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  • Birthday 06/16/1968

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    Very nice progress Eric! I agree with Keith and John, she is truly beginning to look like the photos of her and your work on the canvas looks great. As for your paddlewheel, that is one of my favorite parts to build. Just the details that go into them add to the beauty of these boats. -Brian
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    If I said this never happened to me and you believed it, we need to talk about some ocean front property in Arizona that I'd like to sell you . It may not have happened on the tarpaper roof, but I have made this mistake in other areas on other builds. At least with the masking tape it's a little bit easier to repair. With silkspan and Modge Podge there is a lot more sanding involved. Great job on the recovery though John. -Brian
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    Beautiful work as always John! Glad to see more progress. I would have to say that the paddlewheel was one of the more complex parts of the build, but also one of the most enjoyable and satisfying parts. -Brian
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    Thanks for the Maggie update Keith. Glad to hear she is progressing nicely. We’ll still continue to send healing prayers your way. Google is a wonderful resource for recipes, I’ve tried several out myself with some success. And happy belated birthday, hopefully you celebrated it with a nice long nap. 😁 -Brian
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    Looking good Eric. I may have to look into getting me one of those magnetic squaring jigs. Looks pretty handy. -Brian
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    Gotta love all those battens 😁. They really test your patience. Great work John! -Brian
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    Roger, I envy you and your master skills with soldering miniature pieces. -Brian
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    Beautiful work as always Eberhard. -Brian
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    Glad that was helpful. They came out looking great! -Brian
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    Looking good Eric, For the rain shields (I have no idea what they are called either) I used thin copper sheeting. I took a sheet of card stock and cut a circle about 25% larger than the diameter of the stacks base. I slit the circle from the outside edge to the center and the folded it into a cone to get the desired slope of the shield. I taped it together then centered the point of the cone in the stack to get the inside diameter of the shield and marked it. I then unfolded the cone, cut the center circle out, trimmed the overlap and had the pattern I needed. I then transcribed the pattern to the copper sheet and cut that out. I used this same method form my Cairo funnels as well, but just used the card stock instead since I ran out of copper. The results came out the same. Apologies for hijacking your build with so many pictures, I’m a visual guy and pictures always seem to help me describe what I’m trying to convey. 😁 -Brian
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    Woohoo! I love it when I get my way. 😆 The brass tubing looks great. If I may make a suggestion, Rustoleum, makes a self etching primer that works great to help paint adhere to bare metals such as brass, copper and aluminum. It’s what I use on my builds. It dries a little rough but with a quick sanding with 400grit sandpaper it finishes up nice and smooth and the topcoat lays down real nice. I also see nothing wrong with the pilothouse glass. Back in the day clear glass was not overly abundant. -Brian
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    It is located in the galley, so I’m pretty sure a little extra cooling is needed when all the stove burners are lit. Especially in the heat of Summer. -Brian
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    While researching for my build I found several different pictures of the Caroline N, even back to the time it was still owned by its original company ACBL and called the Luis H. Meece. In all of those port side photos the window unit is in every one of them. Even now with Marquette Transportation owning the boat the window unit is still there. It is also in the same location of her sister boats as well, Limestone Lady & Miss Kris so I am not wondering if this was a Jeffboat thing for this particular run of boats. -Brian
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    Thank you Yves for the kind comments. I am using an XTool S1 laser engraver and the proprietary software that comes with it called XTool Creative Space. I have to say, it has opened up a whole new world of making model ship parts. Funny that you say that. The guy that I am building this boat for read my last update and sent me a text message laughing about that very detail. My response was, "I don't miss details" -Brian
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    That is fantastic news Keith!!! You got this! -Brian

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