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RE: Season 34 : Week 10 Challenge Questions 1 - What is your hobby?
Hello, @jorgebgt! What a great way to make the most of your free time—engaging in an art form as detailed and steeped in history as ship modeling. I find the level of patience and precision required to restore pieces or build them from scratch truly fascinating.
Reading about your experience, I’m curious: what has been the greatest challenge, or the most complicated part, you’ve encountered while building a model?
Best regards, and wishing you great success with this project!
Hello. Yes, I have encountered some complications. Usually, I manage to resolve them, but when it came to the artillery cannons for these models, I wasn't sure how to proceed. I had the choice of either buying them or making them myself; buying them is expensive and would go against my personal rule of crafting everything from scratch. Since these cannons are made of metal, they require a metal lathe to produce. I tried using lead, but that presented its own set of challenges—in fact, that was the very reason I hit a roadblock while working on the large ship model, as it required over 110 cannons. Can you imagine making 110 cannons at a 1/100 scale? Anyway, I’ve figured it out now; the only thing I’m lacking is time.
I hope that answers your question. Best regards.
#s34engagement
Oh wow, this whole world of scale modeling is interesting.