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  1. Keith Black
    *Keith extends elbows out to the sides
  2. Keith Black
    Roel, is there a helo pad on this beast?
  3. Keith Black
    Yes on the mirror for the reasons Eric gave in his post above. IMHO a larger mirror (slightly larger than the width and length of the hull) would look better. Also, get a better quality mirror, one that's not so blurry.
  4. Keith Black
    Before you remove them you might try gently rounding the handle edges with the tip of your X-Acto knife which may also remove some of the char. I don't see how you can round the handles once they're removed. As far as removing all the char, the only solution I see is painting them a color that resembles wood. Did you ask Chris?
  5. Keith Black
    I so enjoy your builds, Bob. You bring life to ship and log.
  6. Keith Black
    Congratulations, Bob. Job well done.
  7. Keith Black
    Amazing work, Roel.
  8. Keith Black
    Johnny, I use CA to glue eyes to the deck. I drill the hole a tad larger than than the eye, place CA gel on the eye shank, place in hole, and then add a tad bit of regular CA around the shank. I've had to remove eyes because of putting them in the wrong place and played billy goat heck getting them out pulling on the eye with pliers. They don't come out willingly.
  9. Keith Black
    Frank, I use Minwax satin polyurethane. Using CA I can glue directly to a polyurethane treated surface without issue. Polyurethane is disparaged by the old schoolers but it's got a lot going for it, IMHO. As always, experiment thus making sure it works for YOU.
  10. Keith Black
    Eric, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  11. Keith Black
    Well done, Harvey. Super nice!
  12. Keith Black
    Absolutely.
  13. Keith Black
    Tame winter for all of us.
  14. Keith Black
    Bob, thank you for letting us share your journey. We're all the better for it.
  15. Keith Black
    She's a beauty, Glen. For a 'it almost didn't happen' build I for one am certainly glad that it did because it ranks near the top. The lone penguin at that scale is very well done and a nice touch........thank you.
  16. Keith Black
    Pretty part of the state but comes with the price of more snow.
  17. Keith Black
    Ryan, welcome to MSW. Fellow Michigander from Grass Lake. Glad to have you aboard.
  18. Keith Black
    Grant, scratch the penguins. APA photo showing billionaire cattle rancher and SIB builder Glen McGuire informing a group of penguins their services would not be required in his latest project, The Jenny. In a local news briefing UPA spokesman Flip Moore decries McGuire's pulling penguins from his latest project saying "It's a hardship, we've got penguins that have traveled halfway around the globe to get here" "Now to be told they are no longer needed. Well, it's a bait and switch scam, plain and simple" "United Penguins of Antarctic members will not tolerate these tactics from Mr McGuire, we don't care how many cattle ranches he owns" Mr Moore wouldn't elaborate on any pending legal action.
  19. Keith Black
    I'm proud for you, Bob. She's really looking top notch.
  20. Keith Black
    Doug, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  21. Keith Black
    It's only money and small money at that.
  22. Keith Black
    Attic is the key word here. Attics are normally hot to very hot in the summer months. It might be great and then it might not. I'd be most worried about the mast, tops, and yards but those could all be made of wood which we covered in David's build.
  23. Keith Black
    Not necessarily, Micha. Plastic gets brittle with age according to modelers building plastic kits. . I have never put together a plastic model so I'm relating only what I've read in logs.
  24. Keith Black
    Klas, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  25. Keith Black
    I know exactly what the ice barrier would have looked like had the Jenny been a real ship. Not only have I seen packed sea ice from above in a Super Cub and from the shore, I've jumped from flow to flow chasing a wounded fox. Please read/reread the post preceding mine regarding the color of Glen's ice. I was merely responding to what I think is an erroneous assumption that the Jenny would have been trapped by blue colored ice, i.e. icebergs (which are a different color being composed of fresh water) than sea ice. Icebergs are by their very nature solitary creatures.

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