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BANYAN

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  1. Photos not showing for me - I am using Chrome with Win 10 OS
  2. Nice job Jim, the plating looks great. cheers Pat
  3. Nice joinery Ben, your attention to detail is obvious - as Greg says, pity this work will be mostly unseen in the future - but we know it is there cheers Pat
  4. Really nice work Dan, nicely detailed. You do have those techniques mastered now, as this stage seems to have taken you a lot less time. cheers Pat
  5. Hi Ben, If you think the boatman won't be operated that often after building, then make life easy for yourself and use the current elbow. The decision is one of aesthetic over function; normally I would choose function - but your statement about limited use sort of sways me the other way. From what you say it seems it will be more of a static display than an RC/powered model so the aesthetics may be slightly more important in this case? Good luck Pat
  6. Very neat finish to your rigging on the davits Michael, the new davits look great finished. Pity about the additional damage to the LBs. I am sure the 'amateur' repairs will bug you; I just hope there is not too much of it? cheers Pat
  7. Nice OC - watch those hairy sticks, they're like rabbits and multiply very rapidly - and the shedding .... cheers Pat
  8. Matelot; I not sure about the period of cover you point out - I have Underhill and his descriptions of fast sailing ships etc, while biased to later rigs etc, does also cover the 1850s onward. You just need to break out the differences between wood and steel hulls, and then read closely to break out which period he is discussing. cheers Pat
  9. With the second option proposed to you earlier, rather than passing the thread through a naked flame, I have had success running fuzzy thread over a very warm to hot incandescent bulb (I find an 80watt bulb works with the cotton I use) - I simply draw the thread from one side to the other so that about 1 inch /25mm of thread is in contact with the bulb. With poly-cotton you may need to draw more quickly and do NOT stop/pause otherwise the thread my melt cheers Pat
  10. Interesting technique you are proposing Gaetan; I will follow your experimentation closely. A stable wood would certainly help with the hull. cheers Pat
  11. Hi Greg; just found your new log - very interesting subject it is too. Nice work so far, lots and lots of minor details on these 'beasties'. cheers Pat
  12. Nice deep rich colours in your latest JIM cheers Pat
  13. Great to hear your health is improving Mark; some nice progress there. cheers Pat
  14. Another very useful lesson for me; thanks Ed. That rigging is looking very 'tiddly'; the skipper would approve! cheers Pat
  15. Good to see you back in your new shop Michael, and that all your models appear to have made it safely in the transfer. I have missed this project so looking forward to more of your posts. cheers Pat
  16. Welcome back Gary; nice to see your build of Albert again. I like that bench too! Good to hear that you're on top of your health issues. cheers Pat
  17. Thanks for the feedback John; that is some very nice 'smithing' on the metal parts. I am also coordinating a 'club' build but I don't think the quality of our work is up to your efforts. cheers
  18. Thanks for the feedback guys; much appreciated. Eberhard, if I can't find it anywhere, I may have a go at making that solution; thanks for the 'recipe' Edit: Is this it Eberhard? Available at Hobby-Lobby Modellbau, cheers Pat
  19. Nice work Danny; you are achieving very good results from microscopic parts. The items you don't know but think maybe sights ... perhaps foot pedals. I know the Bofors guns had pedals for controlling 'traverse' cheers Pat
  20. Thanks Eberhardt, I will need to look for some of that as it sounds very useful. Do you have a brand name I can look for please? cheers Pat
  21. Nicely done Russ. With time at a premium, you do what you can when you can - you have not compromised your quality. cheers Pat
  22. Coming on nicely Ben, seems like you have the 'paws' of approval cheers Pat
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