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@The_bitter_end, that's a gorgeous looking hull. Keep up the fine work!

@BlackSeraph, your building board is excellent, if I may ask could you make another one of those and if so whats the cost? Or could I have the dimensions (Rhino) of your board and pieces? If you have the time I would love to have one built, but I don't want to impose. Really nice building board, never heard of Rhino before. I am assuming it's a type of cad program?

@popeye the sailor, thanks. Hopefully she will be finished soon. Also appreciate all the likes, Here's the last for the image files except the historical deck images which I'm sure everyone who has interest has seen, so I won't post those.

I have quite a lot of extra parts and material inbound so bear with me as they should start arriving by Friday. I have sail material and other items along with "BlueJackets" customer service help to get her done. Were down I feel to a month or two for completion.

Excellent plans for helping in the build:

Really appreciate the interest and hope in the future that my other builds will be as educational and inspiring. This is a really nice kit to do extreme detailing on. I do look forward to someone doing the USS Kearsarge in extreme detail also.

WOW!! really nice build!   

@captain_hook, thanks. Here's the second set of Alabama images:

I'll have a few more in the third post.

I'm uploading my research artists image file of the CSS Alabama for others to have if they decide to tackle building her in the future. It's a bunch of images from many different sources and so far seems to be all of the Alabama images out there until others are found or presented. Total 29 megs so I might have to split this up in three posts. So I'll start with this one and add others in the next few days.

There's the first set gentlemen, after I get all of them loaded if anyone has any which i don't have please post them.

3 hours ago, Rowboat said:

I noticed that some users have an area on their posts where they post there builds.

EX:

Current Build; some model

Previous Builds: other models

 

It seems to be a separate area from the normal text area.

If someone can offer some guidance it's appreciated.

@Rowboat, sure. Go to you name and click on it, then click on account setting, then click on signature at the right. It will open up your signature window and type in what you want displayed and link if you want. Then save, that's it. 

Preliminary tube work is commencing and will work on more parts and detailing later this week.

Quick update, crew is finished and will be set aside till all the other work is done on the sails and rigging.

7 hours ago, cdrusn89 said:

Jonathan - that is Alaskan Yellow Cedar from Syren Ship Model Company. It is sold in 14" X 2" "slabs" in your choice of thicknesses. I had to rip and then thickness sand the pieces into 1mm X 2mm planks. Not too much of a problem if you have the right tools. And the glue was Titebond Original.

Many thanks.

Great information appreciate the heads up.

@cdrusn89 wow fantastic decking!! What type of wood glue did you use?

Nice clean ties and excellent representation. 

Outstanding work!! 

Masterful work @CRI-CRI!!

Happy B day!!      

Just type your text in then hit enter that puts your cursor below the text. Then click choose files for images. Upload your images and the click the + sign for the image you want below your text and repeat as many time as you want with text then picture.

32 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Beautiful work all the way around.   I guess I had it easy when I did my Billing's Vasa some time ago.... at that time they thought all the figures were gold.

Thanks @mtaylor, I have seen the blogs with just the gold figurines and even those are exquisite model representations. The Billings kit is a great representation but man; a bunch of hours on her to complete. Seems I'll be mixing my own colors for the figurines also as there is such a variation in the scheme.

I mixed a couple for the one's I'm working on now to get the command CSS Navy blue right along with the skin tone as close as possible. Thought I would add some miniature rigging coils on a few of them also once they are dried. So stay tuned Ya'll.

Here's the scheme I used:

I will try to add the belts and buckles once they do dry completely for a day or so.

Thanks @Old Collingwood, there in good shape also and the detail on them is excellent for the tiny paint work. I am impressed with how detailed they are being so small. Revell did good mold work for these also as just a small amount of clean up for each one to fine tune them.

@Richmond, nice older kit you have there. What year is it 60's?

Thanks @CDW, fortunately my sweetie had gotten the mirco brushes for me last Christmas. They work great and highly recommend them if one is to do this type of detailing. Cool thing was I got two sets!

CSS Alabama has a captain and officers. Slow and precise work for the crew painting with as much detail as possible to enhance the model. I figure a couple more days and the crew will be done and I will mothball them in individual packets so not to destroy the delicate paint work and keep that pesky dust off.

Getting great practice for the Vasa pieces when all of those have to be historically painted. For the Vasa pieces it will probably be three or four months to complete them as I have been going over the coloring detail for the build. Wow! What a colorful ornate ship she was. Some members here have done such exquisite work on the Vasa builds that it's like having your own private tutor to produce the model. I compliment all of them for sharing the builds and technics in producing such artistic representations with many thanks for reference material to work from.

If I can get the sail making down pat; by George the Vasa will have them too. I guess you can tell I'm itching to get her started as I am hoping for a couple needed saws and sanding equipment to work on her. (Christmas presents) Hint, hint  Santa Claus (Sweetie??) He he he .....

Very clean work, truly a family heirloom in the making.

I feel you should keep your double roof and add smaller bent trim around the lower roof shelves for detailing. Then sand very gently and precisely the added bent smaller trim into shape and add a little wood filler per needed. The basis of what you have is great to work with adding the smaller wood bent trim pieces for definition. Could blend them in nicely with what you have.

Working on boom assemblies and finished with lining the bases with walnut, the bases will have to dry for awhile and then I'll add the tung oil and post them when they dry. Will be a couple of days for them to dry. Be working also on painting the miniature men for the ship and hopefully I have them done in a couple of days. Thanks for all the likes and appreciation with compliments. 

Bunch of parts have been ordered and will probably be here this week and can start on the sails and rigging of them, so I'm new at the sail making with model span and hopefully will turn out ok.

Look forward to the completed model images. Impressive work Jesse!