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    Beautiful work, Wolf!
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    Very nice scarphs, Marcus. A lovely bit of planking. Oh, and although "Many people believe that Captain J. Cook discovered Australia in 1770. They tend to forget that Dutch mariner Willem Janszoon landed on Australia’s northern coast in 1606. Cook never even sighted the coast of Western Australia)." I grew up in Western Australia. In Primary school we had a history book called "Australia Since 1606", which covered de Vlamingh and Dirck Hartog, the pewter plate at Shark Bay, and the naming of the Swan River and Rottnest Island. And the Fremantle Shipwreck Museum's display space is devoted almost entirely to artefacts from the Vergulde Draeck and the Zuytdorp, and of course artefacts and the remnants of the hull of the Batavia. So the Dutch discovery of Australia certainly hasn't been forgotten, particularly in Western Australia. In fact the western half of the continent (when they didn't know it was all one big island) was known as New Holland right up until the time of Matthew Flinders, who circumnavigated the continent and coined the name Australia. Steven
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    No, definitely electrical. The Legend includes "emergency circuit", "Signal circuit" "Marconi (radio) circuit" "220V lamps" and "commutator". It has "valves", but they are bound to be electrical valves (diodes, triodes etc). I'd say he received it as part of his training and kept it as a reference, as he'd be certain to need to know not just the wireless circuit, but all the electrical circuits on a ship. Regarding "Genova", it's pretty certain it's not the ship's name. The rubber stamp at the bottom is SEL - Societa Ellettromeccanica Ligure Fonderie - Genova = "Electromechanical Society of Liguria Foundries - Genoa", and to me that simply says that the headquarters of the SEL was in Genoa. Yes, the blood chit was obviously intended for South-east Asia. It includes Thai and Vietnamese as well as Malay and Indonesian, and even Tamil (Sri Lanka and southern India). By the way, do you know the name of the minesweeper he served on? There's probably a record of where she served. Steven
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    Nonetheless it's looking very good, Chris. That's going to be a very attractive model. I'm a bit of a cog freak, so I'm enjoying following this build. Steven
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    Beautiful work, Ekis! Steven
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    Hi Stu and welcome. Have you started a build log yet? We need pictures! Lots of pictures! Steven
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    That model's already looking very good, Fuji. You've done very well in just a few months! Welcome to MSW. Start up a build log for your model (you can include "post-dated"photos). We're all suckers for pictures of beautiful ship models and you should be able to pick up a lot of tips as you're going along. Steven
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    Great that you're getting back to it after all this time. I think you'll find a lot of us are in the same boat (me included). With your background in modelling you should be off to a good start - when your kit arrives! The people here are very firendly and helpful, so don't hesitate to ask questions. And start a build log - it's the best way to get that help when needed. And have fun with the model - that's what it's all about. Steven
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    Thinking about it, maybe Thunder's suggestion of a plastic Bounty would do the trick - does your girlfriend have any objection to plastic? It can still look very good, and would take a lot shorter time to produce - and a lot less hassle - and still be a three-masted square-rigger rather than a boat. Might be worth considering. Steven
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    G'day Sandoman. I'd agree with Jonny's advice. For two reasons - one, you're more likely to finish something simpler. Two, even if you do finish, it's going to take you a good long time to make something as complex as the Bounty (beautiful as it might be) - much longer than your girlfriend would be happy with. A longboat would be a good choice, or perhaps a singlemasted ship like a cutter (though that would be considerably more complex and take longer than the longboat). Both can be very impressive when finished - don't forget ships' boats did have masts and sails; they weren't just rowing boats. I'm not familiar with the quality and ease of building of the various kit manufacturers (I'm a scratch builder), but I'm sure other members will be able to give you some guidance in getting a kit that doesn't strain your abilities as a beginner. Use the search function at the top of the page to find build logs for cutters and longboats (and don't forget the Bounty's jolly boat!), to get some idea of how long they usually take. I started my own dromon in 2015 and I'm only now approaching the end of the build - but I reckon I still have several months to go. By the way, where are you in Oz? You might find there are other modellers not too far away from you. Steven
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    Don't forget to start a build log in the "Scratch Build" section, so others can admire your work, help you with problems, give advice etc. Everybody here is very helpful and I've had a lot of very valuable assistance from the members of MSW while doing my own build. Have you built a ship model before? I'm sending you a private message. You can access it by going to the top right of the page and clicking on the picture of the two "speech bubbles" Steven (Lowe)
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    Welcome, Georgios. I hope you enjoy building your dromon as much as I'm enjoying mine. Steven (Lowe)
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    Thanks, Stuglo. I appreciate the thought, and these are very nice plans, but they are of a c. 1600 galleon, rather than a "great carrack"of 1545. Steven
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    https://www.furphystory.com.au/shop/2018-furphy-tank-end/ - (the AIF was the Australian Imperial Force (army) in the First World War). Steven
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    Dire straits was a saying in common English before it was the name of a band. It means to be in a serious, often life-threatening situation. "Dire" is probably the most extreme word in English for something bad. It usually means things couldn't possibly get any worse. It's defined as "causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune, or the like: urgent; desperate:" and "straits" relates not to a narrow body of water, but "a situation of perplexity or distress". Hope that helps. But you didn't ask what a furphy was . . . Steven
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    It would have to be a Furphy, surely. I've always been chuffed by the fact that the name for the "water supply" always seems to become the term to mean "unsubstantiated rumour" - scuttlebutt, Furphy for Australians, and nowadays, "water cooler" answers the same function . . . Seriously, though, it's believed that each oarsman had his own amphora under his bench, and that the main supply was kept iin the hold, probably in barrels. With the amount they sweated, they had to land to replenish water for the ship on a regular basis, preferably every day. If they were unable to, after three or four uninterrupted days at sea they would probably have been in dire straits. Steven
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    Thanks, George. I'm equally impressed by your own build. The level of research and inspired reconstruction, as well as the quality of your work, is exemplary. Kikatinalong, apparently the amount of sweating the oarsmen do when rowing means that toilet breaks are rarely needed on a galley. The ticketing apparatus must be up somewhere near the windlass, I should think. I'll have to remember to build one . Thanks everyone for the likes. Steven
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    That's interesting, Mark. I know you do a fair bit of sailing and your input regarding the practical aspects is very valued. Last time I did any sailing at all was - let me see - just under 40 years ago - and that was a disaster. I forgot everything I'd learned in Sea Scouts and got stranded out on the bay at Port Stephens. Very embarrassing. I only just avoided having to be towed back to shore by a paddleboat, which would have been the ultimate humiliation. Steven
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    Looking very good, Jacques!
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    Another of your beautiful tiny builds, Javier! Steven
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    A nice bit of carving on that figurehead, Lin. Welcome to the ranks of (small scale) woodcarvers! Steven
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    A nice (possible) solution to the mystery, and nicely carried out. Steven
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    I agree - that's going to look very good. Steven
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    I've been on the forecastle on a Manly ferry in this kind of sea - absolutely exhilarating! (I got soaked, though). Dammit! I've derailed my my own thread again! Back to your scheduled programme . . . Steven
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    By the way, I agree with Druxey about having the shield off to the side somewhat - it'simportant not to hide the fact that Bellona is female. Steven

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