-
Posts
6,644 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Events
Everything posted by Keith Black
-
Myself, I'd use MSW's search engine to locate all the Victory build logs and see what those builders chose to do and then I'd Google search historical correct paint colors used on the Victory and for each specific date. Then I would decide what date I wanted my Victory model to represent and paint accordingly.
-
Welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
-
Phil, MSW is a treasure trove of information and it's well worth taking the time to read as much as possible before plunging headlong into your project. It will make your efforts much easier.
-
I call it the weaving method but that's the way I did the ratlines on the Tennessee. Bob, see page 24, post # 694. The reason normal tying clove hitches doesn't work at this scale is the work area is so small and if you can/did tie a clove hitch it looks way too big.
- 61 replies
-
- Steam Cutter
- Harriet Lane
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
First, you're working at 1:144 scale which is slightly smaller than the 1:120 scale I work in. Welcome to the club! Yes, pieces parts are iddy biddy. I bet you won't be tying clove hitches as you normally do. Speaking of clove hitches, I'm three days late to the party and you're already talking about clove hitches. Only about one fifth of Billy's paddles are underwater as Billy is a waterline model where as your Harriet Lane is a full hull model.
- 61 replies
-
- Steam Cutter
- Harriet Lane
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
I was born in Dallas, grew up in Arlington, and for time I lived in Ft Worth after getting out of the Marine Corp. After moving back to Texas from Alaska we lived in Dallas. When I would travel to Ft Worth from Dallas upon crossing 820 I could feel a palatable difference in the air, so much more relaxed. I enjoyed some great dinning down at the stockyards. But alas, IT'S TOO DANG HOT!
-
WW, welcome to MSW. Some great memories of Ft Worth, you're probably too young to remember "The Cellar". Glad to have you aboard.
-
That's way cool that you and Vicky got to visit aboard Argonaut II. I love the sound of her Gardner and watching Nick fire her off is a trip. Argonaut II is supposed to be coming out of the water in Port Townsend for major hull work. Pete Stein will be the lead shipwright with Patrick (worked on Tally Ho) will also be working with Pete on the hull. I thought she would have been pulled by now, I keep checking for YouTube updates but nada so far. I'm positive Twilight would have fit right in.
-
BC, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
-
The finished name board on my model of Billy is 1/64" birch ply so it really doesn't matter how Billy's original name board was constructed as I won't be trying to replicate the wrinkles/bubbles. It's purely the opinion of each individual viewer and each opinion is as good as the other. Go ahead, yuck it up, Roel. Making the wheels will be like making butterfly wings but that task is much less daunting in my mind than making the arches. The arches have me pretty intimidated right at this moment but I need to commit or be committed.
-
Tom, welcome to MSW. Swell looking dory, glad to have you aboard.
About us
Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research
SSL Secured
Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured
NRG Mailing Address
Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917
Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)
Helpful Links
About the NRG
If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.
The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.