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  1. yancovitch
    i build like making a sculpture, not like an experienced meticulous craftsman....
  2. yancovitch
    guess you're right since i only got the wood a week ago, when i started the planking.....now that the fitting is done, aside from a bit more figuring it out, i think i can now focus on the fiddley-do finishing, which again, will just be ok, as i really wanted to just get it done, so if i died tomorrow, i wouldn't have to be reborn so i could do the darn thing 😄 i'm to old to practice master building , i leave that to people like you 🙂 and thanks for your encouragement marc....and cheers to you....
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    ok................got the hull built.....i guess, the most challenging thing i've done....constantly fighting off ''i'm crazy...i'm nuts'' etc.....but i persevered, and ended up with this.....not a work of art, but at least it will give a different perspective to the heller kit, which to me, makes it worth it......i think deck and wales could have been a tiny bit higher at the bow, but that's the way it came out .....painting will be just ok cause i've never had experience with the microscopic before...but all in all i think it will end up looking ok...used a cheap wood lower hull and a quick planking job, because it will be painted..... got the wooden decks from czech republic.....but won't add sails......next...finishing the hull......oh i shortened the fore and main topmasts... i just ball parked it.....ha...the whole ship is a ball park model 😃....next post.....some time in the future...cheers, vc
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    i thank you........it's just that i'm a very lazy and impatient fellow, so i always try to find shortcuts....like the one here for the telltails........ .but it takes some experimenting to make it work well....i just figured out how to do it when i finally finished doing it 🙂..so my results are so so....but they'll get by.... should have used watered down glue to shape and stiffen the sails rather than starch which was suggested to me.....used clear flat acrylic to straighten the telltails but it left dark spots .......if i had used the thinned glue technique, that wouldn't have been a problem... so on we go....taking a break now, to work on my heller soleil royal....will get back to it this winter.....cheers...
  5. yancovitch
    good shew....and please be safe......cheers to you....................
  6. yancovitch
    have to say i appreciate this inspired build....gives me a lot to think about, regarding what could be applied to my effort....thanks....so very impressive!
  7. yancovitch
    oh....got fed up with much time wasted by digging into a tray of tools to find what i needed......so........you have no idea what a relief this is!!......whew!!....it's probably what others do, but i'm slow....🙃
  8. yancovitch
    ha, i was wondering what you were up to.......and what a pleasant discovery....now that's a very nice build!!.....so glad i checked....cheers.................
  9. yancovitch
    got the bow roughed out, and cut out the fillagree background...would like to get on with the planking, but i have to wait, maybe a few weeks for the pearwood i ordered, cause the fellow's saw broke down...bow is extended compared to the kit, and will move the heads outwards....it seems to all fit, so i think the brain strain is over 🙂 only have primitive tools to work with now...gave all away when i moved into the retirement apts.............but i'll make do....
  10. yancovitch
    boy, you're sure flying now......another creative dinosaur left in the world....fewer and fewer they are becoming....replaced by virtual reality.........cheers to you jerry....
  11. yancovitch
    yaaa...me too, when i see such perfection....but naaa....i figure we all have a place in the hierarchy here, no matter how humble....someone always comes out with something interesting 🙂 oh that's gotta put some pressure on me 😄...believe me you would all laugh to see how i'm trying to put that project together...rip some off here...build some up there...a comedy of errors me thinks...but one thing i do do..... is persevere...so, we'll see what happens....
  12. yancovitch
    all i can say, is ''breathtaking''.......amazing photos too.....
  13. yancovitch
    thanks for the encouragement...pretty lonely, the places i go 😄...always experimenting.....
  14. yancovitch
    super.....!!
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    ok ok.....i think i just may be able to make it work.......had to narrow the stern top somewhat and fatten the bottom....but it flows ok..for me it's like making a clay sculpture...add some take some away etc...........the deck distances are less on the build up, but i'll just have to rely on craftistic licence i guess....i may try to shorten that decoration at the bottom, and make the gunport higher....we'll see...waiting for some swiss pear for the exposed planking on the gun decks....will use basswood for the rest, which will be whiteish or black...... it's sure a fun challenge, like searching my brain to find out what makes sense to me....what i can change, and what i'll have to live with....kinda like life 😄.....will only post occasionally, any major resolutions.....my right eye is getting blurry now......i hope i can make it through painting the gold....some guys here have done such a magnificent job, i suffer some anxiety over that prospect.....i mainly wish just to do the hull now, then back to finishing the constitution... i have to work outside of the retirement apts....i wasn't going to do any more wood....but i just had to try this, cause it was on the back of my mind for maybe 30 years....
  16. yancovitch
    naaa..it's a secret....he's really got elves working for him while he sleeps...and yes, i'd love to see him carving....
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    it's just a keep in touch log.... am doing the constitution at the moment...thought you'd get a kick out of the fact that i can clip on the two different sterns with magnets....my first effort in trying to paint plastic...hopefully i can do better on the sr....you won't believe, this thing has cost me $2000 cdn. so far, with all the sails and addons from the czech rep.....plus building the case.... just building what i like, not what's politically correct 🙂...use netting at the bow and changed the windows on the side stern galleries....a bit messy but will clean up and touch up later...wish i had learned about scoring the window frames on acrylic, instead of building them out of wire........so difficult to solder...... i couldn't tolerate tying all those ratlines, my neck and shoulders couldn't handle it at my age, so i made a jig....placed it over the shrouds, and tacked the contacts with gorilla ca.....still trimming to do... ha...i made the case too narrow...forgot about the stud sail boom, especially on the main mast....will have to shorten it, even thought the yards are on an angle....par for the course for me....the front glass will slide off to the left to easily change the stern gallery....covering with acrylic plastic for now...easy access..... now for the sails and running rigging....huff an puff
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    though not a build log as such, i thought i'd share something i've imagined for many many years, at which time, i partly put together a heller soleil royal........i disliked the hull so much, i gave it away....i really don't know if i can do this but i'm sure gonna have fun trying.....will probably be my swan song 😁 and now, marc,neko, was kind enough to share his lines, and i got all inspired again...and marc, hubac, found me a good deal on a kit, which i'm expecting in a few days.... sooooooo....i put the hull together and found a pic of the top bulwarks.....i'll have to wait for the kit to see if i can make it all come together.....mostly working on the revell constitution now, so it will be a while before things come together.....dream on vic dream on....
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    yes yes...i'm with you.....and it always frustrated me that these wonderfully talented artists and craftsmen in history, are mostly swept under the carpet, like they hardly existed, whereas these are the people that kings, nobles, and the powerful relied on to create all those things which made kings kings, nobles nobles and the powerful powerful.......
  20. yancovitch
    the figurehead is gorgeous...i would do the same.... and yes ..so much more detail is revealed compared to solid gold.....it comes to life....
  21. yancovitch
    wow such an immense amount of studying just to learn the terminology of all the parts of the ship........with me, i'm afraid it's 95% reliant on my eyes and 5% on knowledge.....and to watch the creations of a master carver is amazing...it's just that i can't figure out yet if this makes me feel totally inspired, or totally hopeless ......hmmm...i think it's probably both at the same time............i just think i'll just take refuge in my pride of ignorance...and continue to enjoy watching the gods at work 😄
  22. yancovitch
    😄😄
  23. yancovitch
    haha..i don't know....watching someone whittling away on tv would be just as, or more exciting than much of the tv programming these days.....ha...me i have to use 3 different size diopter glasses.....
  24. yancovitch
    and yes...when it comes down to it....it's what feel right to you.....that is of most importance.....who knows how our past lifetimes influence us if you believe in such...maybe some of us were crew, or knew that ship, and strong impressions may lay dormant in our brain...food for thought me thinks....🙂
  25. yancovitch
    two things i'd like to see.............. a video of you carving one of those tiny intricate scrollwork with your hand tools 🙂....and the brushes or implements you use to paint the detail on the ship.....(sorry to digress) and do you use a dentist's or jewelers magnifying apparatus?...thanks..

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