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gonna look great when they are in place and painted up Bob. Nice to see the anchor deck back in place too. Keith -
Hmm- could just be from the casting mould and hasn't been fettled?
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i think the smaller one may be for the quater deck as the ones on my billings victory are smaller than the ports on the upper gun deck. Keith
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still a long way from actually making the chainplates myself Boyd- sort of thinking five steps ahead. Will either use tinned copper wire or annealed iron wire (like what jewellry makers use). Keith
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does no one manufacture etched handrails to that scale?
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Hi Boyd- will certainly look ok when glued in and varnished- there are plenty of reference works on shipbuilding if you want to research further. Been having thoughts about the chainplates billings provided and am thinking of scratch building more accurate ones- are you game!? Keith
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certianly looking the part now Keith- erm bad news though- if rigging victory is doing your nut in- wait till you rig the cutty sark! Keith
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good job there, Are you going to add planking to the deck or just use the printed deck? Keith
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Fun huh! I normally rig all the shrouds first then move on to rigging the yards, leaving the backstays till last. I must be a bit nuts as i love doing the rigging. Are you going to rig the braces correctly and include the missing ones? the braces on the foreyard are wrong on the billings plan. Keith
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Hi Keith, when i was nearing the end of my cutty sark build i realised i was one deadeye short!!!!!! Luckily i had a spare in my bits box- on the other hand i did end up with a few blocks left over to add to my odds n sods collection. Keith
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coming along nicely- i was considering buying this one myself but opted for billings hms victory instead. Keith
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looks fine from here, everything tidy and square- importent to get the skylight right as it is very noticable on the finished model. Good luck with the figurehead! Keith
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there is also www.model-dockyard.com based in u.k. but do overseas mail order as well as cornwall model boats.
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thanks boyd- will certianly bear your suggestion in mind- i use walnut because it has a really nice colour when it weathers a bit. Keith
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coming along nicely there jesse- nice work. Keith
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You should be able to order wood strip from either your local model shop or many of the online model shops. I ordered the extra wood for the wales from my local model shop. Keith
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strakes= planks, wales are the thicker bands going along the hull and stealers are infill planks. Keith P.S. also read plank on frame models volume 1 by harold underhill
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looking good and being paper should be easy to staln and varnish. keith
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Looking very nice there. If you want finer window frames you can use strips of self adhesive paper cut from address labels or franking labels etc. applied direct to the glazing- i will be using this method for my billings victory.
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Thankyou Boyd, just using 5mm wide obechi for the wales as she is going to be painted. If i was leaving her "natural" finish would have used walnut. I am thinking of replacing all the ply posts for the pin rails with 4mm square walnut though and just varnishing them. Keith
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also you will need to taper the planks at the bow and most of the stern, as boyd says you can also use stealers- check my log there are shots of bow and stern and a shot of the hull upside down to give you an idea. Took me a couple of weeks tp plank mine. Keith
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While waiting for timber for the wales to be delivered (E.T.A. sometime this week) decided to finish the display stand- was varnished using ronseal quick drying dark oak stain and varnish. Also cut all the "blind" gunports to size. Keith
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looks good so far- i built the billings cutty sark and their method was to use blocks of balsa which were then sanded to shape after fitting- you then sealed and painted the hull so no good ifyou want a natural wood finished hull. Keith
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Nice job there,i used the copper tape method for my cutty sark (5mm wide x 15mm length) and ran the top two "runs" parallel to the water line- took something like 3000 tiles to do all the hull- it is the billings 1/75 version. Vowed i would never do it again, but here i am having just ordered 60 metres of tape for my Victory! Keith
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Thanks david- certianly enjoying the build- i think! Will certianly take a lot of scratchbuilding or upgrade of fittings to get a more convincing model with the billings kit though. Keith
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