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About ccoyle

  • Birthday 08/15/1963

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    Greer, South Carolina
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    model building, hunting, fishing, reading, genealogy

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  1.    Keith Black reacted to a post in a topic: Canoa de Rancho by JacquesCousteau - FINISHED - Scale 1:32 - Lake Chapala Fishing and Cabotage Vessel
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  4. ccoyle
    Congratulations on a rare set of models!
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  13. ccoyle
    All done! One month from start to finish. Any faults in the finished product are entirely my own doing. The kit itself is a gem. I still need to work on my egg-crate hull skills -- once the hull popped off its glass plate, I tended to hold it in the same places, resulting in a little of the 'starving cow' look, but not too bad. Here's the final pics: I'm 95% certain that my next project is included in a package that's currently on its way here from Poland. Look for that one in the new year. Cheers!
  14. ccoyle
    Nice work, Rob!
  15. ccoyle
    This is essentially what wood modelers have been asking for for years, i.e., a plan set and set of bulkheads to get a build started.
  16. ccoyle
    The foremast is now complete. What a chore! I dropped one of the tiny deck lamps during construction, and of course it disappeared into the jaws of the Carpet Monster, never to be seen again, so I had to scratch-build a replacement. Then I noticed that I had glued the lamps to the wrong part of the mast, requiring some delicate surgery to remove them and re-glue them in the right place. But that part is done now -- whew!! All that is left is three navigation lights and the flags.
  17. ccoyle
    It's not unheard of for modelers to do just that, but I don't know where the upper limit is on how much a kit can be enlarged and retain its sharp lines. Going from 1/250 to 1/48 would be quite a leap.
  18. ccoyle
    Finally got around to rigging the aft mast. Boy, was that an aggravating task!! Part of the reason for that is that the diagrams are fairly vague about where the various stays attach, and there are no insertion marks on the parts. I needed to consult some photos online. The other aggravation factor was simply the pain of having to work with very short pieces of EZ-Line in very tight spaces -- not very relaxing. BTW, I'm not doing all of the rigging. The rigging for the davits, for example, would be IMHO far too tedious and annoying than the results would be worth, and besides there is a lot of missing davit hardware, e.g., blocks, cleats. Also besides, I showed my wife the finished rigging, and her reaction was, "What rigging?", which solidifies the decision in my view.
  19. ccoyle
    Vous démarrez très bien. Veuillez noter que les messages doivent être rédigés en anglais. Un traducteur Internet peut faire le travail à votre place, si nécessaire – c'est comme ça que je parle français ! You are off to a great start. Please be mindful that posts need to be made in English. An internet translator can do the work for you, if necessary -- that is how I speak French!
  20. ccoyle
    Wow! This model is incredible in every way. The painting is exceptional. A very good result indeed!
  21. ccoyle
    Moin, Karl! Since this is a separate model, I have created a new topic thread for it. Cheers!
  22. ccoyle
    I think I may be rapidly approaching that point.
  23. ccoyle
    The main thing in any first planking job is to simply finish. You'd be surprised at how many modelers never make it past this step. Some remain permanently intimidated by the job and never even start!
  24. ccoyle
    Strange. It's working for me. Must just be another one of those software hiccups that my decidedly non-techie brain can't comprehend.
  25. ccoyle
    Fixed now, if you're still interested.
  26. ccoyle
    It is quite common for wooden ships to require the addition of what are called stealers at either or both the bow and stern. There are guidelines for doing this. Check out this planking tutorial by David Antscherl. Your model is coming along nicely to this point!

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