Marcus.K.

Very impressive - these are very good obervations and its great that you include such originally sources like paintings of the old heros. THAT I very much like - and this is fun on investigating. I very much like your approach!!!

Hello Evans, oh - you have been the one I saw the photo etched camboose weeks ago!! Back then I did not really read the posts - just noticed the photos .. I have a lot of questions: you wrote that you "simulated" the planking according to Longridge? Which book is it? Did I miss the describtion? I very much like your way of "correcting" the Revell deck. I was thinking about using wood for the deck and either scraping in the planking - or really adding wooden planks on it. Your way seems to be more efficient since you can use the gratings and more. On the other hand: you did not try to represent the decks .. what´s the english expression - the deck is usually bended so that water is pouring down to the sides of the deck? Therefore the middle of the deck is a bit "higher" than the sides were the bulkwards do have the openings for the water ... Will you present the model in a diorama - in action? Probably you think about a model presented just like an old admirality model?! Will you add sails? Great work - to show the beams of the hull and the decks - that will look marvelous! I am looking forward to see the next steps ... as far as I understood you recollect what you presented somewere else - after the breakdown here at MSW?? How far is the model in reallity?? Oh I can´t wait to see more of it!

Wow ... I haven´t been here for a long time - but here are so beautiful Constitution building logs .. GREAT! This sentence is for all of them! Thank you all for sharing it! One question someone of you guys here might know: I believe I saw a building log here weeks ago - and there were etched parts used to optimize the kit. Does anyone know what I am talking about. Is there an etched parts kit for USS Constitution 1/96?

Hello Force9 .. we meet and discussed on a British forum months ago .. but I lost contact a bit! Wow you began with your Constitution - and its amazing!!! You are doing all those things (and far more) I was dreaming about. THATs what I wanna do too .. .. bad thing about it: now I have to change my plans ... (but I do have some ideas) .. good thing about it: Constitution gives a wide field of different layouts to avoid "a copy" of your beautiful work .. maybe I will try a Bainbridge oder a Steward-configuration? .. Or even better - a 1803-version with the beautiful stern decoration ...We´ll see For now I am really happy to follow your impressive work and to be inspired and warned for my future steps (which will still need much more time and practice on my whaler and maybe another sailer before I try such a beautiful kit) You did chose the Arnold-plans for the rigging? .. a good source! But there is a even better one (as I think). Did you hear about "All sails up and flying" by Olof Eriksen? http://books.google.de/books?id=XYUWBpxFZN8C&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=all+sails+up+and+flying&source=bl&ots=uWUP_QXhNJ&sig=Z26G471dMXS_NXZssLcK51ul6Dk&hl=de&sa=X&ei=8okkUbOtL8LBhAeEiID4AQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=all%20sails%20up%20and%20flying&f=false Look at it - its a great work which only has three cons: 1. the author is VERY sure about his work .. no room for doubts and professional distance .. 2. it represents Stewards rigging in 1815 - so not exactly what you are looking for. 3. the publisher did not want to spend too much money - while on other side he wanted earn as much as possible. So the book is very expensive - and offers not enough room for the hundreds of drawings which Olof Eriksen did create to build is model But there are many plus: 1. Olof Ericsen compared the british and american way of rigging (Steel and ..?? What was the other ones name?) .. 2. and he consulted the Isaac Hull Modell as reference - and was allowed to do some investigations on the model - which is very interesting. 3. he got a copy of the logbook of a midshipman by T. Martin. This describes the rerigging in the 1830s. ordered by the navyboard to be done "according to the usage in the War 1812-1815" .. so there will - of course - be some differences ... but at least they tried to do it in the "old" way. 4. Erksen did investigations how the rigging would have worked - he tried each "method" (British, American, Hull-Modell, Midshipmans describtion) and tried to "work" with the results ..choosing the most likely version. I think this work would deserve a much better (more valuable) book and of course much more and much wider drawings than the publisher wanted to risk. But nevertheless: the book is a great inspiration!!! I am really happy I stepped over your building log! Thank you for showing this!! Marcus