Recent content by Builder 2010

Thanks Fellas! My checkup went well. I've been in permanent AFib for about 7 years. You can live well with it as long as you take you beta blocker and blood thinners. I also manage my pressure and cholesterol so he says I'm doing all the right things to keep going. My optismism was not...

The end is nigh! I got the main deck planked in a little over two hours. I woke worried that I didn't have enough scale wood, but I had way more than I needed. I gang cut the wood in my modified Chopper 2. I built a depth stop on this useful tool, that lacked it. I makes it much more useful. I...

Thanks for the input. I'm using the acrylic adhesive that they sell at the plastics house. It appears to work like other acrylic cements with very low viscosity and the ability to be attracted by static charge. The replacements were available today. I picked them up in the early afternoon and...

Made substantial progress today, and I'm feeling pretty good about finishing the model (at least) on time. Finished all the detail painting on the reprinted lower hoists so they're done. Built the LED driver board with 7 parallel circuits. 6 are dedicted now, but I'm thinking of adding some...

Thanks guys! Happy Mother's Day to all for which it is appropriate! Several things are going on. Almost done the model proper. All the major painting is done, have to finalize the electronics, and produce some more graphics. Deck to cabin attachement is nearly complete. Both the main deck to...

Big day! It was the kind of day that gave me confidence that the model will be completed on schedule. Only had one catastrophe which I sort-of corrected. We were supposed to have wild weather, but itw as sunny and warm so painting outdoors worked fine. I had to prepare some stuff before...

Actually, it's a pretty nice ball-point pen…. I know… I lost two of them. Work continues. I glued in the screw blocks in the 2nd deck structure and then drilled and applied small, flat head, brass screws. I'm not going to use any glue to hold the parts together. This way, it can all be...

Thanks all! I often wonder how many folks read, but don't comment. I was told only 15% respond. It's hard to tell. The end is near… in a good way. The nameplate is finished and ready for pickup. The plexiglass is ordered and will be ready on Friday. I got the 2nd deck compartments glued up and...

Thanks for the concern. It's not hurting at all, so I suspect, there's no carbide hiding in there. Another problem solved! Whew! I went to sleep last night working through the various ways to fix that wall without ripping anything out. I came up with laminating an new wall on the front with...

Construction has begun on the Magazine proper. I should say, construction, then de-construction, then construction again, and another de-construction and so on. Yesterday I go the Mag''s walls done with all of their cutaways. One set was supposed to be three walls with identical cutaways. I...

Very nice, very clean build of an interesting airplane.

While I can't specifically do a video on construction since I'd need a time machine. However, I am going to produce and AV program to show parts of the model that are now hidden and/or give more inforation about the gun, its history and the system. Trying to do this with traditional graphics...

Not much time in the shop since I was spending hours fixing up all the nonesense with my software. Besides the SU extensions challenge (all fixed now), I ran into a problem with CorelDraw and Mac Sonoma. While I could print directly out of CD with tiled pages so I could print full-size plans...

I'm going to try and make cable railings like the real ship has. In 1:48 scale, theoretically, I should be able to. So I designed and printed the stanchions. I think they'll be strong enough. They should really be brass, but that's whole other deal and I'd probably go with solid rails not wire...

Well then… if you are truly a medical expert… heavy drinking it is. I prefer an older bourbon… let's say 18 year-old. Yesterday's work and today's are in this post. Bunch of odds and ends. Got all the ammo finish painted and ready to install. Mounted the new captain's platform installed and it...