Posted by Matty
on November 18, 2007, 22:16:41, in reply to "A Ship In A Saturday"
Message modified by board administrator February 2, 2008, 20:43:16
--Originally Posted 11/18/07--
Well the other day I was to polish off my "quick-OOB" build of the Nichimo Hiryu, which is at the point of just needing the last, delicate "fiddly bits" added. And to make this easier I decided now was the time to mount her on the included pedestal stand:
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But worse - far worse - was just around the corner. Thinking the (plugged-in, though not glued) pedestals were seated firmly in the hull, I picked it up only to see Hiryu bobble and roll right off; crashing to the table-top and popping off her (white-glued) flight deck! A couple small parts were popped off - actually broken this time - and yet more time was lost in finding- and repairing them.
Meanwhile, I moved on to start adding the prop shafts and struts:
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When I checked, the clock indicated 1:45 had elapsed - and my recovery had barely progressed beyond where I started in the first place! The next 45 minutes would see the re-attachment of the flight deck:
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(Note also the extensive girder detail under the flight deck overhang. This is a clasisc example of both the best and worst features of these Nichimo kits; at the same moment, and in the same place.)
As mentioned earlier, the problem is the same under the after flight deck overhang, shown at bottom - except far worse. The heavy, square support is not even re-fitted here; note the large flight deck socket just does not align over the boat deck notch through which the support is also supposed to run. It is not the boat deck, that aligns also with locator holes (not visible) on the main deck, which is out of position, but the entire after flight deck; visible here also as its girders riding up - starting too far forward - over the back of the hangar gallery. Something was very wrong here, and the flight deck could not be shimmied into alignment (both fore and aft simultaneously), even with the extremely soft white glue still wet.
Since so many parts were still setting up, I decided to leave everything to cure and solidify:
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At this point, ironically, it has actually been my "quick OOB" build approach which has largely caused the delays and setbacks! In any case, once the flight deck alignment problem can be resolved there really are very few more details needed. (But then again, that's what I said last time, righ? !)
Cheers,
-Matty
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