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Posted: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 08:46 AM UTC
[Quoted]  Al ... since always you with his detailed one!!! Are you a shareholder of Evergreen?? 
Hello Daniel, I should have been! Lord knows, I've invested enough money in their company over the years. Just can't leave well enough alone I guess, but I do get a lot of satisfaction in making a project a little bit unique.  

 Al
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Posted: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 08:59 AM UTC
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[Quoted]  Al ... since always you with his detailed one!!! Are you a shareholder of Evergreen?? 
Hello Daniel, I should have been! Lord knows, I've invested enough money in their company over the years. Just can't leave well enough alone I guess, but I do get a lot of satisfaction in making a project a little bit unique.   Al
 Al
(Whispering) It's called AMS...   
 
 You may be right, I may be crazy.
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Posted: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 09:55 AM UTC
[Quoted] (Whispering) It's called AMS.
Would that be the "Asinine Modelers Syndrome", Warren? 
 
  
 Al
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Posted: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 10:02 AM UTC
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[Quoted] (Whispering) It's called AMS.
Would that be the "Asinine Modelers Syndrome", Warren?  
   Al
 Al
Of course not Al, it is 
Advanced Modellers Syndrome (just for all the new boys and girls out there). I think I nearly cured myself with the Vosper.
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Posted: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 11:24 PM UTC
[Quoted]  Of course not Al, it is Advanced Modellers Syndrome (just for all the new boys and girls out there). I think I nearly cured myself with the Vosper.
I think Addlepated Modelers Syndrome would be closer to the mark.  
 
  
 Al
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 02:40 AM UTC
Actualy it stands for Al's modeling syndrome, which I personally know is contagious.
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 07:29 AM UTC
" My bigger dread is to look at the history of my life and to ask me what I did with her "
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 09:41 AM UTC
Daniel, 
that is looking fantastic 
 
   
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:17 AM UTC
Ahoy Daniel
Words fail me and thats not often.
Superb work my friend.
Truly inspirational.
Very tastefully weathered - (I know its a matter of taste). 
As they say the devil is in the detail and I truly love the details - oil drims, medical kits, cardboard boxes, drums, ropes, the canvas dodgers etc.
Take along deep bow for a job very well done indeed.
Go "Team S-100"!!!
Cheers
Sean 
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:57 AM UTC
 
Thanks !!! thanks !!! Kev and Sean ... Je jejeje I am made happy by much that these details see, even it is absent ..... already this with all the stuck crews and it changes 100 % .
 Im anxious ... on Saturday I lead her to trying in a swimming pool..... 
 
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 06:53 PM UTC
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Posted: Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 09:08 PM UTC
At least 
my Vosper is there to resist..  
Excellent work Daniel. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.
You may be right, I may be crazy.
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 06:04 AM UTC
Hi Daniel,
well done mate! And a phantastic paint job!  
 
 But some very little things are remolding me:
- the gun shield parts (just left and right of the barrel) are a litle bit too high, they are not on the same level as the outer parts.
- the lower corners of the shield are not rectangular; there's a triangular part missing, easy to cut. Try to rotate your gun, the shield will crash into parts of the superstructure, the galley funnel.  
 
 And please remove those fez-looking parts. That are fog containers. The small ones of french origin; both in small brackets.

All in all an interesting thread here - I'm just in the mood to look for my own S-100. That was a long project and isn't finished till today...
But in the moment, there's a type XXIII on the work bench! 
https://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net/forums/130092&ord=&page=1   
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 06:48 AM UTC
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 07:56 AM UTC
  
   
   
   
 Funniest post I have read in years Julian!   

BTW, I was watching a TV show on one of the Channel ports (link to thread), Rotterdam, and I was wondering which is your home port at the moment?
Cheers
Warren
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 08:02 AM UTC
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 08:15 AM UTC
I have spent 28 years of my life in IJmuiden Warren, used as a E-boat and Midget submarine base by the Germans in WW II, don't live there though. There is a whomping great bunker still in clear view where Adolf parked his midget subs.
Still my stomping ground although nowadays I am no longer working shifts, I now polish seats with my stern,
Cheers mate  
 
   
   
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 08:19 AM UTC
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 10:17 AM UTC
 
 This way that in the year 2000 you has been extracting photos here!!!

Schnellboot Bunker "A" can be found in the harbor of IJmuiden. This gigantic bunker was used by the Germans from 1941 for the construction and maintenance of the Schnellboot. It was blown up with TNT after the war. 
 
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 01:06 PM UTC
Stnning work Daneil. Really brings out the boats detail and that deadly look. Still waiting to hear from Italeri for my Vosper parts. I'm about to send the whole dam kit back to them and tell them to build it. After two weeks got an answer from them; thank you for your inquiery, we will answer you as soon as possible. That was at the begining of the week and no answer yet. So my question is how do you build a Vosper without one torpedo tube? Didn't think so.
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 05:29 PM UTC
Good photo Daniel, there were actually two bunkers in IJmuiden, one built for Schnellboten in the "Vissershaven" and one for midget submarines which was built in the "Haringhaven". The Schnellboot bunker was flattened by the RAF towards the end of the war, the "IJ-bunker" is still standing and is used as a store for offshore bulk, (cement, bentonite etc.). IJmuiden was an ideal location for Schnellboten being very close to Great Yarmouth and the East coast of Britains shipping routes. Apparently there was also an agreement between Britain and the Dutch government in exile that the RAF would not target the IJmuiden lock complex to avoid major flooding in Amsterdam. The Germans made use of this by using the Middle lock as a mooring place for their "Seehund" submarines.

The North lock still shows extensive traces of the damage caused by the retreating German occupiers who tried to destroy the North lock. The fort island in the approach to locks still shows signs of the German occupiers who manned a coastal battery there, including regimental crests in the huge gun chamber in the top of the fort and a very identifiable hobnailed jackboot print in a concrete stair built by the Germans. An amazing amount of history in a relativly new town. 
 
   
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 05:36 PM UTC
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 - 05:51 PM UTC
No problems here in Germany; I mailed to Italeris distributor FALLER, ordered the needed sprues (in my case the complete weapons set of the S-100 for a later project KFK) and received it in nearly one week. Costs? 5 euros! And I did it later again with the same result.
Maybe it's the better way to call the distributor... 
 
 Michael
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Posted: Saturday, December 07, 2013 - 01:12 AM UTC
Guess it's better to be living in the 'States, had no problems getting parts from MRC, Italeri's US distributor. They were great, no charges and they couldn't have been more helpful. 

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Posted: Saturday, December 07, 2013 - 03:39 AM UTC
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Guess it's better to be living in the 'States, had no problems getting parts from MRC, Italeri's US distributor. They were great, no charges and they couldn't have been more helpful.  Al
 Al
Thanks Al, we know that the current Dutch government is crap, no need to rub it in  

 Especially our Prime Minister Rotten, sorry, I mean Rutte.  
 
   
   
 Only thing they haven't taxed yet is a flatulence tax, even drinking water is taxed by these idiots..... Go figure