Daniel460

Drool! Great subject in great hands! I'll try to check in and watch this one Andy, looking great so far!
 
Dan

So sorry to hear this. My condolences to you and yours..........
 
Dan

hello all,
 
In march I started on a Landing ship medium in scale 1/35. dimensions of a LSM lenght 203'6'' or 62,027 metres, the beam is 24'6'' or 10,515 metres. In scale 1/35 this will be 1m 772 x 30cm.
These photo's are of the vehicle deck.

 
vehicle deck and the lower part of the LSM
 

 
next are some photo's of the bridge, with the different platforms and the windows drilled, I used a drainpipe for this
 

 

 

I also placed a WT door

 

I placed the walls of vehicle deck with water tight doors and ladder rungs

next photo's are of how it all looks like , looks more and more  of a LSM, work under vehicle deck is done

 

 

 
enjoy,
 
rammstein
 
 
 
 
 

hello all,
 
work started on the frames under vehicle deck, most of them are recktangle of shape, with curved frames towards stem and stern.
 

 

 
all the frames glued in place
 

 
work until now

 

 a close up of the ladder rungs

 
one of the water tight door on vehicle deck

while everything is drying I started on the stern with anchor support
 

 
enjoy,
 
Rammstein
 
 
 

hello all,
 
Some more work done


 
with fairlead placed
 


next I started on the bow ramp


 
enjoy,
 
Rammstein

Glad i could save it. Would have hated parking it on the SOD again. Doing a few more things (fire bottle, tinwork, windows...) then will get more pics.
 
Don

We just had a much more serious server outage, which has just been rectified. As always, this led to some database corruption, but thankfully nothing that couldn't be repaired quickly.
 
As ever, please let me know if you come across any issues.
 
Kev

Howdy folks,
 
Once again, I tried to run a quick update in the background today, and it caused a few issues. I was able to get it sorted after a couple of hours, but in the interim, many forum features were non-functional - including posting!
 
All better now, I hope!
 
Kev

Having reached an amazing US$30k in donations, and with Paul's insurance company now starting to pay out, we have decided that the GoFundMe campaign has run its course, and will be deactivated soon. I've disabled donations in the interim, and would like to thank each and every one of you who so generously supported Paul and his family during this difficult time. It's made a world of difference! Hopefully we'll see Paul back to churning out modelling goodies sooner rather than later!
 
Kev

Unbelievable. But very real. I don't think NZ has had an incident of this nature before, so no-one is really sure what to do. 

Such nice thoughts from the LSP community.  We are all still coming to terms with it still, doesn't seem real that such a thing would happen here. The fear of reports of maybe 9 shooters active and being in lockdown was somewhat terrifying at the time.   Especially when we are trying to recover and rebuild from the earthquakes.  With the utter devastation and loss of life from that....it feels like a body blow and all your emotions instantly run very high again. 
 
I am still waiting to hear from clients and people I know who would have/might have been there, that I see in my daily life.  I guess I will know more on Monday when I go back to work.
 
Thanks for all your love and thoughts, but it's something that affects us all no matter where we are from.
 
Oh and please don't watch the video of the live stream (apparently its gone viral) one of the shooters did, evidently its very graphic and distressing.  No need to feed these scum with watching their actions
 
RIP
 
Anthony

Absolutely devastating. My heart goes out to everyone Aotearoa. 

Oh hell! I thought you lived in Blenheim Anthony?

A very sad day for all of humanity. May we all heal from this tragedy. 
Cheers
Alan 

It's truly tragic that folk who are in desperate need of psychiatric help, have access to, and feel the need to express themselves with, serious armaments.
 
RIP.

wow, stay safe you guys
my heart goes out to those who lost people

The horror!
On this sad day, my thoughts go to our NZ friends.

It's utterly devastating and it's really hard to accept that what was deemed unimaginable has eventually become reality. The world has indeed gone mad.
Here at the foothills of Banks Peninsula, only a few kilometres away from CHC, we're shaking our heads in disbelief...

Can't find words to express my relief after having found out that my friends and colleagues from CHC are safe and sound.
The same goes for Anthony, though we haven't met in person. Glad you're safe.

 

Sorry to hear such terrible news.
 
Kiwis are like family.
 
Hard to believe the scale of this catastrophe and misery.
 
Matty

Uhh.. I hate hearing about things like this, it just sends shivers up my spine.   Please keep yourself safe guys

Bloody awful news back home in the last few hours.
 
Ive been in contact with Anthony Galbraith, they’re all still on lockdown in their schools and offices but he and his family are all ok. 
 
Do we we have any other friends here on LSP who hail from Christchurch? More importantly if they are reading this - are you and family/friends all ok?
 
 

Can't even imagine something like that happening in New Zealand. Everybody stay safe, and make sure friends and family are safe as well.
 
 
 
 
Matt 

Thanks mate....yes we are supposed to stay inside as there are apparently multiple shooters at large....no one really knows much more except there are many fatalities 
 
Who would have thought here in my city.  Cant wait to get home to my family......the world has gone mad

Just horrible.

It's very very sad what happened in Christchurch, and i'm trying to feel the sorrow for all involved, but "lone-wolves" like this individual WILL always hit at the most inconspicuous places possible, just because of THAT effect......it can happen anywhere, the world has indeed gone mad you might say, but even if it's a sign of "the time", this terrible event has been happening before in other circumstances......it just shows how inconsiderate we are growing to be on others, their beliefs, convictions, ways of living, you name it........and modern ways of communication isn't really helping in "cooling down" the initial reactions on things, if you know what i mean........
 
just my two P's
 
Jack