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  1. wernerweiss
    Hello Harshil, Congratulations on this progress, excellent work as always! Yes, you have to be very careful not to spoil the great cabin' s deck with its pattern.....but so it is with the much bigger area of the gun deck, the basswood is very soft and does not forgive tools falling on it, but, as modelers we ARE careful.. I am going to update my Confederacy build log soon showing the progress of the forecastle deck and the bow stem Greetings Werner
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    A beading tool is in principle a nail with a grip......see Google
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    Hello Harshil, thank you for your likes. But I was wrong when I said that regarding the lights there is work from inside the cabin.....maybe I remembered it wrong because I doubled the frames, but all work to glue the frames and the "window-panes" is done from outside.... Werner
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    However, I would recommend to finish the stern lights and the gallery lights first, because there is much work from inside the cabin, just to avoid scratches on the cabin floor
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    Yes, it is. Exactly, I had the pattern printed on a normal A4 paper sheet with a peelable back in a copyshop so I could glue the pattern on a piece of ca. 1,5 mm thick card. So I did not use a wood layer and glued the card directly on the false deck.
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    Hello Harshil, once again, very clean work! Yes, one has to be very careful once the cabin floor is finished, and later on there are two cannons and possibly furniture to be positioned and glued..... Did you print the pattern directly on the card? I printed it on self-adhesive paper (is this what you mean with label paper?) Werner
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    Hello Harshil, wonderful work with an amazing result - highly recommended for imitation! With this attention to detail I look forward to your finished model! I must admit that I was too lazy to paint the bricks in different shades..... It is a pity that most of the brick surface is later on covered by the stove.
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    Hello Harshil, regarding the gluing of the hatch coamings and the brick platform on the false deck I would highly recommend not to follow the instructions and plank the gun deck first. This makes it much easier to sand the gun deck all over its length because then there are no obstacles for your sanding tool....but maybe you already thought about it.
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    Hello Harshil, again, very clean woodwork...did you use the provided basswood or another kind of wood, e.g. beech? I cast the "bricks" with moulding cement and cut/sanded it to shape to fit in the wooden frame. Then I painted it red to resemble "brick". Afterwards I painted it all over with grey (not too thick) to fill the grooves and immediately dabbed the grey paint off the "brick" surfaces leaving a rest of grey paint....I think this method should also work on your wooden "bricks" (As the height of the cast didn´t match the height of the frame, I glued the cast on a piece of thick card) Werner
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    Hello Harshil, some remarks on the brick platform for the stove. In the building instructions it is made of provided wood strips which are grooved, glued together and painted to resemble bricks.....I didn´t like that at all and looked for an alternative. I found a silicone casting mould for brick walls for rail modelling. The "bricks" cover an area of 72 x 49 mm and imo meet the size, so I made a cast and was content with the result. The rest was cutting to length and width, painting red and "washing" with grey.....
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    Hello Harshil, Very fine and clean woodwork.....wish these coamings were on my model 😃 For my taste, I would not paint them black, too much contrast to the companionways if you intend to paint them in "oak".....but that is of course up to you... Werner
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    Thank you very much!
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    Hello Mark, thank you very much for your comment......meanwhile I could fix the problem. Yesterday I found a post in this forum (see below); I rotated the pictures four times as described there and it worked!
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    Hello Harshil, thank you very much - no, I do not plan to rig her. Regarding rigging a ship of this type and real size I´m a bloody beginner, and I like the admiralty style.
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    Hello modelers, I made good progress with my model, and with this post I upload the latest pictures. I leave them uncommented but look forward to your remarks, comments and questions, don´t hesitate to ask.... Greetings Werner
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    Hello Robert, thank you very much! Fact is that however I hold the smartphone, all pictures in the smartphone file and later on my laptop - via e-mail - have the normal orientation, and rotating them left or right is intentionally. The problem came with the upload to the forum, when to my surprise some pictures appeared upside down. What I tried was to rotate these pictures before uploading hoping they would then appear normal, but that was not helpful.... What I must say is that in another forum the upload of these pictures is not at all a problem.... Werner
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    Hello at all, meanwhile I got the answer to my problem. I learned that the reason why pictures which appear upside down when posted is that these pictures were taken with the smartphone held upside down.....it is a matter of the rotation data. But what I also learned in this context is that in another forum in which I am registered all pictures are uploaded and posted unrotated......... The solution for my problem I finally found in this post here in the forum:
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    Hello Gary, Dave, thank you for your helpful answers! In the future I will take care how I hold my smartphone when taking pictures.... Werner
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    Hello at all, perhaps somenone can help me with a problem that occured today. I had already written a few words and uploaded the next pictures of the Confederacy, but before submitting the post I saw that a few pictures appeared turned upside down. I don´t have any idea why; in my general Confederacy file they do not appear "overhead", so what shall/must I do? Strangely in other forums this does not happen...... Greetings Werner
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    Hello at all, I just uploaded the latest pictures of my model of the Confederacy, but before submission I had to see that some of them appeared turned upside down - example see below -, and I absolutely don´t have any idea why. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance Greetings Werner
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    Hello captain_hook, thank you very much....I got the inspiration for the interieur from a picture of ship model builder somewhere in another forum
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    Hello Hershil, thank you for following my suggestion for the chessboard floor pattern. But check the forward edge of the template....it runs along the aft bulkhead, and the aft bulkhead must not sit too close to the hole for the speaking tube to allow enough distance for the deck coat at its base. I look forward to the progress of your model, and in the next days I´m going to upload the next pictures of my model which were taken just yesterday.... Strange that you had problems with the margin planks..... Greetings Werner
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    Hello Steve, Thank you very much, and there will be an update soon with all guns on deck and more deck equipment..... Greetings Werner
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    Thank you very much!
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    Thank you very much for your likes!

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