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Great to see you here Jim and great to see your magnificent Conny again further down the track. Wonderful work and I'll continue to follow. Cheers, Alistair -
Hi Jay and Hi JIM Good to see you here Jim (sorry Jay, not trying to hijack your log...)...this is the right place to be! Cheers Alistair
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Very nice work thanks for sharing - the cabin is amazing a shame to cover it up???. I plan to dive into my Fly soon so will be looking here regularly. Don't expect to see me in the rearview mirror though - I'm slow. Cheers Alistair
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Absolutely magnificent Bob. A trully inspirational log and a great source for Swan class builders - one of which I will soon be. Thanks Alistair
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Hi Thanks for the further feedback. Ken - I wrapped the ropes tightly around spaced steel pins and the painted with diluted white glue. Tied them off with a couple of coils perpendicular to the main coil and then draped and shaped them around the belay point. See attached image. Kyjack - Thanks. It was my first build too except for a strange attempt at a Dutch Whaler by Sergal many years ago. There are many other AVS builders here. I am sure they, like I, will help if you have any questions. It builds into a beautiful model and the scale is relatively easy to handle. Good luck and, most importantly, enjoy it. I look forward to seeing your build log! Cheers Alistair
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Hi Hamilton It is almost impossible to keep up with your building pace....but I'll try better in future. Nice work here and very considered. I thought about buying that book on the Blandford on ebay but the shipping cost exceeded the buy now price - a position I cannot accept. I'll keep up with your "Blandford" from now on but more as a watcher than adviser. You're way ahead of me for the latter qualification! Great stuff. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Jason That is turning into a wee beauty. I'll have to have a closer look at this kit - never much noticed it before. It's always good to see the builders hand in a photo - shows how delicate and small the work actually is. Great work and nothing "clunky" that I can see. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Jay I'm still boggled by what you are taking on...This is not a facetious question: When you mount a ship under full sail in the wind do you list it towards the leeward side as it would in such a state? Or is it set to just run with the wind and not on a tack with a list? (To be honest I'm not even sure how much a square rigged ship would list on a tack...a few degrees only or more?). Cheers Alistair
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Hi Jay You are a courageous man. Or crazy... All of that rigging plus sails too! It is looking amazing and your persistence and perfectionism is certainly paying off. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Geoff Just caught up on your log. Beautiful work indeed. I always tip my hat to those who take on this model - it is epic and you doing it a great justice. Will follow from now on. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Bob Just been back through all of your logs. You are a grandmaster in this art at all levels. Humbled I am but inspired too. Thanks for posting these remarkable builds. Simply stunning work. Best Alistair
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Looks like you are on to it Ron - a fine bowsprit rig. I dreaded the rigging on my ship but ended up enjoying it. Cheers Alistair
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I wouldn't worry Ken - I've seen lots of logs with the kit rope and they came out great. Morope just makes it easier to tension in my opinion. It also has other characteristics which might make it harder to use...anyway it was my first rigging experience so I can't claim the high ground for the recommendation of any rope type! Cheers Alistair
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Thanks all, Just spotted your question Robert. I did the rope coils off the boat just coiled them around 2 metal spikes and painted them with diluted white glue (I'm sure this is illustrated in other logs). Of course you end up with three ends to the rope 2 on the coil and one more from the belayed line. You just have to position the coil to cover at least one of the ends. Ken - I think the difference is the rope you used. I used Morope which is very springy. The beauty of this is that it will look taut at a variety of tensions so you don't need to pull it very hard at all to get a taut appearance. This was especially useful for the shroud rigging and aligning the deadeyes thereon. I didn't pull out any eyebolts or hooks on the model during rigging and all the lines look tight and stay tight. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Ken Those chainplates look good. I left off that sweep port in antiipation of the very problem you have encountered but I agree with your decision to leave it be. Once the shrouds are on you'll hardly see it anyway. Another choice though could be to put a swivel gun post over it? Cheers Alistair
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Hi I'd take you up on that too. My email can stand 9MB and is lukejansen@xtra.co.nz Thanks Alistair
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Hi Ken 1. I used brass wire for the chains - I did not use what came with the kit. I beat it flat after formed, blackened and painted it. I followed another log for the method but that has disappeared in the fall of MSW V1. 2. I rigged the lanyards after installing the chains and deadeyes and shrouds with their deadeye. The rope I used was very springy which made equalising the deadeye spacing between the shroud and the channel very easy. Note also that the deadeyes have a rounded and flattened face - make sure the rounded face faces outboard - it looks better and mixing them up doesn't look good at all. Another trick is make sure the deadeyes can spin within their strope/chainplate. When gluing one of the chainplates into the channel I also glued the deadye, in the wrong orientation, into the strope/chainplate by accident and didn't discover this until I came to rig = big re-work on that channel... Cheers Alistair
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Wow! A stunning build. Will keep watching with interest. Thanks Alistair
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That looks really good Ken. Decking is great. It is amazing how much of that detail - scarf joints and nibbing gets covered up in the end but still I'm glad I made the effort like you did. I had to really work at the bow sprit to get it to sit down on the deck and have the right angle forward of that - i.e. perpendicular to the mast. I can see you're in for that work. I also added some details to the swivel cannon posts which you might want to look at. You will have to watch out for rigging interference with your aft most swivel posts. A lot of lines come down at that point onto the quarter deck rail. I fixed the shroud swivel post after I'd done the shrouds and it worked out fine. Definitely use the small eyebolt for the cannon rig. I think you can see it on my log. I used a very soft and fine black jewellers wire for the hooks this worked really well. I did a mini photo tuttorial on that on MSW V1 but unfortunately I have lost the photos do to a computer meltdown. Look forward to your progress. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Jay I'm going to put in plug for Morope here - too late for you but for others... The beauty is that it is springy so you can achieve a look of tension with differing levels of tensioning applied to each line. In other words, you don't need spacers for the deadeyes at all. You just align them by applying more or less force to each shroud through the lanyards and, although they aren't, they all look evenly tensioned. You have to get the shroud length more or less right - shorter than absolutely correct is better - but aligning deadeyes with springy rope - Morope - is really easy. That being said I've never worked with anything as small as those deadeyes and the sheer complexity of a Constitution rig would scare the .... out of me. Good work all the same and great to see your progress. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Jay Fun or not the rigging turns her into a sailing ship. I enjoyed watching that transformation on my little build. I'm sure on Conny it will be greater and all the more satisfying. Great work and I look forward to your progress pictures. Cheers Alistair
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Hi Bob Great to see this build back here. A stunning model and a benchmark for Fair American or any other kit for that matter. Utterly beautiful work. Thank you for sharing. I will return to ths log often to be inspired and to admire. Cheers Alistair
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Hey Ron Great to see you keeping going. The masts and spars will really transfrom the model - a whole other dimension. When others said to me "Now the fun begins" I doubted it but they were right. Masts and rigging turned out to be my favourite part mostly because each spar and line turned the model into something new. Enjoy - it's looking really good. cheers Alistair
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Wonderful work Hamilton. Having seen your other builds elsewhere, I hope you don't mind me saying that your skills have increased remarkably. Your build continues to tempt me towards this model - as did Dan's build of the same - but the shipping costs to NZ still exceed the purchase price! I can never justify that, my bad luck to live so far away. A great model and very well rendered by your hand. I really like your enhancements too. Congratulations! A beauty. Cheers, Alistair
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Great work Jim. The skylight is an absolute gem. Your Bluenose is turning into one very fine model. Cheers, Alistair
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