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Sjors - If you had coppered the hull below the waterline I would say yes, but with just the varnished wood, I would leave them as is. They really standout well against the planking this way! -
That rudder looks nice - well done!
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Your saw work is lovely, the timbers so clean if I weren't so clumsy To try this I would lean! Very nice job, Sherry - thank goodness I have 3 kits to finish before I contemplate moving to the dark side...but I think I'll start more simply with a cross section of some sort! Very nice job on these pieces with a coping saw!!!!!
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Woo hooo! Another promotion party! Senior officer on board hosts (looks like that would be Sjors...)
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Very nice job on the deck!
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as to the Steamboat Robert E. Lee, there are a few contemporary paintings and sketches. Here is one from the Louisiana State Museum that may be a good reference. The next is a Currier & Ives print of the "great Race" with the Natchez.
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Mistah Popeye, sir - 'twas a listening to one of them new fangled CD things tonight with mothah, and thaht I would share with you one of the stories told by Mr. Marshall Dodge. great man, he were. This heah is the story about a day on the watah with his mother in law lobsterin'. I hope, sir, that you enjoy! http://www.islandportpress.com/BIseteragain.html
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Very nice looking build thus far!!!
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That one is interesting - it looks familiar for some reason, but not sure why. I would hold off on hints for a while and see what folks come up with!
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Hello, Sherry, and Good Choice!!! look forward to watching the build - will pull up a seat next to Popeye...
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Kester - when you click on the picture to enlarge it the name of the ship is the name of the picture.
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ancre Le Fleuron 1729 by rekon54 - 1:24
trippwj replied to rekon54's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Beautiful work! thanks for sharing this masterpiece!!!! The pictures are such quality as to make it easy to believe this was a full scale vessel rather than a model. -
Hello, Josh - thought I'd "pop in" about the waterline. If you intend to paint the boat, the waterline is important for the reason noted above - the area below the waterline would usually be a different color since some type of anti-fouling paint (red on this boat) would be applied below the waterline. Since anti-fouling paint is much more expensive, it was not used for most other areas. On larger vessels, the waterline is also the separating point for copper sheathing.
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Take your time, Sjors - you are doing a great job. I am very impressed with the detail work you have done.
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LOL!!!! You seem to have slipped into the poetic dimension now, Popeye! Looking really good - and if only you could barter eyebolts for spinach - just imagine!!!!! I seem to recall a discussion around the cost of Oreo's and the loss of Hostess when this first came out.....
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Nice work on the jibboom - I chickened out on drilling the holes and used a seized loop instead. Are you going to use the brass wire for the chain plates or try something else?
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Ditto - looks very good!
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Takes years of practice to be able to make deductions like that....I move we let maaalso have a "do-over"...
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Thanks, Keith & Buck. This is one of three I am working on (a little at a time). Doing one solid hull, one POB amd one POF. Here is a comparison of the scales for the 3: The Harriet Lane was 180 feet in length, the Ranger is based on the William Doughty plans for a 51 ton revenue cutter of about 57 feet on deck, and the Emma C. Berry is about 40 feet between perpendiculars. All are nearly the same size as a model - just the bits and pieces are a lot smaller on the HL than the others!
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Thank you, John. It is a challenging scale to work at (very unforgiving of any slips), but still enjoying - just challenged for building time! Wild, rainy, windy day here today, so heading over to my little corner to work on some more of the teensie weensie timey wimey spar parts. Think I'll work on the main boom today. Thanks for the kind words!
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Looking very nice, Andy. For an answer about the mysterious non-accumulating popcorn, you may need to touch base with TheMadChemist about his helper (some quarky guy named Al something or other) who keeps talking about things being relative or something like that...
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Hmm...wonder if Rocky Mountain Lobster would control the Prairie dog population...
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Ditto above praise! From sunny Arkansas (73 degrees today).
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