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Your last three pic's Robin are just fantastic and do love the boxwood gratings 👍 Regards Richard

Just catching up as well Wally your details and gun rigging is brilliant well done 👍 Regards Richard

Beautifully executed Keith 👍 love it. Regards Richard

Hi Gary thanks very much for taking your time to look at my build and your very nice comment, feel the same regarding your build as I have said do like to make small details, and have another update soon Regards Richard

You have captured the deck house as per the pictures this will look brilliant once installed 👍 Regards Richard

Hi Len, thanks for finding out shipping costs and as I said in PM, book should go to someone in UK. All the best to you Regards Richard

Hi Len I would like to take the book Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War 1650-1850 by Peter Goodwin - ISBN 0-87021-016-5 - $25.00 British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Rif Winfield - ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4. - $15.00 Shipping to Vancouver Island Canada Regards Richard

Should have said semi scratch build but it was a lot of fun building it thanks Keith Thanks for pointing me to Gary's build you were right when you say master of the ship weathering, I think master of building too Thanks very much it's coming along slowly Regards Richard

Blimey 12 pages of brilliance, very crisp and highly detailed scratch work and then to boot all the fantastic weathering boy does that bring out the model 👍 my bad for not looking around more. Regards Richard

It was great to hear all was Ok your side of the pond and it was a very nice update Keith Regards Richard

You have got a very nice start Justin are you going to try very small tree nails instead of lead pencil in your mock up. Regards Richard

Very nice update Wally guns look very sharp 👍 also like your pictures shows your work off very well. Regards Richard

Wow, stern looks very good Mark 👍 Regards Richard

Hi Michael, a bit late to your build, but all caught up now and lots of likes, do like all your scratch work to date and you will be looking forward to your progress 👍 Regards Richard

Robin that does look very good and just the right amount of weathering to bring out all the details thanks for showing. Regards Richard

Wow Wally you have done a brilliant job very nice indeed 👍 Regards Richard

That does look brilliant Tom very nice work 👍

Hi Robin like the jig you made up for the rope coil, but just wondering if it would be better to get some nice looking rope instead of the nylon stuff which comes with the kit 🤔 Also what length are your belaying pins? kit supplied on mine comes with white metal and I want to buy some brass ones. Regards Richard

Hi Per thanks for looking in and commenting on my build, I do love to highly detail my models and it has taken a few years to get to this stage, and I do agree with you regarding learning from others, have learnt from many 👍 Welcome to MSW Paul, look around the site and you will see a lot of amazing builds going on and please do not be intimidated by what I or others make, as I said to Per I love to figure out and make detailed pieces. And thanks very much for your kind comment. Totally agree you have to have tools to make parts as I do, but also have the knowledge to work the tools and this comes by practice, practice and more practice and a lot of patience Weathering does bring out the model and have done it on plastic models but have not seen any done on wooden ships 🤔 so will have to experiment on some old parts which I have made before trying on the Bluenose. This is what I did to my 1:24 scratch built Jeep, was worried that I put to much weathering on it but I think it came out not to bad. Regards Richard

Block looks good to hold wood from not moving, but I use feather boards bought from Micro Mart, I cut a piece of Blood wood to slide in grove, used a counter sunk screw to hold, I find I do not get any kick back, and they work great also it gives you both hands to work with and feel how the cut is working and last I use a push stick once it goes passed top feather board just another way of ripping planks. Regards Richard

Thanks very much Keith and your build is absolutely exceptionally good as well 👍 Hope it helps you in your build Richard Thanks Robin did make with a few knocks as I see in the pictures, still thinking of maybe doing a bit of weathering Thanks Michael that is very nice of you to say Love the metal work as well Joe, but also I do love doing the woodwork isn't it a great hobby You are right Richard the kit supplied white metal parts are not up to par which is a shame Thanks Mugje Thanks a lot mate just trying to get it to look right really. Again thanks for your comments and to everyone for the likes Regards Richard

Couple of small updates starting with the guard to go over the windlass gears, does not look much but I suppose it stopped fingers/hands or rope/chain from jamming 🤔 Sheared .003" brass sheet bent to shape and then soldered the top bracket on, was just a little short so soldered a small piece to the bottom, after that drilled four .011" holes so that I could add some .4 mm Philip screws, will blacken it later. Next up was the windlass brakes so started with the brake beam used this picture and drawings provided to come up with the shape, machined the base out of 1/8" sq brass bottom is .014" and sides are .010" then made the beam out of 3/32" sq brass, drill the hole for the mount first then machined the side stiffeners after that I filed to shape, filed ends so that I could fit 1/16" sq tubing these were cut to .098" long and then soldered to each end also cut a piece of tubing and that got soldered to the mounting hole, once this was done I cut the small reinforcement bar at each end were handle will go from 3/32" brass tube and soldered them on and gave it a go clean up. Made the small brackets for connecting links from .10" brass then made a jig so that I could soldered them on Held it down so nothing moves and bingo it worked Will blacken it later, pic with kit supplied part Next up is to make two of these ratchet quadrants then shackles and links Thanks everyone for all the comments and likes much appreciated until next time. Regards Richard

Its the Bluenose 1921 do have a log going, thanks for the comment 👍 Regards Richard

Way to go Wally great stuff going on 👍 Regards Richard

I like the supple deference's between the Benjamin W. Latham and the Bluenose Joe, and very nice details on your cabin 👍 Regards Richard