Jim Rogers

Beautiful work.

40 minutes ago, Chuck said:

Yummy!!! Cant wait.  Have a 6am flight so i will probably be wiped when i arrive.  

Make sure you post about the new Airport. 

7 hours ago, Chuck said:

Minerva is one of my favorite models.  It always serves to inspire me.  Here is my version (a little hesitant to place my wok against such a masterful contemporary model) of the shingled roof left natural.  I kind of prefer the natural look.  But I will sleep on it a bit.  What do you guys think.  I think the dark roof is too "in your face".  But I could be wrong.  Note how thin the shingles are sanded after each row is completed.  These are boxwood shingles.

 

This is just me but I think that Fruitwood Gel Stain would make it all pop. 

Looks beautiful Chuck, you Sir are a true craftsman. Wish I had a tenth of your talent.

Will the frieze and these two figures be available when this chapter is issued?

2 hours ago, Chuck said:

Why would i do that?  They used them.  

Really. Never saw that before. Learn something new everyday.

You gonna lose the period?

Welcome Tom. 
I use Titebond thick set and CA dependent on the situation. Those little brass nails are a large PITA as they bend very easy and you usually need to predrill a hole. You also need to lay a pretty uniform pattern or it can look terrible, ask me how I know. What you need is a vast assortment of various types and sizes of clamps to hold your planks whilst the glue sets. You also need to learn how to bend planks

I like it.

Reg,

 I LOVE it. I have used the Amati Keel holder for all my builds and the Hobby Zone slip is magnitudes above. The Winnie is a beast, it fits very well with room to spare. Your ship locks solid and you can rotate 360 degrees if you have it mounted high enough. The screws that came with it were a tad short and would not tap into the secure nuts. You will have to get creative with attaching your ship after the stern is built all I did was remove the clamp, slide the base up to the stern, slipped in a piece of scrap and tightened her done worked great. The Hobbyzone Slip is a solid and very useful piece of kit.

After cutting several strips with a band saw I just dropped the hammer on a Byrnes Saw as I did not like the blade marks on the strips and cutting those 1/64 strips for the Black Strake was a PITA. You can almost read a newspaper through those they are so thin so I am going to replace those with 1/32

The Syren instructions are a tutorial on model ship building. 

Need new blades or sharpen old ones.

I call and talk to John directly. Never an issue.

Perfect!

My cedar billets arrived today. Thank you Chuck! Quite the surprise.

Beautiful work Mike.

Making slow progress

Check out Chuck’s jig in the Syren instructions online at ModelExpo.

Looks great Steve. I am just adding the battens on mine.

Anyone use a bandsaw for cutting strips? Seems it would be easier and more accurate than a mini table saw and having to move the fence for each cut.

I hear ya Jack. I wrote technical documentation for the Navy for ten years and bad documentation drives me nuts. I have gotten so frustrated on occasions I have actually rewritten instructions and sent them back to the companies. A major issue is they assume WRONGLY that everybody building their kits understands nautical terminology. Another issue is they provide terrible visual references with no identification in the written instructions which visual references apply to a step.

Chuck is there a reason bulkhead 29 is not added before fairing the hull?

Finished the bulkhead installation yesterday evening. Took three days. Started the fairing process expect an easy five to six days.

Chuck are you going to add color?

Paul,

 I am located in Bremerton drop me a PM if you are interested in dropping by......bacon not required.

I’m a dummy. Was looking right at it. Thanks Chuck.