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    February 13 1601 - John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London 1913 - Naval Radio Station, Arlington, VA begins operations 1945 - First naval units enter Manila Bay since 1942 1968 - Operation Coronado XI begins in Mekong Delta
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    AND AFFORDABLE AS WELL mARC
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    February 12 1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India. 1709 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"). 1762 - British fleet occupies Martinique. 1945 - USS Batfish (SS-310) sinks second Japanese submarine within three days. 1947 - First launching of guided missile (Loon) from a submarine, USS Cusk.
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    Checked out the DB and it looks great. Here is several other wood kit co. and some modern RC ones as well. Some of these have the ships no one else carries. Amati http://amatimodelusa.com/ Aeronaut http://www.faber-modellbau.de/index.php/katalog/showarticles/37210-1-standmodelle.html German Dusek http://www.dusekshipkits.com/ Czech Republic Dumas (was already mentioned). euromodel-ship http://www.euromodel-ship.com Graupner http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/graupner_rc_boats.html German-nice tugs-RC Robbe http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/robbe-boats.html German - Tugs RC Krick http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/krick_model_boats_rc.html German New Maquettes http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/new-maquettes-model-boats.html UK I like your phrase when the page has no picture, "This will be coming along very shortly. Mr. Friskington is working extremely hard as you can see". Regards, Marc
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    I've never heard of this. I wonder what parameters you take in account for a ship modeling championship. How do you decide what is the best? What do you base your decision on? Who comes up with the guidelines for the "best"? Do you also sit next to this person while he builds? Are techniques judged as well? I know, so many questions...... I need to research this on the NET. Marc btw. I will check out this link as I am curious what a "ship modeler champion" is. I just downloaded the PDF. What an amazing detail. No detail is omitted. It looks like he took the original ship and shrunk it with all the details and items that make up the ship intact. The metal work is intense, the canon barrels have all the printings of the original. The nails on the deck planking are exactly aligned and spaced, almost too perfect.
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    I used the darkest blackest tea leaves I had. Brewed a very strong cup and dunked the sails in it for about 10 minutes, swirled it around and rinsed under cold water and washed with soap to neutralize the reactions. Tea is full of tannins. The rope is a joke. I used the .80mm only for the anchors and all the rest of the rope came from the Syren M.C from C. Passaro. This kit is heavily bashed. Lots of items and where they are placed are not correct. I used some of my Dutch language books of flat bottom boats to compare and the book on the Statenjacht Utrecht. Then there are numerous paintings on the NET from Willem van de Velde and the Elder and they have detailed paintings from VOC ships with Staten and Royal yachts. Marc
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    Various pictures of tying the standing rigging such as the shrouds, the rope for the sails, etc. first to the mast and gaff. Next the completed rigging on the mast and spars. Put the mast in its place with a mast ring. I never glue the mast. The rigging will hold it in the boat. Here the boat is put in thick Styrofoam (the stuff DELL uses to ship there hardware). I have several little levels to make sure the boat is level on the X and Y plane. I also spread out the rope and the next step is to stretch the shrouds to straighten out the mast. All the time measuring with the level to keep it as straight as possible. I know nothing is ever straight on a boat but I would like to come close. -------------------------- Next I am working on the sails (pictures coming soon). I have dyed the sails with tea (yes, you heard it right). I don't like the brown dyes available. I used that for older builds and the brown looked too fake. The sails look "used" and the color is not consistent.
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    Received the roping from Chuck P. (Syren M. Co), which is absolutely gorgeous. The thick roping actually looks like roping, unlike what some kits include.
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    February 11 1862 - SecNav directs formation of organization to evaluate new inventions and technical development which eventually led to National Academy of Science. 1971 - U.S. and USSR sign a treaty prohibiting the deployment of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor. Death 1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)
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    February 10 60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 1900 - Appointment of first naval governor of Guam, Commodore Seaton Schroder. 1960 - USS Sargo (SSN-583) surfaces at North Pole.
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    February 9th 1943 - Organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends. 1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
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    1862 - Joint amphibious force capture Roanoke Island, key to Albemarle Sound. 1890 - USS Omaha sailors and marines assist Hodogary, Japan in subduing large fire. 1744 - French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon.
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    February 7th. 1815 - The Board of Naval Commissioners, a group of senior officers, is established to oversee the operation and maintenance of the Navy, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy. 1955 - Seventh Fleet ships begin evacuation of Chinese nationalists from Tachen Islands 1965 - In response to a Viet Cong attack on barracks area at Pleiku, South Vietnam, aircraft from carriers, USS Coral Sea, USS Hancock, and USS Ranger attack North Vietnamese area near Donghoi.
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    Both of you are covering everything. My sources have all the same info. Marc
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    1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
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    On this day in History: 1709 - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe". 1800 - USS Constellation (CAPT Thomas Truxtun) defeats la Vengeance. 1862 - USS Hartford, Captain David G. Farragut, departs Hampton Roads for Mississippi River campaign.
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    1662 - Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders to Chinese pirates. 1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet. 1941 - United States Fleet reorganized, reviving Atlantic and Pacific Fleets 1942 - USS Enterprise and Yorktown make first WW II air strike, Japanese Marshall Islands 1955 - Operation Deep Freeze, a research task force, established in Antarctic
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    1944 - American amphibious landing on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands 1961 - Lieutenant Commander Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes first African-American to command a combat ship, USS Falgout 1981 - Era of Enlisted Naval Aviators ends when last pilot retired
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    1944 - American amphibious landing on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 1961 - Lieutenant Commander Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes first African-American to command a combat ship, USS Falgout. 1981 - Era of Enlisted Naval Aviators ends when last pilot retired.
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    The more contributors, the more historical information. Cool beans. Marc
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    On this day the 29th of January: 1914 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti to protect U.S. consulate 1943 - Beginning of 2 day battle of Rennell Island after which U.S. transports reached Guadalcanal
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    Duff, Thanks for the tips. I had the same thought about worming and parceling. Not on the scale I am working on. Too many bumps. Happy building.................Marc
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    01-28 1915 - In the country's first such action against American shipping interests on the high seas, the captain of a German cruiser orders the destruction of the William P. Frye, an American merchant ship. 1915 - Congress passed legislation creating the U.S. Coast Guard.
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    I find this an exceptional built. Awesome, drooling over the detailed work you put into her. I am picking up some ideas and tips. Thank you for sharing. Marc
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    To Banyan and Popeye2sea; Thank you both for the description. It is very clear and the reason for doing this. Also, after I created a thread on this I looked it up in the book, "The ships of Abel Tasman". In the book on page 68 it clearly shows that the first leg of the forward shroud is served. Even though, the Mary is a yacht and her sails do not really touch any of the rigging, I thought of doing it anyway as a practice, once I start on the ships of Tasman. First the war yacht - Heemskerck and then the fluyt - Zeehaen. This will be a couple of years away. Before all this, I will do my first scratch which is the Statenjacht - Utrecht. Marc

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