Ferit

Michael,

You are so generous my friend... So open handed... I'm fascinated by your thoughts... 

But please let me say seriously that this is not a standard sign of humbleness...

My real cogitation is...

All my knowledge could not be enough even for a fragment of my mistakes...

And all my capabilities could not compensate even a part of my incompetence...

Hello John,

Thank you for dropping in, then for deciding to follow my Berlin. To be followed could give me only pleasure. To be reference even a liitle to a ship on her way to be salvaged is a big satisfaction for me. You are welcome.

There sould be unnumbered ways to do it but me, I reduce the size of the photos throught the Paint software of Microsoft. I posted a mail to your mailbox.

Thank you again for your interest...

Thank you Nigel, for your steady belief in me... Much appreciated... 
 

Hi Hamilton,

Thank you for your usual kindness...

I have replaced so many wooden pieces that I could almost build another Berlin... Really...

I usualy work careless, ham-handed and too freehanded... I sometimes use a material twice than it's needed...

Especially many 2 x 2; 2 x 6; 2 x 4; 1 x 4; 3 x 3; 4 x 4; 5 x 5 cm walnut strips have been additional... Also 0,5 x 5 cm hornbeam strips for all deck planking. For exemple, the straight part of the false keel under the hull had been provided as 8 x 8 of walnut. The other parts of the keel have been mahogany. I have replaced the walnut part with four 2 x 8 mahogany strips white glued together to obtain a 8 x 8 cm mahogany piece. Also so many meters of various diameters of ropes have been bought additionally... Yes, I can easily say that another possible Berlin has sunk on my work table...

In the other hand I'm not adequate in English language, I don't know the nuances, how I could express myself exactly and in full, I have recourse to those gestures... Sorry so many gestures... 

Love the colors, so smooth...

Love the build, so flawless...

First confident and strong steps to the scratch...

Hi Adrieke,

Very neat... Shapely...

Tooth pick is a great idea...

Sorry, may I ask a question?

Do you think to add a white wooden piece of frame to the inner section of the brown inclined strip to complete all outer frames of the gratings?

Hi Sjors,

Your Mizzen mast is more complicated and difficult than my Main... 

Great work...

I am certainly not a competent to say that but what I see is the improvement of your skills and the decrease of the managing time along even a single build...

@ Ian,

Hi Ian,

Thank you for your kindness... Me too Ian, I prefer photos either taken upward from the dock or downward from the crowsnest...

@ Sjors,

 What I am doing is to try to catch you up Sir... 

@ Wacko and Augie,

It's really a pleasure for me to receive such heartening responses... 

Hi Ferit:

 

I feel like I've been starved for pictures of your beautiful Berlin! And now I see you're on to the rigging! It's looking good close up but I'd love to catch a glimpse of the whole thing....but maybe you're saving that for later.....

hamilton

Hi Hamilton, I didn't forget my promise to take a shot of the whole ship but after all masts having been fixed, toward your former request... Thank you for your patience and sorry for my obsession... I will take it as soon as possible...

Through the advices and instructions of B.E. (Blue Ensign) and Jason (Beef Wellington), the slots of the channels will be closed by strips... (Thank you again).

@ ZyXuz and Buck,

Many thanks for the thoughts, these keep me being happy... 

@ Yambo,

You are pampering me Sir... 

Even the word of scratch is exciting me...   But Corel's WVH is waiting somewhere we will date up...  

If Corel is the case, WVH being so beautiful, hard and untoucable lady (for me at least), it sould be probably semi-scratch and if I would keep my courage...

...

The final and the third party of photos from the big update...

Thank you Matti, for your encouragement...

Ah If only I could finish her, Sjors!... She is Penolope of Odysseus... I suspect that she unloosens at night what she has weaved during the day...

Hi Michael,

Great and detailed work again...

I realized, by the way, the final outlook of the gratings. I went all the way over there, back to the 14th September... Voila!... I didn't understand how I had missed it, your fabulous work on gratings ?!... So victorious you are... Just the same of the 1/10 model... Every detail is very very nice... Sorry, I am late... And that Like This button didn't liberate me until I hit on it.

And more ingenuous thanks, Nigel...

The climates are changing, it's too difficult to estimate how the weather will be...

It's a common humor but I always like it...

Continuation of the big update...

The fore mast, fore topsail, fore topmast...

Congratulation Matti, really very nice job... With all details and all colors...

Hi Wayne,

After your rigging will come out, I'm sure, it will be me who will say if only my rigging had been as well as yours!... 

Hi Augie,

Very shapely, flowing lines (miniscule wave at John's eagle eye focus point), so neat... All in tidiness...

@ Hamilton,

Thank you for your optimistic thoughts about the build my friend... Very pleasant even I don't deserve them... 

Corel hadn't supplied the euphroe blocks, I have to scratch them from a 2 x 6 mm walnut strip. For the all holes drilled and viewed from both sides of any piece on the ship I often prefer to use the hand drill but not the drill machine. The second one is uncontrolled. And after marking and making two liitle holes with the sharp point of the compasses into the both sides of the wood, I begin to drill from both sides. The two conduits meet at the middle in the wood. I act thus because I couldn't estimate where the drill bit would protrude... 

BTW, I had to fasten the euphroe block to the main stay with a tackle as you had done in your build at a scale of 1:100 furthermore...

Me, I made short circuit at a scale of 1:40...

@ Mark,

You are so generous Sir,

I could be only a kid in his early childhood beside you... 

Hi Nigel, Ian, Augie, Sjors, Andy, Michael and Like This button hitters...

Your permanent belief in me is always much appreciated... from so talented personas... Thank you all...