Well, she arrived this afternoon despite the problems with the robots at ebay. I knew she's a big kit but it wasn't until I actually got the pieces in my hands that I realised just how big.
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That's a 300mm rule (12" in old money).
The other wooden parts of the decks
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There's no way I'd be able to hand paint round all those fittings and I don't think I'll be around long enough to mask them all so it looks like I'll have to get a wooden deck!
There is some PE supplied and I've bought the Trumpeter upgrade set. Between them, that's about all the PE I'm thinking of using so that restricts my choice of wooden deck as some of them are supplied in sets with large quantities of PE and also large prices (Artwox and Mk1)!
I've found three decks which may fit the bill. They're by Pontos; Wood Hunter and Nautilus. Any suggestions which may be the best of these?
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That's a 300mm rule (12" in old money).
The other wooden parts of the decks
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There's no way I'd be able to hand paint round all those fittings and I don't think I'll be around long enough to mask them all so it looks like I'll have to get a wooden deck!
There is some PE supplied and I've bought the Trumpeter upgrade set. Between them, that's about all the PE I'm thinking of using so that restricts my choice of wooden deck as some of them are supplied in sets with large quantities of PE and also large prices (Artwox and Mk1)!
I've found three decks which may fit the bill. They're by Pontos; Wood Hunter and Nautilus. Any suggestions which may be the best of these?