warspite, Gato, USS Enterprise (carrier) and D51
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I'm up to issue 5, but need to finish a few other ships first, before I start building her.
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Hi bluedotO Thought you might have been a long time member but hadn't seen name till comment I made. Looks like you'll have a great collection eventually. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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skyfire wrote:I'm up to issue 5, but need to finish a few other ships first, before I start building her. Looking at those who have had their first 7 issues regarding their build diaries and the much easier situation of joining false keel together in one piece I'd say it's probably better in the long run to have a number of issues before starting build. Some overseas members who purchased whole lot of issues in one box must have been thrilled. Too much for me financially in one hit. Be pleased to see your build of SOTS when you do start on it. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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Hi George I am right side now and accompanied by my mentor!
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bb1949 wrote:Hi George I am right side now and accompanied by my mentor! That looks a lot better. We can see now you look like a modeller. Can't make out your mentor though.  I'm a bit slow so you may need to explain.  Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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Yes it is a bit small. I jokingly refer to Buzz Lightyear as my mentor and whilst a bit of family fun I do relate to the character, hence the mounted shirt in my study. I thought you might like to also see the 'smoothing" tools I use for some of the detailed working, including planking (which will come later) I make these from strips of right angle aluminium (about 75 mm long)using double sided tape on one of the outside faces and attach finer grades of glass paper / wet and dry. I find these very useful and effective. I can also use them to get a reasonably square edge on strips strips, placing the strip on a slightly raised board and then running the 'sanding strip' along the face to give a 'squarish edge'. Hope photos help (including the one of Buzz) bb1949 attached the following image(s):
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Hi bb1949 Understand now your mentor. Saw pic behind you but couldn't make out details. Great idea re aluminium angle for sanding purposes as you've described. I just happen to have some pieces of aluminium angle as cut-offs when I used previously for roof top finish and sides of entry recess for a dog kennel so will look at making up a sander with them. Any ideas are always welcome. I'm certainly gonna' need all the help possible once we get to planking stage. Regards George1 Building HMS SOTS
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George I see in one of your more recent photos you have "trial fitted" part 16 which is the bulkhead from issue 5. Did you have an issue in getting it right angle to the false keel. I trial fitted mine and found it was out by at least 2mm and if I forced it square that tended to warp the false keel. My remedy is to take the edge off the side blocks of timber used to strengthen the join at that point but leave the central hole alone which is slowly bringing back the alignment. Issue 6 tomorrow
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