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- mtaylor and marktiedens
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Can I assume the gunport cover apart from the two ropes on the upper side for opening the lid, the two rings on the inside should also have ropes running in through the gun port opening. It is just all the pictures on here show the rings with nothing attached? well the pictures i have found dont... LOL
- Keith Black and mtaylor
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I'm building The Vanguard and was thinking about adding 'spare spars and mast parts on deck just to add yet more detail/clutter ---- so any pictures I can reference would be fab..
- greenstone and mtaylor
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2 hours ago, Mark P said:
Good Evening Ian;
One thing which may be worth knowing if you have not yet started making all the hammock rolls, is that once the hammocks were stowed in the netting, they were covered with tarred or painted canvas, usually black or very dark grey, to keep them dry. This was certainly done in the Royal Navy, maybe not for French ships. Sailors did not want to sleep in soaking hammocks. Most likely, the nettings were lined with lengths of canvas, like a long trough, so that the hammocks were stowed inside it. Once the netting was full, one edge of the lining could be turned over the top and tucked down behind the other side, to create a seal.
All the best,
Mark P
Thanks .a great bit of info
- Mark P, mtaylor and thibaultron
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On 9/12/2021 at 3:39 AM, DennisL said:
I made furled sails for the Medway Longboat using an article I found in one of the tutorials. I never used Silkspan before but the sails came out looking great. Good luck!
Good tip--- I am pondering about which material to use.
- thibaultron and mtaylor
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On 9/10/2021 at 3:59 PM, DennisL said:
great looking model. Hammocks are a nice touch!
Thanks , surprised more people don't do it..I am planning to do furled sails too.another less popular thing to do...
- mtaylor and thibaultron
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- Shotlocker, Jack12477, bruce d and 9 others
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well-done Bill
I can only echo your comments about building the Cheerful--- a great way indeed for upping our game, and trying new things, like you I got so much more from this build.
Almost as if Chuck had us novices in mind lol --- only joking Chuck --I'd recommend this to anyone thing of branching away from a kit-- a super stepping stone
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I have read both these, and they a very good read
- Canute, mtaylor and thibaultron
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Its that age old problem, where to display everything we make looking forward to following this task.
- thibaultron, mtaylor, mikegr and 4 others
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9 minutes ago, CDW said:
Looks like a fascinating book. I put it on my wish list.
On Amazon they have 16 copies at £2 each plus postage ... Its worth a purchase even if you just look at the pictures LOL
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Forgot to say--- you can see it in London-- well some of it
- mtaylor, CDW, popeye the sailor and 2 others
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Hi, really enjoying this topic, super work. I thought Id share this unusual book-- it is on Amazon for almost nothing. A chap was commissioned to make a model of the whole battle 190,000 figures-- Wellington didn't like it as it showed he was being a bit economical with the truth about the Prussians and certain individual in his official dispatches-- The first few chapters are slow but the rest is a fascinating read.
- FriedClams, Canute, Edwardkenway and 5 others
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I have just bumped into this build. What a great topic and super paint job,I have never seen this ship before-so unusual , --- I shall be following along --might even do this myself at some point, I have never done a plastic/PE ship
- RGL, Canute, popeye the sailor and 4 others
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looking good-- keep it up
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- mtaylor, BobG, Old Collingwood and 12 others
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15 hours ago, Danstream said:
Hi Ian, let you be tempted, but do not resist much. I find that building aircraft kits is very cool and relaxing (when things go right). Although, one modeller wrote once that building aircraft kits mainly consists in managing unexpected problems. 🙂
Anyhow, if it is the Mig 15 that attracts you, I suggest you make an informed choice between Trumpeter and Tamiya kits. And do not forget that lately also Bronco put on the market a kit of the same scale which seems very promising.
Best regards,
Dan.
Thanks, I am definitely want to do a Mig 15 because not long ago about a year I had a jet circling quite low over the house and after 5 minutes or so I went to look and is was a 2 seat Mig 15 just in a low holding pattern. I have no ideal why as I was living in the heart of the west country with no airfield for at least 30 _+miles..... I was like a kid with excitement-- my better half -'so what ,another noisy plane'? LOl
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I like the trolley idea-- you can add loads of copper piping etc to detail the engine .. and possibly create some open fuselage access panels for the engine bay?
- Canute, mtaylor, FriedClams and 2 others
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Just made my first small 'kit boat' with PE and it has wetted my appetite so looking forward to following you, perhaps when I finished my current wooden build I shall do this kit too
- CDW, Old Collingwood, lmagna and 3 others
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Hi I haven't for this one. I suppose I should have , I did for my others ..so deep joy to come in the headrails lol
gunport lids rigging quick question ?
in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
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Thanks-- never seen this before--