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Patrick Haw

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About Patrick Haw

  • Birthday 09/30/1952

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  • Location
    St. Michaels, MD, USA
  • Interests
    Naval history, Horatio Nelson

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  1. Gil, Don't sell yourself short! Even though you completed your Victory so long ago, it's still the hallmark of how to build this model. I'm on the standing rigging of my Victory at the moment (yes, it's taken me forever!) and I have your build log open in my shipyard to guide me all the time. Best wishes, Patrick
  2. Nothing posted lately, but I've been busy working on gun ports and finally have finished them all. As always, there's touch up here and there to do, but I think I'm pretty much finished with the hull now and can move on. Started tapering the bowsprit today!
  3. Yves, Fantastic work! You are the one who is basically writing the manual for this model. It looks like the manual from CAF is comprised entirely of CAD drawings, so your log here with pictures, tips, and hints will be invaluable for future builders. Well done! Patrick
  4. Yves, I am so glad I found your Bellona build log. She looks great and you are doing a fantastic job. Your explanations of difficulties encountered and you solutions to them will be invaluable to future builders of this great model. I will be following closely and have a feeling that the CAF Bellona will be on my wish list when I get my Victory done! Patrick
  5. I'm torn here, Kevin. As much as I want to see your progress with Enterprise, you AV is coming along beautifully. Oh well, I'll take what I can get from your wonderful work! Patrick
  6. Glad you got it sorted out. Your planking is looking good. Once you get your first planking on and filled and faired, the second planking is a breeze...well, sort of!
  7. Hello Glenn, I just found your Sphinx build log and really enjoyed looking through it. I'm so sorry that it went a bit pear-shaped on you, but I'm sure you'll recover and end up with a beautiful model. Patrick
  8. Kevin, I just came upon your HMS Enterprise build and spent a very pleasant couple of hours going through it. It's fantastic and I'm impressed that you took on a challenge like this. You've done a great job. As others have said, don't let trolls on Facebook get to you...most of them probably couldn't glue two toothpicks together. I'm looking forward to you getting back on this build and seeing your results. Patrick
  9. Wow Kevin! Just found your AV build log. First off, I'm glad it's not just me who leaves a build sitting to one side for a few years! Second. I love how your AV looks, especially all the brass work and turnbuckles. So glad I'm back on board in MSW and finding such great build logs as this one. Looking forward to following you. Patrick
  10. Hello Graham, I just went through your build log again and your work and precision and innovative use of tools and jigs is impressive. But no new posts in over a year? Please tell me your Victory continues to progress and I'd love to see more of how she's turning out. (Of course, I'm one to talk! I vanished off this site for a couple of years before returning to my build!) Patrick
  11. Well, we're moving along now with gun port lids. I now have 15 of them under various stages of assembly/painting. Once these are finished and installed I only have seven more to build...whoopee! As each lid is custom-built and fitted to its respective gun port (to allow for building up wales and slight variations in size) I number them and then place them on sticky side up masking tape so they don't fly away or get mixed up once they're painted inside and out. I use the sticky side up masking tape on the painting bench too so the lids don't get blown away by air pressure from the air brush! Patrick
  12. We grow...in more ways than one. Just for laughs here's a picture of my entire workshop/workbench when I started this project so long ago, followed by a couple of more pics of what it looks like today. I need a bigger garage! Mind you, when I see some other builders' custom-built workshops I salivate...and then I think of Gil Middleton who built his amazing Victory on a table top in a condominium! Patrick
  13. Lovely work Sjors. Are you going to copper her? It took me about 2 months to copper my Victory, but at your rate of work you can probably get it done in one weekend!! Patrick
  14. Progress from the last couple of days. Port side middle gun deck port lids are all installed. I started out with the gun port lids building one at a time, then 3 at a time, now I'm juggling 8 at a time and it goes much quicker. As is always the case with the repetitive jobs on the build, you start of shaky and get better as you go along. When you finally get good at it, you've pretty much finished the job and don't need those skills any more! Patrick
  15. Hello Sjors, So glad to find you're still here, and especially excited that you're tackling Caldercraft's Victory. As always, your work is fantastic...and fast! I just got back to my Victory after a couple of years hiatus and have started posting to my log again. Really looking forward to your progress! Patrick
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