hello to everyone!! first post...

Hi Mick,

Welcome to the forum. You'll have a hard time finding a better place to hang out.

Regards,

Glad to have another ship modeler in the forum, welome!

Hi Mick,

  I found a bottle that sort of looked like Elmers white glue. I will have to look at the bottle when I get out to my shop tomorrow, but I picked it up in the area with the railroad diorama stuff. It looked pretty good when it dried. Sounds like you will be chaffing at the bit for the Revell Gato. Mike

Hi Mick !

Welcome aboard !

Ted

  Welcome!  Glad you found the forum, it certainly is a great place to pick up new ideas. 

                        greg

Hi Mick and welcome aboard.  I look forward to seeing some of your work.  As far as simulating water, well, I'm a newby to all the techniques that I have learned from being on this site and the other ship modeling sites.  Some modelers use acrylic gel, which is a great medium, some use celluclay or plaster to build up the base and acrylic gel to accent the shape of the water, and some use clear sillicone sealant for large projects.  Jeff Hearn and Rusty White have some nice articles about these techniques.

There is also the old clear resin appoach, where the model is partly or fully submerged in resin to look like it is under water.

Please search around here at FSM, and also at Model Warships and Steel Navy, where there are a lot of fine examples of these techniques.

Scott

On behalf of the staff at FSM, welcome to the forums!

Now Scott, who's this Jeff Hearn guy??? Isn't he related to the famous boxer ?

Tongue firmly planted in cheek,

Jeff (HERNE)

to our world Mick!! You'll find there's a great bunch of folks here who'll be willing to give advice & steer ya in the right direction. Sounds like you have quite a project in mind & ya may want to check out the threads in Techniques & dioramas as well.

Keep the razors sharp!

Eddie

Welcome aboard.

Enjoy and good luck.

Jim

HI ALL

thx very much for the welcomes.. i have been reading about  Future Floor Wax

is there a equivelent in the uk? and i do i go about posting pics?

once again thx

mick

Shamelessly lifted directly from Matt Swan's (aka Swanny) website:

Future Floor polish, in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, is known as “Klear”, “Krystal Klear” or "Johnson's One and All".

It's available at Sainsbury’s, Safeway, Tesco’s, etc.

Here's the direct link to Matt's article, it'll answer any questions you might have.

http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

Swanny is also a regular on the aircraft forum, so if you have any specific questions, you can hop over there and contact him.

I use Future for just about everything (ironically, long before Matt ever did the story, but I never told anyone!). It's great stuff.

Jeff

To post photos...you need to have a host first, like myspace.com or photobucket.com. Once you've uploaded them to the server, you link the image here in your text.

The easiest way is to simply add the following to the beginning and end of the image URL:

[_img] http:www.myimages.org/myimage.jpg[_/img]

Now...when you do this...remove the underscores from within the brackets. I had to insert them to prevent the server thinking it's an actual code and not just a simple demonstration.

There's a testing forum here too, so you can experiement and hack away until you get it right.

Good luck!

Jeff

Jeff Herne wrote:

To post photos...you need to have a host first, like myspace.com or photobucket.com. Once you've uploaded them to the server, you link the image here in your text. The easiest way is to simply add the following to the beginning and end of the image URL: [_img] http:www.myimages.org/myimage.jpg[_/img] Now...when you do this...remove the underscores from within the brackets. I had to insert them to prevent the server thinking it's an actual code and not just a simple demonstration. There's a testing forum here too, so you can experiement and hack away until you get it right. Good luck! Jeff

just to add my photobucket already has image tags attached to the pic(s) all ya need to do is copy them & then paste into your reply.

hi all...

hope this works this is my engel nautilus which is only my second kit i,ve done so be gentle with the remarks!!! thx mick

Edit: images fixed by Jeff

Looks nice Mick!

In the future, don't drop and drag the images from one window to another, as it causes an invalid argument between the two sites.

Instead, as Ed mentioned, simply cut and paste the image tag from photobucket.

When in doubt, edit the post to see what changes I made, that should explain it.

Best,

Jeff

Cap'n Nemo where are you??? Looks good there  Mick! Better than I could've done on it!

 By the way, what Browser are you using? I use Firefox exclusively for the forums as it's easier  to post pics & I can use the "smilies". Just curious.

hi jeff

what i did was copy and paste in to my post was there something i did or did no do right as a newbie to this all help greatly appreciated..

thx again mick

Nice boat!  The weathering really gives it that 20,000 Leagues provenance and the portals stand out nicely.  Big scale, too ... I love that.  Is it a vacuform kit?

hi mate

thx .. the kit is vac formed resin quite thick and quite expensive!! have pics from start to finish if u need any info or pics please mail

all the best

mick

I like that version of the "nautilus", a very interesting looking vessel. Very nicely done!

Pete