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I haven't yet been able to get back to my build of MK's gunboat, but it is an excellent kit in all respects. Based on what we have seen in other Phoenix build logs, I think you will get a lot of pleasure out of this project. Cheers!
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I hope we will be seeing a full kit unboxing and review here at MSW (hint, hint)? 😉
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Welcome! Those are some nice models. Please do start a build log in the kits section when you are ready to start, and don't worry about language errors. Cheers!
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Goodness, Greg! At the rate you work, I may be able to tag this build as finished later this afternoon!
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I think your expectations would not be met, at least if you're expecting a degree of historical accuracy in the kit. Don Dressel, an accomplished modeler and author, spent many years researching the SoS while attempting a build of the Mantua kit. The effort took 10 years, and the end result is that he used only the hull formers from the kit and replaced everything else -- literally everything else. He found many errors in the kit's rig, armament, and particularly its hull carvings (the stern carvings in the kit, as one example, are completely wrong). While there is no doubt that an eye-catching model of SoS could be built straight from the box, but I think that there are equally ornate subjects that are probably better values for the money, e.g. Euromodel's Royal William. Also check out some of the offerings from the Dutch comapany, Kolderstok. Cheers!
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Congratulations on completing a very fine model! I hope you will place some photos in the gallery. Cheers!
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Hard to tell from the photo, but Baltimore clippers had a lot of drag to their keels. The model looks to me to be a brig more along the lines of Scottish Maid. I can't recall off the top of my head, but I vaguely remember that the Baltimore clippers rather quickly fell out of widespread use because their speed came at a cost of hull capacity. Can't tell you for certain whether they were commonly used in the closing stages of the North American slave trade.
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Straightening aftermarket rigging line
ccoyle replied to DonInAZ's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Many modelers use beeswax to treat rigging line. It comes in small tubes, and you can drag your line through the tip, then use your fingertips to supply the heat (it doesn't take much at all) needed to melt the wax into the line. That should take some of the kinks out. Dampening the line and hanging it, as you have done, will pre-stretch the line, which may help eliminate some sagging in the finished model. -
Yup -- the thumbs-up button is insufficient to express the amount of jaw-droppage that happens when I catch up with this log.
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Yep, I'm a Humboldt County boy -- a fact that neither time nor distance can erase.
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Mariposa was my most recent California address before I packed up and moved to South Carolina.
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Great story! Quite a few of those place names resonated with me, being a native Californian myself. An old high school friend of mine currently lives in Kodiak. Another friend was an observer aboard a Japanese processing ship in the Gulf of Alaska. Sad to hear about Storis -- she was a beautiful ship. Cheers!
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Nope, just an American soccer fan who got sucked into the Evertonian black hole for hopes and dreams back when Landon Donovan and Tim Howard were Blues. But I still love 'em. Fortunately, I have been a Bayern Munich fan for far longer than I have cheered for the Blues, so that kind of balances things out in a way -- one team gets me trophies, the other keeps me humble. But I don't think that Everton is all that far away from the "Big Six" glory-land -- all we need is a completely revamped midfield. No big deal. 😝 Don't worry -- I won't excommunicate you. The president of our organization at work is a big-time Man U fan, and we still get along well enough.
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Okay, every time I see "Chris C." pop up in my new posts notifications, for a split second I think that someone is hailing me -- for reasons that should be readily apparent.
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