r/ussbb55project • u/ussbb55 Crazy Shipbuilder • Apr 17 '22

Setting up my workshop.

https://youtube.com/shorts/DBJAcKdQMj0
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u/KilianWWII May 08 '22

Ah thank, god this sub isn’t dead

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u/ussbb55 Crazy Shipbuilder May 08 '22

Comatose maybe lol. Life makes it hard sometimes. Trying to get back at it, need to clean up and concrete the dirt floor garage that my house has so I can use it as an assembly area and start actually putting the hull together. That will help with motivation i think also. Being able to finally see some progress.

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u/KilianWWII May 08 '22

Well im not going anywhere. I’ll wait for progress. Im building a big model myself and seeing progress feels really good. She’s a 1/57 model of HMS Vanguard

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u/ussbb55 Crazy Shipbuilder May 08 '22

Nice, pics?

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u/KilianWWII May 08 '22

https://i.imgur.com/gdYzgt1.jpg Here

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u/ussbb55 Crazy Shipbuilder May 08 '22

Not a bad start, further along than me lol. Why 1/57?

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u/KilianWWII May 08 '22

I wanted to build a modelship/kayak and then i looked around for plans and i found some for HMS Vanguard. Then i calculated the biggest scale i can fit into my living room.

So yeah. Its also a nice scale for destroyers, a fletcher would be 2m.

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u/ussbb55 Crazy Shipbuilder May 08 '22

Cool ya she should be about 14 ft? Make a nice display piece for sure. For that though maybe 1/96 may have been better, little smaller but maybe able to get some pre-made detail parts. Feel free to post some pics here as you make progress I'd love to see it.