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1 hour ago, chris watton said:

Fockenhoff

This is what my wife thinks of my boat building. 

57 minutes ago, Vane said:

This info is more than 10years old. It was released when they were still developing the Nelsons Navy series. The strange thing is that they didnt remove it when the production stopped. We will see if these projects are still valid. They started to develop the HMS Surprise after the Master and commander movie. At that time it could had become a very popular kit, but maybe it is different now. 

Yup, that's been on there for many years. It's been so long that I wouldn't be surprised if there were never any new Nelson's Navy kits. 

Doesn't matter though, we now have Vanguard Models (Chris Watton) putting out great new kits. 

3 hours ago, SpyGlass said:

Its all  my fault grovel and apologies

 

 Steve

I just removed you from my Christmas card list. 

23 hours ago, Ryland Craze said:

Thanks Michael and Jim.  At 1:24 scale, this model allows you to add a lot of detail.  On the down side, mistakes will be harder to hide.  Chuck and Mike (Stuntflyer) have set the bar high with their quality work and I am sure Rusty will be building one.  I am no where close to their skills but will do the best that I can.  I am looking forward to this build.

 

I don't know if you're just being modest, but I like to see mere mortals working on kits too. I'll never achieve the results of modeling gods like Chuck, but enjoy it nonetheless. 

It's basically done.  There are a couple more things I can do to it, but I may or may not. I'm calling it done. I have the MASTER KORABEL BRIGANTINE PHOENIX on the way from Model Expo, should be here next week. I may try to shoot for more patience and higher quality work on that one. We'll see how that goes. 

Here are the final pictures to wrap up this build log. Thanks for following along.

I have the yards on and most of the rigging done, there are a few more things I need to rig. Then all that's left are the flag poles, anchors and bulwark guns. Should be done in a couple days. 

I believe I have all the standing rigging done. Now to work on the yards and such. 

I'm back to ratlines again. 

Finished the ratlines and got the forestays done.  Now I need to start on the topmasts. 

For the ratlines I photocopy the full size plans and cut out the ratlines and use that as a reference for tying them. (another post for extra procrastination)

I have finished up the shrouds and the port side gunport doors.

Now I need to start the ratlines, so I figured it would be best to do another post as an effective way to procrastinate actually tying the ratlines. 

The bulk of the shrouds are rigged, still have some mizzen mast shrouds to do and I need to tie the shroud pairs at the top on all the masts. Then it's lots of ratlines mixed in with gunport doors. The guns on the bulwarks I'll do after the ratlines, they tend to catch the line as I'm tying it. 

I've been working on the deck fixtures and the beakhead. The beakhead was a little fiddly, but I added support beyond what the instructions said and that made it more manageable for my rough fingers. I still have plenty to go on the deck and then the gunport doors and channels. 

I have been working, but it has been slow going and I've made changes with paint that I wasn't happy with. On the box the top color is a light blue, I don't really like that so I went with a darker blue color. That ended up looking really bad, so I painted over it with some yellow ochre that I had left over from my Lady Nelson. 

I had mentioned the possibility of doing a second planking with the boxwood that I ordered from Model Expo. The wood that I received didn't look like what I was expecting and I'd rather have an incorrect planking line than the yellow planks. I did however use some of that wood to plank the decks. I saw in another thread how the laser etched deck sheets bubbled up on another Dusek kit, so I decided to just plank it with the wood I got from Model Expo. 

I'm a little heavy handed and have had to repair the bulwarks several times where they are above deck level, they are easy to break if you aren't careful.  The next thing I have to do is the bulwarks framing pieces and then start on the deck fixtures. 

It is far from perfect, but I'm happy with it. 

I don't want to speak too harshly of Model Expo, I feel I got a great deal on my Dusek Golden Hind, $88 delivered to my door. But I sure won't order any wood from them ever again. 

Here's the reply I got:

John said he would forward the email to parts. I gave them the weekend and Monday and Tuesday with no reply, so I sent an email to parts just now. We'll see if they respond. They may be busy with the sales they've had going on, but it certainly doesn't seem like excellent customer service at the moment. 

I did the other side and then taped the template back into the plan sheet. 

Now I need to do all the exterior wales, paint and put the keel parts on. (it said to do the keel parts right at the beginning, but that would have really complicated sanding the planking)

1 hour ago, Backer said:

I think this is a great idea 👍

Thanks, I went with it. I also used it to tape off the bottom wale/waterline for painting. 

Now I need to do the same to the other side. 

Thanks for the kind words. 

I assume this is a reasonable way to mark the gunports?

I have finished the planking and did some rough shaping of the upper bulwarks. Now I need to use some wood filler and do more sanding. Then I need to get the bulwarks to final shape and then mark the gun ports for cutting out. 

I got a reply saying my email would be forwarded to the parts department. I'll update when I hear more.

I'll update the thread when I get a reply. 

I'm going to send an email with a picture and question Model Expo as to it not being boxwood. We'll see how that goes. 

Thanks for all the replies, I appreciate it. 

That is a 1mm x 4mm plank, so it's pretty zoomed in. But it certainly is a little fuzzy on the sides. I was expecting it to be really clean with sharp edges and more of a white/cream color.