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Mighty Mo, BB-63

Ok, I have a few more pieces done to add. I feel like I see light at the end of the tunnel. I gave gloss where the decals go. I am anxious to start on the anchor chains

I added a winch and cable to the highline tower.
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This dang antennna thing may be the most difficult thing I have ever made!
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The post for this little antenna was broken on the sprue so I had to use music wire with metal tube as parts dividers.
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The PE radar turned out OK I think
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And I mentioned putting the hydraulic pistons on the davits
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I have been using fly tying thread to make the ropes to go on the davit rings, tying knots about every 2mm. I have decals coming for the little boats and new tweezers coming in time for the railing. Moving along..
 
I got a few decals put on. Still not good at that yet...
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I also have the propellers on, along with a decal or two. I did the props last week.
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Here is the tower so far
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So, when I was putting some decals on I had to turn the model a little on its side. The high angle gun turrets fell right off. There is only a little nub for them to sit on
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And I don't want to glue them down, so my solution was to add a long plastic rod to the turret, cut off the nub, and drill a hole for the rod so it can turn but you nearly have to turn the model upside down for them to fall off...
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I hope there was nuttin wrong with doing that!
 
Greg Kimsey said:
Hey guys, I have a question I cannot find an answer to. In the photo of a boat being lowered I have circled in red a section of ropes with knots tied at intervals. Are those roped left attached at the top and secured at the bottom when not in use, or are the taken down and put up as needed?
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The monkey lines are tied to the boom, and are rolled up in a coil with a piece of belfast and either left to the elements or secured in a bag and left attached to the boom/davit when secured.
 
Paulw said:
The monkey lines are tied to the boom, and are rolled up in a coil with a piece of belfast and either left to the elements or secured in a bag and left attached to the boom/davit when secured.
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So that's what those are called!
 
I figure to get some chuckles or AYFKM's for this, but I opened the windshield and side door windows on the Seahawk helicopter. The windshield bars are made from the smallest styrene I have, scraped down to about half width. I don't mind trying to make them smaller if anyone has a suggestion. I wondered (just now) about fly tying wire...
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Once the cement dries if I don't switch to wire II will clean it up and paint it. Once that is dry I will make windows with elmers glue like I did on the personnel carrier boat. I will probably use Vallejo transparent blue on the windscreen.
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It sits a bit on its tail so I will add two wheels made from punched .01" styrene to the back post so it sits more level

Next up in the "are you frikken kidding me" department, I also made some capstans for the follower chains.
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I made three of these. I used .08" styrene rod secured in my Dremel chuck, spun slowly and shaped with a Testors mini round file. I rounded the top with a tri grit sanding stick. I cut the bottom as squarely as I could with an Xacto #11 and flattened with a fine file, then drilled a small hole in the bottom for a .025 styrene rod to serve as a holder pin, as well as drilled holes in the deck for said pins. The anchor chains are painted. I am waiting for the cement to dry on the capstan pins befor painting. I had scraped off the molded chains way early in the program.

That is all.
 
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