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  1. ccoyle
    That's a beautiful model and exceptional display. Congratulations!
  2. ccoyle
    Several hours of work today resulted in the bending of sails to yards (with fore tacks), rudder hung, and rudder tackles and preventers installed.
  3. ccoyle
    Hello, Nazir. For the eye bolts, yes, definitely cut them down to the length you need -- which really isn't very much in most cases. A little dab of your Gorilla Glue will probably suffice to hold one snugly in place. And do drill starter holes. As for rigging, I'm not sure what you mean by "basics" -- surely there is a plan sheet in the kit that shows mast and spar dimensions, and another with rigging details? Since the kit is supposed to represent an "American schooner," you might look for Lennarth Petersson's Rigging Period Fore-and-Aft Craft; it contains an entire chapter on rigging a Baltimore clipper. Cheers!
  4. ccoyle
    Another very interesting find, Mike! I will be keen to see how this one turns out, as I built Revell's USS Defiance (same class) as a kid.
  5. ccoyle
    It's a nice-looking model, and I wish you well on your project!
  6. ccoyle
    My understanding is that pretty much everything we "know" about galleons is based in large part on conjecture. With these old kits, it wasn't uncommon for one manufacturer to sell molds to another, or to rebrand one kit subject as some other subject.
  7. ccoyle
    You can do it yourself, but only in the first post in a thread. You use the 'edit' button in the toolbar at the bottom of the post. Knock yourself out!
  8. ccoyle
    Ya lost me -- but based on your previous work, I know you'll get it sorted!
  9. ccoyle
    Hello, Origamifan. The issue with the ZHL Black Pearl is not that it is a copy of an existing kit, although most ZHL kits are. In the case of BP, the issue is that ZHL's kit is not licensed by Disney, so it is still stolen intellectual property. The only licensed wood kit of BP that I know of off the top of my head was a partswork kit offered a few years back by Hatchette. It is now out of production and is considered collectible, so you might have trouble finding one.
  10. ccoyle
    The stern looks okay, but to my eye the bunching up of the bow ports looks odd. Don't ask me how to fix it though -- that's above my pay grade.
  11. ccoyle
    The history of sailing merchantmen in the 20th century can be quite interesting. Back then, those old carthorses weren't romanticized like they are today -- they were worked hard and intended to make money for their owners (of course you knew all this already). Part of the reason they were worked as hard as they were was because of the inherent perils of moving cargo by wind power alone; a LOT of sailing merchantmen were lost due to collisions, foundering, stranding, burning, or simply disappearing without a trace. Owners needed to recoup their investments quickly.
  12. ccoyle
    Congratulations, Jesse! Don't let your "Lyme-addled brain" be troubled -- I fixed the title for you. Cheers!
  13. ccoyle
    Spars. Exciting, I know, right? 😉
  14. ccoyle
    Great bargain! I hope you will enjoy building it.
  15. ccoyle
    I agree with the previous posters -- great choice of subject!
  16. ccoyle
    $20 for a Tamiya kit? I'd be very, very wary! 🤨
  17. ccoyle
    Thank you -- except that's actually the stern! 😉
  18. ccoyle
    Very interesting discussion about languages and dialects. I was an exchange student in Ostfriesland. Many of my schoolmates spoke High German as a second language -- just like me. Their first language was Plattdeutsch (Low German).
  19. ccoyle
    Well, the immediate beneficiary of my X-acto disaster with CGS Canada is the gunboat. Rigged the gun tackles this afternoon. I hope the boys at MK will not mind my saying this too much, but the rigging line supplied in the kit could really stand to be upgraded. However, I'm going to build this with the stuff on hand, so it is what it is.
  20. ccoyle
    Looks very nice -- congrats!
  21. ccoyle
    Actually, no, because this was a pre-printed kit.
  22. ccoyle
    Well, thanks for the interest everyone, but tragedy has struck. While trying to trim a bit of excess card at the top of one hull skin, my steel rule decided to act on its own accord and wander away from the edge being trimmed, with the end result that there is now a long diagonal gash in the hull skin. 🤬 On top of that, I wasn't terribly happy with the way the hull was turning out in the first place. So, I'm setting this one aside for now and going back to the MK Kanonen Jolle, now that I have the corrected rigging table for it. Oh, well ... c'est la vie!
  23. ccoyle
    Still making slow progress; will post a photo or two when I get the hull skins on. Right now I am adding teeny, tiny bulwark stanchions, 72 in total (they are optional parts, but I'm adding them anyway). I can only stand to do about ten at a sitting before I get bored. Forwards!
  24. ccoyle
    Beautiful work, Alexandru!
  25. ccoyle
    Hi, Ann. I merged the two topics for you. Hope you get your answers soon!

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