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  • Birthday 07/20/1952

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  1.    tom kinglake reacted to a gallery album: Oseberg Viking Ship - Billings - Scale 1:25
  2.    Gord-Canada reacted to a post in a topic: Russian brig Mercury by tom kinglake - Victory Models - scale 1:64
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  5. tom kinglake
    I haven't done any work on this brig for months now, for all sorts of reasons, but now it's time to get back to it and sort out a few obstacles so that I can get back into the swing of things. First of all, can anyone offer some advice on this one please? The Mercury kit provides 2mm and 1.6mm thread for the main and fore stays and their respective preventer stays. At 1:64 scale, this represents 128mm and 102.4mm diameters of rope in real size, or about 5 inch and 4 inch - i.e. nearly 16 inch circumference stays and 12.5 inch preventers on both fore and main masts.
  6. tom kinglake
    Hi Robster I didn't use a stain on the deck - it's just a clear acrylic (satin matt) varnish. I did use a stain on the bulwarks - an acrylic oak colour, varnished afterwards - but I'm not too happy with the slightly patchy finish. Still, stuck with it now, unless I decide on a fairly drastic re-painting job after all. Also used a dark walnut stain on the capping rail, and on the lower masts. None of them came out quite as well as I had hoped. Strangely enough, I was thinking just before you posted your question of taking a few more photos of this brig this afternoon - I wanted some
  7.    mugje reacted to a post in a topic: Russian brig Mercury by tom kinglake - Victory Models - scale 1:64
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    Looking good. Months have gone by since I did anything on my build (Mercury brig) - maybe I'll get round to posting something before too long.
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    As far as I remember, I glued the extensions to the bulkheads when I was making Granado - you're sure of a tight fit if you do that - and they broke off easily enough when needed (I used pva and clamped the gunport patterns on), although some sanding was needed to get the last of the glue & wood off. I would rather use pva for this job - you have to get the fit right, and CA can grab too fast too allow this. As advised in the instructions, I used CA for most of the 2nd planking on Granado, but for Mercury I've gone over to pva, using CA only to stick the plank to the stem an
  22.    tom kinglake reacted to a post in a topic: HMBV Granado by Vane - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
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  24. tom kinglake
    Yes, the colour variation in walnut is a problem. Even similar looking pieces can change colour slightly when varnished. Another worry I had while aiming at a bare wood finish for Mercury was the effect that glue marks can have on untreated wood: whether using CA or PVA, if you get glue on the surface of the wood (and it's impossible not to), it won't take the varnish (or dye) properly at a later stage. So to try and avoid this, I varnished all the planks that I'd selected for the second planking before I glued them on. This seems to have worked fairly well so far.
  25. tom kinglake
    Very nice looking wood work - congratulations. I'm trying to get a similar effect with my Mercury brig at the moment, using only a minimum of paint when necessary. I white painted my Granado below the waterline, but wish now that I'd taken more care at the 2nd planking stage in order to be able to leave it visible.
  26.    tom kinglake reacted to a post in a topic: HMBV Granado by Vane - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
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    f Quite a time since I posted anything on this log, so here goes... First of all, the above pic shows what happens if you don't read the instructions properly! I should have planked the stern counter before starting the second planking of the main hull - why I didn't remains a mystery - but now as a result I have two unsightly gaps to deal with, not to mention the rather crummy looking join of the hull planking with the stern. Oh well. Getting the deck installed. The clamps worked nicely, the map pins not so well as some of them have left scratches on the deck where the lower edge o
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    Congratulations, Chris - superb piece of work. And what a fascinating looking vessel she is!
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    Congratulations on a really superb piece of work!
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    Fantastic work! the detail you have achieved is incredible, especially considering the small scale of this model. Some years ago I tried my hand at the Trumpeter Tsesarevich kit, but after a struggle (just spelling the name was hard enough), I abandoned it. Looking at your pictures makes me wish I'd kept at it, though I doubt I'd ever have got near this level of skill!
  31. tom kinglake
    Second planking finished! (well, except for the little bit at the stern). Now for some fun.
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    Pegasus 6351 4
    Fantastic! a really impressive piece of work. Congratulations, from one Pegasus builder to another!
  33. tom kinglake
    Hi Glenn I was looking at your Pegasus pictures only this morning - terrific build, many congratulations! Same for Granado. Granado was my first (recent) attempt, Pegasus came straight afterwards. My brig Mercury is coming along, but at the moment I don't feel quite as enthused about it as with the others - not yet, at least. The other day your pictures of Lady Nelson made me start thinking that I might have a try at that kit for my next... Best wishes, Tom.
  34. tom kinglake
    Hi Mark, Exactly the same happened to me a couple of weeks ago - I coppered the entire starboard side of my HMS Pegasus, didn't like what I had spent 2 days doing, and pulled the lot off again in half an hour (used a pair of thin nose pliers). I found that removing the glue residue was possible, though quite hard work, but for the time being I put on 2 coats of acrylic paint (matt white plus yellow ochre), which before long can come off again when I get round to completing the sanding down of the rough parts of the surface (in the meantime, the roughness gives it quite a convincingly wo
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