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  1.    hollowneck reacted to a post in a topic: Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates Volume 2
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  10. hollowneck
    It's true: Surprise has gone from clunky to amazing. Chris' hat size has increased by threefold over the last few months.😂
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  17. hollowneck
    Aha! time traveller Bob must have a Sassanach and a Bairn waiting at home, whatever the century. Congratulations Maurice, you've done your typical amazing work with Harpy. Another aspirational, top-drawer Build Log.
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  21. hollowneck
    Pray tell, does Topman Bob have a twin brother I could convince to jump ship?
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  24. hollowneck
    Another planking tip, one I use: drill a tiny "starter" hole for the planking pins, this helps minimize the effort to seat the temporary pins. This is a lot more work but well worth the effort IMHO. You'll end up bending many fewer pins as well as fewer expletives! In some areas of the planking where the tension wants to push the plank from the bulkhead I also drive the pin(s) flush. This helps insure there is better contact while the glue dries. HOWEVER - I have a pin pulling plier tool that can grip the flush heads of the pins to extract them. The tip of this tool will make a slight indentation in the wood surface around the pin's head, but so what? This only works for the first planking where small impressions from this extraction process will be covered. The small marks around the holes will also be filled-in once the filling and sanding work commences.
  25. hollowneck
    Thanks for the clarification, Chris. A nice touch to furnish both black and white decals for the carriages.
  26. hollowneck
    Jim, Nice post on the gun assembly details. I'm curious about the yellow color you've chosen for the carriages. How do we know that they were painted this color for the Surprise?
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  28. hollowneck
    Looking excellent, Maurice. Indeed, the ecstasy of toiling with ratlines awaits you. Suggestion: you can avoid this task by simply threading and weaving more sweeps between the shrouds...you've got a good start on the port foremast!🤣
  29. hollowneck
    David, Please don't forget to create an album for your personal gallery with an active link at your signature; your completed photos are well done, sir!
  30. hollowneck
    Beautiful work. I've come to your Build Log quite late, but as one says: "Better late than...."
  31. hollowneck
    "Bollocks! That rigging bloke is as thick as two short planks!"
  32. hollowneck
    ..like more 3D pear blocks.
  33. hollowneck
    Two bags worth just ordered (and some other 3D gubbins)...
  34. hollowneck
    Very nice detail work on your rigging, Maurice. Thank you for sharing these techniques.
  35. hollowneck
    Excellent. I've added a number of your 1:48 pear wood pins to my latest model. My scale is 1:64, but the 9mm ones don't look terribly out of scale. However, as soon as you've stocked the 7.4mm in pear wood color I'll jump on my next order! To see how good Chuck's new 3D belaying pins look I'm attaching a close up of my just completed HM Cracker gun brig. Keen eyes will note that adjacent to these pins are slightly smaller ones with rigging lines tied off to them; these are the smallest available (old school) brass ones: I paint these guys brown. I also use them because I have been paranoid that tying-off to the resin ones might be problematical with taut rigging lines. I'm anxious to see if the smaller 7.4 mm ones will hold the belaying line tension and not break. AND – your new 3D swivels look wonderful. A tip: I apply a light dusting of metallic weathering powder to black 3D resin (as well as some P/E parts) to create a more convincing metallic finish. The plastic modeling guys use this stuff everywhere. The photo here also shows this effect on the carronades and the straps on the gaff jaws.
  36. hollowneck
    A problem, for sure. But – a good one to have.

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