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Hi Mike, She's coming along beautifully, those precut bulwarks are indeed quite a pain to install, but I can see that you've overcome them with flying colors No problem my friend, copy away, I'll be copying quite a lot of your excellent techniques in the near future too Have a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

Hi Chuck, Just catching up with your latest project, Cheerful is coming along beautifully Sir, perfect planking work! Thanks for sharing your various construction techniques, your log will serve as an excellent tutorial for future builders of this wonderful cutter.

Thanks for the good word Juergen, have a happy new year

Hi Ben, Just catching up, you're doing a beautiful job on this extremely complex build, Pegasus is looking great

Looking great Popeye, you're doing a very fast and neat work on her, I've been absent for so long that I almost forgot just how fast you build your ships

Hi Daniel, Just catching up with your Triton build, excellent framing and detail work Sir, she's coming along beautifully!

Hi Juergen, Just caught up with your Triton log, you've done a marvelous job on her Sir, very precise, clean work, and your hull has lovely lines

Hi Nils, Just caught up with your Pegasus build, wow! you've come a long way since my last visit, she's almost nearly completed. Beautiful detail work and rigging Sir, and that boat looks fantastic!

Thank you very much Augie, Anja, Nils, Sjors, Mark, Grant, Robert, Mike, Christian, and Mobbsie for the kind words and well wishes, I really appreciate it, and many thanks also to all who pressed the like button To answer some querries: Nils, my Pegasus is unfortunately on hold as my health condition limits my building time so I prioritized Triton. Mark, the bump has indeed been sorted out and the modification produced a relatively fair hull, it appears that the NMM draught has negligible distortion and can be directly traced to create replacements for the offending aft-most bulkheads Sjors, I'm afraid that I don't have anymore copies of those previous pics however, to summarize, those posts just show one method on how you can detect the degree of horizontal distortion on draughts by comparing 10 feet sections at various areas such as the foremost, middle, and aftmost portions of the "ruler-like" diagram as seen in the picture below: The closer these measurements are to each other, the less the horizontal distortion and vice versa. That is however only a minute aspect so for further reading, I highly recommend David Antscherl's two articles: "Understanding Eighteenth-Century Admiralty Drafts" and "Drawing Techniques for the Modeleller". These two excellent works give a lot of useful info on interpreting and drafting ship plans Thanks again you guys, have a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all!

Hi Christian, I just finished browsing through your log, you're doing some excellent work both in CAD and in wood Sir, your Alert is looking great! I've been lucky to have have copies of David Antscherl's " Understanding Eighteenth-Century Admiralty Drafts" and "Drawing Techniques for the Modeleller" thanks to druxey, and I am amazed at his techniques of correcting distortions and drawing the various sweeps and curves using the provided radii/centres by hand. I am equally amazed at how you are extending these mind-blowing techniques to CAD

Wow! Your extra efforts are really paying off Grant, your joinery is perfect and those frames look great! Have a nice visit to Sydney my friend, happy holidays!

Lovely planking work Mark, that pear sure is a real eye candy, I can't wait to see her all planked up in pear

Hi guys, Well, after going through nearly all the stages of depression due to my illness, I am slowly getting back on my feet. Thanks first and foremost to the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom I find my strength and salvation, and of course, thanks to all you guys who have given me support in one way or another This ship is included in my bucket list so I figure it's time to devote a bit of time to the shipyard, which as can be seen, needs a bit of tidying up Anyway, I thought I'd share what little I have accomplished these past several months: First off, I encountered a slight problem brought about by my haste to get the hull done quickly As previously mentioned, my hull is a combination of bulkheads that I made from the NMM draughts as well as from MSW plans. Below is a printout of my CAD work showing the NMM plan juxtaposed to the MSW centerboard plan to illustrate the problem: As can be seen in the close up, MSW bulkheads number 6 and 18 fall directly on gunports: I had several options to solve this, but being the lazy guy that I am, I decided on the simplest one and that was to cut off the affected bulkhead extensions and just reposition new extensions away from the area of the gunports: I also managed do a bit of planking and used cherry strip to mark the sheer so as to make it easier to position the second planking later on. Cherry was also used to set the upper and lower borders of the gunports since I plan to use this wood for my second planking: I've also been doing some CAD work for my stern lights and stern fascia: Once I'm done test fitting/tweaking cardboard printouts of these, I plan to send the files to Chuck for laser cutting. He makes some beautiful laser cut parts as seen in the discussion below : http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/8923-laser-cut-deck-beams-from-syren-ship-model-company/?hl=%2Blaser+%2Bcut+%2Bdeck+%2Bbeams Last but not least is the long and excruciating work that I've done during the Christmas holiday, and that was..... drum roll please........ ....to frame a pair of gun ports Now I just have to complete 24 gunports on the gundeck and 6 gunports on the quarterdeck, which should be finished in another year or so That's it for now, thanks again guys

Hi Popeye, Just catching up with your latest project, she's coming along beautifully Sir, very precise and clean work!

Hi Mike, Just catching up, wow! you're really taking Amati's Pegasus to the next level my friend, those are some fine looking modifications, and your choice of wood looks great too, very nice work

Hi Mike, Just catching up, that is some intense bashing you're doing there my friend, excellent modifications all throughout!

Hi Mobbsie, Just catching up, I see that you're enjoying your conversion to the darkside my friend, beautiful work Sir, that is a wonderful looking set of frames!

Hi Grant, Just catching up, wow! you've really upped the ante on your scratchbuild, beautiful and flawless work my friend, your choice of wood looks great too

Hi Mike, Congratulations on completing your Badger my friend, your upgrades to this model have really paid off in enhancing her, excellent work Sir!

Hi Mobbsie, Just catching up to give my congratulations on your beautiful build You've done an excellent job on Aggy and she turned out perfectly my friend

Hi Frank, Just catching up to congratulate you on completing Supply, she turned out wonderfully my friend, all the modifications you've done to her have really paid off, excellent work Sir

Hi Grant, Just catching up with my favorite builds, all I can say is wow! you've done a marvelous job on your Victory, all the efforts you've done adding those modifications and extra detail work have really paid off, she looks splendid! Congratulations on completing this beautiful ship my friend, and I'm looking forward to your next project

Hi Sjors, Just caught up with your San Ildefonso log, she look's mighty fine my friend, congratulations on finishing a ship of this complexity!

Hi Robert, Just catching up, excellent work on the gun carriages and the blackening of your cannons turned out perfectly, hope to see you back at the shipyard my friend

Hi Danny, Just catching up, beautiful rigging work Sir, nice color choice too on the crows feet