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    Your planking is coming along quite nicely! Your planks look nice and even and I'm thinking your sanding won't be too bad. That is always a nice bonus! I've just started laying the first wale and planks for the 2nd layer on my S.R.. She sure is a lot of ship to cover.
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    I am going to be putting her in a case and will post a picture once she is there though it may be a little while. My plan is to build it myself as it will be part of a larger curio cabinet that will also house the Admiral's collection of Disney statues and snow globes. That was our deal in order for me to be allowed to display it in the living room was that she had to have a way to display her collectables as well. I figured that was a fair trade, now I just need to get the rest of the lumber and glass to do it!
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    And now it is time for the victory toast! Thanks again to to everyone for the compliments, tips, help and simply following along! See you all over on Soleil Royal and/or the next build!
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    17 months, 910 construction hours and no idea how many more spent reading and researching and this build is complete! The wind is actually nice and calm today, (something must be getting ready to go wrong...) and so I took La Couronne on her maiden voyage out of the shipyard and into the open sea (front yard) She sailed great with no mishaps or sinking and has completed her voyage and returned to the ship yard for supplies before going into active duty. Here are some pictures of her on her voyage.
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    Excellent recovery! You should be able to keep moving forward now with hopefully no more steps backwards.
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    Hi Ben. Looks like you have a good start going with a stable build board. I think I'll pull up a chair and follow along. Best of luck on your first build and above all, have fun!
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    Welcome to MSW Steve! Great to have you with us. I wish you all the best on your repairs and future builds and look forward to seeing your work!
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    I like watered down white glue for gluing rope, cloth etc. and I use it extensively on my model railroad scenery but, for rigging I like to have that instant hold CA provides a lot of times. Using the tip of a pin I can usually apply just a tiny amount that does not make the rope as shiny. I say sometimes as we all know how quickly CA glue can get out of control, especially thin CA and get where you didn't want it to go.
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    I've been using very small amounts of CA also. It can come out shiny but not always. I like the CA for the quickness in drying but, I'm always open to better suggestions. I am probably going to start buying small amounts of various glues to start testing them to see which ones I prefer and for what material/uses.
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    Rope cool process is fairly simple. I took a scrap piece of wood and drilled a couple rows of holes on two sides. Snipped a few toothpicks in have and inserted them into the holes and then I simply wrap the ropes around the toothpicks and glue them in place. Once glued I pull the toothpick out of the holes and free the rope coil. The coil is then placed over the line that is tied off to a bollard and done. Fairly fast and easy.
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    Welcome to MSW Bryan and welcome back to the hobby! Best of luck to you on your future builds and I look forward to seeing your work!
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    Thank you to everyone for all the nice compliments and the likes! This has truly been a great build for me in it being both my largest and most complicated to date, (soon to be passed by Soleil Royal) and most importantly, the first to have been started and completed on this site. Like most of us I have been building models for a very long time but to be apart of such a great community to learn, grow and share with, has made it all the better. All of the encouragement, tips and just knowing that there are people who are interested in what is being built enriches the model to a point where it is not just a model, it has become a journey that plays out in these logs like a story for everyone to read and enjoy. I am currently working on the rope coils and hope to have them done either tonight or tomorrow. Once they are all in place, I am hoping to take her outside where I can use the natural light to take some finished photos. Those pictures will be the last of the build updates on here. Koen, please do use what you can to help your build! Let me know if you need any pictures or information and if I can, I will gladly help you out. Also, let me know when you get a log started as I would love to see another Couronne come together. Don, thanks for the tip to clear the cache. Worked like a charm and I'm posting away again from my home computer.
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    I have the exact same issue right now. Home computer doesn't allow me to post on this website but others work and I can post on here using other sources, phone work computer etc. Weird. Glad your able to talk to us again and thanks for stopping in!
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    Tonight I got the stern lanterns and flag staff installed. With that, the ship is complete! I'm still going to install rope coils this weekend and touch up a couple things but it looks like by the end of the weekend this build may be 100% complete!
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    Welcome to MSW Victor! You are in the right place for getting help and suggestions. Starting a build log is a great way to get some of that help, plus it is fun to watch the progress of the builds. Best of luck to you on your next build and I look forward to seeing your work!
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    It probably took a few of them snapping off before someone figured out that attaching it to the stem would be a good idea. The way things worked back then, it would not surprise me if a ship returned to port with their bowsprit tied off to the stem in a rudimentary bobstay only to have the master shipwright order them to remove it as it was not his design or even to receive a royal order to remove it as it was not approved by the crown. Good ideas can take a long time to penetrate a stubborn mindset.
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    Masts are looking excellent! Those are great books! Been reading them myself though I am still a long way from finishing the series as I read one then read something else in between each book. They do make understanding the ships rigging easier just as the models give a clearer picture of what is happening in the book. They go hand in hand a make an enjoyable experience.
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    Got one anchor in place tonight. I already had a lot of it ready to go already and sitting in the drawer so that helped make the process a bit faster.
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    Don, here are some pictures from the front. Let me know if there is something specific you want to see. It is no problem to take more pictures if I need to.
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    Thanks Kevin and welcome back! You showed up just in time to see the end so not all is lost.
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    Excellent planking Elijah! More knowledge and practice certainly does make these jobs much more enjoyable. Your skills have grown by leaps and bounds over the course of your last build and into this one. I see a lot of great builds in your future!!
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    I was having the same problems last night. I could not respond on my computer but I could on my phone. I could add attachments which is how I got the pictures posted but then I had to log into my account on my phone and edit my response into the post. I'm on my work computer now and everything seems to be working fine. Hopefully it is just a glitch that will resolve itself soon.
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    Thanks everyone for the comments and likes! I have not seen any indication there were bobstays on La Couronne. I have also not seen them on other similar ships of the era, Vasa, S.o.t.S.. They do show them on Soleil Royal though so I am thinking that sometime late in the first half of the 17th century this rigging was added to the bowsprit. Till then the gammoning appears to be the only ropes that actually held the bowsprit down. While this seems at first glance to be a common sense item to add, in reality this was still early on in warship development and the need for a bobstay probably had not been thought of yet.
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    Ships boat is coming along nicely and that is a great idea for the oars. I will have to use that on my next set of ship's boats.
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    Thanks Don! I did take some pictures from the front and I'm surprised I did not upload them last night. I will post them when I get home tonight. When I'm 100% done I am hoping to be able to take her out on the deck or driveway to take some pictures using natural light. Trick will be finding a day when it is not windy but in Kansas, I'm not sure if those days exist.

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