Chuck Seiler
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Greetings from Southern California
Chuck Seiler replied to Allamagoosa's topic in New member Introductions
San Francisco is Northern California-maybe. Central. Certainly not southern. Sacramento is, well....Sacramento. It is like the New Jersey of California, with fewer beaches. -
Greetings from Southern California
Chuck Seiler replied to Allamagoosa's topic in New member Introductions
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Start with clamps. You can never have too many clamps. ...and magnifiers.
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Clare, When is Ages of Sail getting the wood versions? I noticed on the "SHIPYARD" site, they not only have the wood "Wonder Dog" (yeah, i knw, i know, it's Mad Dog or Wunder Hound), they also have a kogge...although it appears different than the Bremen Kogge.
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Clare, A lot of good advice. I think I will follow the "write the part number on the part" advice. The multi-plank piece is below the turn of the bilge so I don't think many people will see it. I don't hold out much hope for more visible areas. I have decided to do the decks, the crows nest, the forecastle (it is a REAL fore-CASTLE) and...aft castle in wood. Other areas to be determined. At this point, I am still working on the planking. I found my camera. If the hull planking doesn't look too crappy, I will start a build log.
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I managed to get the single strakes looking pretty good. The dilemma is that if you use too much paint on the brush you gob a lot of paint and it seeps in. If you use too little, you have to dip your brush again and you get splotching. I managed to work out a system where I got a good amount of paint, started in the middle of the strake, at one of the seams. I single brushed in one direction (usually the longest), then starting at the seam, single stroke in the other. THEN starting at one end, a single stroke down the length of the strake to even everything out. Applying at the seam allows any difference in shading due to the diff in the first and second stroke to be attributed to being different planks. The planking sections and structures that involved multiple strakes did not go as well. I'm not sure what to do about those.
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What about the rudder? It doesn't look like you left a space in the water for the rudder...or am I missing something?
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Clare, Any progress? I am dipping my toe in the painting. #03 wash complete on all exterior planks and most deck planks. When you applied the 15/29/30 wash #1, did you apply 1 coat or more? I applied a single coat of wash on the interior cargo area but it was splotchy. I applied a second coat to the athwart-ships bulkhead in the cargo bay. It looks much better, but darker that I think we are going for. Your thoughts?
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I don't believe that to be correct. When I was almost done with my mini Philly, I got to see a much larger model by Dave Yotter based on the Smithsonian plans. It was open under the forward deck. At the time I recall the plans supported that. At one time there was an interactive 3D model of Philly on the Smithsonian website. It is still there but much less interactive. Again, it showed under deck storage area. The pictures I have of the wreck in the Smithy are not conclusive, but it appears to be open. Then there is the entry from BRATTEN's dissertation: "Only two 12-pound round shot were found indicating that this cannon may have seen more service during the battle at Valcour Island. One 12-pound shot was found still resting in the shot garland in the bow and the other under the forward deck. Average diameter of the 12-pound round shot is 4-13/32 inches.37 Neither is marked."
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Row Forrest Row!!!!
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Perfect!
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Based on your detail, I thought you HAD the document. Perhaps an open crate with the bar shot. Bratten says there was only the 2 bar shots but I find it hard to believe that was all they started out with. He says there were only two 12 pound balls found in the wreck and fifty four 9 pound balls. Based on how it was anchored, almost all of the firing was from the 12 pounder. Since the British were sailing into the wind, it would make sense that barshot was used early to impact their ability to close with the Yanks. Based on the numbers, Philly was about to run out of ammunition for the 12 pounder. I wonder what they would have done if they had not sunk.
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Not true. John Bratten's dissertation on the Philadelphia indicates 2 bar shot were found on the Philly, one was in the 12 pounder at the time of sinking. Bratten's full dissertation can be found here. https://nautarch.tamu.edu/Theses/abstracts/bratten.html
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That would be dependent on what kind of glue was used. Can you tell?
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Clare, This is really looking good. Looking at the pics in post 65, if you told me that was cardboard not wood, I would be hard pressed to believe, Well done!!
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Hmmm. My book said "6:0,25:0,5". The commas threw me. I agree that ratios with less than 1 are strange. The 24:1:2 makes more sense. Thanks.
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Clare, Awhile back you mentioned Ages of Sail was working on being distributor for Woody Joe models. Is that still in the works?
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Clare, I am looking at the painting and have some questions. After the first wash of #03 I have a wash of 15/29/30 (yellow/brown/black) which is supposed to be the basic wood, followed by a second wash of 15/29/30 in different proportions that are meant to simulate wood grain. First ratios are 6:25:5 while the second are 6:1:1. This doesn't make sense to me. The first set of ratios would seem to make a darker color. Am I wrong or did I get the ratios wrong?
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I have some PIGMA Micron markers. I will experiment with a medium brown and a pencil.
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