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  1. ccoyle
    Withholding digital plans from a former colony seems a mite petulant. 😅
  2. ccoyle
    Bingo!
  3. ccoyle
    Okay, this won't go down as the greatest accomplishment in the history of ship modeling, but I'm pretty happy with it. The kit provides brass belaying pins, but instead of the necessary fifteen pins, it only came with eight. Whoops! So I dug around in my spare parts stash and found some leftover wooden belaying pins -- the chunky, over-scale kind. I turned these down with my Dremel tool, a file, and some sandpaper to get something more similar to the brass pins -- not exactly the same, but most of each pin will eventually be hidden under a rope coil, so close enough. They're black because I used Blacken-it on the brass pins and painted the wooden ones to match. What can I say? The captain went with iron pins. The main yard is also turned, but not in the picture. Next up: setting up the shrouds!
  4. ccoyle
    Mainmast completed and stepped. Considering that there is only one other spar to turn, plus a couple of flagstaffs, I'm hopeful that the rigging will go relatively quickly. My card model stash in the background grew by one addition today -- but I'll reveal that in the "what have you received today" thread.
  5. ccoyle
    Lovely finished product!
  6. ccoyle
    Welcome, Bradley, and good luck with your project! I lived in Santa Rosa (Rincon Valley) for four years as a kid. My dad taught at Santa Rosa High School.
  7. ccoyle
    I finished the crow's nest and turning the mainmast last night, but as I stained the mast, I noticed that there were obvious sanding scratches left in the wood. So, no picture until after I get a chance to fix that little boo-boo. Cheers!
  8. ccoyle
    I did the train tackles on mine.
  9. ccoyle
    Folks, I'm giving this topic a bump, and I hope that certain parties (**ahem**) will read it. Again, please don't quote long posts in their entirety, especially if they have LOTS of photos! It wastes page space, and people who already saw those photos in the original post have to scroll all the way past them -- again! Thank you!
  10. ccoyle
    As am I! I was quite keen to see how this turned out.
  11. ccoyle
    Don't sweat that detail. Once the gun is in place and the eyelet is secured to the bulwark, just touch it up with a daub of flat black paint.
  12. ccoyle
    Not for this one. I'm not doing any extra detailing -- pretty much a straight out-of-the-box build.
  13. ccoyle
    Sorry to hear that, Mario.
  14. ccoyle
    Hopefully completion of this model, building something with wings, and a 10-pt trophy buck.
  15. ccoyle
    This anchor marks the end of Book I of the instructions, hooray! On to Book II -- I started tapering the mast today.
  16. ccoyle
    Thanks, Christian. I use both Titebond and medium-cure CA, depending on the task.
  17. ccoyle
    Locking this, because the question was asked and answered elsewhere.
  18. ccoyle
    Necessity is the mother of acquired skills. Get some annealed wire of the correct diameter and some inexpensive round-nose pliers. You'll then have the makings of a lifetime supply of metal rings.
  19. ccoyle
    And finally, some real progress to show. Forecastle complete and mounted. Just a few small bits to do before beginning masting and rigging.
  20. ccoyle
    My 3x-great grandfather was with the 39th Georgia at Vicksburg. He was captured and paroled, then later wounded during the Atlanta campaign and discharged for disability. His son's family emigrated to Parker County, Texas.
  21. ccoyle
    Yep, it's used to raise the the yard.
  22. ccoyle
    Okay, you might have to look hard to see the difference between this photo and the previous photo -- just a few new bits. Next up is building the forecastle. I stained all the parts today, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to start it.
  23. ccoyle
    That was my first thought, too. An anchor and hawse were bound to bring a little dreck aboard when hoisted in and stowed.
  24. ccoyle
    Great job, Kevin!
  25. ccoyle
    Very nice looking -- well done!

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