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Tony Hunt

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  1. Tony Hunt
    Those ventilators are really wonderful. In fact, the whole model is really wonderful!
  2. Tony Hunt
    What a magnificent model! Guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any French captain! 😀 Great photography too, as Glenn notes.
  3. Tony Hunt
    I really admire the way you have reconstructed this vessel in the absence of actual plans. Great work. And your construction methods are novel and fascinating.
  4. Tony Hunt
    I love your builds, Steven. They are so interesting, archaeology in action!
  5. Tony Hunt
    On the topic of museums, I recommend a visit to the Naval Museum in Madrid if you can get there. It still has a superb display of models of all types and sizes. A wonderful place.
  6. Tony Hunt
    Great problem-solving exercise, and a very impressive result!
  7. Tony Hunt
    I know! When I first saw them, I assumed they were images from a 3D drawing program!
  8. Tony Hunt
    PM your address to me and I'll put a couple into the post for you to try, if you'd like. 😀
  9. Tony Hunt
    Wow! What a wonderful artefact to find while walking along the beach looking for seashells!
  10. Tony Hunt
    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!
  11. Tony Hunt
    Looking really good Craig! The hull looks nice and fair.
  12. Tony Hunt
    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.
  13. Tony Hunt
    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.
  14. Tony Hunt
    Wow Pat, they look really good. So tiny!
  15. Tony Hunt
    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.
  16. Tony Hunt
    I love those winches. And the rest of the model too!
  17. Tony Hunt
    It's an Australianism Craig. Don't worry, it's a sincere compliment.
  18. Tony Hunt
    Who needs a real boat when the model is this good? 😀
  19. Tony Hunt
    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!
  20. Tony Hunt
    Welcome to MSW! I hear it's pretty warm in Phoenix at the moment.
  21. Tony Hunt
    Lovely model and and a wonderful piece of research to get all the details right.
  22. Tony Hunt
    Welcome Igor. I'm looking forward to seeing your models.
  23. Tony Hunt
    An absolute masterpiece. What a pleasure to watch you do your magic, Greg!
  24. Tony Hunt
    Aha, thankyou. It is planked on the mold, and then it just lifts off. Not really any tumblehome on the hull. Ingenious!
  25. Tony Hunt
    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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