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  1. Just add a piece of shim to one or both sides of the keel.
  2. One of the beauties of wood compared to other media is the relative ease with which things can be fixed.
  3. Just use wood glue and glue the two halves in separately. It should hold.
  4. You probably won't find 1/78 scale figures, but try searching for 1/75 and 1/76 scale figures. The latter scale is that of OO model railroading, which is popular in the UK, so lots of figures in that scale are available, though you'll need to modify them for a sailing man-of-war.
  5. Probably not, at least in the long-term. It would have to go in Shore Leave, and it is not the sort of topic we would pin, so eventually it would be lost in the message traffic.
  6. I was reviewing Page 1 of this log and was reminded of Andy's recommendation of the Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles YouTube channel. In the last year or so, the number of military history channels on YouTube has absolutely exploded. Most of the new channels are total el crappola grande -- poorly researched, AI-generated, text-to-voice narrated cash cows, and many times they are simply re-uploading someone else's content. One often has to know a lot about the subject already in order to properly judge whether the channel offers anything of substantive value. With that in mind, I thought I'd take a moment to recommend a few additional aviation channels whose research chops I trust and whose content is engaging. In no particular order, these are: Rex's Hangar (an Aussie lad who does a mix of both short and long videos; he also has videos consisting of shorter videos stitched together to make videos up to four hours long -- perfect for background audio during build sessions!) Military Aviation History (This channel is run by a German researcher, so he makes extensive use of original German source material.) Blue Paw Print (design and engineering deep-dives done in exquisite CGI renderings) Hope you enjoy these!
  7. Work has commenced on the fiddly tail wheel assembly. I can foresee some stability issues with this structure once the wheel has to bear the weight of the finished model, so I plan to incorporate some judicious stiffening with CA. The interior portion of the wheel well will only be partially visible if the viewer were to turn the model over while viewing it -- which would of course subject the viewer to the very real possibility of physical harm at the hands of the model's irate builder!
  8. That's an adjacent country -- close enough? 🤔😂
  9. Welcome back, Paul!
  10. Welcome aboard! Your pram looks great. I also love the "pre-cutted frames" in the Amati kit. In case you didn't know already, that kit represents a Tancook whaler, a type native to the US Northeast. A now-defunct company called Freedom Song Boatworks made a kit of one years ago that is even more primitive than the Amati version. I did a review of it here. Cheers!
  11. Nice! This is obviously a bit more detailed then what we ask 6th graders to build!
  12. I would be interested to see what this looks like when you get it set up. I write science textbooks, and we just included a marble run STEM lab in our 6th grade product.
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