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  1. ccoyle
    This model has had more name changes than Prince! 😄
  2. ccoyle
    That is a wonderful and eye-catching display! Congratulations!
  3. ccoyle
    Handsomely done, Ed!
  4. ccoyle
    👍
  5. ccoyle
    Witam, @0Seahorse! I'm really looking forward to watching another of your designs come together. Unfortunately, your image links are not working.
  6. ccoyle
    Short update here. I have the foredeck's inner bulwarks installed. I will be traveling during the next week, so this will be the last update for awhile. Sadly, I can't bring my models with me. 😢
  7. ccoyle
    Eleven years, in fact! Welcome aboard at last!
  8. ccoyle
    Stunning result, Dave!
  9. ccoyle
    Hope you don't mind that I changed the title to the English name rather the Turkish version on the plans.
  10. ccoyle
    The humble moderating crew has corrected the somewhat confusing original title.
  11. ccoyle
    Love it! Looks a perfectly questionable mode of transportation!
  12. ccoyle
    Welcome aboard!
  13. ccoyle
    Very nice! I think it is a particular kind of challenge to get a plastic model of a wooden subject to look just 'right', and you have achieved the proper look.
  14. ccoyle
    That's a lovely finished model. Congratulations!
  15. ccoyle
    You can do that yourself on your account settings page. Go to the edit signature page, delete the link for your build log, then re-post it -- but look for and use option on the toolbar beneath the image that says "share as link." Then save the edited signature. You should be good to go!
  16. ccoyle
    Love the model, Keith, but -- I had to delete the stock photo in your earlier post, as it was from a pay site. I loved the photo, though, as it featured the steam donkey that was part of the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) museum in Scotia, California. I don't know if it is still there or not, as the company was sold some years back. When I was a fisheries technician with the CCC back in the 1900s, we did a lot of work on PALCO timber holdings. The story of how PALCO went out of business is a very sad tale. The company was the victim of a hostile takeover financed by junk bonds. To finance the debt, the new owners accelerated timber harvests above and beyond what was sustainable. The company went insolvent regardless. PALCO was a big part of the daily life of Southern Humboldt County, and a lot of people lost their livelihoods when the mill closed. The Scotia mill has new owners now, and as far as I know it is still operating, but I moved away decades ago and haven't kept up on how well they are doing.
  17. ccoyle
    Some more progress to report. I now have all of the finish planking below the wales completed. I'm not happy with how visible the seams are, and I will be doing some work to correct that to my liking. If anyone is planning to build this kit using the laser-cut frames, here's a word of warning: DON'T throw out any of the scrap 0.5 mm card! There are plenty of parts that need to be laminated onto 0.5 mm card stock, and with care you can fit most of them onto the scrap 0.5 mm sheet. Before doing the upper hull planking, I decided to work on the interior cockpit planking. This will provide some extra rigidity to the upper bulwarks. You'll notice that I also added the uppermost outer bulwark plank -- this is to help with the positioning of the rest of the bulwark planking yet to be added. Someone asked in another topic about the stiffness of card model hulls. I can verify that this particular hull is now pretty solid by this point in the construction -- no fears about it being too delicate. Cheers!
  18. ccoyle
    That's what counts! And you did a fine job, too!
  19. ccoyle
    Carl, an essential skill for card modeling is simply learning how to work with paper: scoring, cutting, folding, rolling, etc. It pays to tackle a few simple card models, regardless of subject, before trying a more advanced kit. We even have a tutorial hosted here based on a free kit of a WW1 torpedoboat. Warning: Once you try card models, you may never go back!
  20. ccoyle
    Well done, Paul!
  21. ccoyle
    Nice!
  22. ccoyle
    Yeah, they kinda are, sorta.
  23. ccoyle
    A canoe in 1/2 scale is large. 🤔
  24. ccoyle
    Very well done! Congratulations!
  25. ccoyle
    I was born in Tucson while my Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan, so technically I'm a native Arizonan, though I was only two months old when we moved to California, and I've only been to Arizona one other time since then. But, hey, connections, dontcha know. 😉

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