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  1. Izzy Madd
    Hope this helps No scale just how to This can now be seen also in the forum "Kit Bashers Guide to The Galaxy" with more explanation if needed.
  2. Izzy Madd
    No problem as I thought words would be a barrier. Hope all are ok and yourself.
  3. Izzy Madd
    Ahoy there, S.O.S. I'm seeking help for a thirty four year old kit. The Billing 514 Niels Juel. Long out of production and as far as I can tell as common as hens teeth embedded in rocking horse droppings. I've just bought an old kit but apart from the fact it's been somewhere damp. All I know is the bulkhead is all that was ever made. But that means I've got the last half of a lovely vintage kit. What I'm needing to save this boat from the breakers yard is 1500 brass pins, no big problem there. And a cutting list for the missing parts. Administrators. I'm not asking for plans or cutting list for a model that can be bought. It's long been out if production so I'm not trying to get a boat kit for free. I'm just trying to save what is a spares kit at the moment. But I want to turn into a model. If this goes against policy please delet this thread. So that said can anyone help with an acurate plan of wooden parts as Billing do nowadays? Please help me save this lost and set to be sent to the breakers yard for spares boat.
  4. Izzy Madd
    Thanks I knew the info was out there some where. But I just couldn't read enough to find it. I'm more of a pictures person. As soon as I follow the instructions things go wrong. It's not that I was being lazy as I've been looking for weeks. And as you've done. All I needed was the right place to look. As I can then read it as many times as I have to for it to sink in. But not before I get sent the right way I was beginning to think I'd gone invisible as no one answered me... Thanks again
  5. Izzy Madd
    Just had a thought about your cat heads. As I'm messing around with a similar issue. That of blocks. But if you wanted that little more authenticity. Before attaching the out side pieces if you drilled a hole through where the pulley went then inserted a dowel or metal rod right through. Once you put on the outside pieces then part from the fact that they would either turn all at once or not at all you would have a cathead with pulleys. Hope this makes sense. If not let me know and I'll whip up some photos. Izzy
  6. Izzy Madd
    Hi, Can anyone help. I'm looking for a set of plans for the Billings Boat kit "Norden". I've just bought it but it's only got the new style instruction not the plan. And I find it far easier to work from the plans. Also they look good. So any help PLEASE
  7. Izzy Madd
    There is always a place for volunteers. The only thing is you'd have to loose all but a few grams of body weight AND put up with the screams of other volunteers being redesigned and being redesigned by Barron Von Frankenmodeler. I just wonder if he's got the obligatory Igor hump and all in the right scale No offence intended Dafi. Sorry if I have.
  8. Izzy Madd
    You mean the first coffee of the day isn't supposed to look like that‽ I just thought it was my reflection...
  9. Izzy Madd
    Hi, Can someone please direct me to some info about the block sizes used on HMS Victory. Only I know that they are made to a certain formular(the wheel is 10% wider than the rope, the wheel is three times that in diameter, and the block size derived from the wheel size). But surely something like the navy must have had fairly standard size blocks. But what were the dimensions? Or failing that the rope sizes? I realise that it's probably in one of the books I have. But with my dyslexia/laziness I'm struggling my way through the books very slowly. As I need to re read several times to grasp what is being said. So if someone could just guide me towards the right source at least please. Izzy
  10. Izzy Madd
    Hi, Forgive my absence as after seeing Joe 90 every time I searched for anything to do with Vicki. I decided to take a short break in Lilliput and try to learn how to make a block and stripped eye. While I'm sure Dafi's got things well covered and is probably churning blocks out by the thousands. I'm quite pleased with my first effort at a working block. I say working, as my eyesight splaying up and telling if a smooth brass wheel 0.75 thick is turning is beyond me. But the lines move through free enough. Just need to use the thinner thread for the whipping. I think but still I like it. See what you think...
  11. Izzy Madd
    Question for you. If you could buy a fully working teak and copper block with becket with a pulley diameter how much would you pay? Obviously the quality would affect prices but as a ball park figure for one 4mm x 2.5mm x 2mm single working pulley with copper pulley steel or copper pin and tied becket? This is purely out of interest as the idea is only just out of the concept stage and it's no point going further if it cost say £2 to make but you would only pay 50p. Any courency will do also prices for double and triple blocks please Or prices without becket as well
  12. Izzy Madd
    Just at the moment I'd swap "everything" for a day sat watching the river. But that's my story.best wishes for yours. Great cathead.
  13. Izzy Madd
    Don't know quite what you are hinting at there Popeye.‽ but I still like it
  14. Izzy Madd
    No worries as I've snapped the striker. Of big sis so many times I've left it off for now. And only put the one on Mini Nan at the last minute. For the same reason. I'm a bit clumsy. I've even had to rig a fitted guard for the entire bowsprit on Big Sis. As I snapped the whole front end off the one on Mini Nan. It's surprising how much the rigging holds everything tight once it's all tensioned. They really had it all just right in order to keep things in balance. It's no wonder the design was never bettered, as it really was the equivalent of today's fly by wire technology wise. Right on the limit of the materials.
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    As she's had a slight memory loss and forgotten where she's put her prosthetic hand. As the moulding was short by one hand. She'll be leaving it at home I did have one thought though I hope don't end being remembered as the one with the "planked Willy" or the one with the "wooden Willy" just my warpped mind It all right for the likes of Nenad at least he can blame Google translate . But English is my only language and I still can't spell right. That the gods for dyslexia. That and the insanity of having brought up three kids is my excuse for my lack of ability to spell words. And the occasional tot of course. Nothing to excess though just a bottle or two...
  16. Izzy Madd
    From these images it seem just about everyone is right as there are bit of just about all comments within them. From the hanging, but hinged swinging table, through both becketed and wooden handle boxes to benches and more. It's no surprise there are so many thoughts on the subjects.
  17. Izzy Madd
    Repairs all done and dusted and works started on the other hull now. Just reached the point where I need to loose a planks width so might take a couple more minutes. :-) as I'll have to strop the knife... The n it's the base which once the plank nearest the centre is done as it curves inward violently at the bow. But then they are all straight so things move very fast. Especially using deck planks as the are so thin and supple. So by the weekend hopefully I should be ready to bring the game of two halves together at last. And get some pics up on her. So excitement building. All I need then is a 1/65 sized bottle of bubbly to crack on the hull. I thought I'd get Naniie over from the CS to do the honours as she's about the right scale.
  18. Izzy Madd
    Glad to hear about health side of things. I hope your looking after the piggie ok :-) but Edwards Bowness from his booklet in 1959 seems to think they were chicken coops ‽ :-) can you make one side pigs and the other chickens then at least the crew will be fine at breakfast with eggs and bacon... ;-) take care
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    Sorry to throw a spanner in the works but most sea chest had rope beckets for handles didn't they? So that a single rope could then be threaded through one handle of say twentyor more then safely hauled aboard. As the becket would flex to hang best and would be fixed as each sailor made his own so as to know his stuff didn't end up in the harbour. And while they are a swine to make they are extremely rugged with there four or more layers of differing materials from leather to sailcloth as well as rope.
  20. Izzy Madd
    Hi Nenad, Yes since the age of 11 when I was first given a piece of wood to make a pencil sharpener with. Which I've still got unused. We've been inseparable. I think that if it wasn't for the fact that when I cut myself and it's still red. I would swear I had sawdust instead of blood. But as we are often called I've a heart of oak and a brain to match. When ever I see wood being painted for the sake of it I think. "Why make it from wood" if it's a mix same as Will should have been then fine your covering the mix. But if I can get away with the changes I will. Have you seen the new stand for Mini Nannie. And waiting in the wings is the massive 1.2 metre long Billings CS. Should be fun. As well as the 1.1 metre Heller Victory and th billings Santa Maria and the billings Marie-Jeanne. That me sorted til Christmas . Just don't know which century . Hope all well for you and yours. As much fun and thought changing yours is don't neglect your feelings. That's what family and friends are for. Best wishes
  21. Izzy Madd
    Hi, Great work. I've just found this image from around 1960. It's not a criticism just a view not often seen of these ships. But it show a very dynamic view of the sails. Image curtesy of Edward Bowness
  22. Izzy Madd
    Hi, I can show the bowsprit but it's far from accurate as the instructions had none at all. I only knew there should be any because of the 1/130 version I'm also doing. And there are no chains at all on this little thing. Also I had to add the lines to the bowsprit as I've snapped it off and the standing rigging for the fore mast would have snapped it again. So by tying it the right way it transfers the forces to the hull end of the boom. I found doing the standing rigging front to back then the running rigging back to front. Also I made the mistake of thinking the running rigging would not alter ther standing. So glued the ends. If I'd left all as half hitch then I could have altered every thing just so. But that's the name of the game. Try it, fail, learn and try again. It's never too late to want to learn even if it's only how to tie a piece of thread... Addendum: Following the post above yours. If you go on the web the full plans are there for free. And they are pretty explanatory. Apart from anchor chains. I know as I'm building three models at once Mini Nannie 1/350 Big Nannie 1/30 and Will Everad 1/64. They should help a lot.
  23. Izzy Madd
    Hi, Thanks I'll see if I can get those plans as I'm working up to doing the Victory and the Santa Maria. Thanks
  24. Izzy Madd
    I suppose it must be odd for those of you who have only seen it done as per the original. But I like the look and the line between the two works well I think. As they are only butted.
  25. Izzy Madd
    I don't know how much truth there is in it. But I've seen images of mess tables with the obligatory square place setting (3square meals) and bench seating. Hung from the roof beams so that when the ship is in rough water everything can swing and so less is lost on the floor. Like I say I only remember this and cannot confirm it.

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