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Dan, maybe you can help identify the piece on this page with the bottom plates. It has no number and all the bottom plates 1-8 are present and accounted for. Also, followed your advice and am putting in some longitudinal braces
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I am finding that putting the bottom plates on is fussy work. Not happy with the first 2. Trying a new technique on plate 3. align and glue the center-line first. Then do the ends and sides.
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You have some nice tools!. I like the way you are taking time to get everything precise. There is a good lesson there!
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I followed Danny's advice and inserted some tiny brass "eye bolts" in the deck at the marked points. You can't see them in the photo
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"Height Adjustable Workbench" sorta.
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OH WOW!!!!! Thanks so much. Google gets a bit confused sometimes, and this is so much clearer. Thank you thank you
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Thanks. Generally google translate is doing ok. I just have to take the build slowly and double check everything
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I will scan the "directions" today. I have figured out that the tiny white spots are for rigging.
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Danny, Thanks for the advice. The plans aren't very detailed, but, the more I stare at them the more I see.
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OK, I studied the directions some more. A "W" indicates "cut". The W in the attached picture is about where one of the masts should be. I am wondering about the other tiny white disks. Are they to be drilled out for davits or rails?
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The instructs say to pre-drill the mast holes. It is not clear to me on the deck plan where the mast holes are.
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I finished the skeleton, except for the decks. The instructions say that the deck pieces are to be glued to 1 mm card but the schematics don not indicate this. (a "**" is attached to the part number if it is to be glued to a card; the deck pieces don't have this indication.) I decided to follow the written instructions and have glued them to a card. Hope it works out OK.
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If you do not happen to like Ferrero Rocher chocolates you can send them to me after unwrapping.
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Super job on the ratlines. I can't even come close to that level of perfection.
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They say necessity is the mother of invention. I realized the other day that the drawers in my work bench make shelves of different heights just right for rigging the ratlines on my Granado.
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yes, that is interesting. The State of New Hampshire once had its own navy and it has only 13 to 25 miles of shoreline depending on who is measuring.
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Your detailed pictures will help me a lot in building the SMS Helgoland. The instructions are rather terse and I have been wondering about exactly how things are supposed to go together and if I should add some wooden reinforcements. I see that you have done so. Thanks for taking so many great pictures.
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Full hull model. haven't made much progress--spending time with the Admiral at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. I have the keel pieces cut out and am cutting out and dry fitting the bulkhead pieces.
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YES YES. Please explain the building board. Ron Gove
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Back in 1968 or so Model Shipway's Essex was $35 at James Bliss in Boston. That was way beyond my means as a graduate student. I eventually managed to save enough to purchase the kit and I spent the next 40 years or so working on it--with lots of breaks. My point is, to some of us model kits have always been expensive. There is nothing new under the sun. Ron
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