Ronald-V
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First carronade rigged! Cost 10 years of my life😂, but I somehow managed it☺️ Best I could do for now, I think that every next one gets better, I have learnt a lot.
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Thanks Rob and Lazy Saint. The full tackle as in with model in the manual looks appealing to me so I try to go for that. But I find it very weird that they don't include how to lay a knot. Maybe they asume that you just use "house and garden" knots? (it's a dutch expression haha) But what would somebody do without the internet!
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hmm....this is kind of difficult. I'm at the part of rigging the carronades, but the manual leaves a lot of holes in the explanation how to do this. They say to secure the 0.1 line to the blocks, but don't explaining how? What kind of knots do I use? I have never tied something like this😅
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Your hm Pickle looks great Rob! Did you use the Mantua figures on your ship?
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Ah tnx Rob! Great to hear the compliments! And tnx for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense. Yes i understand they need to make compromises with the kits to make it affordable. I would like to see in the future that you can buy upgrades for a kit, just like they did with the hms Fly from Victory models. Then you can decide for yourself how much compromises you want to make :D...but maybe that's one step away of scratch building the pieces by yourself.
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It's needing some paintwork when it's finished but it looks already good now. It's really small! Almost to small for my trembling fingers haha. And i find it a bit weird that Caldercraft didn't use solid pieces of walnut, but a kind of plywood idea with two small layers of walnut and something cheaper in between. A bit of a compromise.
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then I painted the etched brass eyelets and cleats with first a metal primer and then 'mat metal black' from Admiralty paints. It's really small haha! I have to get used to it...to handle such small items
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The hull is ready so i can start with the inner bulwark fittings. First i will fresh up the cleats, they are pretty rough casts.
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Great build! You are doing a amazing job on the Sherbourne, very inspiring!
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I enjoy the build a lot! In the past i was a person that gave up on things pretty fast because i encountered to many problems, but this hobby is teaching me patience and selfesteem. Wonderful! 🎇 I'm so happy that i rediscovered the hobby again. I think that i wasn't ready for it a few years ago. Now it's time to move on with it, and to enjoy the process it's given me. Little personal sidenote
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I used some steel wol and sandpaper to rough the paint a bit up. I don't like the clean look of a freshly painted ship. It's needs to be a bit old and scruffy ;). The pictures don't capture it just right. In real life it looks much better. I need to borrow the camera of a friend of mine so i can photograph the details better.
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Finished al the painting of the hull! That's a nice milestone for now Especially the bottom of the yellow strip was difficult for me. I didn't get it perfect in my eyes with just the hand. So i used masking tape and that made a lot of difference. Now it's okay to me. The flashy spots on the copper plates are from the dremel. I have to clean the plates once more so everything can age simultaneously.
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The copper plates still need some work...there are some spots of glue residue. It's not the most fun work, so i do it in little steps
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with the Dremel just flatted the pins. I filled the dents...that came along with my Dremel work with some wood filler
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filled the gap between the capping rails with a piece of scrapwood, and cleant it up afterwards.
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Ah tnx! It's a lot clearer now! That with the elastic bands does sound a lot easier now. I just misunderstood it wrong in the first place. Well, that's useful in a lot of ways indeed. Thanks for al the help👍 That lego seems also very handy, so i need some of that
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Getting more and more respect for the people who make the ships 'naturel' regarding the colors! I can correct a lot of mistakes with some filler and paint, so that's handy for now😂
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