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It's all a bit of a binge, lots of tiny part work, then throwing it all on.
- WackoWolf, mtaylor, Old Collingwood and 4 others
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Next, the flag lockers. Pontos does not address these at all, but Flyhawk supplies 5 open boxes. A few open source photos from the net show the details.
. I considered getting individual cotton threads of different colours to represent the flags, but it would be just a bit too much. I used WEM grills cut and folded into the open boxes and some painted foils to represent the covers.
I already added several belaying points for when I rig her out for flag halyards.
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Gunther, I can only assume it is to diffuse the heat plume from the stacks. A bit of research on Dr Goigle seems to indicate this but I'm sure there are a few engineers here that could elaborate on this.
- Old Collingwood, GuntherMT, Elijah and 3 others
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It certainly is David, I think all of us are OCD to a point, why would we bother otherwise with this hobby?
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Now the funnels which will go on the boat deck. The funnels grill is very intricate and in many pieces which I had to make up a little jig and cut off and replace all the vent pipes and fabricate the pipes for and the horns. Also making up a funnel band and eyelets for rigging later. Came up nicely.
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No, didn't need to, it sits perfectly flush.
- Elijah, Canute, Old Collingwood and 1 other
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The deck has an adhesive backing, so it "should" just stick on. When I placed it on it stuck, then a couple of hours later it popped up in places, which I rubbed down thinking it needed heat, and a few hours after it kept popping up, thus the thin CA as anything else would leave bulges
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A bit of a re think and the deck has to go down so as not to catch on stuff. A simple exercise? No, after laying the thing down painstakingly, after a few hours the thing keeps popping up in sections. Using a sliver of PE and thin CA over the last few days I have been making running repairs to get the thing to sit properly. Still looks good and makes me happy with the guesstimate of the paint colour.
I have now down up all the boat deck and funnels but will now not paint or attach anything until I have done up the deck hatches.
- Old Collingwood, hof00, Canute and 18 others
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I'm in. There are a few Russian sites with these builds which is why they invented Google translate. Massive undertaking.
- cog, Canute, CaptainSteve and 2 others
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Yes mate, I will be, but it will be a while off yet, I want to work from the centreline outwards. There is a heap of work to go yet. I'm looking forward to the contrast.
- Elijah, Old Collingwood, Canute and 2 others
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- hof00, Old Collingwood, Elijah and 13 others
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Next is off to the flying bridge
. The first of the guns have to be added, namely 10 12 pounders. The unpainted bits are, from left to right, North Star with the Pontos barrels, then the kit supplied with the Flyhawk barrels (which are 3mm longer, then just the kit one. The kit one is not bad, but just not detailed.
The photo shows the real thing and the upper area of the barrel is almost silver, I tried gunmetal but it was just too dark.
- mtaylor, FatFingers, mrshanks and 6 others
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HMB Endeavour by DaveRow - FINISHED - Corel - Scale 1:60 - First Build Kit
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1751 - 1800
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Nice work, great curve on the bumpkins.