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  1. Louie da fly
    Looking good, Jandrus! I'll look forward to seeing your progress.
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    Hi Paul, and welcome! What model are you building?
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    Another 4 oarsmen complete and another 4 started, which brings us to just past halfway. I've found that getting to halfway has a positive effect on morale. From there on there are more items complete than there are left to do, and with every new item complete the balance shifts further and further that way. So rather than being overwhelmed by how many are left to do, it becomes "only so many left". I found this with making the oarsmen, the oars,and various other things where there were a lot of identical items to do. Also, when I mix the paint for the tunics (and the flesh colours as well), inevitably I mix far more than I need for just one figure. But as I'm doing four at a time, each one at the extreme end of the row it's in, I can paint the tunics all the same colour without it looking obvious.
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    All good. Back on track. Nice to see it.
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    Beautiful crisp work, Ondras. I take my hat off to you, sir.
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    Yes indeed. I find the research just as rewarding as the modelling (sometimes more so). Dealing with periods where the evidence is very thin on the ground compared with, say, the 19th and 20th centuries means a lot of speculation, a lot of theorising, and occasionally an "Aha!" moment when you realise that's why they did it that way - or that's how it must have been . .
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    It took me some time to figure out what you'd done - so rather than an incredibly complicated single-planked system with hidden joints and ropes passing halfway into the planks and out again - what in shoemaking is called a "tunnel" stitch you got really clever and simplified the process, splitting the "solid" planks into two layers each half the thickness, so you have a much simpler sewing job through the inner layer, and cover it with an outer layer of planks with no sewing needed. I take my hat off to you, sir. That's totally brilliant!
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    Looking very good, Jonathan. I like your solution to the deck height and the angle of the cannon barrels (back in the day they used wedges under the rea of the barrel to adjust elevation). Regarding the whipstaff, maybe a wire loop or something of the sort to join the whipstaff to the tiller flexibly enough to allow free movement, but configured to keep them from separating?
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    Looking forward to seeing the photos, Pav!
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    Very interesting chart, Binho. One thing I can add is that the orpiment yellow is made from lead sulphide. LOTS of lead based paints back in the day. But I don't think you need to carry the quest for historical accuracy that far . . .
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    Another welcome from Down Under. We had been doing very well, but currently in my State (Victoria - the one at bottom right of the map) we're getting an average of 300 new cases a day in and around the capital city, Melbourne. We've now got increased restrictions, but they're relatively recent and it remains to be seen what the results will be. At least we're not having exponential growth and we're hoping that after the current 6 week lockdown things will become a bit more normal. Once this is all over, you'd be very welcome.You can catch a kangaroo from the airport to your hotel - just watch out for the drop bears!
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    Looking good, but the sword needs a pommel (the counterweight at the end of the handle). They came in all kinds of interesting shapes, some quite beautiful. For more varieties, do a google image search on Viking sword pommels. I think you'll be agreeably surprised.
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    I lurked on this build and was very impressed with the end result, considering the condition she started out in. What i didn't realise until just now is that you're also the people who are doing the Great Harry reconstruction. You're getting to be quite expert at this kind of thing!
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    Not good, though. It's not right that you don't have any recourse if they don't replace it.
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    And it's done as a "round" - so one group starts singing "Row, row, row your boat" and when they begin the second line the next group start with "Row, row, row your boat", and then the third group come in, followed by the fourth. Sounds more complicated than it is in practice. Known in "proper" music as a fugue.
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    Could you glue square or rectangular section "stringers" to the inside surfaces of the sterncastle at the bottom, where they meet the rest of the hull? That might take up the slack without being too obvious.
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    Happy to be of help, Christos. The Byzantine galea YK4 found at Yenikapi (the old harbour of Theodosius) had the rowing benches anywhere between 0.874 and 1.048 metres apart - with an average spacing of 0.96 metres. I found in my own dromon (also with 25 rowing positions, though on two levels rather than one) that allowing for about a meter between benches the bow and stern both needed to be longer than originally estimated. If I were to build it again I would make it 4 metres longer. I think your judgment regarding the bow shape, colours, ornamentation etc could well be better than that of the people who built the Argo reconstruction.
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    That's really wonderful work, Dick. The first few pictures were a pleasure to see, but the last three are just a joy to contemplate. Such a beautiful, elegant shape! I look forward to seeing how the stanchion works, (having been "introduced" to Byzantine mast steps in researching my own build).
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    Nice jig. Looks like you're doing well with solving problems as they arise.
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    I did consider it once. It would make a good diorama.
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    Looking very good, Chris. This is turning into a very attractive vessel.
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    I love the research you're putting ginto this, Christos. I take it you've seen the footage on Youtube of the Argo reconstruction? and It's hard to count the oars, but I think she's a pentekonter.
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    Yes, considering the configuration of the tops, I can't see any other way of doing the "futtock shrouds". Interestingly, neither of the contemporary pictiures of the Great Harry - the Anthony Roll and the Embarkation at Dover - show futtock shrouds. That's not proof they didn't exist, but I've also been through my collection of contemporary and near-contemporary representations of ships, (and as collecting contemporary pictures of ships is a bit of an obsession of mine, that's a pretty big collection) and none of them show futtock shrouds. This isn't something I'd thought to look at before, and it took me by surprise. It is possible they hadn't yet been developed, and that sailors just went up through the lubber hole. None of this affects your model, as you're trying to restore it to its condition when made in the 19th century, but it's an interesting insight.
  24. Louie da fly
    A beautiful result, Bill. Welcome to the addiction!
  25. Louie da fly
    She's looking beautiful, Mark

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