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    Marvin Beta Build

    Mike Hungerford's A1 Disintegrator pistol included, slightly modified. Printed at four pages per page
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    Well, finally made some more progress. Added the boat, anchors, awning stanchions, ladders & guardrails. Still have the anchor cable, hawse pipes and a few other fiddly bits to go.
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    More progress. Some of the vertical structures look bent/curved. I am sure this is some sort of fish-eye distortion from the camera in macro mode. :wink:
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    I hope my build turns out as nice as yours. The design is great. everything fits together very well and the instructions are very clear.
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    My pleasure. It was on my list for a while also. The great thing about these competitions is they give you a deadline. :lol:
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    More Progress built the deck houses. Pretty plain jane boxes, so I added plastic windows. Kinda scrunched one when I glued it to the deck. I hope to fix/replace it. Built and installed the deck gun and flying bridge platform. Sorry no construction pix. Had some camera problems. If you get...
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    More progress Just installed the hull plates with affixed side armour plates. the fit was very fine.
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    BuildReport 2 pic 1 - Construction of the keel plate and internal formers completed. Deck plates cut-out and holes made for guardrails.No problems. pic 2 - Deck plates & fwd and aft armour plates glued on. No difficulty. However, the side armour plates (parts 33 and 34) are mis-labelled...
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    SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel - Free Model Competition

    I am building this river monitor (Paper Shipwright - SMS Rhein/SMS Mosel) for the free models competition # 2. http://www.papershipwright.co.uk/ Here is the print-out ready to be set free from the paper. I printed the model on grey card stock. The model is primarily grey with some white...
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    By Your Command...

    Its a beauty, where did you get that paper
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    Picture of the week... Picture of the YEAR???

    July 30 - Aug 5, 2006 Milihistorie's Cutty Sark, gets my vote too.
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    Marvin Beta Build

    No, it was not because of the instructions. I did it that way on purpose. I plan on adding Mike Hungerford's A1 Disintegrator pistol (scaled). So I rotated the torso slightly to maintain the balance
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    Marvin Beta Build

    Beta Marvin Complete I finally finished the model. The build was very interesting. I've never built a figure before. Instructions are good but pictures could be clearer. colours are great. Construction was pretty straight forward, but read the complete paragraph before starting. The steps...
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    Marvin Beta Build

    Looks great Sneaker. My progress has stalled due to social commitments. Tis the season and all that. My 8 year old had her Christmas concert last night. I hope to be back at it and finished either Saturday or Sunday.
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    Marvin Beta Build

    Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century The complete original cartoon...
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    Marvin Beta Build

    I think Marvin would prefer that to calling it a Tutu:grin:
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    Marvin Beta Build

    "Back to the thread, this is it." :) Just kidding - the info about paper sizes is great. metric and Japan standards http://home.inter.net/eds/paper/papersize.html#isojis Metricated - used in the UK/EU and Japan http://home.inter.net/eds/paper/papersize.html#trad Commonly Used Paper Sizes...
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    Marvin Beta Build

    Thanks for the side view. The angle is perfect. Whew, I was considering a restart. Not much more progress tonight, its mother-in-laws birthday :rolleyes:
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    Marvin Beta Build

    Pez Anyone ? Finished the torso. The arms are just dry fit to permit positioning later. I had some trouble rolling the first arm tube(s). The second one I partially cut out, rolled then completed cutting it out. This worked very well. When I installed the skirt/kilt the angle was a little to...
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    Marvin Beta Build

    Lookin Good Lookin Good - I hope to post the torso later today. It looks like you are making good progress. I see you are leaving the glue tabs on, I am cutting most of then off.