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  1. MESSIS
    Dry dock has bussines Here I go..... started with keel and bulkheads. Then the cannon deck and some sanding with my dremmel, to round up edges for the upcoming planking.
  2. MESSIS
    No crew wasnt included. AL offers the crew kit as an extra kit. But is designd specially for that ship kit.... scale is the same and it represents the crew that sailed the ship in 1780
  3. MESSIS
    Yes Tim the crew is also made by AL in same scale representing that crew which sailed 1780 the ship to America carrying Marq. De La Fayette to the American revolution. As I said all materials deadeyes, blocks incl. are top quality. Lenght 750 mm Christos
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    I opened the kit and I was very happy with what I saw. Great and tidy packing. Materials... wood, cast, etch, etc. everything is first class quality. The instructions in a dvd with more than 350 pages ( pdf ), colour pictures and text in three languages. Plus a number of videos explaining various building technics and procedures. Also a part's list , varius other small drawings, templates, paints katalogue, etc. and a colour drawing 1/1 scale with all the ships views. I never had such a wonderfull and fine made kitt. Am dying to start building.
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    Just a few days ago I received the Hermione kit and an extra kit of its crew from AL. I boght it from the L Hermione Lafayette Museum in Rochefort France. It was the only supplier offering together both ship and crew kit. And more to that it offered the chepeast price including shipping. The best thing was that it arrived from France to Cyprus in only 4 days! Incredible! Here is my invoice.
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    Eddie I bought it from the ships museum in Rochefort France. I could not find the kit and its crew both items together in the known internet shops usualy buy from and prefer. The museum had an ecxellent price, the cheapest shipping cost and it came to Cyprus within 4 days. Fantastic! Philo426 Tryed different stiffner agents "to put wind in the sails" and a few failled but the set now is not complete.
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    Clever! I havent thoght of that... thanks
  8. MESSIS
    Have meessed up my sails set. Trying to find and buy a new sails set of my AL kit of Hermione Lafayette. Does anybody have a clue?
  9. MESSIS
    Like this.... Do you apply the stif. agent in both sides or only on the side where the wind blows?
  10. MESSIS
    Thank you Frankie.... I am going now to see your a work. And I ll come back to you with my questions or comments. Thats a relieving help you just gave me.
  11. MESSIS
    I rather go for an acrylic varnish spray with the help of an air ballon.... but am afraid that when the varnish (sprayed on both sail sides) drys out it can may be stay stucked on the ballon. What do you think?
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    Do you think that the wire method can be succesfull without the use of any chemical as varnish, glue or filler?
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    Thx Telp
  14. MESSIS
    Ok thank you. I saw you are in France. So I let you know, am working on L'Hermione and I plan to come to France in May and visit Rochefort.
  15. MESSIS
    Am thinking that the safer way to do this is the mechanical and not the chamical approach. A still wire 1/2 mm (1/89) or less depending on the scale is safer.... no danger of messing up the sails if something goes wrong with tha varnish or fillers etc. A wire cannot harm and it can also be corrected or even withdraw until you have the desirable result. Isnt so wefalck? Am thinking to go for it. Do you think 1/2 mm diam for 1/89 scale is reasonable?
  16. MESSIS
    You mean inflate the sir balloon and place the wet with varnish or pva sail on the ballon until it drys?
  17. MESSIS
    Thank you Frankie.... I wont use it. Am thinking as wefalck advised me to use mat varnish. Though I dont know how exactly I should do so.
  18. MESSIS
    I believe the acrylic varnish spray will be a very practical applycation prosses. Spraying the sails inside side..... I dont know... if thats correct.
  19. MESSIS
    How shall I apply the sanding filler or the varnish?
  20. MESSIS
    Weflack have you seen my post on the rigging sails forum over the use o starch on the sails?
  21. MESSIS
    Thank you weflack my good friend!
  22. MESSIS
    Thank you Roger
  23. MESSIS
    I have been told that using (spraying) starch on sails I can achieve more stiffnes of the cloth making the sails look full of wind. Is that a fact?
  24. MESSIS
    Is it a NITROCELLULOSE varnish?
  25. MESSIS
    Kurt very kind of you to help me. Very reasonable arguments/tips... tell me please what is shellac?

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