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  1. lmagna
    I missed that completely, but Hal is right, the two, (1 port and 1 starboard) long guns should be removed from where they are and placed on the upper deck toward the bow as bow chasers. I believe at one point the stern windows were knocked out and two long guns were placed there as stern chasers when the Constitution was in one of her races against being captured by the British. I don't think they were there all of the time though. I have been in the Great cabin and there are no accommodations today to handle guns even if you wanted to.
  2. lmagna
    Yeah I may have SUGGESTED that you buy them but now that you have shown them off you will be FORCING me to get a set as well! I am not certain that I understand on the carriages. The guns you are assembling now are the guns that will be located on the gun deck and are considered long guns. The other guns are called Carronades and will go on the upper or spar deck. They are a shorter stockier looking gun and on the Constitution and use a different style of carriage. You may consider rigging the guns in the midships area, (The area where the big opening is that will partly be covered with the ships boats later) That area will still be visible even after the spar deck is installed. On my build as a teen I rigged all the lower deck cannon AND painted the great cabin, including the world map that was located on the bulkhead back then. I would occasionally hold the model up just so I could look through the windows and see inside. Now days I could just use an Endoscope to do the same thing. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Waterproof-HD-2M-7mm-Endoscope-Lens-Mini-USB-Inspection-Camera-with-6-LED-Lights-Borescope-for-Android-Smartphone-PC-Lapt-op/924102324?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=9869&adid=22222222227083850308&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=196367365898&wl4=pla-314984353131&wl5=9033346&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=115780161&wl11=online&wl12=924102324&wl13=&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZDeBRD9ARIsAMbAmoau7i54ClITxFRnlbQEmXjzUJIJYDtgthodLUb0pIRvf8ewUt2FwxsaAg3nEALw_wcB
  3. lmagna
    I knew I had ran into it with someone a while back but I could not remember who or what. Old age is catching up with me!
  4. lmagna
    I have followed Marc's eBay sales for some time now. I have even bought a couple of models from him through his eBay offerings but CDW is right. The original owner ends up with very little in many cases. Occasionally though the buyer can come out pretty good, but then that is the story all over eBay. Your cannon are looking really good. The barrels have a nice shape and look well made. Are you going to blacken them?
  5. lmagna
    Looking good and moving right along OC. I have a couple of questions though. Did you paint the plastic decks before planking them? What glue are you using to bond the wood to the plastic?
  6. lmagna
    I PMed another member that is out and about right now and also knows my email to see if he can get through on PM. If not he can either reply here or email me with the results.
  7. lmagna
    Tried again and still says "CDW cannot receive messages." You must have unfriended me or whatever it is called on a forum!
  8. lmagna
    I have had that happen before where one person was able to PM me but another one was not pretty much at the same time. I will give it another try, (No alternative as I don't have your email.
  9. lmagna
    I tried to send you a PM but your mail says it is not receiving?
  10. lmagna
    No need to thank me Mike. I was just passing on some information that I acquired about a year ago when I also fell in love with the sails that Radimir makes. Although I also have the Revell Constitution in my horde of models I suspect that I will never get around to building her again. (Like many others I built her as a teen) but I have been in contact with him about other sail needs and he seems like a very nice and competent modeling source. Your dealings with him have seemed to confirm this, so you have done as much a favor to me as I have to you. It will be interesting to follow your use of the items you have purchased from him. Looks like you will be starting the gun deck cannons soon.
  11. lmagna
    I would think that you would use a scrap piece of wood drilled out to accept the hull screws just like the finished stand. But I must admit it looks better when you are not building to see her sitting on the real thing.
  12. lmagna
    Sorry you had to make so many to get so few. But what you ended up with is really nice.
  13. lmagna
    A little too much information, but other than that great work. I do hope that you are not going to build the model while mounted to your beautifully finished stand?
  14. lmagna
    Hi Mike If you managed that paint job using THAT brush then my hat is truly off to you. You are in fact a MUCH better man than I! Very nice paint job.
  15. lmagna
    VERY nicely done and in record time. I don't think I have EVER seen anyone finish this model, (Including myself) congratulations on a very nice build.
  16. lmagna
    Hope you guys had good day and evening. You must have been really nice to her if she let you have time off for building on HER special day!
  17. lmagna
    Very effective technique KP. It REALLY aged the hull!
  18. lmagna
    Nice to see your updates. She is coming along very nicely.
  19. lmagna
    I had forgotten about that. We also had a place where we could go, (In my case it was a section of our local hobby store) and buy chemicals. I personally was too stupid to make much more than bubbly, gooey, smelly stuff, but I am sure they had much more interesting combinations if one knew what they were doing.
  20. lmagna
    As usual old age and cunning overcomes youth and ability! Who says we need a teenager around to solve computer problems!
  21. lmagna
    No need to go that far. All I need to do is drive a few miles to the Indian Reservation and I can buy pretty much anything made. I don'r know if it is people who bought them or stores that are setting off excess inventory but I can look over the sound on the 4th of July and watch the fireworks buy the hour being set off. They make the show produced by the city look like a side show. Some day I should get a boat and anchor halfway between the two and spend the night watching it all. The city lights theirs off from a barge just outside the river mouth the tribe stuff seems like it is located on a couple of places along the beach. All in all I would suspect that 100s of thousands of dollars is lit off in a matter of four or five hours.
  22. lmagna
    I suspect that Just gathering the chemicals needed to make your own fireworks these days would put you on someones list of naughty or nice, and it wouldn't be Santa.
  23. lmagna
    Nothing fun is politically correct anymore, but you are certainly a person after my own heart. If it goes boom and makes smoke how can that be a bad thing? MUCH better than anything spring loaded! I could not get any kind of power when I was a kid but I didn't let that stop me. I would scrape match heads by the hour just to get enough "Powder" for a few shots in my home made brass cannon. Used wooden dowels cut in short lengths for ammo. Here in the US the firecrackers you describe are called "Lady Fingers" and even though I would have to work at it a little, are still available. Never heard of a gun designed to use them as a charge though. How did you light the fuse while trying to aim the gun? Some of those fuses burned pretty quick.
  24. lmagna
    Mike I wonder if the pictures are too long and the program here on the forum that allows you to upload directly is rotating them to make them fit the page? Everything is looking nice though even in vertical view!
  25. lmagna
    Here you go, music and all.

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