Dilbert55
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Welcome aboard.
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You are making fantastic progress, far ahead of me now. Have my Hermoine dusted off and started up the shipyard again but not enough progress yet to take pictures. -
Hi Messis, I shut down the shipyard for the winter so haven't been paying much attention, didn't see your note in Feb. Have started up again this week. Hope your holiday and election went well.
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If someone looks at your Royal William and what they see is some minor technical discrepancy with the running rigging, then they are blind.
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Have worked for a few real "rocket scientists" in my day and doubt many of them would have recognized a practical solution if they tripped over it. Took a break from my own build the last few months and your log is inspiring me to get back to work!
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Great solution using the heat shrink! May I ask what your working background is/was that contributes to creative and practical solutions like this?
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Now all that remains to do is get your wonderful creation (once completed) into this beautiful scenery!!!
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Making tapered, etc. mast parts are a real challenge without a small lathe. I've been using a variable speed drill but it's very touchy, easy to break the piece when you get it down to size if you're not careful. Glad to see you back from vacation.
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The plus/minus finished length of an assembled Boeing 747 (early in production) was approx. 1 inch due to accumulated variances during joining of fuselage sections and sub-assemblies.
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Jean Ferre needs a ship to be named after him. A figurehead wouldn't do him justice as he could down 100 of these at a sitting.
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Agree with you that the scale seems to be off with the size of the capstan and the too high height of the bow railings. My choice of finish was based on a strong preference for wood finish and I find Hermoine's modern colors too colorful for me on what is essentially a warship. Think the model finished as per spec., (as you have done very well) results in a brighter look than the real ship. At least that's how it appears to me in pictures of the real ship. The kit was also a bit of a surprise to me as I purchased mine from the Modeller's Workshop site in Montreal and the picture they still have there (shown below) is of the old kit. I assumed that even if they had changed the kit I could still finish it as per this picture. That turned out to be a lot more of a challenge due to there no longer being a 2nd layer of finish quality planking provided. Considered leaving out the nets off the railings and only putting some string in the middle but building the parts was a challenge so I kept them. A long time ago when I was a teenager, I used to watch a wrestler from France called Le Giant Jean Ferre here in Quebec. You may have heard of him as Andre the Giant. Here he is taking out King Kong Bundy so perhaps the capstan was designed for french sailors of the same size?
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The upper rails on the bow are a bit weird looking but provide an equal height with the aft railings. Definitely prefer the lateral deck fences without these upper railings and as I'm not attempting a full reproduction of either the current or original Hermoine I'll leave them off.
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Your ship is sharp and bright in this picture, progressing very well. Will take a photo of my own final results on the fences tomorrow when I have good light.
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HMS Naiad 1797 by albert - FINISHED - 1/48
Dilbert55 replied to albert's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Incredible work! -
You are catching up to where I am. Did you paint your fences yellow? Can't tell for sure as the pics seem a bit foggy...or maybe I just need to clean my classes.
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ancre Chebece 1750 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Dilbert55 replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
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After installing the AFT fence I am considering not installing the upper railings and removing them from the FWD fences. These upper railings look like an "add-on" feature made to appease a modern day insurance company rather than an original design feature. As seen in Philo426's build log, (small pic below) the original Artesania kit had completely different fences. Does anyone know what the fence designs were on the original Hermoine?
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Left them unfinished "as-is".
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Learning a lot while doing the deck details. Thanks to Ken3335 for the tip on BD needle tips for increased precision gluing. Ordered some from the UK (they don't seem to sell this type anymore in the colonies) and they arrived just in time or it would have been an even messier job. Not perfect, but worth the learning curve.
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Welcome aboard John
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Think it's going to be fine leaving it unfinished.
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Have continued to send your Liverpool pics onto my ex-Liverpoolian mate here in Montreal and your last one prompted him to circle his Aunt's home that's in your picture...small world!
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Going to assemble the fences with these photo etched parts left "as-is" (unfinished) and see what they look like. Looks like they will fit in with my colour scheme and there aren't any other detail parts on the deck that I will need to match with this colour. Some of the voids in the center section detail are so small I'm afraid they will fill up with paint even if I airbrush both the primer and colour coats. If I'm not happy with the results will try Messis's vinegar method and final color coat only, no primer. Don't want to mess with these tiny parts if painting them comes out looking lumpy.
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