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                        It's enough to drive you to drink!

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                        mfsob
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: West Virginia, USA
                        It's enough to drive you to drink!
                        Posted by mfsob on Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:02 PM

                        Building 1/700 scale ships has its challenges, as we all know, chiefly the fact that even the big pieces of the kit are pretty small, and things get a LOT smaller from there. I've gotten used to it, after a fashion.

                        But what I can't get used to is the sheer tedium some projects, like hand-wrapping the barrel springs for these 20mm guns I'm working on right now with .0005 wire - it's enough to make you bang your head against the wall. Or something ...

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                        Archangel Shooter
                        • Member since
                          October 2006
                        • From: Tucson, AZ
                        Posted by Archangel Shooter on Sunday, April 1, 2007 1:48 AM

                        WOW! and to think I was getting frustrated working on a 1/72 sub kit Banged Head [banghead]. Guess I will have to try a 1/700 kit some day and give it a shot, the 1/350th scale ships is about the smallest scale my old eyes can handle nowadays.

                        In work: 1/72 VIIC/41 (still)

                        Pending: 1/72 Gato and another VIIC, 1/350 Bismark, Arizona, 1/72 S-100 and E-boats and a slew of aircraft kits piling up.

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                         On the bench: So many hanger queens.

                         

                         

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                        gtother
                        • Member since
                          February 2006
                        • From: Hutchinson, KS
                        Posted by gtother on Sunday, April 1, 2007 11:12 AM

                        Handwrapping barrel springs?  You are more patient than i will ever be...

                         

                                                  -graham
                         

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                        mfsob
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: West Virginia, USA
                        Posted by mfsob on Sunday, April 1, 2007 5:50 PM

                        Umm, guys, note the date *points up to top of page*

                        Sometimes I'm too obtuse for my own good! Black Eye [B)] 

                         

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