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Beautiful work Peta, also your pictures are wunderbare quality..... Nils

Fantastic ornamentation Doris, The best I`ve ever seen on a model..... Have a nice and enjoyable Christmas with your family Nils

verynice progress Geert, I wish you and your family a pleasant Christmas time... Nils

Doris, your work is fantastic, its a pleasure to follow.... Nils

Beautiful work Dan, its a wonderful model ! Nils

Lovely Toolmaker`s work Michael, you`re doing a fantastic job !! Nils

Congrats Bob, a great looking Boat..... Nils

A very good looking plating job Svein Erik just a question, how thick is the carrier copper tape you have chosen ? (without paperback, without glue film) Nils

Excellent rigging and sail making Peta, wunderbar ! Nils

Thanks for your interest in my "favorite tools" and for your greeting Steve.... Nils

So true Geert 😏...... Nils

Hi Pete, thats the impression, after the vacum cleaner was at work, you should have seen it before and an angry wife, just after a sanding and table saw session. All shoeprints all over the carpets ! Meantime I have received some blocks and cotton cloth for sewing the sails, brown and red, or will do two of the five sails in red. I still have some Morope for the bolt ropes Nils

Many thanks to Steve, Johann, Denis and Piet, also thanks to all the "likes" for looking in It must have been two weeks or more since I posted last, and your kind comments encourage me to carry on, the steam was a bit out of the kettle, and I do`nt realy know why.... Instead I spent some hours with my Trainz 2009 train simulator, a program I have on my PC. There is a favourate download add-on I have saved there, it is a historic logging line, down in breathtaking Murchison county, New Zealand. This is covering standard gauge- and narrow gauge tracks in mountains, over many scary wooden threstles over rough canyons with animated waterfalls, and along flowing rivers to get to the logging camps, with interactive log-loading and dumping functions. Best of all are (amoungst many other vehicles in the train park), the old geared puffing locomotives, like Shay, Climax, Heisler, etc. Steve, a very nice comment of yours, much appreciated. Yes, much is with hand tools, and because I neigther own a lathe nor a milling machine, I always have to evaluate how the job can be done altrnatively. With pleasure I`ll provide a little overview of my favorate tools in use....... (ref. to the enclosed pics) Johann, thank you very much for nice comment, much appreciated, am pleased you like the details... Denis, thanks for your nice comments, am pleased you like the details. I`m stuck a bit with the deck in the moment, but will groove myself in and carry on.... Piet, thats a very nice comment, and I`m pleased you like the workboat... Nils Pictures: I have a small room in our cellar which I use for rough-work cutting, sawing, grinding, glass casing assembly, and wood storage. The assembly work, designing, soldering, and finer fitting sub assemblies is done in my other, more office-like hobby room, where I also display the finalized models in glass casings this is very old kitchen furniture that could be saved from dumping many years ago, here are my favourate tools this table saw is my latest achievement, a birthday present of my son in Oct. this year this multy use sander is very much in use, and I ca´nt miss it anymore... for sharpening chissels and drills the small IXO Bosch Drill is very much in use, i`ts usualy for taking up hexogonal headed bits, and here also a bit for spanning small drills 0,5 - 6 mm for all purposes... further a a sander belt ( cost much less than a Proxon or so), but is a pofessional tool further two grinder / sanding tools for appropriate range of bits And of course the good old hand jig-saw odd plankes and dowels, bits of wood, ply bits and remaining plate rests, etc. are saved for future purposes.... also all sorts of brass profiles and tubes are saved drawings, design evaluations etc. are saved in card tubes

Nice build Pete, also the truck looks great Nils

I love the precision of your work Daniel, The wonderful framing work combined with top accuracy of your (single planking !! ) hull skin is high skill artwork Nils

Super build Dan ! those boats, rafts, davits and all those fine detail look great, very nice work Nils

Many thanks Pete and B.E. for your nice comments... also thanks to all the "likes" for pressing the thumb up icon... Nils

thanks for catching up Pete... I`ve been tied in with so many other things the last days, so the decking of the Zeesboot was cooking on small flame. Now on stb. are fitted the edge planks and the first regular plank, beginning from stern. It looks a bit untidy in the moment, due to the cured out CA used, because of the tensions through the curving, but sanding and scraping will be done at a later point in the process. I have to work around the flat brass members sticking upwards from the ply deck, and I have a good feeling that they are safely anchored to the supporting deck structures below. Caulking is done with a soft HB pencil Nils the blackened Fittings hold the shrouds, the ones momentarily still in brass hold the foot-rails leaving a horizontal gap to the deck, to hawse the overcoming water quickly the 3 mm wide edge planks (1,5 mm thick) are from beechwood, they come out a bit darker after varnishing, and the 3 mm wide deck-planks will be of 0,7 mm thick pine The little gaps in the deck, next to the brass fittings are closed with little ply bits

Thanks for showing your work at a early stage with aquarell paintings..... Nils

Well done Caroline Nils

Good work B.E., Those 29 mm barrels of RB look just right to the eye !! Nils

Very nice work Denis, Nils

it looks super Antti, nice lapstrake planking Nils

Good morning Pete, many thanks for your words, and your nice idea ref. to smoke and sound... much appreciated... I will save it up in my mind, just as for the oily cloth you once mentioned. My next activities will be to carry on with the decks planking, I`ve been postponing this for quite some time already, but need to "jump into the cold water now", before concentrating on rigging and sails Nils

Hi Pete, I have high respect for your wise decision to abbandon your "Bluenose project", after investing so much and enthusiastic input so far. Its a pitty at that scale that its probnaly too large for a full rigged stand-model instead. Do`nt be sad, you`ve gained a lot of experience down the way.... I would also be interested if there were a way (PC program or so) to determine in advance the max possible displacement (weight) for not exceeding the construction waterline. This would of course include an external ballast weight, to compensate the lateral point of the common sail area at tlting angle, for a RC sailing models. I saw a report of the rather large RC sailing pilot schooner model "Hesper" and all these thoughts came to mind..... Nils