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And then you have to take it around every hose, every cylinder, every box etc. to get the full shape information....

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I don't think that'd work, as a photo or a laserscanner could not capture the complete geometry of the parts, as the stuff in the "shadow" is...

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The main parts of the boat finally are coming together. I glued the conning tower into place, and voila, looks like a submarine. You may notice the white...

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For sure...I'm not interested in firearms at all.

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That thing is going to be printed 1/72 scale. 20 mm in real burns donw to 0,27 mm printed. So there are linits to what goes on a given piece. You will...

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I took the dimension from those photos....

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Some more details....that'd be it.



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Getting close to warping up this Madsen 20 mm AA gun which will be the deck gun of the Vesikko, It ill be interesting how and what I can crank out of...

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Did I mention taht the carriage of the deck gun is complicated?

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The hole pattern is in the brass deck, but the glue squeezed through the holes and underneath is the plastic deck...so I have to clear the bass holes...

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A bit more progress on the Madsen 20 mm machine cannon....imple gun, complicated carriage.


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Nice work.....

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The control planes are on. Bow dive planes had a good fit. The prop shafts had to be shortened about 2-3 mm, otherwise the props would not fit. Otherwise...

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Outstanding...very beautiful. Worth the time and effort....

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Awesome...I need a lathe....

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Many submarine kits come with absolute parodies of propellers. The Vesikko kit is no exception. A resin cast kids‘ version of a prop, unworthy of...

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I ordered some props in 2023....Simon made me some custom ones for the U1...

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In many plastic kits, the propellers are absolutely useless and wrong. The Vesikko kit does make no exception...resin props that look like a three year...

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Oldskool workhorse and super reliable russian engineering.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7YgDum2Sg...

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I started working on the Airfix Starcruiser 1. I Kicked of with the small detachable fighter, the interceptor. As this is nice but pretty basic, I spiced...