Subject: SMML19/12/97VOL034 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX 1: wanted WWII US Sub kits 2: rec.models.scale 3: Re: rec.models.scale 4: Arizona painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Ronnie Hiatt Subject: wanted WWII US Sub kits Wanted WWI US Submarine kits (plastic) any scale, any class considered. Examples: USS Lionfish, USS, Growler, USS Flasher, USS Tautog, USS GATO, etc...... All kits considered! Looking for reasonable to (cheap) priced kits! NO inflated "collector prices" PLEASE! I'm in Tennessee Thanks Ronnie Hiatt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "Terry Sumner" Subject: rec.models.scale It looks there is a thread starting on rms regarding this email list. Just a heads-up if anyone's interested. "If you're not making any mistakes, you're probably not building anything." Terry Sumner IPMS 35079 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: Greg Subject: Re rec.models.scale Hi Terry, Thanks for your note - and I am glad you brought this up on our list, so I can address it and hopefully lay it to rest! Hopefully there won't be any continuations or follow-ups on the R.M.S. I replied to the origional message, and hopefully justified the lists existence, which I feel very sorry I had to do! Its very disheartening to put so much effort into producing something good for a bunch of people and have it questioned in this way! I personally feel the majority of the subscribers love the list, as I do, And in keeping with the good nature and will I offer this service to the subscribers, this is where I would like to see this matter end! It is not within the boundaries of discussion in this list, it is not related to hands-on shipbuilding, and therefore will not be accepted as suitable material for the list in the future! Thanks to you all for your continued support - we have something great here, let's make it Greater! Greg (Listmaster) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: TANewell Subject: Arizona painting Greg: I sprayed the decks of the Arizona and stained them before I did anything else. I generally try to spray everything, but because of the way Revell splits the superstructure walls on this kit, I decided to assemble the superstructure deck to the main deck, hide the seams the best I could, and then paint the walls and barbettes (and all the other bumps and stuff) by brush. It came out pretty good, altho I would prefer to have the walls separate from the decks, as they were in the 1/350 Titanic and Lusitania that I completed before the Arizona. BTW, the superstructure deck, where the 5 in antiaircraft guns are mounted, was planked with wood, altho the kit has no panel lines to indicate planking. I hacked the molded splinter shields off of this deck before painting and I sprayed the new photoetched shields while they were still on the fret. The rest of the upper decks were steel. I sprayed the rest of the superstructure bulkheads before assembly, painted the decks with weather deck blue, glued them together, hid the seams, then touched up the walls with a brush. This discussion of painting leads me to a modeling horror story. After I had put all the decks and railings on my Arizona, I decided to spray it with a coat of Dullcote to hide the glossy CA glue and to protect the paint from handling while I finished the model. I was using a spray can, and as I was shifting the model in my hands, I put the can down. Then I picked the can up (without looking at it) and shot my model with a blast of...flat white! Of course, I had picked up the wrong can. The white was very thin since the can hadn't been shaken for weeks. But I had hit my boat with white paint on the port side that was visible from the bow to the front of the quarterdeck and went from below the waterline up to the nav bridge. Luckily, the angle of the spray was from a low angle so no white got onto my stained decks. Masking and repainting the hull was the easy part. The hard part was repainting the port side of the #1 and #2 turrets, barrels and barbettes, railings, bulkheads, 5 in guns, etc, etc, etc. I decided that brushing was out of the question. I found that by using very little air pressure, I could regulate my Badger 150 airbrush to a fine enough spray to paint the vertical surfaces without hitting the deck. I wonder if I could have painted the bulkheads this way initially. Anyway, the Arizona seems to have recovered from the white paint attack and has been finished for about 3 weeks. Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume