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Thats the way to do it Tom   MWG BUILD DIARIES: HMS VICTORY, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, SAN FRANCISCO II, HMS HOOD, HMS ENDEAVOUR LONGBOAT, HMS VICTORY X-SECTION, 007 DB5, NISSAN GTR, CUTTY SARK, RB7, AKAGI, BARK HMS ENDEAVOUR, HUMMER H1, MITSUBISHI ZERO.
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Hi Tom!  The tiles look great on the painted version, it adds so much to the overall look of the ship, when she's done people will say WOW!  It makes me want to build the Victory all over again, this time paint it! and tile it! Caldercraft HMS Victory would be nice, I think I'll start saving when this partwork is over.
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Tom
She looks really smart, a real credit to your skills.
Keep up the great work
Foz
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Very nice Tom, but those edge tiles are going to be taxing Overall a very nice example You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
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Golden Star, English Brig. RMS Titanic. (Academy 1/400 Centenary Anniversary Edition) Revell-Monogram 1/48 B-29 Superfortress 1:8 Baron von Richthofen's Fokker Tri-plane. HMS Victory. Nelsons Flag Ship. Sultan Arab Dhow. Artesania Latina Carmen II. The Battleship Yamato. Model Airways Wright Flyer 1:16 Scale. Trumpeter Bismarck 1/200. HMS Sovereign of the Seas. The Black Pearl.
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The tiling is very neat and looks good.
Happy building
Athol
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Coming on nicely Tom, very pleasing on the eye.
TIS
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Thanks guys, It's time for little update. I have reached dificult part of the tiling. I didn't start the tiling as per instructions (first layer of tiles at water line then start from the kill). I've chosen more dificult (and I think it looks much better) way. Let me show you what I mean. 1.  As you can see to finish it off I need to cut to size many little bits of copper plates. I was thinking how to do it quite quickly and most importantly accurate. I came up with an idea. I put some blu tack just above water line and I stuck some tiles in position using to the blu tack I put before. 2.  After that I put masking tape following the water line. 3.  4.  Next you need to use sharp pencil and draw the line on tiles following the masking tape. 5.  Once this is complete, remove tiles one by one, cut on the pencil mark and stick back using propper glue. That's the end result and I'm very pleased with it :) 6.  7.  I hope I made it clear enough Happy modelling
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Those tiles are going on quickly now!!!!
How did you find doing the keel? That's a bit of a challenge.
Do you find that the more you do the easier it gets?
Looking good, keep them updates coming.
All the best Steve..
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Well done Tom. Excellent tutorial. Im sure many will follow your advice. Nice clean lines. Rgds, Hans
"It's okay to make mistakes. mistakes are our teachers - they help us to to learn, even if it is painfully"
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Under the bench: Endeavour x 2,Sovereign of the Seas, Akagi and The Black Pearl!HMS Victory Cross Section
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Hi gain Short update. I hope to get one side finished this week. Progress so far 1.  2.  3.  I love the look of it :-)
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Hi tom.ganc Nice work tom best yet,how long did it take to do get to this stage. tf64 Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
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tf64 wrote:Hi tom.ganc
Nice work tom best yet,how long did it take to do get to this stage.
tf64 Thanks mate It is difficult to say how long. Some areas are fairlyeady to finish off, others needs quite long time to do nicely. In the middle hull I just covered some part of it in glue and applied tiles one by one. It was quick but when you get to the more curved areait takes ages because you need to bend each tile and dry fit them few times before sticking with glue. Overall it isn't quick job :-)
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Great finish and the tiling is much closer the the original tile lay when you look ar the drawings. well done mate “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Fantastic Tom the contures are really good, spot on MWG BUILD DIARIES: HMS VICTORY, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, SAN FRANCISCO II, HMS HOOD, HMS ENDEAVOUR LONGBOAT, HMS VICTORY X-SECTION, 007 DB5, NISSAN GTR, CUTTY SARK, RB7, AKAGI, BARK HMS ENDEAVOUR, HUMMER H1, MITSUBISHI ZERO.
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Hi I'm back I had a plan to finish off copper on one side last week. I managed to only partly accomplish this task. It's nearly done (one side), still other side to do and I'm sick of copper already  1.  2.  3.  4. 
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Looking real good Tom, THE BUSINESS MWG BUILD DIARIES: HMS VICTORY, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, SAN FRANCISCO II, HMS HOOD, HMS ENDEAVOUR LONGBOAT, HMS VICTORY X-SECTION, 007 DB5, NISSAN GTR, CUTTY SARK, RB7, AKAGI, BARK HMS ENDEAVOUR, HUMMER H1, MITSUBISHI ZERO.
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Coming along very well indeed.  The copper looks very clean, your build looks very good, will be nice to see the tiling finished, it's worth it in the end. All the best Steve..
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Looking really smart there Tom. Will look awsome when you get the tiling finished.
Regards
Foz
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copper tiles looking fantastic tom. i personaally did not like the straight line of tiles in the instructions, great build tom keep up the good work. Ian Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Guys i notice that people keep asking about time frames for tileing of the hull, there are several factors to consider here your experience at doing this sort of tileing [ ie beginer doing his 1st model compared to an experienced builder]secondly once you start you gotta finish it, this can go two ways either you will love every second of the tileing proccess or a realization that this might be the end of you as the nightmares of tiles chasing you round the model. This of course could lead to alkahol dependance, strange behaviour ,muttering to yourself eccetera and finaly being lead to the ambulance by the guys in white coats. I guess what in trying to say is everyone will have there own time factor to attach the tiles and so asking someone else 'how long did it take you' can be a false indicator. So good luck to all who are tileing take your time dont rush it and you will see some great results regards Andy PS my appologys to tom for jumping in on his build diary Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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