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  1. yancovitch
    merci timmo........
  2. yancovitch
    thanks buck, but two people should be able to grab it ..one at each end and place it in the water off the dock...one holds the mast while the other starts loading maybe 10-15lb blocks of lead,which are coated to avoid contamination......will probably add an external keel but i haven't decided yet exactly how or how much....
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    thought i should throw in a side view .....keeping the upper gun deck open as shown in some etchings i've seen.....and adding sides to the beakhead so i can add some naked women or whatever ...haven't decided whether or not to add some openings on the cabin between the two towers.....ha...looking forward to figuring out how to make the huge lantern (s) at the stern.....should be fun...... oh.....cut the tip of my thumb on the table saw, so i'm out of commission for a bit...........
  4. yancovitch
    yes isn't it?....and its so nice to see so much information available to make a relatively accurate replica
  5. yancovitch
    that's innovative.....such little space between the upper and lower gun ports......
  6. yancovitch
    still more decorations to come...ordered some mini crowns from china...ha..good luck.........will tile the domes with round tiles, and paint them a dark metalic bronze.....and the cabin between the towers will not slope right up to the hull, but have a pointed roof before sloping down to the hull....happy how the windows turned out...............still haven't figured out what to do with the bow yet.....sorry, used too slow a speed on camera...
  7. yancovitch
    neat......any idea how much she weighs right now?
  8. yancovitch
    funny, every time i build a model, it's like the first time, like i'm starting from scratch....i don't seem to have much retention.....what goes in one eye, goes out the other....what goes in one ear goes out the other ....i hardly remember building previous models....although i think some of my instincts manage to get through....talk about living in the present
  9. yancovitch
    well thanks guys....makes me feel more accepting with the cherry.....
  10. yancovitch
    hello, i thought i'd share my project here, cause it should be somewhat different then most of the couronne models i've seen built, and may be interesting to some........... it will be an occasional entry showing where i'm at at a given time rather than a complete build log, as i really don't know what i'm doing, or how to do it, day to day, since, aside from the basic drawings, much will have to be made up...... as i live in a small town or village, i don't have access to many materials, so when i had the opportunity to get some cherry wood locally, i grabbed it, not realizing that the swirly grain after varnishing, would show up so much....but i'm living with it and am continuing the build.....if the grain will bother me too much below the waterline, i'll paint it white....... i found that varnish made the grain to dark and exposed, so i used polyurethane, which was better, although the wood looks dark below the lower wale because i used epoxy resin and 2-1/2 oz cloth finished with urethane.....the resin also darkens the wood......i coated the inside the ship with 6 oz cloth and epoxy resin....weighs about 20 lbs now..... this is where i'm at so far.......the hull is around 6 feet long...total should be under 8 feet and hopefully will be sailable.....using the drawings shown, but will make many modifications...the lines were of low resolution, so i had to do much guesswork.... made some windows from mesh bag, painted black, and poured on some polyester resin....but the resin disolved the black...so used epoxy resin....but the fibres in the mesh started coming undone and it looked messy...so i got an aluminum mesh screen from an exhaust vent i butchered, painted it black, and used the epoxy resin, and i'm satisfied with the result..... made a madonna for the stern out of super sculpey, but may do more work on it later so well see what happens next.......
  11. yancovitch
    now that's a super duper project!............hope you do a lot of research instead of building exactly like the kit.....you may be able to make some nice improvements......here and there...uh...mostly there
  12. yancovitch
    nicely said..............uh.......what undertaking? ....you created a nice feel with the ship.....visually appealing....
  13. yancovitch
    hmmmm...maybe there's a hinge at the bottom to accomodate different shaped boats...maybe the bowling pin is adjustable too........somehow....someway....ha......like i know what i'm saying..haha.............
  14. yancovitch
    well that's great....i'll do the same...maybe with a different material.....thanks mucho dave..........
  15. yancovitch
    how did you make the scalloped shingles on the stern galleries?
  16. yancovitch
    now that's a great idea...why didn't i think of it thanks!
  17. yancovitch
    thanks...no problem
  18. yancovitch
    where did you see the mantua plans online...i looked everywhere.....
  19. yancovitch
    yep...it sure looks purdy.......i ended up buying those plans for the belaying points, which, i was told it showed...but regretfully they are not shown on the plans.............unless you read french.....should have used the money for one of the kit plans.....the corel ones are available online, but the resolution is rather poor, so alot is unreadable.....
  20. yancovitch
    looks cool......smart idea with the windows...always thought that plunking them on the outside was cheapish......was wondering what all that filigree at the top was..hmmmm......one of the big issues for me will be, what kind of decorations to put on my model when the time comes, aside from the obvious madonna and fleurs de lys................. by the way...does anyone know how to apply word wrap here?...script keeps running off the screen......
  21. yancovitch
    really looks nice, but the protrusions at the bottom ha..whatever they're called.....shouldn't the tapered part be twards the rear, and the wide section forward?
  22. yancovitch
    she really looks lovely.....!.....inspires me to find ways to improve the one i'm making........vic
  23. yancovitch
    steaming does wonders ....steamed all my planks in a piece of pvc tubing or whatever attached to the lip of a kettle......my cherry wood bent beautifully......cheers.......
  24. yancovitch
    exquisite detail, and wonderful sculpting.....inspired me to go ahead and build something again......jolly good shew!!..............
  25. yancovitch
    always admired those people who did this kind of work....at least 10 times the work of plank on bulkhead and at least 10 times the heartbreak when things go wrong.........and you probably won't cheat a bit to make things look better

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