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  1. Tony Hunt
    If it wasn't for the missing deck I would happily go to sea in this boat.
  2. Tony Hunt
    She's looking fantastic Pat. I love the detail of all the fittings.
  3. Tony Hunt
    Beautiful.
  4. Tony Hunt
    Are you in Sydney Peter? I'd love to read them, happy to return them when I'm done. There used to be a racing yacht in Sydney named Kickatinalong, regular Sydney-Hobarter for a while. Any relation?
  5. Tony Hunt
    The pearling luggers used the same trick. it must have been quite a business drying all the interior out afterwards.
  6. Tony Hunt
    Wow, they're marvelous. I hadn't seen them before. They certainly confirm the schooner rig, don't they!
  7. Tony Hunt
    A good thread never dies. And I wasn't here a year ago. 😁
  8. Tony Hunt
    I suspect you're right - she came to Australia in 1842 as a survey vessel and served until 1859 at least. She remained in Aussie waters though, and was sold in 1876 to serve as the lightship marking the Sow and Pigs, a very well known patch of subtidal rocks right in the middle of the fairway at the entrance to Sydney Harbour.
  9. Tony Hunt
    Hi Craig, fascinating thread. One Lapwings near-sisters, HMS Bramble, is also of considerable interest to Australian maritime history (as you probably know), she served a long time on the Australia Station and did a lot of survey work in tropical waters. Bramble Cay on the Great Barrier Reef is named after her. Interestingly, the NMM in Greenwich has a plan showing her rigged as a schooner, and the ANMM in Sydney has an 1849 painting by Oswald Brierly showing her in the Louisiades, also rigged as a schooner and a close match to the NMM plan. But the Greenwich NMM also has a painting reputedly showing her rigged as a cutter.
  10. Tony Hunt
    Looking good!
  11. Tony Hunt
    Ab, thanks so much for this. You've opened up a window onto a whole genre of modelling I knew nothing about. A fascinating and informative tutorial, and the end result is a wonderful model. Thank you!
  12. Tony Hunt
    It really is amazing.
  13. Tony Hunt
    Wonderful, I love these models. Great to see one of the vessels documented by Xavier Pastor being built, too. How did you plank that round stern?
  14. Tony Hunt
    I wonder about the planking stock you are using too. Quite apart from the wood species (some being bendier than others) if it is 0.5mm thick it may well be peeled veneer, rather than sawn veneer. The problem with peeled veneer is that the peeling process (imagine a giant plane) creates a "tight" surface and a "loose" surface. The loose surface contains lots of transverse micro-cracks, which might increase it's breakability.
  15. Tony Hunt
    It really is. I struggle to make full-size furniture that nice!
  16. Tony Hunt
    I'd be genuinely amazed if a vessel the size and complexity of a 74 was built in Tasmania (or anywhere in Australia!) in that period. It would have been a landmark achievement, yet I've never heard of it, and I'd like to think I'm fairly familiar with Australian maritime history.
  17. Tony Hunt
    I don't think pressing the "like" button really does this justice.
  18. Tony Hunt
    If you were in Australia I would have suggested Camphor Laurel. If it is it would have a very distinctive smell. Try lightly sanding a corner, quite a few woods (including walnut, I believe) have a diagnostic smell when cut.
  19. Tony Hunt
    Interesting perspective Keith. That's really why I was asking. I found 1:96 scale to be too small and fiddly. Not far beyond that I expect you are starting to use miniaturist techniques, where you "suggest" a fitting rather than making a replica of it, and it sounds like you are starting to hit that barrier at 1:120. I agree that at 1:72 you have to put in most or all of the detail (as you do at 1:96 in my experience if it is to look right), I was wondering how tricky that is. Pat' suggestion about using techniques like Photo-etching are good, I haven't tried it but it obviously makes sense.
  20. Tony Hunt
    Thanks Pat, that's kind of the impression I was getting from watching your build log (and some of the others too - I agree there's some extraordinary artists here). I'm just in the planning stages for a model of a quite-similar ship and had pretty much settled on 1/72 as striking the right balance between large enough to make the detail work practical but small enough that I won't need to build a new wing on the house to keep the model in; so I was interested to hear how you were finding working in that scale on a comparable ship.
  21. Tony Hunt
    Surely the ANMM would let you come in and take it home for a couple of weeks?
  22. Tony Hunt
    Hi Pat A lateral question - how are you finding the 1/72 scale to work with for a model of this type? You seem to be achieving a wonderful level of detail.
  23. Tony Hunt
    Oh my gosh. Jewelry!
  24. Tony Hunt
    Hi Stephen, welcome to MSW from a fellow Sydneysider.
  25. Tony Hunt
    Fascinating and inspiring. Thanks!

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