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05-31-2012, 05:31 PM
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You're doing a great job with this kit, including the PE railings...sure, they're a bit dicey and delicate, but, as eib says, take your time, patience will be your biggest asset in working with that fine stuff, and a bit of pre-planning will probably help a bit too...it'll work out fine in the end.
Keep at it, she is looking spectacular! Cheers! Jim 
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06-01-2012, 06:36 AM
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Thanks for the encouragement, guys - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. @ eib - I've had your 1:100 version bookmarked for more than a year and it's been an invaluable reference, along with a couple of the standard well-illustrated texts.
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11-03-2012, 02:02 PM
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Brief project update: I have finished the AA guns and various small boats. Last bits for the upper decks include the boat cranes and the lowest railings.
I also managed to accidentally break off the wire yardarms that I installed on the fore control top - too much moving the model around to get small parts into awkward places. Should be easy enough to replace them eventually, so I'm not too concerned yet. I can't imagine building this model any smaller than I'm doing it @ 1:200, and yet there are many who have built this at the original 1:250 scale. I'm pretty sure there's no way my fingers can make parts any smaller than this!
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03-17-2013, 07:45 PM
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I've finally finished my build of the Arizona. Time to find a suitable display case!
When I had problems trying to fashion the yardarms on the fore control top from wire, I ended up designing the part and building it from card. It's not quite scale but gives the appearance I wanted. I was going to add more rigging, but trying to work my fingers in these tight spaces, even at 1:200, was difficult enough. So I settled for a representative sample of rigging, using thread that I coated in super glue before installation. When I wasn't getting super glue on my fingers, the pre-treated thread worked OK. The PE railings went on a little more smoothly than before - the photos in my reference ("USS Arizona: Squadron at Sea") show 3-bar railings around the main decks, so that's what I used. The 3-bar rails were way easier to handle than the very flimsy 2-bar rails I used elsewhere on the ship. This was a very satisfying project, and I'd like to thank everyone here on the Forum who chimed in with encouragement. After I find a display case for BB-39, I'm taking a little break from card modeling to start working with the new home 3D printer project...
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03-17-2013, 09:14 PM
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Wow, that is an outstanding job!! She came out magnificent!!
You are justly proud of this build...thanks for sharing photos of your work with all of us, it was a wonderful build thread. Cheers! Jim
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03-18-2013, 04:56 AM
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Excellent attention to detail! ...craftsmanship, through and through.
Thank you for sharing this build with us. Jeff
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03-18-2013, 08:56 AM
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Fine Job!
You deserve a lot of credit for making those yardarms out of card. They look excellent. Mike
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03-18-2013, 09:24 AM
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What a build! Detail is superb. She's beautiful.
The fine card-work is very exacting and so clean.
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