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  1. Louie da fly
    Nice work. How many more to go? Steven
  2. Louie da fly
    Well that's pretty much what I told him. We'll see if anything comes of it. But as far as I can see there are no other kits out there that are anything like the ship he wants to build. It appears to be a neglected field among kit manufacturers - but then again, there's certainly very little information available on (or interest in) merchant ships of this period, and the Josiah (if Wikipedia is to be believed) started life as a frigate. Steven
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    As far as he can make out his ancestor came from England to Virginia as an indentured labourer in 1679 (not 1684 as I previously stated) on a ship called the Josiah, which is described as a frigate. But most of his information is from Wikipedia and can't really be verified further. He's a beginner who wants to build a kit model of the Josiah (which is of course impossible - no kits exist, and there's no real idea of what the Josiah was like - so I've pointed him at the nearest thing - and not very near at that - Corel's Berlin). I don't think he's interested in historical accuracy - he just wants a nice model to display to his friends so he can say "The Josiah was a bit like that", which is fine by me. Steven
  4. Louie da fly
    Thanks everyone for the answers. Very interesting. I'd thought those would be the flags flown, but didn't know if they were confined to warships. Chuck, interestingly enough I'm trying to find out for someone whose ancestors were colonists in 1684. Steven
  5. Louie da fly
    That pretty much says it - does anyone know what flag/s would have been flown by an English merchant ship in the 1670s-1690s? Steven
  6. Louie da fly
    That's such a great idea! And the vessel looks just right being supported by the book. It'll probably be something most people miss on first inspection, and you can perhaps enjoy the "Aha!" moment as they realise the book really is about the ship.
  7. Louie da fly
    That's looking very good, Kondzik. Steven
  8. Louie da fly
    Having worked with sheet metal myself, I'm very interested in how you went about shaping the hull. Fascinating project!
  9. Louie da fly
    Welcome to MSW, Halvor! I see you've already begun your build log. That's great. Make sure you put up plenty of photos, and don't be shy about asking questions. The members here are very friendly and helpful. Steven
  10. Louie da fly
    Beautiful work (as usual), Dick. Steven
  11. Louie da fly
    I think that's a good creative solution that could well have been used at the time. Steven
  12. Louie da fly
    Onto fiddly bits. Here's the picture in Björn Landström's book The Ship I originally worked from, showing the dragon figurehead and the decorative crown and flagpole on the bowsprit: I'd already carved the dragon-head - now I've painted it: Very happy with the crazed look on his face. And here is the flagpole/crown assembly I made a mistake - the fore topmast had snapped off just above the top and I was intending to just glue it back onto the remaining stub. Then I forgot what I was doing and removed the stub. So I had to reconfigure the topmast by adding an extra bit of wood to replace the stub . . . and carve it to shape. I wouldn't have needed to do any of this, if I'd remembered what I'd originally planned Steven
  13. Louie da fly
    Thank you, Keith , and thanks everybody for the likes.
  14. Louie da fly
    Well, I discovered that all those nice shields I made a while ago were ok for the rails on the tops but turned out to be too small to go on the railings at the sides of the weather deck. So I had to make a whole lot of new ones. So there's been a bit of a delay while I did that. But now I can happily say they are all finally in place. And another small milestone. When I first made the model I'd put the lower starboard shrouds in place on the main and fore masts and added the ratlines (glued, not tied, in place) - but I hadn't done anything about the deadeyes - I'd put that off till later. Well, now it's "later", and I find I really made problems for myself doing it that way. I've made deadeyes for the main shrouds and put in the lanyards. I've intentionally left the lanyards with some "play" in them so I can adjust them when I attach the deadeyes to the channels. It's all a bit (as we say in Oz) "a*se about face" and once these two sets of shrouds are done I'll be doing the rest more conventionally. As I mentioned earlier in this log I'm not bothering with making chains - when I first built the model I didn't even know chains existed, and at 1:200 scale I feel it's all a bit too much. So thick thread will take their place. I've hit the wall a bit with knowing what to do next, so I made up a spreadsheet with a list of all the things I can think of that still need to be done, then shuffled the items around - obviously, the masts have to go in before the stays can be added etc etc - until they made a fairly logical sequence. I think this will help. Steven
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    Well, it's a very attractive piece of wood - and much more likely to be a good representation of what was actually used than a smooth, machined piece bought from Bunnings(!) Steven
  16. Louie da fly
    I was working on the Great Harry when I was about 17. I'd just changed the scalpel blade so it was nice and sharp. I knocked something off the table (I'm still just as clumsy today) and it bumped on my foot. I looked down on the floor, thinking 'I don't remember having a bottle of dark purple ink on the table". Oh. The blade had landed point first on the big vein that feeds blood to the toes. So sharp I didn't feel any pain. A very nice clean cut. Just needed a band-aid. Steven
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    I don't have much to add to Cathead's excellent set of links, except to refer you to representations of Viking sails on contemporary runestones at https://modelshipworld.com/topic/24335-gokstad-viking-ship-by-bigpetr-148-card-cca-900-ad/page/4/?tab=comments#comment-776214 Your pavesades (shield rails) and oarports look very good. Steven
  18. Louie da fly
    What kind of wood is that? It looks like it might be off a fruit tree. Steven
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    I have my Dad's old bench vise and his "rivet snap" (https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=119369) which I used to get a lot of use from when I was into re-enactment and made mediaeval helmets, but is really no use for ship modelling. Steven
  20. Louie da fly
    Blast! Hope you get a chance to get back into it soon. Steven
  21. Louie da fly
    Haven't seen any progress for awhile. Is anything happening on the carrack front? Steven
  22. Louie da fly
    That's looking very good, EOL. The fake ribs work well. I hope you still have some skin on the end of your fingertips after that sanding. The extra image is at the end because you didn't allocate it a place in the text, and you have to delete the original picture from the group of uploads at the bottom and the one at the end of the text before it will go away. Don't ask me how I know . . . Steven
  23. Louie da fly
    Precisely. One of the ropes on the vessel below is a halyard. But are the others shrouds or backstays? Or what? (rhetorical question - no answer needed). I must say, Wefalck's contributions have got me thinking about issues relating to lateens that I hadn't considered before. Steven
  24. Louie da fly
    Like the water cooler in a modern office. Or in the Australian army in WWI they had water wagons made by J. Furphy and Sons. Though it's now dying out, the Australian word "furphy" is even today used for an unfounded rumour. Steven
  25. Louie da fly
    Wefalck, merci beaucoup pour la référence. Though I'll accept that a lateen on a small vessel can be used without shrouds, larger ships seem to need them. I don't know that there's really a difference between a lateen with or without shrouds. Steven

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