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  1. ccoyle
    They're probably not identical sets in terms of what's included and what isn't, but if they include some of the same items, say grab rails for instance, then those parts should be interchangeable, assuming the sets are for the same time period. It's not uncommon for the plastic masters to buy multiple PE sets and then pick-and-choose which parts they will use from each set.
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    It's like when you run through all of your children's names before you arrive at the right one. 😉
  3. ccoyle
    Received mine today. Great product!
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    That is simply gorgeous!
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    I find that the Ceramcoat paints don't provide a very smooth finish, if that's something one is looking for. But the price can't be beat, and they come in a huge range of colors. I use them for edge coloring on my card models.
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    Matt, the sail comes in two pieces with the panel lines and mad dog printed on them. All the painting and stitching, etc., must be done by the builder.
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    Welcome! Nice work there.
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    Got the yard braces and lifts done today. There remain only the sheets, tacks, bridles, and clew lines. Surprisingly, the otherwise extremely thorough photo instructions seem to have overlooked the clew lines, but they're shown on the plans.
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    Bolt ropes done, sail halves lashed together, sail bent to yard, and reef points done. So, of course, yard had to be hoisted.
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    Ron, battens are thin strips of wood, e.g. 2 x 2 mm square stock, used to help judge the run of planks in a planking belt. They help you determine whether the run is properly following the curvature of the hull.
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    That pretty much narrows down the possibilities!
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    What Mark said. The brass pins in the kit are intended to hold planks in place until glue sets. Treenails, or trunnels, are the wooden pegs used to secure planking in actual practice. These are simulated on wooden models, and there is a real art to doing them convincingly. There is also some (hopefully amicable) debate on whether trunnels are desirable on a model; on real ships they tend to blend in with the surrounding wood, and at the scale viewing distance from which we observe models, trunnels are essentially invisible.
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    Very handsome, Rik -- congratulations! For future reference, titles can only be edited in the first post of a topic. I've taken care of this one for you. Cheers!
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    "Standard operating procedure." 😉
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    I think that was SOP back in the day. I had to purchase extra material for tackles for Sherbourne.
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    I hope you're not trying to make these by using the actual ends of the tackles themselves? That would be a nightmare! What I do is tack the tackle to the deck with a spot of CA and then trim the excess line. Make the rope coil off the model and then glue it down to the deck, being sure to cover the tacked end from the previous step.
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    Looks like a home run, Chris. Or as you English might say, "That's a cracking goal!"
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    On to painting the sails. Reminded me of painting by numbers back in the day -- like waaaaay back in the day! The front, featuring Mr. Mad Dog himself, was not difficult. It was actually the back that was a bit of a pain. The kit provides tan paint for painting what I assume are panel seams. When wet, the tan paint is very close to the color of the sail cloth,which it makes it difficult to adjudicate if one is staying inside the lines -- which are printed only on the front, of course. The tan is much easier to see when dry, at which point one can plainly see all one's errors. 🙄 PS: The family agree that Mr. Mad Dog bears a slight resemblance to our corgi mix, AJ, when he is approached by strange men wearing hats.
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    Well, I got the Shroud from Hell fixed, but it took not one, not two, but THREE ties to get it done! 😜 On the first try, I got the lanyard laced up incorrectly. On the second try, the stopper knot came undone. But the third try succeeded. Kinda reminds me of the Swamp Castle scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. At least my boat hasn't burned and then fallen into the swamp -- yet.
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    These should be indicated on the plans.
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    You're right about that. It probably won't take long to fix -- it's was just so flippin' annoying when it happened! 😉
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    Well, at the moment I am just pissed off beyond all belief. I just finished the backstays, the last pieces of standing rigging, and then I noticed that two shrouds on the port side are wrapped around each other. I have no idea how this happened, but I am pretty darn sure that I didn't set them up that way -- that's something I would have both noticed and taken great pains NOT to do. I guess it's just my luck to run into at least one colossal disaster per rig per model (remember the infamous "disappearing sail & yard" on the cannon yawl?). I am just sick, sick, sick about this -- it's the kind of thing that saps all of the fun right out of a build. 😡😡😡
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    Shrouds are done, and thanks to some help from Jack in steering me to an old thread on shroud twist, I managed to get the lanyards set up with only a slight amount of twist -- far better than what I was originally achieving, which was like a half-dozen twists each. Now, as far as the shrouds themselves go, sharp-eyed observers may notice that I made a bit of a mistake on them. If you know what it is, don't say anything!! My target audience for this model is extremely unlikely to notice that anything is amiss, and I had to weigh that knowledge against the tedium and inconvenience of completely redoing the shrouds. I chose the easy option -- so shoot me! 😉
  24. ccoyle
    Beautiful boat! Don't know the design, but she's sporting a cat-ketch rig.
  25. ccoyle
    Brilliant -- domestic harmony demands compromise!

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