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jaylowry

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  1. I think this is awesome. Great job. I am building an HMS Bounty (constructo) and am still debating whether to paint the swivel cannons in Bronze or Black.
  2. This is my first ever model ship kit, so this is all new to me. I wish I had started taking pictures for a log earlier, but didn't. I actually started thinking about starting a wooden model ship kit after recently reading the Horatio Hornblower novels, and when I walked into a local hobby shop and saw a kit for the HMS Bounty I started down this path. I have looked at several other models for the HMS Bounty, and some of the others look more realistic, but I must say, the instructions have been pretty exceptional for a beginner. I probably jumped into the actual build a little too quickly but have since learned a lot. I am sure my next build will be the better for it. Here are a few of my best mistakes. The build is plank on bulkhead and I didn't do a good job of making sure the bulkheads were flush and level, so it is a little off kilter. Didn't do an exceptional job of planking. The gallant rails were supposed to be 1mm above the deck at the cutwater, but instead are flush. I had a lot of clinkers, crowding, blah, blah, blah. It doesn't look pretty, and I fixed it up with some wood putty. Not professional, but for the uninitiated, it actually looks okay. Had a devil of a time with the head rails. They didn't want to stay bent, and ended up not aligning them with the cat davits. I slipped while driving a nail through the cat davits into the gallant rails. ended up knocking off the head rails on the larboard side, and breaking them into three pieces. Also knocked off the knightsheads, and a one inch piece of the outer third of the gallant rail. I almost cried, but it glued back together okay, and looks okay. I am not sure this matches up to professional standards, but still think it looks pretty cool.
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