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Let's find all navies that had large white-coloured ships. America had some of those... e.g. USS Boston and Chicago (but those had two funnels...) Jan
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Not French.... Russian is my next guess.... Jan
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French, possibly? Jan
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Think you are right....
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I like your weathered paint-work. Any chance for us to see the recipe for it? Jan
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Post #23 states that he will stop this build. I'm pretty sure he was serious about that. He is active on a Dutch/Belgian forum, and over there he has some fame for starting builds that grow more and more ambitious as they go along. But many of them come to a point where the quality Arjans wants is not delivered by the kit he is using. And then there is some ominous post 'that this build will be stopped'. At the moment he is working on a next (Corel-kit-based) build: A Dutch VOC-ship, based on the Prins Willem. To be honest, I expect him to stop that build also, and turn to proper 'scratch build'.... Jan
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So that's why they stopped regular maintance of their houses. So the blizzard of '88 brought your tree down after all.... Jan
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yeah, you got the point Jan
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It can be done (I did it), and it results in the real-life-effect that the shrouds give a small 'opening' just above the deadeye. As soon as you wind the 'loose end' of the lanyard around the shroud, you loose the effect almost completely. I think no-one will ever see that I took the time and effort to place a vertical lashing.... Jan
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There is a guy doning a large scale paper model of the Scharnhorst. (Paul Salome) I think he just ued a sprayed primer to seal the whole thing off. Perhaps you could ask him... Jan
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I'm a bit struggling with the info you're looking for (probably a translation issue ) I think you can do it llike the original: spllice an eye in one end, attach the deadeye block in to the line (pace a seizing under it), feed the other end of the rigging line under the bowsprit, and take it upwards again thruogh the spliced eye, and fix it onto itself using a seizing. Or is that not what you want? See pic below, Dutch did it slightly different: the used two spliced eyes and a lashing in between. The line is going from the mast upwards, around the block (attached with a seizing), down round the other side of the mast, under the bowsprit, and upwards again, ending either in a spliced eye, fixed twith a lashing, or fed through the first eye, and seized to itself. Jan
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In case of paint: waterbased paints tend to raise the fibers. So, painting is also not without "danger"... However, I got a reasonable result using a diluted waterbased acrylic paint, giving it a light sanding after drying, and afterwards repeating the pint (sagain dluted). The first coat of paint tended to keep most fibers in place, the second coat of paint was needed to staint the uncoloured spots due to sanding down unwilling fibers. As you need more coats of paint, some testing is needed. Jan
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Looks wonderful! (btw I assume your 'no more cheating'-lines were mass-produced, almost in a cheating-like way) Jan
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But solving the trouble results in better models! So there is some, although indirect, advantage of your thinking.
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somthing like a rejected spar of Kingfisher and - oops - I forgot to remove the thing with wheels in the foreground Jan
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Happy birthday! (actually, I hope he's still building or making pics of what he has done last month.....) Jan
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Or one of the others from that class..... They all look fairly similar to me Jan
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Not so easy perhaps, but you succeeded! Jan
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And chances are that the original was also free hand painting.... Your lettering fits the period quite well! Jan
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Build in 1745? Jan
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Hmmm... wheels are not allowed here (unless they are used on a gun truck) A pity, I was wondering whether or not you took plastic as serious as wood.... Jan
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Plymouth, Portsmouth, It's all on the Channel coast, and starts with a P. He's coming from Aussieland, on his map England is just a mere dot Jan
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That plastic kit, is that a ship? Jan
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