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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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Looking good, Popeye! Sjors - I have your first order ready - where should we send the bill?????
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Goodness, Sjors - it has been nearly 2 weeks and no updates??? Are you ignoring Le Mirage to pamper the San Ildefonso??? Will she not become envious or feel neglected???? Take your time, Sjors - both are looking very nice!!!
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Very nice work on the Bennet, Josh! Looking real crisp. Have heard of the graduate program you are in - it is a challenging one! best of luck with it!
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By Jove, I think he's got it! Found the exact picture using the ship named by Cristiano. Well played, sir! Now to wait for the call by Spyglass!!
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Indeed - more pictures are always good, Sjors.
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The problem with all of these is being sure that (1) the book is for the correct time period and (2) the right types of vessels (and nationality). Biddlecombe is great for Royal Navy rigging during the late 18th and first half of the 19th century (he basically took a lot of the info from Steel), but not so good at American or merchant rigging. Underhill's Masting & Rigging The Clipper Ship & Ocean Carrier is wonderful for that style of ship during the mid and late 19th century. Marquardt's Eighteenth-century Rigs & Rigging is a wonderful complement to Steel for that time frame - and in many ways much more comprehensive, though a European focus and not much American. Of course, the other challenge is that two similar ships could be built (let's assume 2 merchant clippers built in New York in 1855), but the rigging can be drastically different - the skipper had a lot of latitude in how he chose to rig his ship. Not only that, but the Bosun had a lot of say in which lines belayed where as the ship was rigged. Sigh...life would be so much simpler if they stuck to a plan!
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Very sharp looking, Popeye! No water skis on this one I take it??? ;)
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Sarah - Looking really good! I have been bogged down in making spars and rigging the foremast for probably 3 months now...usually get to put in only a few hours each week so progress is glacial, but there is progress! Popeye had given me some good advice about the standing rigging and shrouds when I had the first foremast demasted, so to speak. I am going from memory here (and mine is decidedly befuddled at times), but something along the lines of pre-tensioning the lines before installing. Basically find their neutral tension point before putting them on the model so that they won't tighten (like mine did) or slacken. He can definitely describe the process much better than I can! Your deck furniture is looking very good - well done!
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Presenting Ropes on your Scale Model
trippwj replied to BANYAN's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Somewhat related, would a warship with cannon maintain their cannon rigging in the neat coils on the deck when not either in port (subject to some form of inspection) or readying for combat? It seems a bit of an odd way to keep the lines when the area around the guns is constantly in use for other purposes, whether handling the sails or, on the gun and berth decks, living and eating space for the crews. If not in the neat coils, how were they stored when not in use? It looks handsome, but not practical if the guns are run out for combat or if actually working the ship. Just one of those random thoughts...thanks! -
That lengthy community tale of mystery and suspense (with the occassional dry pun thrown in for good measure) was among the most entertaining stories I have seen in many a year. Would love to see it resurected (the story, not the Captain, that is)
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