today's work

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

So Dave, the original kit model is not correct in Scale length? Good catch and praising your integrity to scale.

No 'length correction' here -- I'm not that anal about scale! However, this 1/96 3D printed Type-21 had to be chopped up at the stern as the tail would be hollow cast from resin in a three-piece rubber tool. The forward pieces (once assembled) would be used to make a proper mother-glove tool which in turn would be used to create proper GRP hulls. One for me, and another for Joe Hoffman, who initiated this project. The sail will have its own tool from which thin-walled parts would be laid up.

The final tail piece has all the goodies, so had to be tough and hollow. Two propeller shafts, stern planes and linkage, and rudder and its linkage. Tight fit in a small model. The bow planes up front and WTC will be a snap.

[Albacore 569]

So Dave, the original kit model is not correct in Scale length? Good catch and praising your integrity to scale.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[JHapprich]

That should be a kit from Oto Gerza/Czech. rcsubs.cz

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

OK thanks. The one that I have. It's like Skip's Marlin. Styrene with no details on the styrene. Will require lots and lots of scribing to make it look like something more realistic, weld lines etc. Although it has the photo etch which I have not work with before. I think Bob said the kit is from someone in Czech area or someplace around there in Europe? It would be a real challenge to make something of it. Should I accept the challenge in your opinion, or not? If I did it would be on the shelf for a very long while until I finish many many other projects that I have lined up.

It would be a departure from you usual plank-on-frame work, Ken. Do it for the change of pace; one of those shelf-queens you never finish but play with occasionally. You did the MARLIN, so you know what horrors await you with that kit. I would double check the scale of the PE parts before getting too invested though.

David

[Ken_NJ]

OK thanks. The one that I have. It's like Skip's Marlin. Styrene with no details on the styrene. Will require lots and lots of scribing to make it look like something more realistic, weld lines etc. Although it has the photo etch which I have not work with before. I think Bob said the kit is from someone in Czech area or someplace around there in Europe? It would be a real challenge to make something of it. Should I accept the challenge in your opinion, or not? If I did it would be on the shelf for a very long while until I finish many many other projects that I have lined up.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

No, Ken. Two different animals. The one I'm working is 1/96 resin printed (I'm a whore!).

David

[Ken_NJ]

David, is this XXI you posted the same as this one below? Was going to ask you in email but since you posting those pics.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

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[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTWwF10EeVg

****ing biped's! (said a very smug Martian)

[DrSchmidt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTWwF10EeVg

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Must be a sign of superiority when a species can afford to build tanks with an inherently unstable concept. It's like humans walking upright on two legs....

Milk-stool, meet Segway. Segway... milk-stool.