Sailorman
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Yes, though I believe I still have to includethe last two issues. The information is an excel file. I have no objection to sharing it with website members.
However there is no system for private messaging on this site and one is not permitted to post personal details such as emails.
When one needs to transfer information one has to contact the administrator, explain the reason for the exchange of details and he would then contact the parties concerned himself to ensure there are no issues.
If you wish I will email the Administrator and try to sort this out. I will need a day or two to update the spreadsheet.
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You need to think carefully about whether to paint white over green or green over white.
You might find it is difficult to paint white over green as the green will continue to show through. This might mean having to apply more coats of white and this would affect the surface detail.
I always tend to prefer painting the light colour first followed by the other colours according to how dark they are.
Hopefully some of the others on this site have tried the Zebra scheme and can offer more practical advice.
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Here come the photos:
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You can appreciate just how small the model is from this photo.
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Time to add some more information. This is taken virtually verbatim from Jim's email to me.
"HMS Mary Rose, at 800 tons was one of the largest warships of her time in Tudor King Henry VIII's navy,
with only the 'Henry Grace a Dieu' ( popularly known as the Great Harry) exceeding her in tonnage and number of guns.
Contrary to popular myth, HMS Mary Rose did NOT sink on her maiden Voyage in 1545.
HMS Mary Rose was launched in 1511, and successfully partook in a number of naval engagements in the wars with France
After a major re-build in 1536 she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside.
In the third French war, on 19 July 1545 a very large French fleet with intention to invade England, advanced to engage the becalmed and anchored English fleet in the Solent off Posrtmouth
The Mary Rose,now with the beginnings of the freshening afternoon sea-breeze astern, led the English fleet to attack the oar-powered French Galleys.
After firing her port-side guns, she turned to fire her starboard guns whilst re-loading the port side battery
As to what happened next, a variety of theories abound; either a sudden gust of wind or perhaps too sharp a turn,- the French even claimed it was their cannon fire... After her turning manoeuvre , she suddenly heeled over dramatically; with water rapidly entering the still open leeward gunports, causing her capsize and sinking in the shortest time, taking around 500 crew and soldiers to their death, most of whom were trapped under the anti-boarding netting strung over the main decks preventing their escape.
This sudden and shocking tragedy was witnessed by Henry VIII , who was only a few hundred yards away at Southsea castle , Portsmouth.
The quite recently released Airfix 1/400 model is a simplified ,very inexpensive and cheerful little kit-- though overall dimensionally pretty accurate ==> ( as far as is possible to know ! ) The kit was prepared and designed with the aid and approval of the HMS Mary Rose trust."Those of you interested can reaad the detailed build account here at
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=163736
I will be posting some more of Jim's photos but these will need to be approved by the powers that be and will probably appear tomorrow.
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Jim has given me a write up and plenty more photos which I will be uploading. I'll post the text later today and the photos too. However, those need to be approved so you won't see them till tomorrow. However let me assure you they are well worth waiting for!
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Whilst browsing the ModelWaships website a few days ago I came across Jim Baumann's incredible build of the Airfix Mary Rose. I exchanged emails with Jim and he kindly agreed to send me some picutres of his model. I am reproducing a few of them here. Bear in mind the model is to a scale of 1:400 and is hence only some 12cm, (5 inches), long!
Jim also sent me a write up about his build. I am sure you will all find it interesting. It just goes to show what can be acheived with good research and patience......and of course skill. People aren't born with skill and I am sure Jim will agree that it is something that only comes with practice, practice and more practice.
I hope you are all inspired by his work ........ I know I am!
See also the next post for more.
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Hmm ok then, so plans are more widely available than I at first thought.
£1,000 is a great deal for an individual, but in terms of R&D for a major manufacturer, it probably won't be anything at all (comparatively speaking anyway). Nonetheless, there's still the other costs to get said ship into production and the question still remains - would it sell?
Hi Dave,
I've dug up the correspondence I had with the Maritime Museum back in 1996 when I was looking for plans of the Terror. They had plans to 1:48 and 1:96. Each plan at the time was £9. The problem is the list contained 10 plans at 9 pounds and one at 13 giving a total of 103 pounds. Together with Research and handling / postage and packing they would have cost £123..... and that was 20 years ago. Moreover, I couldn't see the plans and had no idea whether they would have given me what I needed. Perhaps they now have scans you can view in order to make a selection.
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Yes, the plans from the museum are expensive. I had once asked about the plans for HMS Terror. They were far to expensive for a 1:600 model though they would have been is deal for a large scale build. I haven't seen the KGV model but I've seen a number at the science museum. They have large number of big models. Well with a visit.
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When I complete my Stockholm build I think I will start on my Airfix Queen Elizabeth. I'm trying to order some plans for both her and the Queen Mary at the moment. That way once I complete the Elizabeth I can scratchbuild the Queen Mary and have both. I suppose it will be at least another month or two before the Stockholm is complete but I'll get there.
If people here think it might be of interest I will do a step by step build of the Queen Elizabeth on this site.
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William, I would go a step further. I have recently managed to obtain an Airfix kit of the Ford Escort. I marvel at the level of detail that was incorporated into that model all those years ago. Compared to that, the ship models are basic to the extreme. I've always felt that the ship kits left a lot to be desired ....Surely Airfix could today do a lot better!
You would have thought a good kit of HMS Queen Elizabeth would sell. Once the research for a 1:350 kit is done produce a 1:600 version. That way the reasearch is not used for a one-off kit but for two.
Come on AIrfix ..... you know you can do it!
(And once your at it an RMS Queen Mary - save me having to scratchbuild it 😉
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Lovely model. The removable panel is very ingenious. I didn't notice it in your first photo and had to go back to look again.
I especially like the finish - colour me green!
You see ....I usually build ships but I recently started building old Hercules that I had started some 35 years ago but never finshed. I realised that up to now I had never built any aircraft larger than a Wellington. The Herk is telling me that perhaps I should stick to ships....... I found it very difficult to get a presentable finish on the wide expanse of wings and fuselage.
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Nope ... still didn't work ....... what am I doing wrong?
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I can't seem to get an avatar uploaded. I've just tried reducing the photo I wanted to use but I'm not sure if this will work.
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I too only build 1:600 ships. I find they are large enough to be more intersting than 1:700 and yet not so large, (as 1:350), that they cause storage problems. With 1:600 I can build a wide range of ships - I have 40 built and still have another 20 kits in my stash. I've boosted the numbers through scratchbuilding. It would be nice though to have some new 1:600 ships. The QM2 kit was great ....though I don't really like the look of the real ship ....but there are soooooo many others. A Queen Mary to go with the Queen Elizabeth would be nice to say nothing about Ratch's Dreadnought ;)
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All the larger Airfix 1:600 ships float really well. When I was about 11 I used to float the Victorious, Nelson, BIsmark and Tirpitz. THey needed a weight inside to get the balance right. The battle to sink the bismark was fought many times in our bath!
The smaller models were too topheavy to float upright.
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Does anyone know if there exists a good index for the magazine?
Failing that, I have,over the years, built up an excel spreadsheet which lists all the articles in the Airfix Modelworld Magazine from Issue 1 to date. Being in excel it allows one to search by article title / subject / author / date etc. If you search for say "Hurricane" it will tell you whcih articles appeared and the date of the magazine which then allows you to locate the magazine and the article.
If anyone is interested in a copy just let me know. It is work in progress since I keep updating it each month a with each new issue.
Alternatively if you tell me the subject you are interested in I can tell you which issue you need to look for.
In the coming months I will do the same for the early Airfix Magazines. I have most of them from the first issue in 1960 onwards.
Patrick
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Quite right Ratch .....It was indeed the Free Enterprise II
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When can we expect to see the Spirit of Free Enterprise 1:600 ferry released again? Unbuit examples fetch ridiculous prices on ebay. I once heard Airfix were reluctant to re-issue this because people thought it was a model of the Herald of Free Enterprise - the ferry involved in the disaster off Zeebrugge. First of all it is NOT the same ship and frankly if this were a problem it could be issued in Moby lines colours as the Moby Blu.
Come on Airfix ...... I know you want to!
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I've no objection to sharing my spreadsheet for free with anyone who would like a copy. However, I have another 4 or 5 issues still to input and I will then contact the site administrator about it.
Please do not post any personal details - email addresses etc on this site.
I'll should be able to sort everything out in the next couple of days.