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@wayne Galea, your best bet is Ebay. You'll have to surf the site for a month or so to find a quality kit which is complete. They will run anywhere from 150 to 250 depending on the quality or budget. Hope this helps. -
That looks great, look forward to your future progress! Welcome to MSW!
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i forgot about that! Ok I'll put two sided tape on the ends, see how that works with the smallest items. Hmm, plus a tent around my workbench and chair. Geez see what I mean about one step forward and three steps back with this rascal. But it's going to get finished!
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Looking for plans or possible models of Magellan's ships.
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@shipphotographer.com, yes I understand but was wondering if you have a working email for the author? The one in the book doesn't seem to work for contacting. -
Another quick update, I am waiting on some specialized tools and parts to help in finishing her. Will post images in a few days of progress, these are the specialized tweezers I am waiting on: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D4W522C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Have to have these as the shorter tweezers just aren't helping and difficult to use. These longer ones will gives me more room and precise placement without fingers in the way. They are 12" in length. Plus their a great addition to my modeling tools.
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Very nice representation Dart!
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Yep I have them both. Plus a couple more for reference. I'll have more images soon as tweezer work is still ongoing and slow. I'm wanting to show more completion on the model instead of a couple of rigged lines. I had worked on her yesterday for five hours and got two lines completed, Today I'll work on her and hopefully have the main mast completed for all the boom rigging; but I'm not going to rush as rigging between all the obstacles makes me feel like a brain surgeon. Make a mistake and my ship gets destroyed, then back track to fix. Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned.
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Looking for plans or possible models of Magellan's ships.
J11 replied to J11's topic in Nautical/Naval History
@shipphotographer.com, I have gotten my order for he VENETIAN SHIPS by Gilberto Penzo. I must say that the information presented in the book was well worth the money spent. I am wondering if I can post some of the images of plans from the book, but it seems the email address isn't working to ask for permission. Do you have a current email for him? If so please post. He has 8 different plans for the 15th century carrack's, which actually have enough information on them to build scratch built models from. Not including all the other plans in the book. If you can afford to pick this book up, you won't be disappointed. -
Would have thought that making them that small wouldn't have worked. Especially from wood, impressive creativity!! Wondering also what kit maker made the kit your working on? That model I had shown on a earlier post went for way over my budget for a kit, with shipping about $550.00. Hopefully a MSW member bought it and we'll see a build blog on it. Your information you offered still might come in handy for someone else if a MSW member bought it. I appreciate the offer, I'll be looking in the future also, never know what comes across ebay.
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Outstanding Clipper!! Well done and congrats!
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@Louie da fly, got my eye on this one, a tad pricey. Thought you would be interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Modelli-Sergal-Great-Harry-Elizabethan-Galleon-1512-Wood-Ship-Model-Kit-Rare/193860363218
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Fine work @Dart, look forward to future posts! Enjoyed the historical images also, very nice.
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Wow! she's just gorgeous!! Love the fine detail work which was done on her. Love the cannons also, along with all the quality fittings and sail work, Can you tell me how large she is? Thirty six inch's long? Scale? It also seems that no cost was sparred in her construction, looks to completely custom made also. @Dart thanks for posting them and if you have more please post them.
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Great looking forward to them. This representation puts mine to shame. Do you know how many worked on her?
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Got one from more research: Shows close to what the Alabama will look like with studding sails installed.
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Continuing research on the booms for the proper look I really like the booms sail shapes and mounting on the below image as I said before. So this is the example I will be using. Does anyone here at MSW know of a model shown at MSW with boom sails installed? So far I haven't seen one and would like to see someones else's example on a built model. Thanks. , I'll have more images soon of completed rigging.
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Thanks for stopping by and having a look, a quick update on the rigging ties. Here's a image of the tie downs, I just don't have enough space between the pegs to drape the rope coils over like it should be. So I did the next best thing and winged it. Not to shabby of a look. I'll have more images in a few days as I move to the main mast rigging. Did some touch up painting also on her and will wait for it to dry before I tackle the next rigging set. I won't have all the proper rigging installed per Bluejackets prints but will have eighty percent of them installed.
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@Hubac's Historian, I am trying to keep her as clean as possible during the build, so far she has turned out fairly well. As I have also been going over the boom sail mounts it seems that they are going to be quite a challenge to get right with mounting and rigging. Also they will have to be inside the main and fore sails to look right. With adding the wind blown look it has to be as clean as possible with that tad look of age added. Since this is my first try at sails scratch built, really appreciate the compliments. Confirms I'm on the right track with them, even if they aren't perfect. This has been a great learning curve also, thanks to all the help and suggestions from members she's just not my creation but MSW also.
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