James H
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That looks real good. You see how quickly the shapes come together and the reason behind the sequence? All designed to make sure you minimise risk of breakage. I've finished for the night on rigging now. Time for wine. -
Watching along. Feel your pain with customs. Perhaps kit smugglers are the future...
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That's how it felt for me with those 900+ photos and almost 30,000 words.
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I'm getting a feeling of déjà vu. Nice to sit back and watch someone else tackle her.
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I'm about a week or so off completing Sphinx, so thought I would post a few progress pics here showing shrouds and shroud cleats in place. I really, really love ratlines. Did I ever tell you that? All 1270 of the lovely little knots.
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Slowly is the way to work and you'll do just fine. Nice shape, isn't she?
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Fairing those parts 'off model' is only about removing a rough quantity of material so that it's easier when you have everything together. The quantities you see me removing in the manual were further faired in when the full was ready for overall fairing.
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Finished yet?
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Everyone who has just announced the happy arrival of their newborn Sphinx, please open a build log. We want to see them all of course, but it will save B.E.'s log from being overwhelmed with your news.
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Can't wait to see this one on here tomorrow when UPS bring that heavy box
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Hi Chuck, A big welcome to MSW. Nice to chat with you via email earlier
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Hi Zoran, I don't see any posts by any MSW moderator on this topic. How did this happen, and where? Why would people wish to devalue your work on this project? There's no doubt that MarisStella have some amazing and amazingly beautiful ships/products in their range, and many fine vessels I would one day to like to try. Without derailing this build log, here is a review of one such kit:
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So, have you got it yet? 😜
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Sorry, no...I DO mean their Flat Red. The two bottles I have aren't even close to the same colour, and the later one is really oily and bad to paint. Maybe they changed the formula or this is a bad production run.
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Be careful of Vallejo Red. I have two bottles here of the same catalogue number, and they are very different. The older one paints dead easy and is quite vibrant. The newer one looks 'dirtier' and doesn't paint anywhere near as easily with a brush.
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A quick heads-up... As the printers included an extra set of plans and manual (zero idea why!!), there is ONE more HMS Sphinx in the store. https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/product/hms-sphinx-1775/ No further kits can be made up until the next PS comes from Italy some time next month. I'm sure Chris won't mind me letting you all know
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Yes, it comes with masting and rigging. See post #285 above. And the masting pics in this build log.
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As soon as it's fully rigged, yes...definitely. It's full steam ahead now so Chris can add that stuff to the Rev.2 instruction manual for next batch of kits. The rig stuff isn't really needed for the manual as that's usually all done via plans anyway, but it's nice to add some of it to the next updated manual.
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That now looks perfect for second layer.
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James H replied to CDR_Ret's topic in How to use the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT**
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That's the layout format. Turn your phone sideways and it should reappear.
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There is a refresh on the site for recent topics/who is browsing etc. That's put in place simply because of the sheer size of MSW. Each time information is displayed, a query is made on our database, which is huge. The system tends to generate information on activity every 5 mins or so, to stop the site from crawling to a halt.
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You really needed to bend those first planks inwards to tuck in under the stern counter area, like this: I would look at adding some scrap timber/block in where those planks are cut short, then shape them in so there's a curve towards the counter...taking into account that you will have a second layer that will fit more or less flush with the counter itself, when complete.
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James H replied to CDR_Ret's topic in How to use the MSW forum - **NO MODELING CONTENT**
Hi Terry, The Gallery does have arrows to click for next and previous image. They appear when you move cursor over picture. You can see here:
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