Jump to content

ccoyle

Moderators
  • Posts

    9,527
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by ccoyle

  1. If it was a snake, it woulda bit ya. 😉 Click the follow link, as indicated below.
  2. There weren't any child labor laws back in those days, hence there was no legal minimum age for a boy to be able to put to sea, and that included warships. The captain had sole discretion over who would be entered into the ship's company.
  3. Love seeing the innovation -- a stable hull substructure heads off a lot of potential pitfalls down the road!
  4. That's probably the case here. Anybody can resell stuff on Amazon, and some such sellers have little to no idea how much a second-hand kit is worth.
  5. I think you must mean 1/150 scale. I've seen them listed for anywhere between roughly $80 and $250, so basically whatever you can get for it.
  6. Try the search feature. Search for it by name, subject (tartane), or manufacturer. Use the titles only option. You'll soon have your answer. My guess is no one has built one.
  7. Probably 1970s vintage.
  8. Titles can only be edited in the first post of a topic by clicking 'edit' within the 'more options' menu (the tree dots in the upper right of any post).
  9. Glad to have you aboard, Todd!
  10. Great work, Ferrus, and congratulations on crossing the finish line with this one!
  11. Okay, now that is one retirement activity I do not envy you for!
  12. The non-ship area is kind of like the "wild west" of MSW -- I think we can bend the rules a bit here. You know, consider them more like "guidelines." We can edit the title to reflect the group effort if that's what you guys want to do.
  13. I can only echo the previous comments -- just a stunning piece of craftsmanship in every way!
  14. Having worked on my USS England in 1/250 scale, my honest assessment is that most steel navy warships done in card should only be rated difficult, really difficult, or insanely difficult -- they are one of the hardest, if not the hardest, card model subjects to pull off well. I look forward to watching your progress and seeing how the products from the two publishers compare. Cheers!
  15. Something to think about for the next build, if you do something in a similarly small scale, would be reducing the diameter of some of the rigging lines, such as the mainsail and foresail braces and sheets. If you want to do something on the cheap, have a look at quilting threads. They come in a wide variety of colors and are remarkably fuzz free compared to ordinary sewing thread.
  16. I concur with this assessment. Much the same applied to my build of MK's cannon yawl (likewise an excellent kit). I do wish that some foreign manufacturers would have a native English speaker give their instructions the once-over before sending them to print, but them's the breaks.
  17. Build logs are divided into separate sub-forums only based on whether they are kit or scratch. All scratch builds, regardless of medium, go in the scratch section (further broken down by time periods). I've never seen a model built from rope, so yours will likely be the first -- consider yourself a blazer of trails!
  18. I'm looking forward to watching this come together. As much as I really like these 1/72 scale kits from Shipyard, I don't completely understand why the company would go to such lengths to laser-cut everything and then require it all to be painted. It seems like an effort to simplify things followed by an effort to un-simplify things. 🤔
×
×
  • Create New...