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  1. Tony Hunt
    I'm watching with great attention Ilhan. Fascinating to see your solutions to the various build challenges. The propeller and its housing are wonderful.
  2. Tony Hunt
    Interesting subject! I look forward to seeing how the model develops.
  3. Tony Hunt
    C'est magnifique. Vraiment!
  4. Tony Hunt
    Looking good! Interesting choice of ship too.
  5. Tony Hunt
    Fascinating. I used to make model planes when I was a young boy, Airfix mostly - a long time ago now! I have to say the craft has come a long way since then. The amount of research material available on the internet is mind-boggling.
  6. Tony Hunt
    Quote > I tried winding it today. It's not ideal. It needs to be adjusted. < The chain, I take it? I'm guessing it kinked and tangled as it wound, too much "hole diameter" and not enough "link diameter" I suspect. The shackles and hooks etc you've made look superb.
  7. Tony Hunt
    That's looking fantastic Ken!
  8. Tony Hunt
    They look great Carl. Where are you getting the colour schemes from?
  9. Tony Hunt
    Wow.
  10. Tony Hunt
    The second and third images certainly look spalted to me.
  11. Tony Hunt
    Reflections on the first attempt to regulate the nascent pearlshelling industry along the north-western coast of Australia in 1875...
  12. Tony Hunt
    I wonder why Labedoyere was executed when many were granted amnesty after Waterloo? "The White Terror" after Waterloo was a pretty nasty time, it seems.
  13. Tony Hunt
    They are a wonderful series of photos for a modeller. Fascinating to look at what has changed on the ship (and amongst the crew), as well as what hasn't. The missing ventilators near the funnel are particularly striking, quite a major change.
  14. Tony Hunt
    Yes, I thought the same thing. The chain in use on most of the historical photos of small craft that I've looked at tends to be smaller links and much "chunkier". Often the two adjoining links almost fill the hole formed by each link.
  15. Tony Hunt
    Hi Pat I had the impression that stud-link chain was only used on much larger ships than this one? Looking through the pictures in Basil Greenhill's "The Merchant Schooners", I can't see any using stud link chain on their ground tackle. If you have a copy, Plate 79 has a particularly clear picture of the anchor windlass on the schooner "Result" (itself a later vessel and a fair bit larger than GEMMA) as an example.
  16. Tony Hunt
    A lovely picture of a Black-shouldered Kite and a rather unfortunate mouse that has become lunch. The counter mock-up looks good too!
  17. Tony Hunt
    This fleet keeps growing! Wonderful.
  18. Tony Hunt
    A masterpiece of understatement! 😀
  19. Tony Hunt
    It's come up looking great!
  20. Tony Hunt
    So true. Have you read "Endless Story", by "Taffrail"? It contains scores of tales of amazing exploits by the RN destroyer flotillas in WW1.
  21. Tony Hunt
    Wow, it's looking fantastic already. What sort of paper are you using for the shell plating? It's producing a really fair hull.
  22. Tony Hunt
    Those guns look great Pat. It's striking how a bit of really sharp detail - in this case he elevating screw mechanism - really lifts the impression that the whole piece makes.
  23. Tony Hunt
    It's looking really good.
  24. Tony Hunt
    Yes, these kits were available when I was a kid, so they've been around a LONG time! 😀 I doubt they represent the latest thinking on the appearance of these ships, there has been a lot of high quality research done over the past few decades.
  25. Tony Hunt
    Looking at your planking I don't think it would need caulking. I bet it wouldn't leak a drop!

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