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  1. Keith Black
    Johann, sorry to hear this has happened to you. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
  2. Keith Black
    Dave, the only course I see is to use a fret saw. At least you have a hole to put the blade through.
  3. Keith Black
    Somehow the garish white paint applied on the ship's boats and furled sails in an earlier cosmetic restoration needs to be either removed or painted over, IMHO. The two furled sails yards center of the below photo appear to be untouched from original. The furled sails that have not been painted white but have been accentuated with black lines (first yard above two at center) also does not appear to be original. Mike, my hope for your sake is that the paint used was/is acrylic. There are many views on replacing broken pieces, example the missing ear on the original top center yard, left side. Some folks only want to see original, no replacement pieces. Others want to see replacement pieces made but any replacement pieces are to be left unpainted so as not to be confused as original. Then there are folks like myself who say, fix it! Fix any broken pieces and make it look like original but when it's a valuable antique, that's an expensive mistake. That will be Stewart's and Mike's call.
  4. Keith Black
    Dlowder, welcome to MSW. It's nice to have you aboard.
  5. Keith Black
    Steven, great recovery on the bowsprit, very tidy work at this scale.
  6. Keith Black
    Mark, I am so sorry this has happened. I hope there's a way for you to recover either by gently soaking with alcohol or acetone (depending on glue used) and removing or turning the blue air in the shop in time to laughter. I given myself many chuckles and several belly laughs from my mistakes. But I've learned that to be really happy with this hobby, I have to learn to live with my mistakes, I have to make the best of them and move on, none of this is life and death.
  7. Keith Black
    Rob, nor did I say she was a clipper. What I said was, "I couldn't find any photos of a clipper carrying seven yards on all three mast but did find a photo of the Mount Stewart." I'm sorry if you read in my statement that I was saying the Mount Stewart was a clipper. The Mount Stewart was a steel hulled ship launched out of Glasgow in May of 1891 built for the Australian wool trade.
  8. Keith Black
    I'm sure they think once you've finished building the model it's gonna look just like Mamoli's wooden kit. But hey, the seller's from Moldova, they got Russian troops camped out in their backyard. Maybe that's why the delayed shipping. The lesson's not lost. Buyer beware has never been more true than in today's world.
  9. Keith Black
    Chris, on the first one above I'm not seeing what you're evidently seeing but I went to eBay and brought of the item. The seller has a 98.7% positive feedback in the last year. Two natural and three negative feedback out of 203 sales isn't too bad. The seller is out of Moldova, we all got be from somewhere. The biggest kicker, which you can't tell from the above is, delivery is scheduled between March 30th and April 15th. That kinda smacks of a reseller probably getting their stuff from China, maybe? The second one, I'm stumped. You're getting five models for a maximum of 34.99 plus 10.50 shipping from a seller with a 100% rating. That's all I got but then the only thing I know about card modeling is watching you and a very few others.
  10. Keith Black
    I couldn't find any photos of a clipper carrying seven yards on all three mast but did find a photo of the Mount Stewart. She carried seven on the main but only six on the mizzen and fore.
  11. Keith Black
    Absolutely amazing workmanship, beautiful.
  12. Keith Black
    Brian, beautifully executed stunning detail. You made my day.
  13. Keith Black
    Greg, welcome to MSW.
  14. Keith Black
    Mark, she looks great.
  15. Keith Black
    While we're giving tips using zip lock bags........ to help keep your varnish or polyurethane fresh once the can has been opened, between uses store it in a zip lock bag.
  16. Keith Black
    Very good, Bruce!
  17. Keith Black
    The Tennessee carried three binnacles and she was wood hulled. The Magenta had to have carried several as well.
  18. Keith Black
    Phil, I'm a tad confused. The Magenta was christened in 1861and refitted in 1865. The platform was added during the 1865 refit? The Paris model without platform is as she was christened in 1861? The platform is shown on the plans you have so they must be from 1865?
  19. Keith Black
    Glen, the railings look much better, she's quite the little jewel.
  20. Keith Black
    I would think the charts would have been kept below in the Captain's quarters. The plans you have are after the 1865 refit, correct? What looks like a wall on the plans could be representing a tarp which could be lowered in foul weather. I wonder if the binnacle was moved up on the platform to get it up off the deck and away from the hull?
  21. Keith Black
    I can't see the officers using the same companionway stairways as the crew. The officers had to be able to reach the deck independent from and unimpeded by the crew. If that's not a companionway below the platform then the officers companionway would have to be the stern most companionway according to the plans (the way I interpret them) and that companionway leads to an unprotected deck. On the Tennessee, the crew companionways, (four total) they were placed in groups of two in close proximity to one another, one for going below deck and one for coming up on deck. This prevented the jamming of crew bodies in the stairwells particularly in times of manning battle stations or abandon ship procedures.
  22. Keith Black
    Phil, purely a guess but could it be a protected companionway for the officers? The walls wouldn't extend beyond the companionway itself. The two photos from the Tennessee, the first shows the officers companionway behind the binnacle protected by the deck above, the second photo shows one of the crew companionways on deck.
  23. Keith Black
    I found 3M masking tape to be the best.
  24. Keith Black
    I searched everywhere I knew to look and couldn't locate anything. You might try to contact the manufacture directly and see if they have any unsold stock at their facility.
  25. Keith Black
    Peter, welcome to MSW. Your Port Jackson looks great, I look forward to seeing your next build.

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