Photos of New WTJ Pre-Dreads on Blog

[Bluebear]

I have just posted some photos of the 1/2400 War Times Journal pre-Dreads to my blog:

jeffsnavy.blogspot.ca/2013/10/new-wtj-12400-pre-dreads.html

In a day or two I'll post some "comparison" images of some of the WTJ and Panzerschiffe vessels.


-- Jeff

[warchariot]

Those do look nice. I wonder why they didn't do a 1/1200 scale with all the others they do?

[Bluebear]

Gentlemen,

On my blog and some other locations there have been some questions raised about adding masts to the new War Times Journal "Rapid Prototyped Plastic" ships.

This evening I received an email from Jim at WTJ discussing this. Below are the his relevant comments:


"BTW regarding masts, most ships should come with mast holes already present. The 1/1500 holes for major warships are typically .80mm in diameter (about .032") so on the 1/2400 ships that would scale down to about a .020" hole. At that size, the hole probably fills with wax and needs to be flushed out, but it is there.

Typically the ships are designed with enough thickness below the mast hole to support a mast. In the unusual event that the mast hole is directly over a relatively thin deck section, a boss is located on the underside to prevent the cross section at that point from becoming too thin. If anyone sees otherwise, it's a design error on my part and I'll ship them a replacement for free… I did that by accident on some ships during a revision update, although to be honest I masted one of them anyway and it held fine – the fit was exact (tight) and the plastic is plenty hard. Still, just wanted to emphasize that this subject has been given a great deal of consideration. Also, I am already phasing in a support design that automatically gives the
mast even more support without having to manually check for it on each ship configuration as I go.

Thanks for posting the photos, I have some I've taken of both 1/3000 and 1/2400 ships that I'll be adding to the store… just haven't had time to process them as I've been finishing up the Kaiser Wilhelm II and Formidable and been getting going on Powerful and Kasagi. Those first two should be posted to the store this weekend."


So hopefully that will help those of you wondering about adding masts . . . as well as providing a glimpse at some of the new ships being added.

Good steaming to everyone,


-- Jeff

[Bluebear]

I have now uploaded some "comparison photos" to my blog:

jeffsnavy.blogspot.ca/2013/10/wtj-panzerschiffe-comparison-photos.html

One of the big differences that I noticed was that the new WTJ process allows "undercuts", which isn't really possible with standard casting methods.


-- Jeff