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  1. Papa
    Samuel Morrison in his Columbus biography writes. “ the ships' bottoms of that period were "covered with a mixture of tallow and pitch in the hopes of discouraging barnacles and teredos” so if I can figure out what color “tallow and pitch “ would be I’ll be historically accurate.
  2. Papa
    that sounds like a plan
  3. Papa
    I have decided to finish my Santa Maria kit that I put aside more than 20 years ago out of frustration. My biggest issue now is that the wood on the lower part of the hull is very blotchy. I made several messes with the planking and did a poor job staining which I then tried to correct by bleaching and sanding it out. My question is: would it be appropriate to paint the lower hull an off-white. The Mini Mamoli kit of the Santa Maria shows the lower hull painted white. All the other models I’ve view are natural wood, but that just isn’t going to work. I purchased the kit at the 500 anniversary of Columbus’s voyage in 1992! Ron Gove
  4. Papa
    Thanks. I should have said the “windlass”. A capstan is quite different😬 I will blame it on just turning 77!
  5. Papa
    A word of advice, learned the hard way😬. Drill out and install the hawse pipes and mooring ports BEFORE installing the windlass assembly. They are very much in the way. Second lesson: Remember all those laser cut parts you looked at when starting the kit. I forgot the knees for the windlass were already made for me! I scratch built them. Good experience i guess Perhaps I should have made notes on the plans and instructions about all those parts.
  6. Papa
    Finished the capstan
  7. Papa
    More progress. Another companion way and the capstan.
  8. Papa
    You could add plastic wood. I did that successfully on an old Model Shipways kit.
  9. Papa
    US addresses only please so I don’t have to go to the post office thanks.
  10. Papa
    TAKEN. Any want this? Send me your address and I’ll mail it free of charge. Otherwise I am trashing it. wife and I are doing what the Swedes call “death cleaning”
  11. Papa
    “As I'm genetically unable to simply build a kit as provided, I'm trying to build her as USS Thatcher DD-514, as she appeared” i have the opposite problem. I have trouble building a plastic model as intended.
  12. Papa
    Cooling tank is in.
  13. Papa
    Awesome work at that show. I was particularly impressed by the dioramas.
  14. Papa
    The work bench is finished. Now I’m working on the cooling tank.
  15. Papa
    Finishing up the workbench/chicken coop
  16. Papa
    ”Your work is a great inspiration for me. Looking forward to your build log entries. Keep up the good work. ” thanks for the nice comment John. I appreciate it very much. Ron
  17. Papa
    Almost finished the tryworks. Waiting for the paint to dry on the doors.
  18. Papa
    I’m not sure if I like this base or not. I may end up just getting a regular wood one from Model Expo. The map is a strip from an old whaling map showing where to find various species.
  19. Papa
    Inserting the tryworks pots is a bit of a challenge. They are wider in the middle than at the top lip. So one cannot simply cut a hole and drop them in. The photos show my solution.
  20. Papa
    I am constructing the tryworks now. The bricks are an embossed sheet of HO scale bricks. One gets the mortar lines by painting with a white or grey and then wiping the paint off. A residue remains in the joints and gives a pretty good look.
  21. Papa
    Thanks. I had to toss 2 tries before I got this one. I thought about leaving the door open and doing some inside detail, but it was hard enough getting the outside to fit.
  22. Papa
    Fitting the crews head. It’s just about right. Needs to be painted. Man was that a ##$$&f**&$ job. Cut and fit cut and fit cut and fit....
  23. Papa
    I fished the little companion way and built up the bow sprit bits. I wanted to make sure the bits were positioned properly so I roughed out the lower part of the bow sprit to rest fit.
  24. Papa
    Anyone want to make an offer on the Spray?
  25. Papa
    I have started the deck furniture.

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