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PM your address to me and I'll put a couple into the post for you to try, if you'd like. 😀
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Wow! What a wonderful artefact to find while walking along the beach looking for seashells!
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A ready source of boxwood for such figures is old folding woodworking rulers. I know some people think this is sacrilege (and perhaps it is) but if you go to the local fleamarket and find the guy selling old tools and other junk, he will often have some pretty beaten-up ones that are beyond their use-by date. They were made from excellent quality boxwood, too!
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Looking really good Craig! The hull looks nice and fair.
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She certainly got battered. It looks like Lively's gunners really concentrated on the officer country end of the ship if the depiction of the distribution of shot damage to the hull is accurate.
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Lots of great advice above, so many good choices. RED JACKET was a very handsome ship, there is a good article on a model of her in Model Shipwright magazine somewhere. COMET is also a great suggestion, I haven't seen a model of her (although I'm sure there is one). Another beauty is WILD PIGEON, plans are in Chapelle's book.
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HMCSS Victoria 1855 by BANYAN - 1:72
Tony Hunt replied to BANYAN's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Wow Pat, they look really good. So tiny!- 993 replies
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Sander thickness The Hog
Tony Hunt replied to AlainB's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I have a Vanda-Lay Hog sander too, it works fine. I bought a cheap Chinese-made hobby table saw at the local hardware chain, threw away the saw (it was terrible), and used the motor to power the sander. It's worked perfectly for many years. -
I loved MAGIC when I first read the story of your build of her with Jesperson. It's great to now be watching the model of her happening, so many years later!
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Welcome to MSW! I hear it's pretty warm in Phoenix at the moment.
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Lovely model and and a wonderful piece of research to get all the details right.
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Welcome Igor. I'm looking forward to seeing your models.
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An absolute masterpiece. What a pleasure to watch you do your magic, Greg!
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Aha, thankyou. It is planked on the mold, and then it just lifts off. Not really any tumblehome on the hull. Ingenious!
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I'm fascinated by your patented plastic mold, it looks really effective. But how do you remove the framed hull from the mold so that you can plank it? Can it just be lifted off, or is there some tumblehome?
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Harriet McGregor by Boccherini
Tony Hunt replied to Boccherini's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
It's really starting to look shippy, isn't it? Nice save on the mizzen top. -
It might be possible to get a more comprehensive response than that one, Steven, but I'd be surprised if it happens! Awesome work.
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We need an update, Valeriy! 😀
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It's a very nice model, well worth the time and effort for a good restoration. A very interesting and unusual subject, and it looks to have been well made. I agree that care is needed to avoid over-restoration. The deck is most unusual. Is it really paint? It looks like some kind of adhesive film that has a deck printed on the upper surface, that has now cracked and delaminated from the brass underdeck. I agree with Roger that it might be best to do as little as possible other than preserve what is left.
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Apologies for the thread drift Richard! Valeriy and I have taken this off-line, so we can now return to the scheduled program - your fine model of the SS Tamahine. It's looking really impressive.
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Hello Valeriy SS ARAWA and TAINUI really were magnificent steamers, claimed to be the most beautiful ships in the world at the time. The plans for these ships are held at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. They also have the builders half-model (in a mirrored case) although unfortunately it has suffered some damage, possibly during WW2. It's in storage, not on display. The plans (at 1:48 scale) are quite complete. I obtained copies of them (at considerable cost) for my father, who wanted to build a model of ARAWA. He started but didn't get far before he passed away, aged 90. The only problem with the plans are that the lines plan sheet is badly deteriorated and can't be copied. I got some photos taken and have redrawn them to correct for all the distortions caused by curling paper and parallax error from the photography. Please feel free to PM me if you're interested. Regards Tony
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I'm curious how you made the grommets. Are they just paint dots that are then drilled through? They look really good, anyway!
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