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  1. GrandpaPhil
    The Hitch-Hiker’s series was great! Your Soleil Royale is absolutely amazing!
  2. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  3. GrandpaPhil
    Where is the model located? I ask because there may be someone relatively local to you or a model ship club in your area. I am not interested in another project myself, but there may be someone in your area that is.
  4. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  5. GrandpaPhil
    Looking forward to this build, Chris!
  6. GrandpaPhil
    Very nice find! Looking forward to seeing this build!
  7. GrandpaPhil
    What about just buying a glass dining room table and putting lights below it? Those run about $110 from Home Depot.
  8. GrandpaPhil
    I have the base kit. It is incredible!
  9. GrandpaPhil
    Also, paint from the inside out. That way you can cover up your earlier mistakes as you paint.
  10. GrandpaPhil
    Use a piece of a paper clip. Paint it and no one will ever be the wiser.
  11. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Very nicely done!
  12. GrandpaPhil
    Nice job on the coppering! Constitution is looking good, Mustafa!
  13. GrandpaPhil
    I got pieces of heavy-ish cardboard for at least two of the decks now. I will need between three and four decks total for this one. There are two internal gundecks and then the weather deck, with a forecastle. I might drop in an orlop deck too, just for structural integrity, which would be the 4th deck.
  14. GrandpaPhil
    Very cool! Well done!
  15. GrandpaPhil
    Looking good!
  16. GrandpaPhil
    Thank you very much for the information!
  17. GrandpaPhil
    If you are going to convert a table to a light table, how thick does the acrylic sheet need to be to prevent flexing while drawing? I am going to frame in the top of the table in my model room with 2x4’s, put LED stick lights inside and then close it in with a hinged 4’ x 8’ sheet of acrylic, but I am debating between a 1/4” thick and an 1/8” thick.
  18. GrandpaPhil
    Well done!
  19. GrandpaPhil
    The 100-gun Ship Victory by John McKay has full sets of cross-sections of Victory. They are quite excellent.
  20. GrandpaPhil
    The Magenta is definitely going to be built in exactly the same fashion as my model of the Hannah, hull wise. I acquired the box that it will be cut out from, today. The center keel and the bulkheads will be made from pieces of tri-wall corrugated cardboard. That will be heavy enough to hold the shape of the hull in a modified POB fashion, especially considering how big this one is going to be. Cutting will commence when I finish the Revenge.
  21. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  22. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done! Looking forward to the next build!
  23. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Well done!
  24. GrandpaPhil
    Very cool!
  25. GrandpaPhil
    Here is my wife’s coffee shop:

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