Keith Black
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Nice sharp paint lines, your Glad Tidings is going to be a very nice model when completed. I like the looks of the single pedestal a lot.
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Welcome from Grass Lake, enjoy your stay!
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What a delight your work is, Keith. I'm never disappointed when I stop in to view one of your creations.
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Mark, nice fix as it looks like there was never a issue.
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HMCSS Victoria 1855 by BANYAN - 1:72
Keith Black replied to BANYAN's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Pat, the gun and carriages look like the real thing, very nicely done.- 993 replies
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You're doing a lovely job and your other models are beautifully done as well, bravo.
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In KeithAug's build log starting on page 34, post # 1020 and ending on page 37, post 1087, Keith deals with building skylights. While not exactly like your's his are close and a great examples. His build log is a tutorial on "how to" and well worth spending some time viewing.
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Are you able to share any of the model's history and can you provide a photo of the complete model?
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There's currently a Alfa Spider kit on Facebook Marketplace for $380.00 which is a good price compared to eBay which is crazy stupid.
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Eberhard, I know you dislike Poly applied over acrylic because of the overall gloss, correct? Other than the sheen aspect, what would be the harm in applying Poly over acrylic paint? I have applied Poly over painted surfaces for years, numerous projects including modeling and I've yet to encounter a bad side effect. I'm not sure this isn't a case of "we agree to disagree."
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Anyone heard from Paul lately?
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Great job, Kevin. I can feel the engine vibrations and smell the mixed odors of ocean, fish, bleach, and wet gear.
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Looks Great!
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Vaddoc, thank you. Knowing you're looking over my shoulder is contribution enough. I hope this build log helps you in some small way and more importantly I hope it develops in you an interest in this period of ship design.
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I am evolving, I spit on you, 2nd Law.
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I don't know why you would think that? Your work is very tidy and clean, top shelf stuff. I'm sure everyone in your family would be proud to display your work.
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Come talk to me a couple of hundred years from now and I'll show you what I mean.
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This from your website. Hence, the WESPE-Class was designed to be mainly a heavily armoured gun-platform, giving long-range protection to the tidal North Sea harbours that are surrounded by mud-flats and to give mobile protection to the deep fjords of Schleswig-Holstein's Baltic coast. They would be backed-up by heavy artillery (and later torpedo batteries) in coastal forts. The guns usually could only be trained by turning the whole boat. This seems more difficult then it probably was, because even in the old days of the rowing gunboats they would attack by rowing in a wide circle and when the intended target passed through the line of aim, one would fire. As the WESPE-Class was designed to let themselves fall dry on mud-flats, a possibility to train the gun was needed. I surmised that a Captain had to have all his skill sets at the ready when letting his ship settle on to a mudflat at low tide. I'm somewhat familiar with mudflats having worked on the Egegik River in Alaska.
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Eberhart, I would disagree only in that in time all paint is going to flake. By applying a protective coating (I use Poly) one is delaying that process. I think most modelers build for not their lifetime but for many more lifetimes to come.
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