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Matt D

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About Matt D

  • Birthday 03/21/1972

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    Commerce Township, Michigan
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    Building models of ships, airplanes, and rockets; photography; bicycling; scouting; skiing; boating; trying to fly RC helicopters

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  1. Here is the breast rail and ship’s wheel. The ship’s wheel is just sitting in place and has not been glued down, yet. I started by cleaning the uprights with 320 grit sandpaper, jeweler’s files, and a number 11 blade. Then I carefully adjusted the fit in the lower rail and the bottom piece of the upper rail. I made sure the fit was good before gluing the top and bottom pieces of the upper rail together. I painted the rails before assembling and then used a brush to apply wipe on polyurethane to the whole assembly after it was all together. I used a clear gel glue for assembling everything. I used an Emory board to adjust the fit of the uprights to the deck. I pinned the breast rail at the outboard uprights, hoping that gives them a little bit better bite using medium CA to attach the railing to the deck.
  2. Thank you for your nice comment, Kenny. You’re starting at a great time, because there are so many members at various chapters. This is a very helpful group. I hope you have as much fun building yours as I am having with mine.
  3. Hi Kenny. I don’t know anything about your conversion process, but if it involves the print function, you will need to make sure the scale is set to 100%. Read my log for a tale of whoa and despair over that error.
  4. Hi Binchicken. Thank you so much for commenting on my build log. This was my first wooden ship model. I picked it after seeing several great build logs on MSW.
  5. Thanks, JJ, Glenn, and Rusty. And thank you for the likes. Happy New Year! I’m working on the breast rail and not quite ready to show any pictures of it.
  6. Welcome back to my Winchelsea build log. Once again, I’ve neglected it for several months. I’m working on chapter 10 and have finished planking down the center of the quarter-deck. The outboard planks were very challenging, and I’m pretty happy with my results. I did manage to screw up the binnacle to the point that I’ll be reaching out to Chuck for a new one. And I think I will leave it bright to match my capstan. I’m now starting to clean up the breast rail uprights. This will take me a while because I plan to leave them bright like Chuck’s.
  7. This has happened to me in the shipyard many times! Your lobster smack is looking great so far. And I really like what you did with the stand.
  8. Chapter 3 is still one of my favorite parts of this whole project. The stern and q-galleries are spectacular and were so much fun to build. Cats are wonderful, aren't they? I found one of mine using Winnie as a bed right after I put the subfloor down in Chapter 4. I think that little bite mark on the transom will be completely covered by a molding. The one on the upright might be high enough that it will be cut off when you put the railing on in Chapter 10.
  9. Great video, Allan! Thank you for sharing.
  10. Hi Archie. Modeler's Sawmill is a good source for the wood, and they can mill it all for you so you are ready to go. Their quality is outstanding. Here is a link to the wood packages page of their site: https://www.modelerssawmill.com/wood-packages.php. This was not available when I started my Winchelsea. I began by milling my own strips. They came out just OK. When I needed more to complete the gun deck. I ordered from Modeler's Sawmill and I wished I could turn back time to have them mill the strips for the hull planking.
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