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  • Birthday 05/02/1945

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    Suffolk, UK
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    Model boats and Full size motor cruisers on the Broads

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  1. peterwwebster
    Hi Like you I have had time off my Victory and having now started up again I am in exactly the same place strucling with sheet 7. You post is a great help when I go back to do it. Your workmanship is amazing Peter
  2. peterwwebster
    Hi Rich. I have suspended my build for the last few months as my wife is ill but just wanted to say I think your build look great Peter
  3. peterwwebster
    Thanks for the advice Guys. I looked replacement brass fittings and it looks like you have to but the whole lot The price CMB give made me fall off my perch. The moral of the storey is only work on a table with a large sheet under it. I will call JoTiKa.
  4. peterwwebster
    Help! I have been sitting fitting the brass window inserts into the stern fascia on evening and somehow managed to loose one window. I have looked high & low, vacuumed the chair and gone through the stuff in the hover with no effect. I have been trying to make a new window by painting the frames on celluloid, gluing scrap brass strip together, cutting holes in brass plates but nothing seems very promising. Has anyone got and bright ideas please
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    Hi Nick thanks for your comments. I should explain I have a disabled wife and don't get out much. If you do a bit everyday then progress is good until you are careless and have to redo things. I do enjoy the build although is difficult when one spends hours rigging cannon and then hiding them. I hope you enjoy your build Peter
  7. peterwwebster
    Told you it was my age!! If only they had stated the obvious!.
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  18. peterwwebster
    How easily I get confused, it must be my age or something. Looking at the side entry steps, how is it the photo 038 page 41 shows the entry steps to the left of the entry port but the plan sheet 5 shows them on the right. I intend looking at various build logs but !!! Anyway onward & upward
  19. peterwwebster
    Hi All, I have been very lax in posting pictures so sorry. Anyway I have been busy building and her are some pics to prove it
  20. peterwwebster
    Hi Rich Nice work on your ship. I am no way an expert but so far I have found it best to tie the blocks on to the rigging first, secured with super glue, attach the eyes to the blocks as necessary and then fit the eys to the cannon. You can then thread the rigging through the blocks and suspend the cannon whilst you coil the free end around the line s between the blocks, called flemishing I think. The trick is to get the flemished lines the right length. Then when happy fir the eye bolts to the deck. I have yet to get the length right. I really need to add some photos to be log bu t never seem to get round to it. I will have a go now.
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  24. peterwwebster
    yes the styrene strip worded for me
  25. peterwwebster
    That look very very good rich. Talk about perseverance, Well done.
  26. peterwwebster
    Looks good to me Rich well done
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  28. peterwwebster
    I still think its worth painting the hull in copper so the white doesn't show through the inevitable gaps in the tiling so a coat of primer will hopefully stop any mote absorption and give a base for the copper paint
  29. peterwwebster
    Is it possible that the planks have curled across their width? That would suggest the wood was too wet for too long and the wood absorbed the water and swelled the grain unevenly hence the curl it could have been damp timber where was it stored ? I would try PVA brushed into the cracks which should get into the cracks and stick them to the first layer of planking. When dry apply a watered down coat over alI. Then I would fill it and sand it and apply an acrylic primer and rub that down and re prime until you are happy with the finish. It all gets cover in tiles so it doesn't matter what it looks like.
  30. peterwwebster
    Hi Rich What a shame. It certainly looks like the wood has swollen with water from the paint. Looks like a rub down and fill job. I know its a bit late but when I did mine hull i primed it with Dulux acrylic primer first so as to seal the filler and minor gaps and rubbed it down ready to paint. I think that would be a way forward. This ship building is supposed to be fun but sometimes I do wonder. It will all be OK in the end and nobody will know about the trouble you had (Except us fellow sufferers)

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