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  1. Ian_Grant
    Glen, you'll be speaking Hawaiian and downing mai tai's by the end of this build. I love a good mai tai.
  2. Ian_Grant
    We were there last year. The chickens hang around outdoor eating places, like the food wagon circles, hopping up on tables sometimes before people have even left. They are strolling along everywhere. They didn't bother me, in fact a hen with her chicks following is pretty cute, and some of them are beautifully coloured. But the roosters cock-a-doodling at 4:30am got old, especially one fellow living beside one of our rented places who started at 3:30am each morning.
  3. Ian_Grant
    Hi Michael; I see you cut the quarterdeck off of the maindeck. Why is that please?
  4. Ian_Grant
    Well on the way to another heirloom work of art.👍🤙Hang loose!
  5. Ian_Grant
    Michael, I bought this same kit at a church garage sale. Nothing had been done to it. All the parts seem to be present, but many of the tiny masts/spars are warped or broken, enough that I would need to make wood replacements. I pondered how to tie off real shrouds at the deadeyes, among other things. In the end I shelved it for now. I will be keenly interested to see what you do with this kit in creating your next masterpiece, to guide me in a possible future build. If my eyes hold up. ☺️
  6. Ian_Grant
    She goes well in water! Vital for a lifeboat ..... Congrats!
  7. Ian_Grant
    Looking great already.
  8. Ian_Grant
    Totally missed this build until now. Very cool!! Well done!!
  9. Ian_Grant
    What an awful lot of work over the fiberglass disaster! 😬 Nowadays you could use West System epoxy resin which comes with pumps to ensure the correct ratio. And less smell ....
  10. Ian_Grant
    Definitely a Hellerism. Those are the main topgallant braces, led back to the highest practicable point on the mizzen mast. My old instructions have the same error in DIA "Les Voiles Sur Le Mat d'Artimon". Yet those same instructions, on the cover sheet, have the large side view that clearly shows these lines meeting the mizzen topmast just below and just above the crosstrees, above and clear of the sail as you suspected they must be. What I would do is tie them off on the topmast itself above its shrouds (or maybe to the forward crosstree each side??), pass them up and through the main topgallant brace blocks on their pendants, then down through a couple of blocks attached to the rear crosstree each side of the mizzen topmast, and down to wherever on deck. Just my opinion. Interestingly, French for mizzenmast would appear to be "artimon", which is the same word given in my books for the forward-projecting spar at the bow of a Roman galley which can be likened to a bowsprit, sort of.
  11. Ian_Grant
    As you know Bill we in Canada had our Thanksgiving some time ago; hope you enjoy yours!!
  12. Ian_Grant
    Glen, as a precaution please be sure to check out these tropical woods for potential toxicity when sanding! Safety first ..... 🐘 <- (Elmer the safety elephant, who my kids never heard of from school). ps I know a guy who built cabinets from some unusual wood or other, and rubbed sawdust all over his forearms to prevent him sweating on his sanded surfaces. His whole body broke out in hives for several days and he swore he'll never touch that wood species again.
  13. Ian_Grant
    Glen, glad you're back with another unique project. Looking forward to seeing it evolve. And at 1/100 scale this could be your first bottle ship where you could have an actual crew!
  14. Ian_Grant
    She does look even better.......
  15. Ian_Grant
    Bill, I agree that the ratlines look better darker. What did you do to stain them? Reading Kirill's recipe I wonder if it would affect the longevity of the thread as a display?
  16. Ian_Grant
    Looks like a great planking job to me, especially for such a voluptuous hull!
  17. Ian_Grant
    Beautiful work.
  18. Ian_Grant
    Yet another post on 3D eagles. Found a likely-looking one for the bow, with wings spread. I measured in TinkerCAD and his wings are at too narrow an angle compared to the bows, so as an experiment I will try a PLA print at the library; if successful some surgery will be in order to see how he looks mounted. If nice, I can get a resin print later or possibly play around in TinkerCAD to amputate his wings and re-attach at a wider angle.
  19. Ian_Grant
    Interesting looking ship; I also do not think she is ugly. But 30kg!! That's a heavy RC model to lug to water........🏋️‍♀️
  20. Ian_Grant
    Success! Scaled to 3/4" tall, pedestal removed (with a few lingering glitches in his tail feathers) in TinkerCAD. Shall see if Andrew can clench his claws for me, to go around a cross-bar on the stern flagpole. Many thanks to Paul!!
  21. Ian_Grant
    Paul, I did so and here is what was imported into TinkerCAD......HaHa!! I'm guessing this massive model exceeded the z-axis limit in TinkerCAD. Will try scaling it in 3d builder then re-importing.
  22. Ian_Grant
    When I get to the point of needing a crew I'm hoping to visit him for a weekend for a tutorial on using blender to pose figures. I have bookmarked a 3D legionnaire figure who is "fully rigged" meaning he has "bones" which can be moved around to pose him, and his armour/clothing just sort of flows naturally as posed. Would beat amputations and re-gluing.
  23. Ian_Grant
    Thanks Paul. Apologies for wasting your time, but it wasn't from thingiverse after all; I was all over the web looking and I downloaded that eagle from myminifactory. How many 3D model sites are there I wonder? Here's a try at attaching the actual .stl file......Needs to be simplified down to 25M, don't know what it would like by then. Perhaps it would be simplest (for me) if I sent the file to my brother who presumably is familiar with better tools than TinkerCAD which is the extent of my 3D skills. https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-jupiter-as-an-eagle-from-the-ganymede-group-a44-278554 thorvaldsen-a44-a-eagle.stl
  24. Ian_Grant
    Bill, you need to decide what ropes go to the kevels. The main braces absolutely do not tie off at the flagpole and should go to a kevel. I believe there is a kevel on each side which Heller leaves unused. Re-assign the kevels in a way that makes sense. Someone else's SR log mentioned this, I forget whose. Good luck Mr. Phelps.
  25. Ian_Grant
    Paul, thanks for the tip! I imported the free eagle to 3d builder, unable to figure out "simplify" in ten minutes playing with the tool and viewing youtube. Will keep trying. Here's an image from 3d builder ..... this eagle, with dais deleted, would be fantastic atop the stern flagpole although I'm not sure how much the detail would hold up at my small printed size.....I saw some eagles with wings spread, now that I know about this tool I will see about getting one of them "simplified" and into TinkerCAD where hopefully I can cut it up for use at the bow. 🤞 Or ask my brother to do it. 😉

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