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New to Building Model ships. Intoducing myself, and I have a few questions!

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  • From: Mountains of Western MD
Posted by BBorBust on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 4:48 PM

what should I build it from?

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Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:06 PM

Nice work, Grune.

You'll want to use styrene. Keep at this and you'll soon have a pile of Evergreen stock.

 

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:24 PM

BBorBust

what should I build it from? 

Polystyrene sheet.   You probably should have a stock of it on the workbench in assorted thicknesses.  Evergreen is the common product name.   

To save a buck or three, Lowe's sells polystyrene garage sale signs, both preprinted or blank in attractive yellow, lime green, or hot pink.  Thickness is 20 thousands (0.020).  Laminate to your needed thickness

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Posted by BBorBust on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:20 PM

So buy a sheet of styrene, measure, cut out the pieces, and then glue together?

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Posted by CapnMac82 on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:39 PM

BBorBust

So buy a sheet of styrene, measure, cut out the pieces, and then glue together?

 

 
Hit the nail on the head.
 
Hobby Lobby occasionally has the Evergreen "sampler" pack, which has various thicknesses in it, also in varying widths and lengths.  Note, you may want, while in Hobby Lobby to hunt down a set of calipers, as "eyeballing" .030 from .040 sheet takes a little practice.  You will want a metal straightedge, a 6" long metal ruler can come in handy, too (oh, and going only line and seeing if you can print off a HL coupon first might not be amiss).
 
Score a line on the plastic, don't try to hack all the way trhough, you want an even pressure so that neither knife, nor straightedge, nor plastic slips.  With the line scored, bend the plastic along the score line, and it ought to snap clean along the cut line.
 
With a bit of practice, for small shapes, you can score the inside corners and just bend them around a top and bottom peice.  At certain thicknesses, this will leave rounded corners, so, you have to be the judge of whether it looks right or not.
 
Oh, and fair warning, right after you get the replacment  right, and glued into place, the actual part will slide out from inside a fold i nthe instructions, or fall off the top of the desk lamp, or where ever it is presently hiding.
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Posted by Luvspinball on Thursday, May 14, 2020 11:02 AM

Plastruct is the other company.  They have an extensive array of styrene as well.

bob

Bob Frysztak

Luvspinball

Current builds:  Revell 1/96 USS Constitution with extensive scratch building

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Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, May 14, 2020 11:38 AM

 1. I'd start with a little piece of wood the shape of the box.

2. Cut a strip of thin styrene the right height and more than four times as long as one side.

3. Cut four pieces each slightly longer than the longest side.

4. Glue them on the wood block using CA, one side at a time in a pinwheel fashion, i.e. flush to the corner on the block on one side and overlapping the other. Continue around all four sides.

5. After its dry, slice off the four extra tabs. Leave a little. Then sand smooth.

6. Last, glue a piece on top. The windows can be little squares of black decal.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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Posted by BBorBust on Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:46 PM

I am making a trip with a friend of mine to Hobby Lobby on Saturday. See if i cant find some styrene while I am there.

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Posted by BBorBust on Sunday, May 17, 2020 2:36 PM

So just confirming it is this piece that is missing.

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I took a trip to hobby lobby and a few other hobby shops in the winchester/martinsburg area. Got a couple packs of different sized evergreen styrene sheets. I spent about 2 hours today making the piece. For my first time ever doing this I think it turned out quite well. Once it was painted in, an untrained eye would hopefully never notice.

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Posted by BBorBust on Sunday, May 17, 2020 2:39 PM

I know that the paint isnt perfect. I still have to go over with a fine brush and do some touching up. I did paint the last piece of the superstructure today and got it mounted to the deck. Still have a few small pieces to add, and go over everything and with a brush and touch up some paint spots.

But she is getting there!

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Posted by Tojo72 on Sunday, May 17, 2020 2:41 PM
Looks like a nice clean job

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Posted by BBorBust on Sunday, May 17, 2020 2:50 PM

Tojo72
Looks like a nice clean job
 

 

Thanks Tojo, first time ever building a model warship, and the first time ever hand painting something like this with the little details. Like mentioned before, i have learned so much from this build, that I cant wait to start on my King George V. I think it will turn out flawless!

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Posted by GMorrison on Sunday, May 17, 2020 4:14 PM

Serve that sailor a ration of rum!

It's it frankly fun to fix stuff like that! Now you are a real ship modeler.

Of course you'll find A28 tonight...

Think seriously about railings on the next one.

 

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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Posted by BBorBust on Sunday, May 17, 2020 4:35 PM

GMorrison

Serve that sailor a ration of rum!

It's it frankly fun to fix stuff like that! Now you are a real ship modeler.

Of course you'll find A28 tonight...

Think seriously about railings on the next one.

 

Bill

 

 

Thanks Bill! I already have the Eduard Cranes and Railings PE kit for the KGV! Cant wait until I finish up the Queen and start on her!

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Posted by BBorBust on Monday, May 18, 2020 3:13 PM

So today I got a solid 2 hours of work in on the QE before work. I decided to take a couple pieces of left over sprue laying around and try my best to recreate the little wing things on the side of that part that went missing (A28). Turned out pretty good, although not exactly to scale.

 

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Posted by BBorBust on Monday, May 18, 2020 3:17 PM

I also got the 2 front turrets of the main battery assembled. Still need to put the photo etch ladders on turret #2 and paint everything. They are just dry fitted to the ship now.

 

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Posted by modelcrazy on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 8:28 AM

Excelent job scratching that missing part, like bill said, now your a real ship modler. She's coming right along and your PE work is looking good. Keep at it, you'll make competition level yet.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

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Posted by Bocks Suv on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 3:02 PM

Depending on how fast you plan to build and your available display space, try to keep an open mind for larger scale ship kits. I did a FlowerClass Corvette escort ship in 1/72 and it was great to see the extra detail come to life, not to mention dealing with parts that were big enough to actually see. A large build can be a featured attraction to your collection or get displayed on a mantle or desk (unless you have cats or small kids). I find it hard to marvel over an 8" long Enterprise.

You'll probably want to get a decent airbrush and compressor soon. There are volumes written on that topic. 

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  • From: Mountains of Western MD
Posted by BBorBust on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 3:52 PM

Bocks Suv

Depending on how fast you plan to build and your available display space, try to keep an open mind for larger scale ship kits. I did a FlowerClass Corvette escort ship in 1/72 and it was great to see the extra detail come to life, not to mention dealing with parts that were big enough to actually see. A large build can be a featured attraction to your collection or get displayed on a mantle or desk (unless you have cats or small kids). I find it hard to marvel over an 8" long Enterprise.

You'll probably want to get a decent airbrush and compressor soon. There are volumes written on that topic. 

 

I have considered a larger scale down the line. The 1/350 scales will fit perfect on a bookshelf I bought to specifically display my models. The 1/350 are decent size, my QE is just over 22 inches long and the KGV has an inch or so on her.

 

In my opinion the 1/350 scale is the perfect combo of detail, and good size for display. Although I have had my eyes on 1/200 Missouri

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Posted by BBorBust on Sunday, May 24, 2020 2:47 PM

About to slide home on this build.

 

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