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Sugar carrier Meinga 1:400
My Carpathia is not finished yet. I am waiting for somebody to teach me how to do the rigging
In the meantime I started building another ship - one of the sugar carriers - Meringa. Nice and easy. Lasercut framework is attached to each kit. As recommended in instructions I sanded the round edges of the decks on the front and aft sections. Litthe hobby drill with sand paper attached was brilliant! Yellow bulwark supports been a patience test as I had to add a million and five of them Oh and one of the winches is ready too. regards, Kasia |
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I'm glad to see that you have another ship under construction, Kasia. The step-by-step images and your instructional narrative are very helpful.
It's a very good-looking modern cargo ship. Don |
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Kasia,
How do you prevent the hull from warping? Or is this really not a problem with the lasercut frames?? Regards, Alan |
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@Don Boose, thank you
@Alan, lasercut frames help a lot to get a nicer hull. But the key thing is to shape the parts before glueing them. After you cut hull parts out, they have to be curved very accurate to stern/bow shape. When you do a dryfit, they have to have an identical shape to a framework. If that makes sense. Sorry about my poor english explanation ... |
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Kasia - nice to see you have another ship underway!
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i love the new method of hull construction on these two ships
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there are actually two completly different ships in this model pack
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Thanks guys for your comments!
Now that my Carpathia is done, back to Sugar Carrier - Meringa, scale 1:400. I took phone photos of parts that had outside markings (part numbers) which would be lost when cutting off. I am on hatch covers now. The low side walls of the covers can be folded using a plastic card - wrap the side walls around the edge of the card - see photo below. |
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