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ccoyle

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  1. Welcome aboard! As you can see, I'm here in the Upstate. I don't fly fish, but I have used ultralight spinning gear to fish the Saluda River up this way.
  2. Believe it or not, I've had the best luck with the scissors on my Swiss Army (Victorinox) Pocket Pal.
  3. I think you are missing the main point I was trying to get across in the other thread. The issue there was not the use of the gallery but rather the use of the build logs area. The function of the build logs area should be self-evident: it is an area in which members create logs of their builds in progress. Showing images of a finished model by itself, without any log of the build process, is not a build log and sidesteps the intended purpose of the build logs area. Members go to build logs expecting to see how a model is built. Making use of the gallery is entirely optional. A modeler who finishes a build may exhibit images of the finished model in his or her build log, in the gallery, or both. There is no requirement that images of finished build log subjects be displayed in the gallery only. The question of the functionality of our gallery is a subject that can be discussed, but the questions of when to use the gallery versus using a build log is not at all difficult.
  4. 'Helpfulness' is not a gallery criterion. 'Build logs' depict models being built; the gallery is for displaying finished models, regardless of quality. Thanks!
  5. Fantastic model! But since this is a finished model and not a build log, these images should be placed in a gallery album. Thanks!
  6. @Willem Basson I have split your query into a separate topic and moved it to the proper area. Also, please don't post your email in the open forum -- you can arrange to send it via private message if necessary. Cheers!
  7. Welcome aboard! Your schooner looks lovely!
  8. Welcome aboard!
  9. Oh, boy! My BS degree is in fisheries science, and I worked in salmonid habitat restoration for five years before making the first of two mid-life career changes. Welcome aboard!
  10. I like to invest a little bit of myself in each of my models. In this instance I literally invested some of myself after accidentally puncturing myself with a piece of wire and subsequently bleeding on my model while I worked on it. Fortunately, all of the affected areas will eventually be covered. 🫤
  11. Thank you, Andrew. The wales come pre-stained in the kit (that is, I assume they are stained -- I don't think they're cut from ebony or similar). They get a little abused during the planking process, so they will need some touch-up when the planking is completed. I remember your charming little TSS Earnslaw. I have a number of passenger ships in my stash from both Paper Shipwright and HMV -- I need to break out one of the medium-ish ones sometime.
  12. So, the winner of the recent D.VI fiasco, which you can read about here if you have the stomach for that sort of thing, is my Phoenix build. Yes, I decided it's time to move this build along some. I have added the first layer of the wales.
  13. He is a prolific designer, and many publishers have issued his models, including Models by Marek (digital), MPModels, Modelarstwo Kartonowe, and probably others that I've either forgotten about or am simply not acquainted with. If you buy and or build enough kits, you learn to recognize the work of various designers based on a kit's appearance. Oftentimes, the names of a kit's designer and graphic artist are available on a vendor's website.
  14. Those are all plans published by kit manufacturers. Since they are published by different entities, it's impossible to make a blanket evaluation of the quality of the entire group. Some will be better than others in terms of detail, accuracy, and completeness.
  15. I'd say it's a combination of both for this kit. I don't like to speak ill of the people (designers) who make this hobby possible, but I've had trouble with every Marek Pacynski kit I've attempted, and I've received feedback from other card modelers with similar experiences with Mr. Pacynski's work. To his credit, I have seen very fine examples of completed kits designed by Mr. Pacynski, but I'm becoming increasingly less interested in trying another of his kits and hoping I've found one of the good ones. I have plenty of kits in my stash from designers whose work I can rely on.
  16. Welcome aboard! Check out the kits from Modellers Shipyard. They're an Aussie outfit with a good reputation, and they offer some suitable beginner kits.
  17. Also not a 2nd or 3rd rate, but the point is still valid.
  18. That is going to be slim pickings. French subjects are somewhat neglected by kit manufacturers, and a 2nd or 3rd rate in 1/48 would be a massive kit. For that subject and scale, you're looking at scratch-building.
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