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Again, great work Michael! ... and thanks for the metric gauge A question: how can you succeed in drilling exactly aligned both sides of the shackle? Alex -
Michael, I'm amazed in front of a so tiny shackle. I have seen the picture with its measure, then I've translated it in the metric-decimal system (I'm used to it...) and I'm still staring to your shackle. Great! Alex
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Thanks BE, Popeye, Jaro and Augie! The final colour of the hull will look like to Lisa von Lubeck's. For the wales, I had to choose between dark cream and red; I'm glad you think red is good. I preferred not to add another colour: wood, red and white seemed me enough. Jaro, thanks for your pictures: they solve a problem of mine. I had thought to put cleats on the mainmast, but I wasn't sure it was correct. Now I see it's right!!!! Thanks also to commander Jimmy, I'm sure he's a great sailor!!! Cheers Alex
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with a so couple of fishing boats, I'm waiting for a great grill party! Must I bring some beer or white wine? Alex
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Hi all, here is the internal view of the fore area. The wood is stained. In the last photo, a full view of the ship's right side ... aft frames, on the poopdeck, were temporary removed because of a placing mistake: I hadn't considered the correct thickness of planking Cheers Alex
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Augie and Popeye, you're really great fans of this ship. We (me and Hansy, the ship) thank you a lot! When it will be the moment, I'll try all what you wrote to copy that crest on a sail. Hoping to succeed in doing it (my original idea was to make a vertical-strips sail, and this complicates a bit this matter) ... It won't be easy, but I'm stubborn and something will come out. Thanks again Alex
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You've truely motivated me to try that kind of challenge! Here's a sort of prewiev of the future goal (image from: http://www.schiffsspotter.de/Repliken/Kraweel_Lisa_von_Luebeck.htm) Thanks and ... ahoi! ... Alex
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Your idea is very interesting .... !!!! When the moment for sails arrives, I'll surely try to do that. That eagle in the main sail, can be really impressive. About flags, in every paint they're thin and only red and white. Thanks a lot Alex
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Thanks Popeye and thanks Sarah! I'd like to put Lubeck's coat-of-arms on the sail, but I don't know how can do it without getting mad. It wasn't at all tedious to paint around gunports: first I carved and shaped every strip to surround every gunport's frame, then I painted them, in the end I pasted each one. That particular reddish color was obtained blackening every strip (and wales), then painting between the fingers: I put a drop of (acrylic) color on the forefinger, then I slided the strip between forefinger and thumb. In this way, the color is perfectly stretched on the strip and the wood's (blackened) grain glimpses out of the varnish, giving an idea of ancient timber. Cheers Alex
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The Red and White color (together with a double-head eagle) is the emblem of Lübeck, the Hanseatic town to which this ship belongs. Here is the flag. Cheers Alex
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...eh ...eh ...eh ...!!! Red is for the lower part of the forecastle. There's a white colored middle part and a semi-natural wooden part on the top. Semi-natural because (as shown in the pictures) it's a bit stained with dark linseed oil. You can see the difference: the hull under the forecastle is still natural, meanwhile the forecastle is stained. Cheers Alex p.s. this picture is a prewiev.... In fact you can see also the wales (red) Pasta ai carciofi is a typical recipe of my town. But you can find lots of varieties of pasta all'uovo (pasta made with flour an eggs). If you decide to come here, tell me something ....!!!!
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Thanks, Popeye! Next two pictures show completely the reason of my building choices. In this way, the gunports' frames are thin and totally included in the planking. Besides, they protrude a bit adding realism to the whole structure. The following pictures show three red stripes, but the highest will be removed and changed with a white one. Cheers Alex
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Thanks Augie and Hopeful. Hopeful, having you seen a better shipmodel in Croatia ... I wish your coffee hasn't gone by traverse giving a look to this of mine! If you still have those picture, I hope you find them: materials are really scarce, and every contribute is a great help to me. I went to Dubrovnik many years ago, before the war, and I have ever thought it is a wonderful town, a real pearl of the Adriatic sea. Cheers Alex
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Hi mates, a little new step: fore gunports. As said above, I had to solve a few issues; among them, how to make thin gunports with a round ceiling. Having decided to do a double planking, I used the first planking as support for the gunport's frames. I made and pasted them in their whole shape (using a dima to have identical ones), than I holed and filed each one from internal to external to reach a very thin thickness, impossible to make in only one piece, if I had shaped them before their gluing. In the following pictures, you can see the working process; in the last picture, the real color of the hull (...in the previous ones, I had mistaken the white-balancing of my camera...). Regards Alex
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Thanks Popeye! I'll post a new step soon Alex
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Thanks, Christian! I tried to think something different, but with protruding decks laying on beams there's no real alternative. Anyway, the structure is strong indeed Alex
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Thanks, Augie! I appreciate your greetings. One day more doesn't change the situation: my years begin to be too many. Unlike what can be seen in my avatar, however, I still have all my hair and my beard is still black ... just only a few little white spots, around the chin ... Cheers Alex
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Thanks Anja and thanks avsjerome! There's something funny: when I was a child, despite I waited all the year it seemed that birthday would never have been coming. Now, it seems birthday has come too much speedy. [...I hope to have used correct tenses, in my sentence...] Cheers Alex
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Great work, Popeye! I live in the town (Bologna) that gave birth to "bologna", as worldwide known; it's an ancient recipe, that dates back to roman empire. But this is the first time I hear you can eat it with whipped cream. I'll try this version and tell you what about my feeling Cheers Alex p.s its true name is "mortadella"
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Objects and shapes? Pegs and Holes? It's only matter of practice. I'm going to begin my job, I've just bought the proper instruments :-)
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Something remembers me Lou Reed ... "wild" or "dark" it is. :-)
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Hi Popeye! Looking to your cages I had a curiosity: how lobster are hunted. So I've searched news and images on the web and now I'm really astonished. Your traps are perfect. I take off my hat Cheers Alex
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Hi, Augie! I agree with Mark. When a kit is (well) modified like you have done, it's time to think to the scratch building. You have made good yards, and when you stain the wood it will seem made in one only piece. Anyway, it isn't difficult to make an octagonal-shaped section. First, you can reduce the lateral portions of the yard. Then, you can sand the central area and so making a square-section. In the end, you can sand the four angles of the square-section, so having just an octagonal section. To be sure to have perfect surfaces, you can sand the wood on a sandpaper sheet lying on the table. Cheers Alex
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Hi, Augie! Little by little the ship is growing up. You're right: now we can se something about its final shape .... Happy Easter to you too
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