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  1. Keith Black
    Konrad, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  2. Keith Black
    Bitao, well said.
  3. Keith Black
    GS, 250 ft length, 44 ft beam. GR 334 ft length, 53 ft beam. Rob, sorry, I thought GS was larger. The below photo of your GR compared to the photos of the GS in post #'s 2293 and 2294 make the GS look larger but I now I understand it's the scale. My memory failed on GR's scale, I thought she was 1:96 as well.
  4. Keith Black
    Rob, she's beautiful and big. I have a lot of the photos you posted of your GR on your workbench burned in my memory. The GR is dwarfed by the GS.
  5. Keith Black
    Look at all those little bitty pieces parts in post # 42 and in place in post # 43. Fantastic job, Glen.
  6. Keith Black
    Dave, please don't do that. I know it's frustrating but you've got to get over this hump successfully. Redoing is part and parcel in modeling, hitting a home run first time out is the exception, not the rule. Take a day or two to think about it, work it out in your mind. Think how you would remove the planks and what it would take to make laying the planks right. The first build takes a lot of practice, if you don't do the required practice on this kit, you'll be doing it on the next. You CAN do this, I've got faith in you!
  7. Keith Black
    Dirk, congratulations on getting the first plank in place. May the rest of the planks bring you as much joy as the first.
  8. Keith Black
    CK, thank you for downloading these and I look forward to seeing more. Thank you. The error code you got is a ongoing problem a lot of us have been having as of late. I think most of us work around the problem by downloading photos till we get the error code and then save the post. We then edit the post and download the remaining photos. Edit is in the more options (three dots) at the top right next to the post number.
  9. Keith Black
    Agreed, Gregory and Tom. 7.953 inches = 42.4 feet and sounds reasonable. 8.66 inches = 46.16 feet which would add another 2 feet either side of beam. Tom, the model should measure approximately 5.73 inches at the beam.
  10. Keith Black
    Rob, the first time I saw a Workmate in use was in a photo you posted doing off ship mast work on the Great Republic. Thanks for looking in.
  11. Keith Black
    Having a beam of 30 feet 8 inches, a main yard 30 feet long with a diameter of 7 inches sounds small. Topsail, maybe?
  12. Keith Black
    CK, welcome to MSW. First off, your group is a special breed, being a former Marine I can't thank you enough for your service. Second, I don't know a thing about the maker but I'm intrigued by the model, is it possible to take a few more pictures and post them, please.
  13. Keith Black
    Randy, if you look at the glue in the bottle and the glue applied to the wood, it's white, not amber. Is this what you used? https://www.gorillatough.com/product/original-gorilla-glue/
  14. Keith Black
    Randy, this appears to be a good link. I'm sorry I mislead you in post #2. https://startwoodworkingnow.com/how-to-dissolve-wood-glue/
  15. Keith Black
    Roger and Kurt, I've read other MSW post where Isopropyl Alcohol is the recommended method for removing dried wood glue and I have no argument with that recommendation. Before replying to Randy's I did a quick Google search looking for the alcohol method but didn't find a Google link specifying Isopropyl Alcohol. What I did find was the below link by Loctite. I'm confused as to why a manufacture (Locite) would recommend one thing (Acetone) while years of collective MSW experience supports using Isopropyl Alcohol? I personally have never used either method so I've got no dog in this fight. I'm sorry if I've lead Randy astray. https://www.loctite-consumer.co.uk/en/how-to-guide/gluing-guide/how-to-remove-glue-from-wood-easily.html
  16. Keith Black
    James, welcome to MSW. Wishing you the very best.
  17. Keith Black
    Both methods are suggested by Loctite. You can also place a warm wet rag on the glue for several minutes allowing the glue to soften so it can be scrapped away.
  18. Keith Black
    Bill, if it were scratch built or of historical significance I would agree but being a kit........
  19. Keith Black
    Egads, the dreaded tweezer releaser, I hate when that happens!
  20. Keith Black
    Ray, is the hull itself is alright? I don't think it's ready to be allocated to the bin, not just yet. At this point it doesn't eat much, if you've decided you don't want to mess with it, place everything in a box and hang on to it. Who knows, at some time in the future you might discover a neighborhood kid that has a hankering to make model ships and this ole gal could be the ticket to their dreams.
  21. Keith Black
    Jeff, what scale?
  22. Keith Black
    Glen, great micro detail work. I'm always whining and moaning about trying to make items at 1:120 scale while folks like yourself working at even smaller scales make it look easy, hats off.
  23. Keith Black
    I agree with Mark.
  24. Keith Black
    Ray, steering wheel is incorrect, the correct term is 'ship's wheel'. I hope you start a restoration log where we can keep track of you progress.
  25. Keith Black
    Keith, if you find one on eBay that's listed by a USA seller and they won't ship to the UK, you could have it shipped to my address and I could forward it on to you. If at anytime you think that might happen, let me know and I'll PM you my address. You might be better served with the 16 inch, model 79-020 because your build sizes are larger plus the added versatility.

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