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When is it hot enough to bring my pastry? Great, Daniel

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Somewhere, somehow, sometimes I was wondering what I was doing ... ... and tried to remember, how things should look like, took some Evergreen, drilled some blocks, took 2 of my etch parts hooks (ATTENTION: Product placement), took some line, and after some hooks and turns ... ... that easy, so easy, so lessens learned: No more cheating attempts!!! (Message to myself: Write this down a 100 times to never forget again) So produced new blocks, punched some holes with the scriber on the 1 x 2 mm rod for the double blocks ... ... and on the 1 x 1 mm rod for the single blocks ... ... drilled with 0,5 mm ... ... and roughened the surface with a abrasive fleece. While cutting to length I used the scalpel to round the surface and out came an amount of itzy-bitzy-teeny-wheeny extra small blocks. Instead of painting I remembered tinting, a trick I once used successful while my studies on polyamide spheres: Tinting powder for synthetic fiber. But does this work for polystyrene? So the powder with vinegar and the parts into the pot and boil well and long :-) The toughest was to find the itzy-bitzy-teeny-wheeny extra small blocks in this mess in between the remains of undissolved color powder ... ... and it really worked! Not as well as I thought it would, but well enough for my needs. On the bigger parts one can see how much the color was absorbed and on the smaller ones particles of the powder even gave darker spots. Fixed the drill upside down ... ... used it to hold the block, knotted a thread onto one of my blackened hooks and attached it with some CA onto the block. Then knotted the backside and fixed all well with CA. The single block was done accordingly, just one side of the thread was left long ... ... to serve as lanyard, the ensemble put to length and secured with CA. Then the lanyard was wound round on the serving machine, checked ... ... and fits :-) A tad too short for this place, but this one will fit aft, where there is difference in lengths because of the curve of the hull. :-) Cheers, dafi

LIAR!!! :-) :-) :-) XXXDAn

-fail-fail-fail- Was waiting already but nobody mentioned so far the missing side tackles on the guns ;-) But lazy dafi was trying to avoid work and was looking for easy-easy-easy way of cheating: casting he believed would be the easy option, making two halves and glueing them together in the required length ... ... 30 times lashed and 6 times in position ... ... lazy bastard ... So made very fastily blocks out of Evergreen rods ... ... went fast, drilled with 0,5 mm after setting a centre punch, fastily drilled ... ... and cut to length on a double sided tape. Small tail in the end ... ... some wire rope into the blocks ... ... and we got some cute sado-maso-killer-sperms :-) Happily made some wire lashings around ... ... did the castings ... ... and cried my eyes out as the resin needed for those tiny bits was pure waste ... ... and the parts too small and flimsy for mass production ... ... and on top of it the cleaning of the parts ... ... then realised that I need to paint them ... ... and the looks were not what i had in mind ... ... so got out the big chopper and reduced some parts ... ... to fit a nice fresh meal for the poor little sailors, sittings for weeks already in front of their empty plates ... ... and the rest ... ... went into Tar Jack´s box of the dead hallows, where all discarded parts end up. And so much for the wasted brainwaves, material and time to make it easy and fast ?!? And then I realised, how easy it could have been ... ... more soon. XXXDAn

And one more thing ... ;-) I do believe it was not sliding the anchor into the hole in the netting ... ... it was much more opening two ropes that were holding the hetting, swinging the netting back, handling the anchor without obstruction and putting the netting back. Also, this was an anchor, that was not in constant use. Love and peace, Daniel

Thank you Kevin, but I do strongly think, that dealing with the netting was the smallest task in the whole process ... :-) XXXDAn

Hy Popeye, thank you, and your guess is hot - these are mere preliminary guides just to see where the shrouds are situated. Have a good time, Daniel

So, finally some more easy tinkering was done. Anchors and hammock crane interaction :-). XXXDAn

Brilliant and outstanding as always :-) XXXDAn

WOW; great collection! Daniel

Kay, you are spoiling us :-) XXXDAn

MORE! XXXDAn

Love the "yippppeeeeeee" :-) XXXDAn

It is a beast :-) I had the honor and pleasure to see this model in real life and it is simply wonderful! Thanks for raising your colors here! I think she is proving more than worthy :-) Daniel

I had this problem too, when I used Crochet Yarn. Did you try to vary the settings, like pretension, counterweight, revolutions etc? Daniel

You also see that the fore topsail looks becalmed! Daniel

It was always considered an open deck - even though the decks above. Living was one deck lower. That is why there are also no bulkheads front and aft the waist and no gunport lids in this area. Daniel

I knew the french did sometimes so. I think the english mostly had the bits on the waist. Also AOTS of the Vic states this. Daniel

Hello Kevin, you got me started with the spare spars and the fore stun´ sails .. #344 Daniel

Thank you Sirs, very appreciated, just trying my best, sometimes it works out fine :-) As we had in interesting discussion in Kevins build log, my curiosity was drawn to the storage of the spare spars and the fore stun´ sail booms. #468 So I took my spare Vic to check the spare spar businesses ... Plenty of sources state that the spare spares were stowed over the waist, but what does this mean place wise? Something I always suspected, that those two half rounds in the rail at the front were to support those ... ... but I never really realised the openings in the aft rail. Like this the main and the fore topmasts fit in properly. (Note: the main could be moved back a tiny bit still) According to Goodwin in Nelsons Ships the Vic received spare topmasts and booms in between the 15 and 19th of April 1778 Also to be seen, the main and fore yards on the gangways are far to long. As they were made yards, can it be that they were still taken apart? This also means, that the middle boat most possibly was sitting on the spars. And on the last one I still added the fore stun´ sail booms to check out this length too PS: There still is the smallest boat missing, it would sit port aft. Cheers, DAniel

Thank you Mark for ruining my night - so no block-buster TV but reading about potty-stories ;-) Thanks Frankie for your kind words, there still so many exciting corners on those ships waiting to be explored :-) Also Lavery in Arming and Fitting gives nice details about the **** dales and other fittings. According to that source, Admiral and Captain had each both galleries for their personal use, in the wardroom one side was for the first lieutenant and the other side for the remaining officers. The roundhouse had different assignments. First both sides for the junior officers and the commissioned officers who did not have access to the wardroom. Later about 1815 when the sick berth was already placed behind the beakhead bulkhead, the larbord one was for the mates, midshipmen, and warrent officers and the starbord one for the sickbay. The thesis Mark gave mostly just deals with the construction and the timely introduction. Some interesting features were mentioned. http://nautarch.tamu...ts/simmons.html The side shelves (small cabins on or under the main channels: About the numbers of man compared to the amount of people The roundhouses And this one I found the most amusing: Daniel

I did not see the hint yet, but apparently one can buy another bed and add to the length. As I have it too, I can tell that the Proxxon 27028 Drill chuck with spindle is a good addition, as it allows to make great centered holes into round materials. Daniel

As usual well resaerched and wonderfully explained :-) Thanks Evan! The storage of the stun´ sail boom is interesting, as far as I know, it is believed the Vic had the one on the main channels permanently fixed and the fore was stowed with the spare spars and just hooked in into an eyebolt in between fore channel and cathead if needed. The reasons are the same as Marquardt sttes: the handling of the anchors. I am not sure, but werent the fore stun´ sails the ones that were put out first? Could this be the reason to have this one fitted on the Constitution? All the best, Daniel

Great work as ususal :-) Just the irons on the anchor stocks are a little thick, try the 0,25 mm x 1 mm Evergreen or even cardboard :-) Daniel