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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Let’s leave rivet counting for now and look at the re-alignment of the whole diorama... Thanks to a suggestion on another forum I have re-oriented the base slightly to offset it from the totally orthogonal , as much as I can without affecting the walls I printed earlier. I used the CAD model to...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    let's see if this works.... So the next logical step is to see if I can 3D print the entire panel, rivets and all.... It would need to be done on the resin printer because of the poor surface finish of the larger FDM printer, which means it will have to be individual separate panels because of...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    As promised I have been conducting tests on how to create the hull with all its rivets (1,064 - ish) My main concern is the huge number of rivets that absolutely MUST be placed in straight lines and evenly spaced. I don’t have the skill or the patience to do that by hand, so I’ve got to find...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I have clad the hull side with 1.5mm mount board as a substrate -I’m not wasting a pic on it - to which I will attach whatever cladding I decide upon. Experiments are being conducted as I type and will be reported upon completion. I always intended to build the structure of the model from sheet...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    My apologies to everyone , I didn't realise the pictures had disappeared in the interim here's the whole post (with luck) I’m very grateful to this forum for providing me with the impetus (via Group Builds) to build this project I’ve had on the stocks for at least ten years. The first phase is...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I'm thinking thin metal, myself Jim, possibly the copper I used on the Higgins boat. I want something I can dent convincingly like this and then there's all those rivets....
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I am happy to announce that I have finally cut foamboard on this project. I’ve started at the bottom, naturally, with the hull and main deck, which I am going to clad in some way, as yet undecided. For the hull side there is a slight curve in the vertical plane so I need to create some identical...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    And the happy by-product was that I could 3D-print many of the components. so now it’s time to start shipbuilding ​
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    First off, I'm not sure if I'm in the right place- Is a new thread a topic? If not , could a mod please re-direct me? Anyway I’m very grateful to this forum for providing me with the impetus (via Group Builds) to build this project I’ve had on the stocks for at least ten years. The first phase...
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    Werner Molders 1/32 Scale

    And here are the painted pics That's better , getting the hang of the new format now. Cheers Neil
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    Werner Molders 1/32 Scale

    Next up in the pilots from this MasterBox set is Luftwaffe ace Werner Molders He’s more or less out of the box, but I separated his head to make repainting (if necessary ) less painful. ​ And I sharpened up some of the detail and added some proper straps and buckles to the life vest. ​ He...
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    1-32 Harrier Pilot

    I painted this guy a while ago but I forgot to photograph him and post him. He’s a Chota Sahib figure that I have had for absolute years. Not my usual area of interest, but he was given to me as reference for a range of 1-72 figures I made back in the eighties for PP Aeroparts I decided to...
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    Neil's Italeri 1-35 LCVP Higgins Boat. Geoff's D-Day 80th GB

    I’m calling it done. Not a bad kit, I had no fit problems whatsoever. I think there are a couple of areas where different versions have been researched, but now I know what a minefield that is I forgive Italeri! It’s been several years since I made a plastic kit other than a figure - May 2020...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    I'm calling it done I'll post in the completed thread tomorrow Thanks everyone, it was a blast! Neil
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Right then, let’s do it! Having solved the problem of the uninflated life belt I now want at least one inflated one and, as I said, I have been mulling this over for a fair few years. Here is my eventual solution - it’s an experiment because I haven’t got round to testing my theory until now...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Well I was supposed to make an inflated life belt, but I got distracted. I have always intended to have a bucket kicking around (see what I did there ;) ..) somewhere, as shown here I have an old Tamiya one in the spares box, but it’s a bit knackered, and not in a good way, and if I...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Ok, I have painted the life belts, and stuck them in, and a couple of other bits of CITF as well The kit bag came from the Italeri PT Boat Crew set There are also two lifebelt rings in the kit, with moulded ropes, which I was intending to just use OOB I painted them but I just...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Once again thanks everyone for the interest and great comments. The next element of the CITF is the US M-1926 Life Belt as worn by almost all those going ashore during the invasion. PIC for reference only They were bulky and inconvenient with all the other equipment being worn and were...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Thanks again for all the likes and comments. Just a quick update today. The scenario here is that this is the second or third trip to the beaches for this crew and there is stuff all over the place. Many of them would bring back the wounded on the return trip , which must have been disconcerting...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Thanks for the interest and the excellent comments chaps. Not much to report, but I have painted and fitted the stern fender I think it's a bit out of scale, but at least I know how to do it again when I can't stand it any more.... And I have added to the CITF in the form of some tarps, made...

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