Queen Mary

[Defiant911]

Carl mate, it’s simply 2740 divided by 568, as you said. You must have made a typo when entering the numbers. Basically, if the real boat was 568 feet long, the model would be one foot long.

I must of as you say cos that’s what I thought I’d done. Fat finger syndrome .
Thanks for confirming anyway.
Next time I should check twice before typing up a thread..

[boatman]

oh my god im lost here maths was never my strong point
chris

[Defiant911]

I seem to have one of my boat davits missing. The box was open and partially squashed when I was given it and there were several loose bits on there so I suspect it was lost some time ago. I could just leave it off and leave one of the life boats out but it would be nice to have it. However I have no idea how I would go about trying to make sick a small and awkward shape. Any ideas from the scratch builders ?
Carl

[spanner570]

Looking good Carl.

Taking a look at your future projects, I've rigged a couple of WW1 fighters in the past, but the amount needed on your Handley Page Bomber would have me going up the wall in nothing flat!

[Defiant911]

Looking good Carl.

Taking a look at your future projects, I've rigged a couple of WW1 fighters in the past, but the amount needed on your Handley Page Bomber would have me going up the wall in nothing flat!

Lol, yeah, it was one of those compulsive buys which I sometimes do if the price seems right. Haven’t decided which of my models to do next yet but I’m sure it’ll feel easier than the boat.
that said another larger boat is on the Christmas list for next year build and I also have a part built titanic model which I started about 20 years ago and never completed, its about twice the size of the Queen Mary model I’ve almost completed.

[Defiant911]

I’m currently trying to glue the rigging in place but even the super glue isn’t sticking so well to the paint. What’s the best way of glueing rigging or do I need to scrape the paint where I’m looking to glue?

[Tim Marlow]

How old is your superglue Carl? It can go off with age, becoming less effective..

[Defiant911]

I’m

How old is your superglue Carl? It can go off with age, becoming less effective..

im not sure to be honest but it’s not new. Perhaps I should purchase a new bottle

[Tim Marlow]

Might be worth a try. Better than scraping down all that paint.

[Defiant911]

Another question to anyone that may have done this already. What’s the best way to attach rigging to the funnels. I suspect that if I try spotting super glue it will inevitably not stick every time so I’ll end up ruining the paint work if I’m not careful. I was thinking of drilling holes but even that would be awkward now they are glued in place. Any help appreciated.

[skinflint]

When I was faced with this problem on the RMS Olympic, seem to remember carefully drilling small holes with a hand drill (similar to the Revell one).

https://www.revell.de/index.php

[Defiant911]

When I was faced with this problem on the RMS Olympic, seem to remember carefully drilling small holes with a hand drill (similar to the Revell one).

https://www.revell.de/index.php[ATTACH]403254[/ATTACH]

Yes, I think this is probably going to be the only way. Might have to get the little dremmel out and do a test hole.