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  1. James H
    Any chance of some photos of the box contents? I'd love to see this epic kit on show.
  2. James H
    I cant wait to see another Flirt here!
  3. James H
    A pleasure!
  4. James H
    That's looking really good. Amati's Santa Maria is a model I built very early on, and I think you made a very good choice.
  5. James H
    You can’t copy and paste images from an email as it’ll try and link content on your system and the images will be broken. you need to save the image from your email and then upload to your post.
  6. James H
    That turned out superb! Please feel free to add some completed photos of her to our Gallery 📷
  7. James H
    Nice project, and there's some nice reference material out there too.
  8. James H
    Chris already stated his sources and they are robust. Roger, if you have a problem, please take it up with me via PM. The forum isn’t an area to argue.
  9. James H
    I'm already making a mental note of roughly how much glue I use
  10. James H
    If you can bring some information to the table that’s real and credible, then do so. It sounds like you have something important to share with us?
  11. James H
    Following along too.
  12. James H
    Definitely watching this! I love the Fifie and enjoyed building Chris' recent 1:64 sail version, so this is right up my Straße ⛵
  13. James H
    And that's only one deck! Remember, there aren't just three full gun decks, but also the upper decks too. The kit provides 240 strips of 4mm x 1mm x 1000mm tanganyika.
  14. James H
    It sure is! Those photos still have to load, providing you haven't already seen them, in that case your computer should pull them from its own cache quickly, and you'll only be waiting for the new images to load.
  15. James H
    Very exciting! How long now before they are sent out?
  16. James H
    It all sounds real familiar. I wonder if a number of PVA glues have changed formulation. I remember PVA generally having a reasonable amount of time to allow for adjustment. When I was building Flirt, I glued two parts together and noted after a couple of minutes that something was out of alignment. It took serious effort to split the parts. BTW, my next update to this log will be in just over a week. By then, I can show you the completed orlop deck, and the installation of the lower gun deck, plus the longitudinal side frames and cannon port frames for the lower gun deck. Quick note: Planking the lower gun deck took about 50m of 4mm x 1mm tanganyika strip.
  17. James H
    That's exactly what the system does. It's 'unread content since last visit', so will put you right at that point. We've no intentions of changing this whatsoever, even if it were possible, and I don't think it is without fiddling with actual code.
  18. James H
    Definitely watching 🍿
  19. James H
    Moving to correct area (was in Build Logs)
  20. James H
    That looks fantastic!! What a lovely, clean build, and for a first ever! I think this proves how ideal this is for a beginner, and you'll have no probs with the masts or rig. Any questions, and you'll get them answered here.
  21. James H
    I've never removed char from connecting joints. There's no reason to think that your glue won't penetrate those surfaces like it does with others. It won't fall to pieces.....I promise.
  22. James H
    What I did was lay the keel halves out on my bench, which is kitchen worktop stuff and perfectly flat (you could use a glass sheet if you weren't sure about the bench being flat). I then glued the parts together with a straight edge to absolutely make sure they were even, and sat a weight on top of joint for extra insurance. Also remember that the MDF is perfectly straight too. When that glue set, I added the reinforcement plates, locking parts and keys. You're extremely unlikely to get a bent frame or create any error. Those parts slot together very nicely and the whole joint was absolutely rigid when done.
  23. James H
    I'm also not a very disciplined builder, so the extra time helps with my approach.
  24. James H
    Onto the last steps now. Why are there variations for these panels?
  25. James H
    Just that my regular glue sets very quickly...minutes. That stuff is Titebond Original and Evo-Stik PVA. The orlop is good enough to line everything up properly, but with so many bulkheads and large glue faces, I want the glue to be workable when I drop those deck sections into place. I didn't want to lift the whole lot up with 17 loose bulkheads and heavy orlop, to try and paint glue into the joint areas. This is a very large hull.

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