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Hi John Good to see you back with more pictures of the feather duster! I am a bit surprised at the size in relation to your table, (By the way your table is WAY too clean!) unless your table is really small, the canoe is much larger, or is that longer, than I envisioned. I am still impressed with all the carving you have had to do and the resulting quality. Carving for me is a no-go. Kind of like music and me. I have all the musical talent of an oyster and the only instrument I can play is a radio or CD player! Same with carving, if I was to try this build it really would look like a feather duster! Keep it up, I am looking forward to seeing more.
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Hi Denis Glad to see that you are interested in building this ship. At least the cost of postage wasn't wasted! You weren't supposed to say where it came from though! If I remember right your comments about the package went something like, "Thought it might be a bomb," and "Thanks for cluttering up MY HOUSE." Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. It's a pretty simplistic kit with very few parts but i'm almost sure you will find someway to spruce it up and make it more authentic.
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Thank you greenstone for showing some of your impressive models and I wish you all the success such fine kits deserve.
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By the time you are done with this build Greg, you will know almost as much as any crew member about the layout and equipment on this ship and be qualified to conduct guided tours!
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Stern and transom Today I cracked the whip and made the building crew straighten up a few sloppy areas. I attached the two main sub-decks to each other so that they could now be handled as one assembly. I also fared the edges of the sub-quarterdeck to not only match the bulkheads but form a smooth line from amidships to the stern. This only required about 1mm of trimming along each side. So far so good! I then went to the #10 bulkhead that forms the stern and begin work on the required shortening of the false stern timber to conform to the shortened former poop deck. It was at this time that I discovered that the #10 bulkhead is also out of alignment port to starboard! I will have to make some more cardboard template and figure out what happened, just like on bulkhead #8. Hopefully the cure will be simple! Bummer, another sleepless night! Believe it or not I had trouble sleeping last night, partly because of the issue with #8 and what I could do about it! This is VERY unusual for me. While I wake up and have to turn because of other reasons several times a night, I NEVER have trouble sleeping or getting back to sleep! I went ahead and shortened the stern timbers, as whatever is needed to straighten out the bulkhead will not affect their length and angle requirements back there. Not much point in posting pictures as it still looks pretty much like a refugee from a building scaffold but progress is being made. (Next: Troubleshoot and correct #10 bulkhead)
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Clinker or Carvel it is really looking good and progressing nicely!
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OC You might try closing down the site and wen you come back they may be there again. That's what happened to me. No idea why,
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Now THERE are skills I am well versed in!
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Now they are back????? Six hours ago they were gone!
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Just to let you know KP, this time the pictures didn't show up for me. I suspect it may be MSW as it is the same in Chrome, IE, and Firefox. I am certain that they were there when you posted them, (The the launches set up on the upper deck with PE on them right?). It appears that all the prior pictures are also gone. Very strange.
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Put me down for the bow matching the deck as well.
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Thanks John It really isn't as bad as it looks. The kit is so close to what is needed that everything has surprisingly fallen into place quite well, and each alteration has kind of just presented itself as I got to each point. I'm not enough of an engineer or smart enough to have figured all of this out in advance. Besides who says that the whole thing may not end up as a rowboat? I would at least hope for a viking ship so I can send it to sea and light it on fire if that happens but only time will tell. Some of the scariest stuff for me is still ahead. Stuff that I have never done before that will be WAY beyond my present pay grade. Like I told Don a while back, at this stage it kind of looks like scaffolding for a building, and that could always become plan B! Thanks for the encouragement though it really means a lot to me.
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Come on Mark! TWO stoves AND an oven on a medium sized fifth rate frigate. It appears that these guys were true Frenchmen and valued their food! I don't think the Victory had that much cooking ability! SUPER SUPER SUPER job on the stoves and those brass hoods look exactly right! Your tenacity truly paid off!
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I am too. Now it is on to bigger and better things. The whole diorama will truly be a spectacular monument not only to your father but to your abilities.
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Modifying bow, moving bulkheads #1,2. and 8. Making fine adjustments to bulkhead # 4 Today I made the big jump and altered the bow shape and shortened the entire ship by another ½”. I also moved #1 bulkhead from position #1 to position #2 on the profile piece. With the new shape I created for the forward main deck this worked out almost perfectly as a new #1 bulkhead location. I could have possibly left out bulkhead #2 as laying a stringer in place as a test seemed OK but the more I thought about it I decided to play it safe and relocate #2 for the added hull strength in the bow. I determined the new location and cut the new #2 slot. Now I was looking at a number of “used-to-be” slots that were now sitting empty! So I took some time and made filler pieces for these empty places and glued them into position. I then did some fine modification of #4 bulkhead for a more accurate fit of the sub-deck. Then it was time to move aft and take a look at bulkhead #8. As I had noticed before this bulkhead was considerably smaller than it should have been in relation to the adjoining bulkheads. After making every measurement I could think of, I decided that the easiest way to deal with it was to move it further toward the stern. This would do two things in my mind. First off it would bring the dimensions of the bulkhead into line with the rest of the hull without need to alter the shape of the bulkhead. Secondly I felt that this method would gave me a better “fudge factor” later in case I was still wrong after I fair the bulkheads for planking. If it ends up too big I only need to slide it slightly forward, if still too small I can either shim the outer surface or cut the profile notch even deeper. Today I moved it aft almost 5mm when I chickened out and stopped! (Next the stern and transom)
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Hi Mark, Piet and John, glad to see you guys. I think I was needing someone to hold my hand and make me feel better! Mark, I'm not sure that it was AL that made the mistake. After all of the fairly drastic alterations I have made to the hull it is more than likely it will turn out to at least partly be my fault. Additionally the kit could have been off by by say less than .5mm at the original deck level but I raised it by at least 10mm, so that almost invisible amount becomes very noticeable at the new deck level. Piet You are very correct. I ended up using your first method of moving the entire bulkhead further aft and I think it turned out pretty well. You will be able to see in my next update.
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Isn't that true of almost all of it? I have been following several of the builds where the guys are building with PE parts and to be honest it seems like another world in modeling. I am following your work as I am possibly only a few months behind you in making the same decisions on my build and I can use all the "How it is done" I can get.
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Great looking hinges. I think you will like them much better than paper when you get them on.
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I was just joking Piet. Take your time and get your other things taken care of first. See you when you get here.
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Hi Antonio You might go back to brass rod like you used in the hammock frames. Then you could possibly try a finer grain wood sanded smooth for the cap rail. Lou
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Greg Having at last received the PE needed for the Admiral's 1/350th Titanic and seeing how small this stuff really is, your comment strikes fear into the very depths of my soul! It is truly amazing what you are able to accomplish with your builds!
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As a side note. I received an email from Mystic Seaport Museum today regarding a request for some information and I made over a month ago! They were not able to provide me with the documents I was looking for but did send me a couple of museum links to stuff that I did not have and will come in useful later in the build. Some of it confirms things I already felt were true and as usual also raised a few more questions that I will need to ask about later when I get to that part of the build!
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