Ex-FAAWAFU Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 7 hours ago, robgizlu said: The Detail you are including is just Fabulous. Crispin - is it possible to know where you sourced the Liquid Glass from? A web search returns a rather bewildering number of items labelled as Liquid glass The insulators look great Rob Here 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Just seen a bit of pre war Ark Royal flying off action in an old film, 'Neutral Port', with some dodgy model flying later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Teuchter said: Just seen a bit of pre war Ark Royal flying off action in an old film, 'Neutral Port', with some dodgy model flying later. Considering she was only commissioned 9 months before the start of the war (16 December 1938), she was a bit of a film tart: see also “Ships With Wings” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: she was a bit of a film tart: A bit like me back on Mars then! Oh, alright, without the film bit. Martian 👽 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Martian said: A bit like me back on Mars then! Oh, alright, without the film bit. Martian 👽 MIND BLEACH! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Martian said: A bit like me back on Mars then! Oh, alright, without the film bit. Update: Mrs Martian says I make a pretty good terrestrial tart as well. I know my place. Martian 👽 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 That mast looks like a modern work of art! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 11 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Here Or here a bit cheaper and less postage in the UK. Ordered! Hey, you were saying MY threads cost you money 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 12 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Here 34 minutes ago, CedB said: Or here a bit cheaper and less postage in the UK. Ordered! Hey, you were saying MY threads cost you money Here we go again! I feel a tweezer moment coming on........ Terry 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors54 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 16 hours ago, Terry1954 said: 17 hours ago, CedB said: Or here a bit cheaper and less postage in the UK. Ordered! Hey, you were saying MY threads cost you money Here we go again! I feel a tweezer moment coming on........ Oooo Matron! Order placed...... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 18 hours ago, Terry1954 said: Here we go again! I feel a tweezer moment coming on........ But they are very, very useful tweezers .... 1 hour ago, Coors54 said: Oooo Matron! Order placed...... Somewhere in deepest Derbyshire a craft shop owner is wondering why he is seeing a sudden run on orders for Liquid Glass. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelholic Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 The owner will be floating his business on the stock market come Monday. Within the week it'll rival Amazon in value! Tom PS I'm not jumping on the bandwagon this time. I've had some ages! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 6 hours ago, Richard E said: Somewhere in deepest Derbyshire a craft shop owner is wondering why he is seeing a sudden run on orders for Liquid Glass. Perhaps we should tell them before they order a palette full in anticipation of a rising demand! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelholic Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Nah! If we run out at a later date we might be able to get some cheap if he can't sell it! Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Out of stock! You buggers have emptied the shop. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 I trust you guys have been enjoying yourselves on the Liquid Glass Channel. Meanwhile I have started working on the cable deck. This is my first experience of a wooden deck - part of the Tetra set. It’s lovely, but I am wrestling with the issue of when to paint what (any tips from other shipbuilders welcome!), and particularly how you can work post-installation to change colour. The deck is beautifully done provided you want a clean, dry teak deck... but Ark’s cable deck in the sort of weather we’re talking about was anything but dry... Anyway. That’s for the future. What I have e]been doing is working with the astonishing 3D printed resin cable from yxmodel - hideously expensive, but so far ahead in realism terms than anything else that it’s well worth it to my eyes. Here painted in Vallejo Metal Color Steel, with the universal No 11 Swann Morton blade (an old one with some CA on the tip!) for size comparison: More soon Crisp 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Nice chains Crisp! Looking forward to seeing what you do with them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: size comparison: Impressively realistic! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 is that individual links Crisp? or is it printed as a rigid length? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhogue Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 On my Ark Royal I used a wooden deck for the first time (Very Fire set but probably similar). I had no problems with it. I painted the fittings first and it stuck to the painted surface fine. I clear coated the deck with flat lacquer and weathered and darkened the wood with a light coats of an oil wash. I took a different approach to the anchor chain. Because it is so hard to see when the model is together I used a cheap chain that was in my stash. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Individual links, Hendie. Remarkable. It looks rigid because I held it between two sets of tweezers for painting. Edit: @dhogue, thanks; it’s the flat coat & then weathering bit I wasn’t sure about - the deck’s texture makes me wonder how it would behave, but you have reassured me. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 13 hours ago, hendie said: is that individual links Crisp? or is it printed as a rigid length? 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foeth Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 21 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: the astonishing 3D printed resin cable from yxmodel - hideously expensive That so depends 😁 They have an impressive range of objects and my prediction will be: in 5 to 10 years people have their own printers and files will be shared. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 11 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Edit: What with the chains and all this looks suspiciously like someone's making up a ransom note from newsprint..... 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 If I ever find my unfeasibly small hostage, Tony, you’ll be the first to know! Today’s work: The protective plates for the anchor cable are not yet fixed; going to be much easier to add a bit of rust and weathering (inevitable on any cable deck, however well maintained) well away from that wood. The wood is fixed in place, and also has a coat of Mr Super Clear Flat from a rattle can (lovely stuff). Busy week, so maybe not much in the early part - but I’ll do my best. Crisp 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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