Ratch's 2018 perils with plastic

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Postimage appears under the box I am typing into on this forum if you are using chrome or a chrome derivative on a mobile device (eg samsung internet) There is a blue box with a p in it and words add image to post. (Use chrome with an addblocker and the internet is so much faster and easier)

For me the benefit of using postimage on this forum is that I can leave the images on my hard drive and then just select them and postimage does whatever it does and takes a copy of the photo and returns me a string of text which puts that image in the post on this forum and (providing I retain the ability to be able to edit the post to get at the text string again) I can then post that photo over on other forums ... so this is the only mechanism that I now use, but it does mean that "technically" I post everything on this forum first by a few minutes at the absolute mimimum.

So say in April/May when I plan to take part in an annual GB on another forum ;-) , I am aware that I will need to be (and I am going to be) very careful to make sure that I post straight away over on that forum

I generally only post up in blocks of 5-6 photos at an upload - so if want to share 10 images of work in one update, I post up within the one post, in 2 smaller batches and it uploads ok)

What postimage does with the photos and where they actually go - I have no idea .... but the originals are on my hard drive and I have no worries with a photo account getting overloaded but I am much more select now as to what i post up to it and careful of background in any images etc of say any of us or the house and garden. the mess on my modelling area, or an old sheet draped somewhere are my image backgrounds generally.
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Ratch wrote:
iggie wrote:Two Graf Spee? I hope they don't mean too much on your plate..... :ha:

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chrism wrote:There is a blue box with a p in it and words add image to post.
Not on my screen, just the Preview Submit Save & Cancel boxes
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are you using chrome as a web browser ?

the p appears direcly below this box you type into and well above those 5 tick boxes and the preview/submit/save/cancel row of boxew
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chrism wrote:are you using chrome as a web browser ?
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ImageDSC_0001 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
Admiral Graf Spee is being waterlined

ImageDSC_0002 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
Deutschland will remain full hull

ImageDSC_0003 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
joining the hull

ImageDSC_0004 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
Both ships at the same stage
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I remember my build of this ship, it even floated in the bath, without turning turtle :grin:

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Great bit of waterlining with the Graf Spee, Ratch. I presume Deutschland is the GS's sister ship - are there only a few differences such as a torpedo tube here or there or minor armament details?
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Nice start with both; Graf Spee was a pretty ship that much is for certain
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Cheers guys, there were three ships in the Panzerschiffe class; Deutschland (later renamed Lutzow), Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee. The latter two were almost identical up to the scuttling of Graf Spee, then the two surviving ships underwent refits - new bows, new funnels and some other cosmetic changes. Both of mine will be portrayed as near as I can to December 1939 configurations :ha:
I'm building them side-by-side, making the alterations to Deutschland as we go along. Here the bridge is being constructed.
ImageDSC_0001 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr

The same area is dry fitted on the Admiral Graf Spee
ImageDSC_0002 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr

Although the ships are from the same class, there are some striking differences
ImageDSC_0003 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr

And some quite subtle ones
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Watching with interest. Are you using some old Airfix mag article or something boaty related that DaveCov had as reference for the changes?
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No Chris, I'm using German Pocket Battleships 1939-45 ISBN 978-1-84176-501-3. Its not perfect, I'm having to guess the size of things, but there a fair bit of info on the three ships ;-)
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This is interesting conversion work, Ratch. Guessing at the relative size of things from photos is usually par for the course in my modelling world :ha:
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Cheers Shaun. I decided it was time for a bit of paint
ImageDSC_0001 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
And then I started thinking about colours - I shall see if I can get some accurate-ish paints

So I just painted the stands.
ImageDSC_0002 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
Now on hold...

In the meantime
ImageDSC_0003 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
I cracked this simple little kit open

It has been started, and there's not much to it
ImageDSC_0004 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
I transferred the pilot from spares

Some blanking plates
ImageDSC_0005 by Richard Linnell, on Flickr
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I like the grain effect on the stands; very posh that!

Good start on the Horten; who's boxing is it?
I've built the Revell version, and one day (if I win the lottery) I will get one of those big 1/32 kits of it from Japan!
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