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  1. Ian_Grant
    Sure, here is one: Now that I've photographed it in microscope mode I see that the block is indeed stropped, with toggles like on a duffel coat seized on. The attaching ropes also seize to these toggles. Pretty exquisite molding at this scale. The block itself is about 4mm. This double-ended design is the upper block for the shroud tightening; one end is the shroud and the other is the lanyard which reeves through another double block (with toggle at one end only) lashed to the rail with the running end on a cleat mounted on a rail post.
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    Very cool design, and an Arduino to come. Submarines are demanding technologically.
  3. Ian_Grant
    Dick or Steven - do either of you know whether those blocks with the "T" on their end for stropping would be used in Roman times or did they have the now conventional stropping system? My plastic Zvezda galley came with the "T" versions and I'm wondering whether to make some for my big galley. Thanks, Ian
  4. Ian_Grant
    Bonne Chance avec les planches secondaire, mon ami! She sure was a chunky little ship.
  5. Ian_Grant
    Glen, if you aren't familiar it's from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798) by Coleridge. A bit of a difficult read these days, maybe then too.
  6. Ian_Grant
    Looking at your model's tattered sails and battered hull reminded me of a ghostly ship in a certain poem: ...... ...... The western wave was all a-flame The day was well nigh done! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun. And straight the Sun was flecked with bars, (Heaven's Mother send us grace!) As if through a dungeon-grate he peered, With broad and burning face. Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossameres! Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate? ........ ........
  7. Ian_Grant
    What worked for me is to slip the seized loop over the masthead, and as Druxey says loop the lower end around the deadeye where you want it to be. Then I clamp the two parts of the shroud together with a mini smooth-jaw alligator clip. This holds all together while I apply a seizing against the deadeye; the small seizing thread easily slips in between the deadeye and alli clip. Then remove the clip, apply a small bit of glue to the seizing and add the others. https://canada.newark.com/mueller-electric/bu-34/alligator-clip/dp/28F496
  8. Ian_Grant
    Regret to inform there are no penguins in the Canadian Arctic. Just polar bears, seals, narwhals, belugas, etc.
  9. Ian_Grant
    Clicking on "WOW" doesn't do this justice........will this model have absent deck planks to show off that magnificent inlaid floor?
  10. Ian_Grant
    Don't worry too much about it being not quite straight - the trim on the radio Tx can be used to trim the rudder to fly straight with centre-stick. I see they also have an SE-5A, my favourite WWI plane.
  11. Ian_Grant
    I looked up the steam plant on the MCM web site; it comes up as "4034 Steam Plant - Assembled - 2" HP "Econo" Vertical Boiler - Avon Engine" I did a double-take as I first read this as "2 HP" ....... LOL! 😂 That would have made your model "go".
  12. Ian_Grant
    Nice build! Not too many places to "hide" the RC gear especially the rudder servo. I recall seeing another African Queen long ago in which the builder had several crates aboard like in the film (were they marked "explosives", I think?). Perhaps you could cover the rudder servo using these? Do you have access under the fore deck for the Rcvr, "steam control" servo, and battery? This same builder also found 1/12 scale (standard doll house scale apparently) figures; the Hepburn was a perfect appearance and pose. Can you tell us where you found your Bogart and Hepburn? This is a build I would consider for the future - interesting and out of the mainstream. Look forward to seeing it on the water.
  13. Ian_Grant
    That's some bend in those 2nd planks but that's why they're thin. Off topic Bill, but have you seen Occre's wood/metal locomotive models? They look great but I don't know if I'd have the skill to build one, having downloaded instructions to see what they're like. I'd need to buy an airbrush and learn how to use it.
  14. Ian_Grant
    Crew looking great! And the ship too, of course.....
  15. Ian_Grant
    Looks good; well done!
  16. Ian_Grant
    Bill, I assume that you carve the balsa flush with 1st planking, then plank over the balsa with 2nd planking?
  17. Ian_Grant
    So far, so good!
  18. Ian_Grant
    Thanks Pat, trust me I will not be painting them by hand! I was thinking decal or label paper if I could buy small quantity of sheets. "Paint" is weird to learn. Probably just me.
  19. Ian_Grant
    Working on the gold and yellow decorative painting at the bow. She's really coming to life! Painting touch-ups at edges of the yellow trim will be ongoing I am sure. Rather like the stern balusters on the Heller Victory. 😏 Her personality changed when I painted the black at bow and on the cap rails....entire u/w hull will be black. Now trying to figure out how to draw her eyes in "Paint".
  20. Ian_Grant
    Are they actually doing that in Europe now? I had no idea. There was some mention of "them" thinking of doing it here in North America in "Driving" magazine. It would raise a lot of resentment since one pays for the hardware in the car at time of purchase. It ought to be yours to use.
  21. Ian_Grant
    Well done!
  22. Ian_Grant
    I've always wondered about these grey decks. Yes museum ships sitting outside nowadays may have a grey appearance, but in the actual period crews of king's ships holystoned and rinsed the deck daily, at first light. My deck out back is grey after the winter, but when I wash it even just with dish soap and a scrub by broom it is brown again. There are many mentions, at least in Forrester's books, of "snowy white" decks on admirals' three-deckers. Just putting this in for discussion.
  23. Ian_Grant
    Thanks 'Rookie", I could only have done it at this stage of life, with time (and money) available and career experience. 😊 Marc, I'm honoured to receive praise from you given the incredible model you are making of the SR! Thank you.
  24. Ian_Grant
    Enjoy TinkerCAD ..... it's amazing what you can do with it. Any questions just ask.
  25. Ian_Grant
    Put the lathe back under the bench; wonder if I'll ever use it again? Before doing that I vacuumed out under there in the process discovering objects such as a long-lost hammer. So I decided to empty and vacuum the shelf under the bench and found more stuff, including a box with my wife's late grandfather's carving tools and some bandsawn blanks of his for horses etc (he was a farmer who loved his workhorses), and this little jewel which I believe was the grade 11 machine shop project. I recall hardening the jaws and polishing before assembly. Fond memories! I will take grandpa's box to the cottage this summer and while away some down time trying to produce a creditable horse, in his memory.

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