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Beautifully done, Don!  Congratulations on finishing your Winchelsea!!  I’m looking forward to seeing Cheerful come together.

Beautiful work, Siggi!  Those carpenters really made a lot of progress on the quarterdeck beams!  Your model is a joy to follow.  Enjoy that 17 degree rainy weather.  We were in Orlando, FL a week ago, dying from weather in the high 30s all week!  

Beautiful work, Chris!  The level of detail is outstanding.

It looks like you're off to an excellent start, Fred!  I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on the rigging.  I'm also really interested in seeing more of your ship's boats.  

That looks great, Gary!  I've been working on chapter 9 as well and agree that not using CA was a good choice on the timberheads.  I didn't use any glue on the railing, either.  Just friction and the paint holds it in place.  But I don't think it's going anywhere.

11 hours ago, glbarlow said:

made the order to Crafty Sailor for the quoin handles (actually belaying pins) does that count.🤣

I used the exact same talent on mine!

Glenn, they look great to me.  What do you mean about the wheels being over sanded?  When I read that, I was expecting to see rounded edges, but they look nice and square.  Also, did you make those perfect looking quoin handles?

This is stunningly gorgeous, Karen!  You have so many amazing carvings!  

1 hour ago, glbarlow said:

Where’s the fun if we don’t break stuff and have to fix it.

3 hours ago, scrubbyj427 said:

I broke all the same pieces as well! They are very fragile and snap very easy.

Thanks, JJ and Glenn.  I'm glad to know I'm not alone in breaking stuff.  Sometimes I feel like I should go back to my old hobby of making ochre paintings on my cave walls.  Model ships might be too sophisticated for me.

On 6/3/2023 at 1:09 PM, scrubbyj427 said:

Currently the sculptures are being finalized with the figurehead of Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting already being produced, I should be able to post updates on the stern carvings in a couple months.

 

I am going to try and offer both resin and boxwood sculptures for this project, I haven’t been able to determine the cost of the full set yet but it shouldn’t be outrageous.

JJ, how did you make that beautiful figurehead?  I was just looking more closely at it and it looks so amazing.  I'd love to know a little about the process you used.

I’m nearly done with chapter 9 and want to show some of my progress.  As you can see, it hasn’t been without problems.  I broke the forecastle rail on both sides.  I’ve repaired the port side, which broke at the third timberhead opening while I was sanding the edge.  The starboard broke the same way, but got much worse while I was trying to finish the installation.  It was back together and then came apart while I was trying to slide the rail into the right elevation.  I’m going to let the glue dry on the timber heads and then fix the railing.  I’m pretty sure I can fix it and hide the repair.

That looks like a fantastic trip!  I’ve seen the Rhine River cruise ships in Cologne and thought it looked Interesting.  I hope you have a great time.

11 hours ago, ccoyle said:

BTW, which version did you get, Flying Tigers or RAF North Africa?

Mine is the Flying Tigers version.  My main airplane interest US WW2 fighters.  I have a couple of plastic kits on the shelf.  This kit looks great and I’m thinking about ordering one.

This looks amazing, Chris!  I'm really glad to see this kit.  Based on seeing your other card airplane models, I bought a Halinski P40 kit with the laser cut frames and the canopy option.  But when I opened it, I was totally intimidated by it!  I love watching you build yours, though.

This is very exciting, Mustafa!  It looks like you're off to an excellent start.  I really enjoyed your Essex build.  I will click the Follow button on this one.

That's amazing progress!  I'm so glad you persevered through the frame 25 problems.  I'm looking at the template issue and it looks like the 3d image shows either a notch for the sill or the sill and template occupying the same space.  Are the deck clamps made for you or do you have to cut them out of wood stock?

This looks like such a great kit!  I'm going to pull up a chair and follow your built, Brian.  I'm looking forward to watching it come together.

This looks like an excellent project, JJ!  I’m very excited for you and looking forward to following your progress.

Glenn, I’m really sorry that happened and I hope you recover quickly.  Your build is coming together beautifully.

Congratulations on your amazing model, Rusty.  It has been a great journey and I've enjoyed watching your progress.  It has also been great to be in this group with you.  I'm looking forward to seeing how you display this beauty.

Well done, Rusty!  That looks great!

I really struggled to find the area that you painted black.  Do you mean between the molding and the grating?  You did a fantastic job of it and I can imagine that it would have looked weird if you hadn't done so.  That had to be some tricky masking and painting!  It looks amazing, Rusty!  You've done a fantastic job.

3 hours ago, scrubbyj427 said:

 I messed up on the edge colors, they shouldn’t have remained bright. I can live with it though. 

I think that would have been really hard to accomplish.  You would have to either really carefully sand the edge, or really carefully not paint it.

She looks fantastic, JJ!  I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about the channel color configuration.  What would you have done differently?

Your head rails are beautiful, Rusty!  The last two grating slats look like they will be tricky.