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See... there's your whole problem.... regardless, you should have kept up with the flowers... that way when you REALLY do something "wrong" (like buy a 1:64 model Victory or something)... she's not going to get suspicious at all....- 1,873 replies
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Not to hijack Remco's thread, but if Royal Shipyard has no plans to produce those kits, it would be nice if someone with the resources could buy up the CAD drawings and re-jig for laser cutting and start making the kit again. Andy
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I never mentioned a piano...... (that was Augie).... Do you think you need a piano? I'd be careful with that ping pong paddle near the vase... wouldn't want to break it and have no place to plant your "spare wood" flowers... Or flowers you could buy for Anja, for that matter...... Andy
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I think he's already there.... remember the second lobbsie twin? The M&M boat? Then there's that trawler thing.... oh yeah... let's not forget the infamous and enigmatic "multi-build" dun dun duuun...... (that's supposed to be "ominous" music... ) No... he's just teasing us with these kit builds.... trying to make us think he's still "one of us"
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Didn't Sjors mention, he put them in a vase or something? I wonder if they've flowered yet.......
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The easy part is over... Time for the tough stuff Looks great Andy
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Yeah... It's going to be "fun" the hull... Easy... Modifications to the superstructure....no problem... Scratch built unloading gear.... I'll get back to you on that one...
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The kit is already waiting at the hobby shop for me to pick up....after I get home.... in December..... I hope.....
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Ah ha! Now that's what I call an improvement... Now I don't feel so bad about pointing out the old rails... Knew you'd come up with something even better... Whew
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"I swear.... it looked a lot smaller in the catalogue" Hooo Boy! Are you in for some fun with that one...
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Yeah.. I'd call that a cowl vent.... Too bad we can't get these old-time photographers to take better photos these days.. Andy
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So have the posties been good to you today?
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On occasion I have been known to pass out..
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I'm thinking so too... since you don't see any cowl vents for air intake for the boilers. Andy
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She looks great, the wales and upper works look brilliant. Andy
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The gun tackle probably would have been cast off after running out the gun. Like you suggested, the recoil would destroy anything heavier than the breach rope. Most modelers do capture this detail, in that they try to have the gun tackles hooked onto the truck, rather than seized. The more I think about it, the more I feel that the whole idea of hot guns "jumping" more than cool ones is simply Georgian literary hype. Hollywood is not the first to go about exaggerating for dramatic effect. Andy
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I don't think you're as likely to get a squib on a smooth bore, muzzle loading canon, they are more likely on breech loading rifled guns with prepared charges. Not saying they're impossible, just much less likely In a muzzle loader, if the gun crew failed to notice the logged ball in the bore initially... as soon as the sponge and worm where sent down the barrel, someone would surely notice something was amiss. And even if they didn't, another loaded charge would sit in front of the lodged shot and might fail to ignite altogether. As for your other two forums.... I can't access the first one and the other... nicht sprechen... sorry... Andy
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I'm wondering if in the sources that make this claim, there was not some literary liberty taken in the name of adding extra drama to a situation....
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A lot of rope will stretch naturally under load. That is not a sign of imminent failure. Even natural fiber ropes do have some elasticity and will regain some of their shape when the load is removed. I'm sure breech rope renewal was fairly frequent, and it would not have been that hard. Run out the gun and lash the tackles, replace breech rope and retract the gun. Andy
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And if anyone has any doubts... put a large heavy-ish weight at the end of a moderately long rope, shock load it (ie go from slack to fully taught as fast as you can) and watch the craziness happen.
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A sledge hammer and a concrete wall.... Who could ask for a better way to spend an afternoon Andy
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I think you also need to look at the physics of the breeching arrangement... Through the breech ring (above the centreline of the gun), down to an eyebolt and ring on the gun carriage (way below the centreline of the gun) and back up to an anchor point on the bulwark. In tension, the rope will want to straighten out as much as possible, resulting in a downward force on the breech of the gun, and an upward force on the carriage, the result is a torque about the breech of the gun, making it "jump". Anyone who's fired a pistol (or seen on fired) is well aware of upward swing of the barrel after the shot has been fired, the recoil is directed to the shooter's hand through the grip which is below the barrel. Same thing as above, only smaller scale. As to whether hot guns jump more than cold ones.. I think it was more to do with stretching of the breech rope, which would allow the gun to recoil further, (thus being able to develop more momentum) before being checked. Andy
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I'm just emerging from under a cloud of bean dust... what'd I miss?
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Excellent work... you're just flying through the rigging! Amazing what you've done on such a small scale ship..... would really like to see what you could do with one of a larger scale! Andy
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