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hello -old shipbuilder signing in for first time
ccoyle replied to manning16's topic in New member Introductions
Hi, John. You can send a private message to any member simply by hovering your cursor of the member's username or avatar, then selecting the 'message' option at the bottom of the pop-up window. -
A big consideration is the question of whether you want a historically accurate model or just an awesome-looking one. Neither of the two kits you mentioned is historically accurate, particularly with regard to the stern carvings -- compare images of the kit sterns to the SoS stern seen in the well-known Peter Pett painting. Don Dressel spent ten years building his SoS based on (if I recall correctly) the Mantua kit, but basically using only the hull formers and scratch-building everything else. As I recall, besides the carvings there were significant issues with the armament and rigging.
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Actually, just click the tag at the top of this page, but yes, there are many other whaleboat build logs available.
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Such an interesting contrast seeing your snowy diorama out on your sunny balcony!
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Valeriy, Not only is this simply a stunning model, but the circumstances under which it has been created make it doubly impressive. Cheers, friend, and I hope that 2023 will bring better things!
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Good luck with your project and with school!
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If I ever get up that way, there is zero possibility that I will just drive by and snap a pic. 😋 I will declare some kind of travel emergency that simply demands a pit stop of several hours' duration. Of course, I have lived in South Carolina for seven years now and have so far never driven farther north than Charlotte, so a road trip to New England would seem an unlikely event.
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Welcome aboard! Your work looks great.
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Very nice work, and congratulations on your finished model!
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New to ship modelling? But what do you build first?
ccoyle replied to MSW's topic in Wood ship model kits
Based on your photos, I believe I can safely say that you have joined the ranks of those doing the blowing away! -
Tachikawa Ki-9 'Cedar' by Javlin - Nichimo - 1/48 - PLASTIC
ccoyle replied to Javlin's topic in Completed non-ship models
Nice! I have been eyeing this same aircraft in card in 1/33 scale. I'm a sucker for brightly colored biplanes. -
Welcome aboard! Is your kit the old Gertrude Thebaud kit?
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Your craft knife, commonly referred to as an X-acto knife in the US (though that is a brand name) can accept a variety of blades -- the #11 blade in your picture is the most commonly used type. As you have discovered, #11 blade tips do not hold up well to too much pressure and are thus a poor choice for cutting the tabs in plywood frets. A pin vise is designed to be held in position by an index finger while the barrel is turned with a thumb and middle finger. The bit is held by a collet, which in turn is held in place by tightening the two or three pieces of the barrel (one part of it is threaded to fit into the other part). The collet normally has different-sized openings at either end to accept a wide range of bit sizes. This is harder to explain than to actually do -- play around with the vise for awhile and you'll quickly figure it all out. Cheers!
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A 1/64 scale seventy-four would quite literally fill a huge gap -- in anyone's display space! 😬
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We also have a card modeling tutorial based on a WW1 torpedoboat -- different, subject but same basic techniques. The guy who wrote it seems to have a rudimentary grasp of the subject.
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Longer than I've been doing card models, actually. 😉
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I have a nice little collection of frames going. Like most repetitive tasks, I'm discovering some techniques that make the assembly process go a bit quicker. One thing for potential builders to look out for is that between frames 9 and 10, the transverse beam shifts from spanning the short pair of futtocks to the longer pair. This is due to the positioning of the gun ports. Back to work!
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HMS Renard 1872 by Draque - 1/24 - POF
ccoyle replied to Draque's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
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It's a sad compromise made necessary by economic reality. I intend to replace all of the kit-supplied line on my next rigged model.
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Welcome aboard 'Vitus' (not the original, I presume!) and good luck with your project!
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So, to wrap up today's little adventure, here is the finished frame. There are 26 more frames to build up, and they all look more or less like this one, so in the absence of much in the way of variety, I may not post much in the near future (and will be out-of-town for ten days, too). Cheers!
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The construction of this kit is proving less straightforward than one might have hoped, as seen in the following set of images. Frame 5 is the first full-width frame. Parts A5-1 and A5-2 (forgive me for forgetting to add the '5' part to all of the labels on the photos!) were easy enough to find on their sheets and assemble, but then we ran into a mystery with parts F5-1 and F5-2. First of all, there are four parts labeled as F5-2 on the parts sheets, but only two are needed, and, as you can see, the pairs of F5-2 parts are not all the same length. No problem, I figured -- one of the two pairs must be F5-1. The shorter F5-2s matched the dimensions on the frame diagram, so I deduced that the longer pair must be F5-1. Except the F5-1s did not match the frame diagram contours at all. After some head-scratching and additional fret searching, I found the real F5-1. It all made sense now. Except . . . now it appears that I have a surplus pair of futtocks (F5-1)?? Mysteries and more mysteries! Back to head-scratching!
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There can be no argument that Surprise would be a hot seller, and of course the Watton household needs to eat, but I will argue every day of the week and twice on Sunday for one of the American sloops-of-war, e.g. Peacock, or the matched set of Shannon & Chesapeake. But any VM kit will be a winner.
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