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GrandpaPhil

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  1. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations!
  2. GrandpaPhil
    I got a soldering station today. The hammock cranes (which severely aggravated me and directly led to the break that started the Magenta build) will be ripped off and have posts soldered to the bottom so they can be pinned in place to avoid the continual breakage that had been happening.
  3. GrandpaPhil
    You’ll have fun with it. I have enjoyed my card ship models enough that I’m on my third one right now.
  4. GrandpaPhil
    Soleil Royal is looking good! Nicely done on the guns!
  5. GrandpaPhil
    Very nice!
  6. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done!
  7. GrandpaPhil
    Very nice!
  8. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done!
  9. GrandpaPhil
    Looking good!
  10. GrandpaPhil
    Lol, just buy her something too!
  11. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done!
  12. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done!
  13. GrandpaPhil
    Amazing work!
  14. GrandpaPhil
    Amazing work!
  15. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done!
  16. GrandpaPhil
    If you have a photocopier, you should be able to resize that engine kit relatively easily. Just figure out the scaling difference and do a manual scaling. That’s how I rescaled everything for my Prince de Neufchatel and Hannah builds. For such a small scale, I’d use really thin card or regular paper when rescaling though.
  17. GrandpaPhil
    Looking good!
  18. GrandpaPhil
    @Dr PR wrote a most excellent guide to rigging a schooner on this website. I used this extensively while rigging my model of the schooner Hannah (much older, but still very similar). I strongly recommend giving it a read.
  19. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Very well done!
  20. GrandpaPhil
    Looking good!
  21. GrandpaPhil
    There’s the Magenta, some assembly required: Seriously though, she’s going to be built of double thickness cardboard for the hull. I’m amassing the cardboard now. I’ll use roughly the same techniques I did with Hannah to build the hull. I’ll cover it using a combination of traditional techniques (rough in all of the gunports, windows, etc.) and card techniques. I’ll use the pulp board to plank below the waterline and then most likely plank with standard card above the waterline. The cool thing about doing it this way is that it will make making armor plating really easy.
  22. GrandpaPhil
    Thank you very much! You are more than welcome!
  23. GrandpaPhil
    Very cool build! Looking good!
  24. GrandpaPhil
    Well done!
  25. GrandpaPhil
    Very nicely done!

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