Thanks Jeff. Kudos to Matt at Kraken for designing and printing it. It's certainly an upgrade over the original resin parts.
That's a cool document - thanks for sharing! Once the degaussing cable went on, it wasn't coming off, so hopefully no one will find proof that it was removed before Okie was painted Ms1!!
Been doing a little bit of everything lately: touch up painting, prepping other parts for paint, working on the 3D printed parts, etc. The Black Cat boats have their lower hulls masked off and are ready for 5D.
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I also "made" an extra boat, using a left over boat hull from the Merit Enterprise kit and adding some styrene decks, "engine" and thwarts. Hmmm....I should add a PE rudder to that, now that I look at it.
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I've been fiddling with the Kraken 3D printed bridge as well. Made the struts for the foremast spotting top, then decided to permanently attach the bottom of the superstructure to the deck. Good thing I did it this way, as it would have been almost impossible to secure it to the deck with additional levels glued to the base.
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I had to clamp it down, because, just like some of the other parts, there’s a slight warp in it (something I'm starting to find is apparently endemic to larger 3D printed parts in
general, not specific to Kraken). I used some gel CA I bought, which allowed me time to position the part in place and then clamp it down.
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I set it aside to dry, then took a break to watch the first part of The Beatles "Get Back" on Disney+. Highly recommended! After watching that, and giving everything time to dry, I removed the clamps. You'll probably notice some divots in the deck - that's where I removed the cast ready ammo lockers from the model before masking and spraying the 5D. Those are put aside and will be added back to the model shortly.
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As you can see by some of the pictures above, the support columns for the Mk19 directors are warped. The plan is to saw them off and replace them with brass tube. That's probably the next step. I have to figure out the size of the motion picture projection booth, and make that as well.
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