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Ok, as ZyXuz suggested, photo gallery seemed to do the trick so here goes with some photo updates. I apologize for picture quality because we are still in the tail end of this move and I haven't located my little camera so these were taken with my smartphone and THEN resized which also hurt quality some. First, a couple photos of the new workbench and whatnot. I also have these right next to my work space as motivation to complete the builds and it doubles as proof that they can be finished haha. Here is a photo of where my hull stands at the moment. I want to re-paint her because she picked up quite a bit of dust in the move and her dry dock time. You can also see that I have the waterways and deck step cut to size but they are not glued in place yet. I have some boxwood strips that I will be using to plank the deck, still trying to decide exactly how I want to go about planking it though, full length planks and then possibly marking in board ends or laying planks with like 60mm long strips of wood. Here are my deck fixtures where they currently stand. These may also get a fresh coat of paint but I'm not sure about that yet. The roofs of the deck houses are all boxwood strips so they will match the deck and they are thinned down to 1/64" for scale. The doors for the deck houses are obviously not done, I want to get the runners installed and the sliding top made before cutting them to size in order to get the best fit. What do you guys think about color for the doors? should they be white, stick with the wood(different from the boxwood) or I could make them out of boxwood but I don't think I like that idea much? Also, I wanted to add in a couple pics of the way I mounted the hull to the launching ways. I used a metal rod and a metal tube with an inside diameter slightly larger than the rod diameter. The tube is set inside the hull and the rods are mounted on the lunching ways. It provides for a smooth way to attach and detach the hull from the launchingway and I feel like it is sturdier than just having the rods go into the wood where they could potentially damage the hull or break through the wood. Man, I really like the new posting system on this site. Very easy to add pictures inside of the text and whatnot.

Can you also choose the file size? That is the other problem I have been running into.

Hey everyone, My name is Max and I am in the middle of my first attempt at a Model Shipways kit, the Phantom. I had a build log going on MSW 1.0 but that is gone now so I will pick up where I left off. I have more or less been following Chuck's practicum but I strayed from it some and got some ideas from others who had build logs of this kit before. I haven't worked on this kit much in the past few months because of college and my wife and I recently bought our first home and I have been doing projects around the house, ect... Anyways, I have a decent setup started in my garage and this will probably be a much better place to build than in our last house we were renting because i was building in our guest bedroom/wife's sewing room/my hobby room and it wasn't ideal to say the least lol. Pictures to come... I will edit this post and add pictures as soon as I find a photo editing software that will allow me to reduce the size of the photos since we can only upload 2mb files. Anyone remember the name off the software that was recommended on MSW 1.0? If so, do you have the link to download it? Thanks in advance! I am super excited to get going on this build again, it has been too long and I really enjoyed building her up until this point. Until next time, -Max

Does anyone remember the link to the free photo editing software that was recommended on MSW 1.0? I really liked that software because I could set the resolution to be exactly what I needed. Thanks in advance, -Max

Hey David, Great looking build so far. I remember your build logs from MSW 1.0 being great and very helpful, Hopeful. Keep up the great work! -Max

Scott, Looks like your Phantom is off to a great start! I am in the middle of my Phantom build as well and will be re-starting a build log soon. Keep up the good work and try to be thorough because your build log will likely get used a lot by others considering there are so few on this forum now. -Max

Dan, Glad to see you are starting a build log for this model kit. I have this one on the shelf for after I finish with my Phantom build. This seems to be a rare build as there was almost no info on this kit or anything related to it on MSW 1.0. Keep this bad boy going and I will be sure to check in as you progress. Good luck! -Max