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Keith Black
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Brian, sorry to hear about you and your wife catching Covid and trees falling across your fence. On Thursday I was finally able to get our little .75 acres looking presentable after severe ice and wet snow storms this winter. As long as you're able to paint the hull without the grain showing is simulating steel plates really an issue? In those areas you were not able to use ply, could you use card and then use regular filler over the card? -
Tom, I think ladder 2.0 is much improved as access doesn't look pinched. The Sophie is gaining momentum and looking fantastic. Are the cabin walls either side of the ladders going to remain as they are now?
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Bryan, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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Eric, for the heck you went through on this build, it turned out to be a pretty nice little model. I'm impressed that you stuck it out to the end and finished it. kudos for your stubbornness.
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Duke, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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I agree with Glen, I can't see anything amiss even having been told so and where to look. i think it looks great.
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It's not flexible enough considering that the coil from top to bottom needs to be about 0.15 to 0.20 inches. A coil that small using the thread size I'm using doesn't what to hang in a natural fashion like that in the photo below. Rob, while I've got you on the phone......this morning I was digging around for info regarding the screw sloop USS Essex, she was built by Donald McKay. I was surprised to read that as I didn't know that Mr McKay was involved not only in clippers but also ships of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_(1874)
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MM, welcome to MSW. Personally, I think you folks that model at 1:700 must be crazy. Glad to have you aboard.
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Please do, Paul.
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Bob, I checked and all Gutermann Mara is 100% polyester.
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From Wikipedia........."The rum ration (also called the tot) was a daily amount of rum given to sailors on Royal Navy ships"
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Glen, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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@clearway @Glen McGuire @mbp521 @mtaylor @Rick310 thank you for your kind comments and thank you to all for the likes. I'm so accustomed to working at this scale I forget when I say it's "just too small a space to do so" that if I don't give you the viewer a reference it's hard for you to appreciate the size. I've placed a penny at the base so you know exactly how small small is. While doing the work around the mast base, at times I felt like I was trying to adjust Lincoln's bowtie. My apologies for not including this photo in my previous post. Once again, thank you to all.
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Thank you Brian, Phil, Eric, Eberhard, and Denis for kind comments and thank you to all for the likes. I've finished adding the blocks rigging, and belaying the gun tackle lifts. I also finished rigging and tying off one Luff tackle (second photo shows it best) to the bitt on the port side for the mizzen top stay. The work space around the base of the main mast to add blocks, rig and belay is a .5 inch square. I didn't add rope coils as it's just too small a space to do so. I tried to do so on the mizzen, not only was the space too small but the coils looked lake a cowboy's lasso, i can't get the thread to hang in a natural manner and I think it's better to let the viewers imagination fill in the blanks than to add what would look like the dog's lunch. I've decided to wait to tie off the top and topgallant braces till after the channel deadeyes and shrouds are rigged. It will be awhile till I post again as I need to strop and lash those 28 deadeye pairs before the next photo op. Thank you to all for following along..........a stropping we will go, a stropping we will go. hi ho the merry o, a stropping we will go.
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This is the exact reason I'll never attempt SIB's because I know full well what the outcome would have been had this been I......'broken bottle isle nine, cleanup, isle nine" Javelin, I'm rooting for your success because it's a neat little model and a unique idea.
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SD, limit spending to no more than a couple of hundred bucks for a kit and get knee deep in it. Work till you either finish or get frustrated enough that you need to stop. If the latter happens, take a break. Look through as many build logs as you have time and learn from what you observe. Buy a couple of books and add to your knowledge Then go back to whatever model you were working on and try to finish it. If you can't finish it, put it aside for a couple of years and try again. If at that point you can't finish it, chuck it in the bin and find a hobby that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. life is too short to saddle yourself with a hobby that is drudgery. Model ships are joy to view and for some a joy to build but not all people who enjoy looking at model ships are model ship builders.
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La Palme by Tobias - 1:36 - POF
Keith Black replied to Tobias's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Not that I've seen every model ship ever made but I've never seen anyone add a water groove before. I see the logic for doing so, thank you for adding to my limited knowledge. -
LP2, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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Thank you for including us on your wonderful journey, Keith, every post was a treasure. Enjoy your time off.
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I certainly could be, it's been know to happen on many occasions in the past.
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Because of the bow shape and the round gun casements (one fore and two on both port and starboard sides near deck edge) I think it's an early pre WWI. I'm guessing and I could be dead wrong. Later gun casements morphed into more rectangular shapes and were set further inboard. It would help greatly if the pieces were placed on the ship's deck in best guess fashion, photographed, and posted.
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