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  1. GrandpaPhil
    I bought the Harold Hahn book, “The Colonial Schooner” a while back. This is an excellent book. It has the plans for the Hannah and a couple other schooners. Harold Hahn built his models in an admiralty style. I’m not that good. I like to build plank on bulkhead. However, the book has hull lines and where there are hull lines, there can be bulkheads easily made. I have discovered that card works beautifully for me. So I am starting with this: and turning it into this: The picture is from the US Navy’s History and Heritage Command. I chose the Hannah because I would like to make a relatively quick build. Schooners have very easy to make rigs and are relatively simple to make. The Hannah has a very simplistic design with a simple head and no decorations at all. She will make a nice change of pace from the Victory. I am building in 1/72 scale because it is a very convenient scale that is large enough to get as detailed as you want without having to work at super small scale. It will also match the Prince de Neufchatel’s scale.
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    Thank you very much, John! Thank you all very much for stopping by and for the likes! All 21 buckets are assembled: I’m waiting on them to finish drying, then I’ll add a drop of glue on each side of the handles and then paint the buckets.
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    Congratulations! Well done!
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    Welcome!
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    I really enjoy rigging. The standing rigging is part of the ship’s structure and I learned a lot about how the ship operated when doing the running rigging on my last model. Even the ratlines are fun for me. The whole process is very relaxing.
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    Personally, I like sails. They add a lot of character to a model, in my opinion. I didn’t billow them and I wish I had, but this entire model was an experiment.
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    Thank you all for the comments and the likes! Making progress on the buckets: They are very slow going.
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    My garage sale find for $3: Worked beautifully:
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    Thank you very much, Richard! Thank you all very much for the likes and for stopping by! Model time has been kind of rare for me lately due to work and life (plus Netflix, let’s just be honest here, lol). I caught the modeling bug again last night and have finished hollowing out all 21 of the buckets. I have some thin wire, which is actually for beading, to make the bails from. I’m not really sure how this is going to go due to the size, but I’m going to try anyway.
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    Welcome!
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    Congratulations! Well done!
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    Carving the decorations has become one of my favorite aspects of ship modeling. Nice start to the eagle!
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    Great start! A schooner makes a great first build.
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    I am using a drill bit to drill a pilot hole and a scalpel to hollow the tops of the buckets out to give the impression/illusion of depth and it being an actual bucket. A lot of the detail on this model is just giving the impression of the detail being there, due to the scale.
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    I’m glad you like my binnacle, Robert. Thank very much, Richard! I have 21 rough cut buckets:
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    I use a scalpel. It works well for me. I mark the piece with cut lines using a pencil and go from there.

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