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Re: HMCS Sackville - WWII Corvette

It's been about 18 months since my last post. I've finally got the boiler steaming - the burner raised the 1.1 litres of water in the boiler to a pressure of 50 psi in about 20 minutes. I hope to conduct sea trials in the next few weeks. I'll post a video if my efforts are successful. I got sidetracked last summer building the whaleboat. I bought second-hand of Harold Underhill's books on how to build plank-on-frame models and followed his instructions.

5 years ago by gordc

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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft

When I started with this stuff I had to use an A3 plotter for decent sized hardcopy. Seemed to take all day - just to find there was a goof somewhere 😝😠 B/W on the dot matrix - what a racket 🙉 Boy was I glad when the Laser colour printers and driver adaptors arrived 😊😀

5 years ago by RNinMunich

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Hintsand tips - Decals made easy

Thanks for the comment and info. The reason I started doing my own was, that here you get charged an absolutely ludicrous price for a simple decal. There are hundreds of companies here which do all sorts of decals (including car wrapping) but to get them to do small detailed decals is just not worth the money, (one company wanted to charge me about $5 per letter for a simple name in thin vinyl). I have found that doing the waterslide decals there is no hassle waiting, travelling for miles etc just to get a small item and I can do virtually anything with very little time and cost involved. Further examples shown, are some I have copied from pics and some like the Goodyear logos, Super Cub etc I have drawn (the Graupner ones on the planes are of some old 70s original waterslide decals I have, tidied up and re-made. Handy for making dashboards for boats, planes etc, the red and white plane rego has been done on white paper (you can't print white unfortunately) and the background matched to the colour of the plane (saves trying to cut individual letters out) Might solve your gold problem if you are doing it on clear paper. John

5 years ago by jbkiwi

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Aerokits Plans

Hi Any idea where I can get of aerokits plans I'm looking for the Sea Urchin Sea Nymph Sea Scout Sea Rover I was told that Jokita sold them but on contacting them it appears not I already have the sea Commander , Sea Hornet and Sea Queen plans but I now want the smaller boats Big boats take up too much room and SHMBO is starting to moan If anyone has of those I need or knows where I could find I would be very grateful

5 years ago by donrecardo