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GrandpaPhil
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Here’s all 170 belaying pins for both Esther and Revenge (108 of them go to the Revenge):
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Here’s all 170 belaying pins for both Esther and Revenge:
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"Sailing Memory" by thibaultron - Book Size Diorama
GrandpaPhil replied to thibaultron's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Ron, That would look really good in someone’s modeling library! Nice work! Looking forward to seeing how everything goes together! -
Agreed with the above. MSW is my happy place and my favorite place online. MSW has really helped me develop my model making skills and is my number one source of inspiration and ideas. Being an NRG member lets me support MSW and I enjoy reading the Journal. One of these days, I’m going to buy the $99 USB drive to get the rest of the NRG Journal issues.
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Welcome!
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Very cool!
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On an off white on many interior compartments is a pretty common practice because it does help to brighten up the work space a little bit and improve visibility.
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96 down, 74 to go!
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There are plenty of transition era ships that are available in card from Orel and other card kit makers, including American ships. Wargames Vault makes a 1/200 New Ironsides out of card. Card kits make great templates for wood scratch builds. They aren’t kits, but AAMM has a few French transition era ship plans. Also, the French Ministry of Defense has plans for a lot of their ships from the latter half of the 19th Century online. Those all include quite a few of the ironclads and early steel ships.
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I can tell that I like to build card models. I have stacks of cereal and snack boxes stacked up next to my toolbox. I also have large boxes saved for center keel plates and other large pieces of a ship.
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Looking forward to this build! I really want to build the pinas out of Ab Hoving’s “17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships” sometime in the future.
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55 down, 115 to go: That’s a stack of scalpel blades sitting next to the belaying pins. The silica and fibers of the bamboo seem to dull out the blades relatively quickly. That’s okay though, it’s the nature of the beast.
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Chapelle’s History of American Sailing Ships has been invaluable to me also.
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Glen, Chapelle’s Search For Speed Under Sail has plans and line drawings of late 18th century and early 19th century three masted schooners. I just saw them when I was looking through my library for something else. (This forum is my greatest resource for inspiration and ideas)
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Thank you very much! Mercury is sitting on a shelf located in a place where it cannot be forgotten. I have been looking at it frequently lately and thinking about finishing it once I finish my other active builds.
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Making progress on those belaying pins:
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Very nicely done!
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Looking forward to this build! This will be an excellent gift! I heard the penguins are super excited and preparing for an invasion!
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If you use an acrylic sealant to clear coat the deck, PVA glue will stick to it.
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