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  1. JesseLee
    Nice work!
  2. JesseLee
    Very nice!
  3. JesseLee
    I love the look and finish of the deck planking!
  4. JesseLee
    Dave your attention to detail and ability to create it is amazing to me.Seems like you don't miss anything!
  5. JesseLee
    That paint looks very nice! I'll have to get some of that sometime.
  6. JesseLee
    Cool!
  7. JesseLee
    Love it! I wish I had done this with mine.
  8. JesseLee
    Thanks for all the comments and likes everyone! I apologize that I have not posted completed pictures. Life has been busy lately. On the days I feel good enough to do something I am working on extending my lean-to shelter outside. Trying to have a little workshop out there for regular sized wood working and things are way too tight. Extending it out 12 more feet to move the lawnmowers under and free up more work space for a work table and space to use power saws, sanders, etc. With my health condition everything takes me 10 times longer than it should take. Not sure what is next. With the outside projects and me building my own homemade biological filter systems for my aquariums Not sure if I will get back to any ship modeling until the warm weather season passes. Don't have any more kits. Have 2 part-built ships started by someone else that I picked somewhere along the way over the years that I always said I could fix up but have never done. I have also dabbled in SIBs some and could tackle another one of them as I always have ideas for them rolling around in my head. Plus all this depends on how I feel. Jesse
  9. JesseLee
    That mouse looks great! I wish I could make them that good. Jesse
  10. JesseLee
    Buddy refusing to be left out of the picture! Will put a few more up of completed ship later Jesse
  11. JesseLee
    I finally got the flags on. I guess this means this build is finished. I would like to build a lifeboat to hang on the back but who knows when I'll ever get around to that. Maybe that could be a mini-build some time in the future. Now I have to get my Lyme damaged brain to remember how to get this labeled as "Finished" Jesse
  12. JesseLee
    You stay safe Rich
  13. JesseLee
    Makes me want one on my Syren Jesse
  14. JesseLee
    The sword is a nice touch. Looks better with the pennant too!
  15. JesseLee
    Finally got to work on rigging the Jack to the Jackstaff. Got it on. Not positive on just how this is supposed to be tied off but here's what I got. Haven't settled on which direction I'll have it waving, will get the Ensign on and then figure it out. Jesse
  16. JesseLee
    The weathering will look much better than the bright white rigging.
  17. JesseLee
    I'm amazed you can do it at all. I do understand though. Sometimes building is part of healing or helping you through a sickness. The first year of my treatment for my chronic Lyme disease I had a PICC line inserted into a (vein/artery?) in my arm going right into a chamber in my heart to pump antibiotics straight in. Had it in for 8 months. Spent much of that time in bed. I built my first large wooden ship model during that time. I wanted something to try to do to give me a purpose to live because I was so sick I wanted to go on and die. Somehow I built this whole ship from scratch- no kit- and a single large plan sheet. A lot of it is not accurate but under the circumstances I did the best I could. I don't even remember most of the build at all but It was what got me through that very hard time. Here is a pic below of it. I say be proud of what you are doing knowing your condition right now. It can be wonderful therapy. Jesse
  18. JesseLee
    Man, life just does not want me to get this model finished. I've been getting the flags ready to add on the ship. I have been looking at pictures of waving flags and I also fly flags at my house. I've been studying the different ways flags flap and fold as they fly in different wind strengths and forming the flags. Jesse
  19. JesseLee
    I admire your determination to keep building with your hands still healing from burns. I hope you aren't in too much pain. Jesse
  20. JesseLee
    Oops, wrong photo there...
  21. JesseLee
    Got my replacement flags in. They are printed cloth so I have to put glue around the edges so when it is cut out it wont fray. Inspected my ship because months have passed since I really got to spend time on it most every day. I see that it is coated with dust and needs a very thorough cleaning. Also saw a place below the bowsprit that I missed rigging. Jesse
  22. JesseLee
    Well I found replacement flags. They will be cloth instead of paper. Thought I'd be able to one from lots of places for a not much money but only found a few places and they were all over seas. With shipping these 2 little flags cost about as much as a full size 3x5 flag! Coming in from England so I'm just waiting..........
  23. JesseLee
    Having a problem with the blue color coming off in places where I am trying to fold them.. They are worse than the picture shows. I tried touching up with highlighters and markers but nothing matches the color at all. The more I mess with them the worse it gets. I guess I am going to have to replace them somehow. Any suggestions? Jesse
  24. JesseLee
    Life around here has done everything possible to keep me from this build. All I have left is the two flags. I really wanted to make a lifeboat to hang from the back davits but it doesn't look like that will happen anytime in the near future. I made a small cleat by flattening the end of a metal pin. I then filed it down to a very tiny size filing a very sharp point to stick in the staff. Forgot to take pics of this process. Made a very tiny hole with a micro twist drill and pinned it into the bottom of the staff on the bowsprit cap. Dipped the sharp point of the cleat in CA glue before pinning it in. I'm trying to rig up a block and cleat rig for this instead of just tying the (Jack?) flag to the staff. Folded and glued the flags sides together. Getting some folds set in them, I know the shaping will need changing a bit before they are done. Jesse
  25. JesseLee
    Yes all the Syren parts and rope are outstanding!

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