Garward

If you want to build models in the one-line mode, use СA, but only it is correct, according to recommendations. I constructed already some models with application of СA and is very happy with this glue.

Wefalck, It is a hammer of my colleague geologist, he likes to use it, but with age expeditions decreased and the hammer slightly rusted   

Hi, Sjors! 

Ask more questions, much better everything with started specifying and planning, than then to puzzle how to correct. I too was in such situations when already there was late something to correct  . The Greek philosopher Socrates spoke "Isn't shame something not to know. It is a shame not to want to study" and it is the good principle to which I always follow, and not only in construction of models  .

The author of the message to which I referred above, writes, nuts are well painted by a spirit pigment (see the small painted part of a nut on the last photo).

Nut section.

A little cleared nuts.

The gunner of Garward is ready to firing! (And can become the pirate? ) 

Garward,

 

Thank you for your comment.

I know that it is not the way as it should be.

There are more things that are not accurate on The Mirage.

Maybe that's why the the ship is named Le Mirage or Fantom.

I'm not going to change the chainplate.

If I remove it, I will damage more then I want.

And besides, the ropes will then run in front of the canons.

 

The drawings from Corel are terrible.  No measurements at all.

You have to look very carefully where everything has to go, by looking how it should be done according to that particular picture.

My ship is not a museum piece but a hobby!

For me, she doesn't have to be historically accurate, because may she didn't even exists.

I'll just do it the way I think is right according to the pictures in the plans.

And I like it how she looks at the moment.

 

Again, thanks for your comment but I will leave it this way.

 

 

Hello, Sjors!

Both in any matter, and in shipbuilding, there are fundamental basic principles and rules. That I wrote about the correct arrangement of shroud plate and shroud just belongs to such rules. These rules for the sailing ships (regardless of the name - Le Mirage or Fantom or somehow differently  ) are described in many books about construction of the ships and models. How to arrive in such cases - to follow the established rules or to repeat errors of drawings from kits (and these mistakes, as it is known to all modellers, there is a lot of   - producers of kits try to do models simpler and in bigger quantity) is a natural right and a choice the modeller, here to him nobody can specify.  If you like to build Le Mirage according to drawings of a kit -  it is your choice and your solution which nobody proposes you to change.

Thank you Garward, that picture helps.

AL's San Francisco directions are poor but sometimes when they are this incomplete they make the builder think harder... and that's good yes?

It, of course, badly, but on the other hand it forces to think and look for the solution of problems and riddles of kits. And it promotes professional development of modellers   . Paradox    !

Okay folks... I'm in need of direction...

 

In the instruction manual (used loosely here , I have come to the cat davit section of our show and I am a bit confused about the hooks that are used. 2 pics here, in order of their appearance and they conflict with each other and so .. I don't know how to proceed. The first shows a hook in both sides and the second picture doesn't make any sense as both hooks are downward?? Maybe it would help to know what this 'cat davit' does. I assume it has to do with the anchor but how are those hooks used?

 

:unsure:

 

Thanks

Randy

Hi, Randy! I too long looked for the solution of this riddle, and then made stupidly according to the drawing. The bottom ring is used for anchor deduction.

The correct and provident approach, is better to try effect of glue on trial samples and not to risk to spoil such beautiful finished product!

I also came to collecting good photos, it is a good source of information.

Interesting work!

Each of these tools is good for a certain work. The choice depends on that specifically you are going to do by this tool.

Thanks, guys, but I'm still a little hesitant. I want to build the exterior of this pilot house out of one piece of styrene. I'm told, however, by experts who have gone before me that I should build it up piecemeal. I'm either a fool or a genius!

It can be told about any experimenter: if experiment turned out, a genius and if isn't present....   

Interesting miniature!   

I found this picture of a Mirage that is finished.

The shrouds are also going in a angle….

 

Whose is model and why you decided, what shroud plate on this model are established correctly?

Garward,

 

Are you meaning the shrouds that go from the mast to the deadeye's?

It has to go with the mast?

 

It means that shroud plate  have to be shroud continuation, and at you go under different corners to shroud.

What to you prevents to truncate these parts and to establish them correctly? Or, for example, a few to displace shroud plate and shroud.

Dave:

Thanks. I have Underhill's work and unfortunately, it does not apply to our local schooners down here. The windlass I am making is muuuuucccchhh simpler than what Underhill shows. I thank you for taking the time to post it though.

 

Russ

For local schooners and other small vessels it is very difficult to find drawings of details, I well understood it recently when was engaged in search of drawings for Baltic ketch.   

I fix the rope in the first deadeye.

 

I also put on the first sex on the ( I have to say it right otherwise Andy is correct me again) starboard side.

Now to the other side…..

 

Hi, Sjors! Shroud plate are established incorrectly. They have to be shroud continuation, and at you go under different corners to shroud.

The decision to establish a bell the very correct.

It is a pity that these so small fruits...