Kevin Kenny

These photos show the clean up and the positioning of the lines as they come out of the corners. It should be an easy fix.

https://youtu.be/NjadS07KnTU

Ill try posting them again. Silkspan drying.

Good mroning Ab from Trinidad. Its wonderful that you have joined us. I have both your books and enjoy reading them. This group of  special people are fantastic and will appreciate your contribution As we go forward. I am still collecting data on the Tobago 1677 ships but way short of sufficient information that will result in my building a model of one of these ships. 

Welcome 

kevin Kenny

Toni so happy for you. She look fantastic. I guess youll take a breath and start your next project. Have you decided on that as yet?

These are the three bits i use with the Turbo carver to refine and clean up my blocks. Good blocks are essential to a realistic model.

Silkspan drying

If you slightly sand the edges any difference will dissappear. I have also made moundings on my Proxoon shaper and on my table saw both with excellent results.

I try to prepaint every thing before i install as a rule. Its simple to hard to paint parts on the model. This of course  requires a bit of planning. Having said that it is almost impossible to do this with all parts. Masking as you have done will help. I use acrylic paint so it is easy to undo a smudge when i make a mistake. I think your model is coming out just fine.

Silkspan drying

I suppose you don’t want to try carving them yourself. These task that seem so difficult usually end up very doable if you know what you are making 

Block for the top gallant flag or burgee

Having trouble figering out what these set of blocks are for. If anyone can figuer it out let me know.

Adding all the mast blocks

She looks beautiful, a rich deep mahogany look.

Some of the standing rigging attached to the mast

Rigging going on the scratch built model

I try to prepaint every thing before i install as a rule. Its simple to hard to paint parts on the model. This of course  requires a bit of planning. Having said that it is almost impossible to do this with all parts. Masking as you have done will help. I use acrylic paint so it is easy to undo a smudge when i make a mistake. I think your model is coming out just fine.

This is one of my very early videos  that you may find useful on the topic.