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  1. Yes, Grecian is a great opportunity to show a "diagonal keel" - feel free to catch this chance to built a beaty - but avoid a WLmodel ... Schootish Maid I found in Mac Gregor's "Search for Speed" - your source, too? A great sea you did!!!
  2. Guillemot, I allways like to come to your postings here... She is such a beautyf!!! I'm still dealing in my mind with Diligente from the Chapelle plans... Baltimore Clipper are so wounderfull ships... Lines like a women... Thanks for showing! Christian
  3. Scratchmodelbuilding of limited builded ships like sloops-of-war, screw- and paddlesloops

  4. That sounds great, Jim!!! Go ahead, that is the right way of thinking went away from the tedious to the parts that groooooove! If anything is going to annoy you - make it standing in the corner... You have got more successfiull cuts than failers -> so the process of learning works inside of Jim -> called handcrafting experience grown out of empirically -> brings progress in prowess -> this brings fun into the work, -> so you like more what you do... -> and you like to be able to do what you do... -> so you can what you like to do.. We call it reinforcing learning..* (or if you don't like to mindf*ck): Hobby! It looks fine your Quaterdeck - the rst will follow... Go on - keep course and speed! Yours, Christian *I do it with my food every day!
  5. Jy Hym! Changing the material might be the better solution... Yes it is very brave to stay with wood - but it may be hopeless to be too fundamentalistic in the vote of the material. Untill a specific thinness is reached everything is okay - but if you undercut a specific measuring value the wood will got broken by the loading of its own wight! Its a physical law. WHO is to blame for your bad situation? Guilty is a guy called :mellow: Isaac Newton... He brought, introduced and promoted a so called law of nature - and only because of his *heavily censored swarewords* law we are forced to crawl on all fourth under our workbench and try to find the corpulating little pice of anything we worked on for the last hours or days... As Canada was whilom a part of the Commonwealth - you might put this case before the House of Lords (today there might be s.th. like a the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.. or better ask for me also and drag the guy and our task before the Worldsecuritycouncil. DOWN WITH GRAVITY! and everything would have been better if he lived on the Caribian Ilands (see below)... Yours, Christian If you fall - I'll be there. The floor
  6. Jim, you have got it!!! ...that's a very good idea to "automotivate" yourself by changing the location of your concentration! Well dann the parts under your quaterdecktimbers... Gratulor! Christian
  7. Dear Jim, there is the possibillity to use Evergreen plastic sheetes and stripes to undo your window problems. The spindles on the balcony are easy to "march in rank and file" by using a spaceholder - just simply cut a stencil from cardboard and use it between every spindel. Put a simple grasp/handle on it so you can positionate it easier and also remove it more simply. The form of the spindels requested by the plans drawings can be made from toothpicks - in cheap an easy way...Oor if you want a more historical and want to work them out of a quareed timber... take the complex way from behaeded wooden matches. By rolling the rounded result along a roll up pice of sandpaper you get a curved collum -> a spindle. You can roll it by fingers or using a drillingmaschine as a lethe. Jim - the most important is that you have seen that it is possible!!! ...and now you refine the work. .. May be you NOW thing you'll not be able to do them as on the drawing! But you will wonder what your fingers can do! "Every dustbin of a good modelshipbuilder is well filled with pices other would give their teeth eye for it." a worldchampionship shipmodel winner. How old ar you now? Belief me you'd get mad if you would find out after so many years, that you have been a born modelshipbuilder and wasted your time with something else then winning one championship after the other... You've started an interesting project... Yours Christian
  8. Okay Jim - it's a great first start!!! You made a bridge from thr skelleton of wood to a well done first stern! I think your feeling of imperfectism depenses on your view - on the model. The cross in the windows are able to be better. If the horicontal parts were more parallel they will look a lot better. Lots of years I've built scratch wagon for my O16.5 freelance railway by adopting Pullmann and othe prototypes - there is the source of my idears to find in. 1st save wood - use cardboard: It's cheaper, easier to cut und it doesn't hurt so much to bin a second and third trail. 2nd go the easiest way: The easiest way (i.m.h.o.) may be to cut the windows out from the extra plancopy and unsing them as a direct stencil.Perchance the used wood in windows corsses are too wide, so a smaller/thinner pice of wood might bring more satisfaction in the building becauce it is closer to the prototype. 3rd keep you flexibley - stay able to change your mind: If wood doesn't work - don't try it a fourth fivth or dozendth time - change the material... take plasticcard - and paint it like wood - the hole ship will be painted... why not begin with the windows crosses? 4th trust your eye: The circle of the higher balcony seems to be too plan - check it with the plans pattern. Take both - the sideview and the sterns frontalview as you are driving backward with the car - using both wing mirrors by changing between them! "It's a pure mixture of diffrend materials under the skin of colour - but nobody knows without me!" Wolfram zu Mondfeld HTH, Yours, Christian
  9. Hello Mark, thats highly inspriational for me, very well done work! The ideas you have shown are great... a steps spacer - gereat! Thanks a lot! Christian
  10. es stern decoration is a very important point - a tremendous eyecatcher for everybody including ourself... To copy the stern's shape seems to be a good idea - why should we always try to reinvent the wheel a second time? Then have a nice walk with the dogs... my four kitten only have got a finely adjusted "stomage-clock" and geather completely to an orchester twice a day - allways on the tick at seven... Christian
  11. Yes - don't look on the watch - the time you can't see on the clock is shown in the progress on/in/at our model - and no watch hand can take away the satisfaction from your model... It's great work you do. The run of the planks aft is well done! I'm very interested to see the stempost and the opening to let the rudder come to the decks level to "cross" the tiller... Greetings from the man with two clockfree rooms in the flat: bathroom and workshop
  12. Hy Mark, she looks great - a wonderful prototype. I've got no idea about french shipbuilding! Thanks for sharing, Yours, Christian
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