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I am working on the rigging of my HMS Beagle from Occre. It is my first model ship. The rigging instructions show some belay pins having two different lines attached to them. Is this correct? I am a little worried about whether there is enough pin on the bottom of the pin rail for the extra material.
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Hi all. I am a newcomer to the modelling hobby. I am Danish and live in Copenhagen. My English is ok, but I am struggling with all the shipwright terms in English (They are hard enough in Danish!) so please bear with me. After building my first wood ship model (The beginner model Polaris from Occre) I decided to go ahead and move on to HMS Beagle also from Occre. After Polaris was pretty succesful I thought I would just go ahead and try. The videos Occre has published are awesome, and gives a feeling of "How hard can it be". It was a pretty horrible experience in planking my Polaris model the Occre way, but rather satisfactory after sanding it down 🙂 So I dived into studying heaps of tutorials on how to do the planking a better way. The Occre model has two layers of planks, I thought I could try and learn the most by doing my best with the inner layer - in preparation for a larger model with only single planking. Well, that did not go well! After rereading and rereading, I seem to prove that one learns the best by doing. Reading is not enough. Sanding saved me again. Unfortunately I can't find the photo of that. I have also started this build log at a little late stage. So my first posts will seem like I am a fast builder. I am not. I just want to show the progress. So I finished the hull. Struggled with the rudder - the small pins were a mess I think. Too small really to insert. I painted it and started on the first few doors. At this stage I was very stringent on following the manual. Here the manual said to paint (the Gunwales?) all black and then white on top. My first thought was "That won't cover and be completely white" but I managed after several coatings, and I learned not to follow instructions too rigid. So far I am pretty satisfied after a very bad beginning with the first layer of planks. I am a bit unhappy, though, with my wood dye. I have only been able to find a dark color, which does NOT look like the Sapelli wood that the model comes with. (In Danish this is mahogni - I think anyways) Thus, it looks awfull when mixing dyed lime wood with sapelli wood. I have to dye the original sapelli as well. But now I am sticking with this darker color compared to the manual and video tutorials from Occre. Regards, Lars
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Hi folks, new member and new model ship builder. A biologist by passion and education (though a programmer by trade), my first ship will be the HMS Beagle (OcCre, 1:60), which is at this very moment traveling my way from Madrid via Paris (and FedEx). Looking forward to seeing your projects and getting your advice and tips during what I assume will be a years-long voyage (project) for me. 😊 — John
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