Louie da fly
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Wish I could answer this one for you, but it's always had me stumped as well. Strictly, a flag is a separate piece of fabric that is (I think) attached to the hoist (i.e. the rope) at top and bottom corners and hauled up with the hoist going through a block. But that's in the real world. Depending on the scale of your model that may be completely impractical. And the fact that it's a decal, not a piece of cloth or paper makes it even further outside my experience. All I can do is wish you good luck with it. Steven -
Hold your horses! Nobody's lost interest, just because there haven't been any responses in the last couple of days. Maybe it's just because it's the weekend. Steven
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It is summer where I live. Current temperature in Ballarat 15 degrees C (= 59 F). Unfortunately, Ballarat gets cold, even in summer, sometimes. Steven
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Welcome to ship modelling! There'll be plenty more duhs along the way, but don't let it get you down. Even the best of us (and I certainly don't include myself among them!) still make mistakes. They just make more interesting ones (and perhaps not quite so many as us mere mortals). Oh, yeah 40 degrees F. That's 4 degrees in our money . . . Steven
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Speaking of accidental fires, I love this story from Bob Mortimer on "Would I lie to You?". This man has done things nobody would believe, so it became a saying on WILTY I don't believe it, but if Bob says it, it's probably true."
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Hi Scotty and welcome to MSW. That's a very nice start you've made, particularly for a first-timer! Steven
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Dammit! I should have thought of the generated heat bubbling the paint - it's happened to me in the past. But very glad you found a good solution (which I believe is better than the original). And I like your idea of pre-painting the wood before punching the shields out. Amazingly, you seem to have positioned the punch exactly right to have the pattern centred properly - not an easy thing to do at all . Steven
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Hold them temporarily to a horizontal surface with adhesive putty/mounting putty/Power tack? (we call it blue tack here in Oz, but it has many proprietary names) Steven
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Perhaps you could cut them off then paint them? Then if you have high wastage (by being flung in various directions etc) it wouldn't matter too much. Just paint the ones that turn out well. Oh, and at the risk of being thought annoying, here are some genuine Viking (and Frankish) shield patterns - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/shield/shield.html Steven
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Well, of course the boat may not be in its proper place. This is a speculative kit, not a precisely accurate reproduction of a known vessel. A lot of guesswork involved, and I for one think the kit manufacturers got this bit wrong. Steven
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Beautiful ship - beautiful model of her. Just a quick point - it's possible to put more than one picture in a single post. You don't have to do a separate post for each picture. Very nice work. Steven
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That's good news, and it looks like their current reconstruction is much more like the examples from contemporary pictures than their first version. But there's really not very much of her left. Here's a reconstruction model of the existing remains. Here it is compared with the proposed reconstruction: I'm assuming that what they'll display is the existing timbers, with some sort of framework showing the shape of the rest of the hull, as in the models above. And they're even talking about the possibility of building a full-sized reconstruction and sailing it on the Usk river. It would be nice if that could be done, but at the moment I'm not holding my breath . . . I see they're still going with the flat stern, which I'm not so sure about, though I'm aware they justify this by the shape of the aftermost frame. The ship is believed to have been built in 1449, and carracks of this period are always shown as round-sterned in contemporary pictures. The earliest representation of a flat-sterned carrack-style ship I'm aware of dates to 1511. Having said that, ignoring the stern for the moment, the proposed shape does look good. Steven
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Beautiful pics. I didn't know there was a kit for the Great Eastern, one of my favourite ships! Steven
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Looking very good, mate. I wouldn't want to take on all that rope work. Steven
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Dreadful ghastly stuff. Remember visiting the UK and being offered a beer in a pub; as a proud Australian I said "Anything but Fosters . . ." Steven
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Nup - it's all about how Bundy is as much an Aussie icon as the other two: http://www.postkiwi.com/2006/bundaberg-rum-bundy-bear/
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Nice. I can see that the idea of having a separate mortice for each tenon is a little (i.e. VERY) impractical and that at this scale a single long slot does the job just as well. As usual you try out things that nobody else would dream of taking on. Even the pegs fixing the tenons in place! Steven
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As Baker has pointed out in his Pelican build, when the ship left England she was still called the Pelican - she was renamed during the voyage. So in that respect, your model is more correct. On the other hand, I have a feeling that only ships that actually belonged to the monarch would have the right to display the royal coat of arms. My understanding is that though on a royally approved (and subsidised?) voyage, the ship was privately owned. But that's just me being extremely picky. You can actually send a private message to people you want to alert to your build. On the banner at the very top of the page there is a symbol of two intermingled "speech balloons" which allows you to do so. I'd recommend you also contact Baker, whose scratch Pelican build is very thoroughly researched. He's even put a pelican on it. You're quite correct, though; nobody knows exactly what the Golden Hinde looked like. It's all conjecture, or perhaps you could say educated guesswork. There's been quite a lot discovered since this kit was produced, but generally it's a pretty good representation of a "typical" Elizabethan galleon. I look forward to seeing your further progress. I think I'll pull up a chair, break out the popcorn and watch. Steven
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I've had a lot to do with oil lamps, made one or two out of pottery, seen any number of them in Byzantine museums. A bit of an unfair advantage . Steven
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