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Adrian Forest
For teeny-tiny too-small-for-tweezers photo-etch, I recommend a wax pencil. Might still be impossible, but maybe slightly less impossible? 🙂

J D
Adrian, thanks for your recommendation and I will have a try later.

jaero
dude this is sick as love your work

Tcamp
Texas hurricane is underway let the fun begin!
Sorry for inverted pics cant get rotated🤠

Ben M
Rotation is well hidden. To rotate your photos, open your album. Click on "manage". Then turn on the "advanced options" toggle. You will now have the ability to rotate photos in the album.

Tcamp
Thanks ben
That was driving me nuts!!!!
Appreciate that brother!

Ben M
Glad I could help, mate! Looks like a fun build.

Tcamp
So far so good just a cat 1 now hopefully ill turn her into a cat 5 (LOL)

Tcamp
I reworked the main jib boom
I wasnt feeling the kit one
Its still a work in progress

Doubtingmango
Beautiful work!

Tcamp
Thank yall
Im not a rivet counter or anything but.....
The more i looked at the kit boom i could not figure how it would work ..
Revell had their boom right im also going to support mine as they did and use poles instead of ratlines. Which tie down inside of the work area ?
Im not feeling that one either lol
Again thanks

M0rce
Oooohhh... so nice 🙂
A Lindberg kit? Seen them but never got one, yet. That looks amazing.

Snake Plissken
Started out life as a Pyro Plastics kit which in turn was a reverse-engineered copy (pretty much a blatant rip-off) of the Model Shipways wooden kit of the M.T. (Motor Trawler) Hildina H-222 which was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. in 1951. If you look for photos, you will see it matches the Hildina except for some artistic license in the pilothouse windows mainly but an easy fix. The sloped rear pilothouse roof is also a distinctive feature of the Hildina. Apparently the front boom can face forward or aft (is it on a swivel?) according to need. I know the boom was used to hoist the cod end (heaviest part of the net) aboard. These kits are a great basis for conversion to R/C as the original plastic kits were motorized.

Tcamp
Cool info snake..
In my minds eye its on a swivel i didnt model a swivel base ( i guess i could have)
And i just liked the chain ( lol )
I wasnt sure what it was midelled after so thats good info
Thanks for that information i appreciate it brother!

Snake Plissken
@Tcamp. Good color choice! Most of the British side trawlers had a black painted hull, white is definitely not the norm. I created an entry here for the Model Shipways Hildina because there wasn't one. It's the exact same scale and dimensions but is a wooden kit.

M0rce
The details on this kit are so crisp. Looking forward to seeing what you're doing to the rear section.

Tcamp
Me too. ( LOL )
thanks m0rce