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Ian_Grant
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Somewhere on this site exists Chuck Passaro's tutorial on edge-bending strip planking. Might help you with your walnut! -
Ready for trials! If not detailed yet. Didn't have time today as I was repairing some stuff at a client's house. Tomorrow is the plan, wind permitting. Will be naming her after my wife when I find some adhesive vinyl lettering. I need to make a better-designed stand.
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Keith - My definition of "pretty poor" differs from yours apparently. That prop looks great!
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Well, I received my two figures a little ahead of promised delivery date. They were both from Etsy and advertised as 1/24 scale, though from different vendors. Girl from Poland, guy from somewhere else. Here they are: HaHaHa!! I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw the small narrow shipping box for the helmsman figure. As far as I can measure in attempting to estimate their heights if they were standing up straight, she's a little tall and he's quite a bit short. She is much more nicely molded than he is. The Polish vendor at the time asked what pose I would like the helmsman to be in but I had ordered this guy with a view to amputating then reattaching his arms to hold the helm. I have now asked the vendor, Andrii, if he can make me a helmsman the same size as the passenger. In the immortal words of the Polish Spitfire pilot to "Moggy" in "Piece of Cake"......."Is cock-up". 🤣
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Bill; as always, consult Longridge. Plate 31 shows the heel of Victory's bowsprit tenoned (though you can't see it) to a rather massive timber upright "attached to deck beams above and below".
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Me again. Check out this pic I found; zooming in shows that Occre is correct.
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Bill, that certainly looks much better than Occre's butt end just sitting there. From the Occre diagram extract, the bowsprit heel would meet the foremast above deck. I assume you increased the steeve (angle) of the bowsprit for it to plunge through the deck ahead of the foremast. Perhaps Occre got the steeve wrong and someone didn't know what to do..... On the other hand, look at the picture of the replica below. The bowsprit certainly looks like it would meet the foremast above deck....🤔 Did you check other build logs?
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Ferrus, you are setting a world record on time for this model. Wow!
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Steven, your carved figures are getting very good; I was admiring the hair/beards on Rustico and Buono. Lovely model!
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George, I took a look and yes indeed Flying Fish is recorded as having 8250 "yards" of canvas, but as canvas came in I believe 3-foot wide "bolts" to be sewn together into a sail, each "yard" of a yard-wide bolt is in fact one square yard. Vastly larger than Discovery's sail area.
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George, astoundingly neat work especially at that scale! It doesn't look like you were "hindered". 😉 As to the upper sail rigging, it would make sense to me to pass ropes through the lubber's hole IF their pins were inboard of the shrouds. Windjammers did this and had fairleads along the shrouds to prevent loose ropes from tangling with each other. But if the pin is aft of the shrouds then to me it makes sense to run the lines straight as you have....why have them rubbing the edge of lubber's hole?
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Love it! For some reason well deck gangways really enhance the looks of a ship, to me. Access to mast bases was an issue on my Preussen too, especially the jigger mast which is completely surrounded by the aft well deck gangway, the aftmost boat skid, and the hen coop aft of it. With the insane number of backstays blocking side access I ended up belaying all the running rigging at bitts and belaying rails and will rig all of it in reverse. Preussen has been on pause for two years; back to it this winter.
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Speaking of overlooked polar ships, what of "Fram"? I have fond memories of seeing her, and the viking ships, when in Oslo.
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Yes, scale models like this are best served by low speed motors with lead acid. As opposed to fast runabouts.
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Seems to me like a representation of the sliding truss for the upper topsail yard in its lowered position, with a wire to glue into a hole in the yard. But it's awfully close to the mast cap, where the lower topsail yard's pivoting truss would be located. At any rate, perhaps the builder only got around to adding the first such truss.
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Those videos with Malinois dogs literally running up walls and trees to get the suspect are awesome!
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No no, it's the helmsman whose arms will need amputating! I received an update that my Polish girl will be with me by Sept 6th. 👍
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Cute!
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Looking very nice! What is her length? What type of motor(s) are you planning to install?
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Painting coming along. I ordered two figures via Etsy; the helmsman who will need his arms amputated and reattached should be here by the end of the month, but the girl I ordered from Poland might not be here until October.😕 HaHa....... I want a lot more stuff for aesthetics: anchor, cleats, bollards, dinghy and outboard, yellow pinstriping tape, lettering to put name on transom, liferings, wheel, maybe even stanchions and grabrails. After looking at prices I will be making the dinghy and whatever else I can using the library's 3d printers and laser cutters. Can't detail the cockpit until my people are here unfortunately. The mast step is screwed down.
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They do look great Eric.....could you possibly submit a pic with a ruler in view so we can appreciate the scale? 🙂
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Glen, you've knocked another one out of the park. Beautiful! I particularly like the water wash astern of the paddle wheels.
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