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  1. Bill97
    Ok gentlemen I think my bow is finished. Looking at a couple of my photos zoomed in I see I have a bit of loose tiny pieces of gold leaf to remove but other than that I think it is alright. There is one thing I noticed that I am not sure is a serious issue but want to get your opinion. Things comes under the Kentucky proverb “don’t change horses in the middle of a race.” I top coated the gold leaf on the bow with a different product than I top coated the stern. One is Vallejo Gloss Varnish and the other is Testors Glosscote. I liked working with the Vallejo product better not realizing that the finished product would dry with a slightly different hue. The Testors dries with a little more old gold appearance. The Vallejo dries almost crystal clear. Look at the side view and see if you think it is noticeable enough to try to fix. Especially once all the rigging and sails are in place. If necessary I could dry brush some Testors over the Vallejo on the bow to sort of age it a bit.
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    Excellent information gentlemen (some of which I understood 😊). I will pass your comments on to him. Hopefully they are helpful. If he has an additional question or two about the subject I hope you don’t mind me asking. And Javelin, thanks for your comment. Very much appreciated.
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    Have a question my friends. It is a bit off the topic of my build so maybe I should make it a new MSW topic question. My son-in-law is a high school math teacher. He teaches those upper level math courses like trigonometry and calculus, which thankfully I never took and know nothing about. Geometry was my niche. Several times while looking at and talking about my ships he has contemplated out loud how these crews of the past must have used trigonometry (probably was not called that in the 1700 hundreds) to plot there course across the vast seas they sailed? His thought is to use these real world examples as teaching tools.
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    Back home from the beach. Long drive yesterday. Wife and I decided to punch through and do it in one day. At our age with creeky old bodies we usually like to plan to stop driving after about 6 hours. Yesterday we were anxious to get home so acted like young kids and pushed all the way through the 11 hours. Great vacation with two of my incredible grandsons. Peeked in the “shipyard” when we got back. All is well. Too late and too tired last night to risk doing anything on it. However, the lovely wife needs to be out most of the day today so guess where I will be? Woo Hoo! Back to my SR. Going to focus on finishing up a lot of the cosmetic work around the bow.
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    Oh no Ian this would be for my wife if I get it. Looks pretty fun. Heading home and to the “shipyard” in the morning. All goes well I should be back tinkering around with my SR where I left off some time Sunday.
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    Would love to find that puzzle! Putting puzzles together is the wife’s entertainment while I build my ships! 😀
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    Ian, hope you and your family are safe and not in danger!
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    Marc I have been thinking about you as I am seeing on the news the air quality issues there in New York because of the fires in Canada. Hope it is not causing you or your family very many problems.
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    While I am away from the “shipyard” I am of course from time to time peeking in on MSW and reading other builds. I see different opinions on mast construction and wonder what a little debate about the subject might reveal. I see some build the entire mast to include the yards off the ship and then drop it into place and start adding the shrouds. Others build the mast off the ship, drop it into place, then add the shrouds, and finally the yards. Others work their way up from the lower mast. First installing the lower mast section and then its shrouds, then the next section and its shrouds, then the next section and so on. Then finally installing the yards. I have done it all three ways over the years without a sure fire favorite. What is your favorite mast construction sequence? Will be coming up on that in the next month on my SR and will need to decide my plan of action.
  10. Bill97
    Spent a great afternoon exploring the aircraft carrier Yorktown in Charleston harbor. Very interesting the life of sailors on these incredible old ships. To think modern day aircraft carriers are so much larger.
  11. Bill97
    Thank you so much Robert. Everything you added will be extremely helpful. You may become my new best friend! 😊. Which Soleil Royal kit are you looking at?
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    Thanks Robert. I have ordered the OcCre Endeavor and it is on the way. I did not need it yet but ModelExpo had a fantastic sale on it so I had to grab it. The box will set on the shelf tempting me. Will read through your build frequently now with eyes toward the day I will start it. Please feel free to send me any thoughts and recommendations in advance that I will file for further reference. Thanks again Robert Bill
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    With these few issues successfully tackled I am going to close up the ship yard for a week and send the workers home for a short vacation. My family and I are leaving tomorrow for our annual trip to the beaches of South Carolina to spend some great time with our feet in the sand, swimming in the ocean, and enjoying some great low country cooking. Be back next weekend anxious to get back to my Soleli Royal. I admit I will still frequently check MSW for interesting conversations that I most likely will comment on from time to time.
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    The glue has dried and everything seems to be holding n place!! Woo Hoo. Now to clean it all up, put the catheads back in, and touch up a butt load of paint. Also while waiting on the glue to set up I started tinkering with the deadeye strop prototype. A little solder and blackening and I think this first part of chains will work.
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    Ok they are glued in place! Fingers crossed all the glue points will hold when clamps released. Will definitely be a good bit of paint touch up over the entire area. I noticed there are even curved areas on the back of each to work as glue points to the round houses.
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    In theory now I have it. Now I just need to make it reality when glue joins the party! Marc my catheads were off a little bit. Do some repair work on the deck and beakhead bulkhead then see if I can glue this puzzle together.
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    Thanks Marc. I immediately see I need to make some adjustments to mine. I did not realize the catheads are to set on top of the head of the figurine. I have the support corbels set in very close to the steps. I need to move them out further and turn the cat heads out more. Looks like a bunch more paint repair ahead of me 😞
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    Marc do you have photos of what you did posted to your build? If so I will look to see what you did. Bill
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    Henry I also looked back a good ways into my build and remembered Daniel (Dafi) has a pretty good tutorial on making chain plates. Hopefully with your’s and his I can do a pretty good job of making the chains. Now that I have pretty much wrapped up the stern (except for the lanterns and cannon hatch covers) I am moving back up to the bow. Installed the cat heads today and the two round houses. Had a little unfortunate glue squeeze out where the catheads are glued to the deck. Removing the squeeze out resulted in a little deck paint damage so I sanded it out and applied some undercoat to the bear plastic. Hopefully with a little patience I can touch up the paint to where it is not noticeable. Marc I don’t know if you have experienced this yet but I think you might. Back earlier in my build I followed your lead and put a second rail and lower panels in the rail at the top of the beakhead bulkhead. Not realizing that when it came time to install the catheads they needed to pass from inside to out along the bottom of the rail. I simply cut out the far left and right extra rail sections and panels, cleaned up the rough cut edges, and installed the catheads and (corbels?) under the catheads. Some touch up painting a little later and this step should be good. Of course I will not be surprised if you guys respond back that I did the catheads completely wrong thus my issue with the rail 😊.
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    By the way Henry I am now spending a great deal of time reading and rereading through your section on making your deadeye chains. I will be begin practicing making my stropes and chains fairly soon.
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    Great advice Henry. I have painted them already the dark mahogany that is prominent at the bow of the ship but have since about sanding it off and painting it the same blue as you plan. Will see what fiddling I have to do to get a solid strong mount.
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    Ferrus that is the exact book I used to build my HMS Victory. With Ian as my class professor and Longridge’s book as the designated text book for his class I learned so much 😀. Primarily used the last half of the book on rigging. I still have the book and use it often for reference. Honestly just the other day when we were discussing the need to move the knightheads on my SR I pulled Longridge’s book out to refresh my memory on what the lines are you were referencing. I have wondered how similar in rigging French and English ships were during that period? It would be great to be able to use Longridge’s book again as reference when rigging my SR. I also have Anderson’s book.
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    Henry how did you treat the back side of these two guys (paint I mean). Did you paint the back to match the front even though the moldings are not present, or did you paint the back one solid color? Also do the top ends attach to the sides off the bowsprit or do they just flank it without being attached? I am moving in that direction and I am wondering if I need to go ahead and install the bowsprit first. These guys also need gold leaf.
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    I am going to need to look ahead to the rigging area to refresh myself on all the rigging terminology and steps. I got pretty knowledgeable while building my HMS Victory using Longridge’s book and Ian’s excellent advice. Hopefully looking back at all my reference materials, when the time comes, will be helpful.
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    Ferrus I am about to get an umbrella with all the rain you’re bringing 😀. I am afraid the main knighthead would be most difficult to move at this stage in my build. Not a lot of work room and I distinctly remember the base of the main knighthead spreads out below the deck and was captured between the two deck halves when they were glued together. Would require a rather large hole in the deck to get it free. I will probably just have to tap dance around what ever happens here during the rigging to make it look OK. In other news I added all the statuary on stern and finished all the necessary paint touch up. Now to go back and add some highlight gold leaf and the stern will be complete except for the three lanterns I will add near the end of the build.

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