Jockster

Nice to see you have replaced those awful kit AK130 with those beautiful Veteran numbers! ☺

SMS Dresden was the other ship in this class, Revell shared a lot of bits between the two kits. I think they once did a boxing with both together.

Tears to a glass eye!

Have a look at Atlantic Models too. Peter Hall used to design a lot of WEM kits and he is quick on delivery.

So sorry to hear this news Dan, I remember Longshanks very well, a sad loss for everyone!

There is a 3D print site, the name escapes me for now but as soon as I remember I'll post it! ☺

Thinking I could strip and rebuild a Kawasaki ZZR1400 in 6 months. It took 2 years!

Ray, I've been looking and asking around these past weeks since you posted, other than what you have already found, there is nothing else. I was kind of hoping that someone else would have a lead on a club that I could join myself. All the best, Jockster, Worcester.

On more than one occasion I have moved into a house where the previous owner has varnished the kitchen with acrylic, always takes days to remove that rubbery crap and revarnish with cellulose based. Always a better finish. Don't know yet if it improves fish!

Every day is a school day! Many years ago, back in the 80s, I had a jigsaw that had a variable stroke, but not variable speed, lent it out and never saw it again, it was heavy and great for cutting aluminium. Cannot remember who made it.

I forgot to say, you should be able to change the angle of the base plate so that you can cut chamfers, always check that you have the plate at 90° to the blade for normal cutting.

I certainly agree with you on the sealing washers on the Tamiya extra thin bottles, pure PITA.

The one on top will be the speed of the cutting action, 1 for slow, 10 for fast. The one on the side will be for the length of the cutting stroke, 1 for short, 6 for long. There are many types of blades, for woods and plastics to metals and different lengths to, choose carefully and trying various speeds and cut strokes and you will have a very useful diy tool. There should also be a guide plate too, like a T shaped rule that fits forward of the blade under that black thumb screw on the base plate. This helps with producing parallel cuts. Hope this helps.

I'm gutted, having read his thread I rechecked the references and now have to reverse a second propeller, it took me days to do the first one! Great thread though, I never noticed the speaker boxes on cäsar turret!

Hi folks, further to the above, although the wood deck is a perfect fit all over, there are two mystery panels that I just could not place. Trumpeters deck has been produced with a planked section under the two 10.5cm twins in the middle, either side of the funnel. I can find no reference to this on Scharnhorst throughout her life so it gives me some spare bits for when I tackle aft fire control modifications. I will just have to make the 'spoked' steel deck pattern to match the other four gun mounts. Hope this helps.

Pillboxes, not the concrete ones, from chemists and poundshops for organising seven day medications, for tiny bits these organisers usually have five or six individual closeable compartments per day times seven days.

Brachial neuritis, it's a real bugger, cannot do anything when it hits, strong painkillers and the constant movement from driving a forklift were the only thing that would cure me, no models for months at a time. However, I am desicated to the hobby so I only accept it as a holiday! Desicated, all dried up, no need to correct that!

Got one about congestion zone charges when I had been nowhere near, no time, no date, no car/bike details. Again, delete delete delete!

Greetings Greg and other Scharny builders. I got mine a couple of months ago now and haven't stopped smiling since. Despite the obvious mistakes such as the anchors, lack of hull detail, single direction props and other bits mentioned above, it's a very decent kit. A few corrections are required but most of the issues that I've found are more related to adding missing detail which is no real hassle due to the excellent Anatomy book. I'm only on at the moment to let you guys know about the detail up set that is on Ebay, you have all probably seen it and have thought about whether or not to take the risk in buying it. From CHUANYU item number CY20013, priced at about 60 GBP. BARGAIN!!!!!!! You get all relevant wooden deck pieces which all fit perfectly, masking sheets to cover all of the horizontal surfaces (steel and wood), blackened anchor chains, rigging wire and gun barrels. The gun barrels seems to be a good match for 28cm, 15cm and 10.5cm, I haven't brought out the micrometer to check them but I'm happy enough with what I see that I'm going to use them anyway without the rivet counting. Here's what you get; 9 aluminium 28cm barrels side drilled to accept the supplied aluminium trunnion as a straight swap for the kit items, all that is missing are the shields. No biggie if you are making up blast bags. 8 brass 15cm barrels to accept the kit trunnion as a straight swap again, also missing the curved shields as you would expect. 4 brass barrels for the 15cm singles that require the kit parts to be cut and drilled just forward of the pivot. 14 brass 10.5cm barrels that, again, require the kit items to be cut off and the kit parts drilled out to accept them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the kit barrels as far as I am concerned, but these are just a little bit sharper so I'm using them. For 60 Quid, money very well spent. Does anyone know whether the Bismarck etch set for the ships boats is compatible with the boats on Scharnhorst? Asking for a "friend". Regards, Jockster

Quite surprised to find a drain cleaner (I think) called'Excocet' in a tall white bottle with a large red nose cone cap. 😶

And from the Stones, "it's only turkey roll but I like it!".

Very sad news indeed Duncan, I was thinking about his Dalek at the weekend. I certainly remember his recipes. I had always hoped to meet him at a show one day. My sincerest sympathies to his family and all who knew him.

Beautifully done sir and very effective.

Used Veteran models bits on several builds and been impressed by the quality and detail. Expensive but worth it!

That's nowt, I live in the UK and purchased a kit from 1001Hobbies.co.UK and have just been hit with 50 odd quids worth of import charges!!!!????