Tony Hunt
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Hi Pat
Five feet apart does seem to be a lot for the eyelets, although Victoria was a fair-sized ship and the sailcloth and boltrope would be reasonably heavy grade materials, I'm sure. I'll have to take a look at the photos myself 😀.
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Hard to believe that's a kit. Fabulous.
- chris watton, mtaylor and BobG
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Making gratings - the eternal challenge!
- thibaultron and mtaylor
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There's also a 1:400 card model available https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221896517945
- Canute, mtaylor and thibaultron
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That's looking really good Steven. It looks to be about a foot long? It will be a very striking model when it's finished.
- Louie da fly, mtaylor and BANYAN
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That's a nice drill set up you have Pat.
Which piece of tubing did you end up using - looks like the thick-walled one?
- BANYAN, mtaylor and Keith Black
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That's really interesting. It looks like gains might be a relatively recent innovation.
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Thanks Dick, interesting. It does look there aren't any gains on those planks, although it is a little hard to be sure from the photos, as you say.
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Fascinating! That's going to leave a nasty mark when it hits the side of your ship!
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Vladimir, your model is looking really impressive. REALLY impressive!
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Druxey makes an interesting point about the "gain" at the ends of the plank making the overlap of the clinker planks disappear as they approach the stem and stern posts. It raises the question about when the practice of using gains was first developed? Did the Vikings use it on their ships? It's way outside the date range that I'm familiar with for shipbuilding practices, but someone must surely know.
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12 hours ago, yvesvidal said:
I really like the shape of that ship. Greg, you do such a fantastic work: it could easily pass for the real thing !
Yves
I was thinking the same thing. If it was a waterline model, I think a photograph would be indistinguishable from the real thing. Amazing work.
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Incredible, exquisite, too close to perfect to be able to tell the difference.
- billocrates, mtaylor, Keith Black and 1 other
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Hi Pat, PM me your postal address and the job's done. I've got to go to the Post office later today anyway.
Cheers
Tony
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- druxey, GrandpaPhil, mtaylor and 1 other
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Hi Pat, I'll have a look through my brass bits collection later on today too. I surely must have something close to what you need.
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Yes, the colour in the middle looks good to me.
The whole model is looking incredibly good.
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Those belaying pins look really good Rob. At 1/96 they must be tiny - 3/16" at most? Impressive detail and consistency of shape.
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HMCSS Victoria 1855 by BANYAN - 1:72
in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
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Do any of Robert Kipping's mid-19th century texts on sails and sailmaking have anything to say on this subject? Unfortunately I don't have any of his volumes in my library.