I use two soldering stations. One for tinning the other for assembly.
The Hako 936 is a great all around soldering station with different tips available. Right down to a needle fine tip that I use for soldering nano LED's.
The American Beauty resistance soldering station is now a tool I must own. I borrowed it from a friend to use on this project. It would not be possible to build it with out it.
I had never used one before now and didn't think it was anything I needed because I had the Hako. Boy was I wrong. I now fully recommend it for anyone building photo-etched assemblies.
It makes things possible that that would have been difficult if not impossible before. The one in the picture has what the call the pliers end. The one I used has the probe end which are tiny and act like tweezers
Here is another item that is nearly done I used both irons for. This is the main mast of the OHP.
I knew that they had to be soldered just for strength as I have a hbit of breaking assemblies I glue together and as there were so many parts to these it was a must.
What ships of the Oliver H. Perry class Frigate of the US Navy have the remotely operated 25mm Mk38 Mod2 Naval Gun Systems installed on platforms over the old MK 13 launcher magazine?
I believe all ships with the 25mm Mk38 Mod2 Gun are all long hull version, correct?
After Photobucket asked me for a ransom for respecting my pictures, and after my denial, they have ruined my threads forever watermarking the pictures first and blurring them afterwards, and thus rendering all my pictorial work virtually useless.
I have seen that my work has been of some help for some other friend modelers in the past, which is the ultimate goal of this forum, so I have taken the time to convert my messages in this old thread to the standard right-click pictures provided by the forum. It is time consuming, but very easy, and this way the pictures will always be available. They can be open and downloaded without further problem now.
This is the new format of them all:
Never ever will I use Photobucket, Tinypics or whatever again. Bunch of pirates.
For all those interested, there is a more extensive picture file of this model at :
After Photobucket asked me for a ransom for respecting my pictures, and after my denial, they have ruined my threads forever watermarking the pictures first and blurring them afterwards, and thus rendering all my pictorial work virtually useless.
I have seen that my work has been of some help for some other friend modelers in the past, which is the ultimate goal of this forum, so I have taken the time to convert my messages in this old thread to the standard right-click pictures provided by the forum. It is time consuming, but very easy, and this way the pictures will always be available. They can be open and downloaded without further problem now.
This is the new format of them all:
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Never ever will I use Photobucket, Tinypics or whatever again. Bunch of pirates.
For all those interested, there is a more extensive picture file of this model at :
I have several hundred images of Aussie, and a few US FFGs on my Facebook page. All photos were taken by me ever since the RAN first got them. Search on Facebook for the Gatt 1/350. Model ships.
steel_tiger1 wrote:I use two soldering stations. One for tinning the other for assembly.
The Hako 936 is a great all around soldering station with different tips available. Right down to a needle fine tip that I use for soldering nano LED's.
The American Beauty resistance soldering station is now a tool I must own. I borrowed it from a friend to use on this project. It would not be possible to build it with out it.
I had never used one before now and didn't think it was anything I needed because I had the Hako. Boy was I wrong. I now fully recommend it for anyone building photo-etched assemblies.
It makes things possible that that would have been difficult if not impossible before. The one in the picture has what the call the pliers end. The one I used has the probe end which are tiny and act like tweezers
Here is another item that is nearly done I used both irons for. This is the main mast of the OHP.
I knew that they had to be soldered just for strength as I have a hbit of breaking assemblies I glue together and as there were so many parts to these it was a must.
Thanks
Tom
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Tom or anyone else, how did you get that second platform into the mast? I'm guessing following PONTO's picture instructions was a mistake as I'm unable to slip it in as suggested and possibly looking like it will have to be dismantled, slip the platform in and then somehow reassemble but the more I think about it this could turn into a nightmare.
A question to the Australian OHP frigates, the Adelaide class:
did they have any characteristic differences compared to the USN ships? Anything special? At any time any special helicopter? Could be also something only on one ship at one point in time.
I know of these differences:
a) four of them got the 8-cell VLS Mk 41
b) some of them got 50-calibre machine guns in Mini Typhoon mounts
c) the Seahawk helicopter were originally not SH-60B, but an export version with a different radar (S-70B-2 Seahawk) (see e.g. this one)
I am asking, because I am searching for options to built an Adelaide class, which differs from both the USN OHP and the Turkish G class (which also got the VLS, but also a new radar etc.).
I'm more looking for arguments as to why I should build an Adelaide class frigate.
Available is the kit of the long hull version of the Adelaide class - and the best arguments would be as many as possible differences compared to an USN long hull in the early 2000s and to the modernised Turkish G class.
The Turkish G class has many differences compared to the USN ships, therefore I currently prefer it over the Adelaide class (there is certainly the option to built both the G class and the Adelaide class).
