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    Very neat and well constructed Dave. What is the pegboard constructed from? At first I thought it was a dust suction/extractor but the pegs do not fall through - a neat idea for constructing/assembling these types of items. cheers Pat
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    Ditto
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    Nice work, they turned out very nicely Rusty cheers Pat
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    Very nicely faired there Gaetan, great work as usual! cheers pat
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    Hi Dave and thanks for looking in. It is great to see you back at your Endeavour also - some nice rigging detail you are achieving. You will see some dramatic change to Victoria soon as I have been busy making lots of small parts and preparing the hull for its' coat of paint cheers Pat
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    Very nice work Amalio, nicely rigged carronades. cheers Pat
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    Some very nice detail there Dave and very clean rigging techniques. i especially like the mast collars at the partners. cheers Pat
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    Great info Ed, and you were very meticulous in your work - would never know that they had changed. I will need to watch for similar lead issues when i get to the rigging. cheers Pat
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    The yards came up well Rusty, nice work. cheers Pat
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    Thanks Bob, those 3M products look great. cheers Pat
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    Great progress; she is looking very grand Dan cheers Pat
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    Nice work Jason, those bitts and the manger look great. cheers Pat
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    Frustrating indeed Ed, some surprises for the future when someone xrays or takes a peek inside She is really looking good with more of her finery added. cheers Pat
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    Ditto! Very clean well executed rigging. cheers Pat
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    Great to see you back in the shipyard Dave, glad to hear you had a ggood trip. cheers Pat
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    A very practical and useful jig, thanks for sharing cheers Pat
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    Hi Neil, very early in my Endeavour build i followed a recommendation to paint the bottom of my hull with bitumen. I acquired a small can of the bitumen based undercar preserving compound and applied it as was. It looked great and really simulated the 'brown stuff' used on the hulls before white stuff really well. It dried reasonably well but as Druxey states not completely. Then along came summer and you can guess what happened, it MELTED and went all over the base etc. Lesson learned, I scraped it off then tried to remove the residue with turps etc but the liquid part of the solution had really penetrated the wood. the end result was an unexpected really pleasing outcome as it applied a very nice patina to the walnut planks. You can see the difference in the following photo. 1. Don't apply as bitumen! 2. Look for smaller quantities in the under car body/chassis preservation compounds . cheers Pat
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    Good luck with the move, they can be quite stressful. Looks like you have moved your models Ok - quite the collection you have. cheers Pat
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    Thanks for looking in Denis, and the kind comments. cheers Pat
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    Extraordinary - what a whopper of a ship! Very nice work Gaetan, I look forward to your detail work. cheers Pat
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    I am sorry I missed this so much earlier, a truly inspiring build. I very much like the detail being applied; artisans at work :). cheers Pat
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    Hi Elijah, yep genuine copper They are at correct scale of 1:72 and the sets come pre-stamped for port and stbd sides so you can get the pattern correct. They are from AMATI I think (I will have to go back and check). cheers Pat
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    You have been busy Greg; some nice detail there. cheers Pat
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    Thanks for looking in Carl, Ed and Jason, much appreciate the feedback. Yep Carl, a 'tad' fiddly at 1:72 but if I can get half as good as Ed at it I will feel I am starting to accomplish Thanks for the tip on using the vise Ed, I'll give that a try. I am also going to give the 'jeweller's mitre' I have a go. Using the same technique of nipping off just above the face plate and peening with the mitre jig held in a vise with the face facing up. I hadn't thought of that until your timely input. I also need to go back through your work again to refine my polishing technique; I am still not controlling the 'piece' enough and it moves while filing - I think I need to get a better small vise Thanks Jason, appreciate these comments after seeing your meticulous work. As this is a 'club' build, I find I am often trying to repair/improve on some of the 'finish' applied by others - but in this case the copper sheathing plates were applied by a fellow club member (his first attempt at doing coppering) and he did a great job - I just needed to tidy up after cutting the holes etc for the pintles and glue back a couple of plates I dislodged in the process cheers Pat
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    Hi folks. Some further progress on the rudder which is now ready to hang. Below is the process for making the pintles which was made by first soldering two telescoping tubes of copper together to get to the right size for the leading edge of the rudder. This thicker walled tube was then soldered to the the copper plate which was then cut on my hobby saw to the right strap thickness. The was pintle was then shaped on a former to the same thickness as the rudder blade. The photo with the raw materials shows the telescoping tubes with the smaller being the same size as the mating hole in the gudgeon. The photo showing a near complete pintle (still to be drilled) and gudgeon shows a nice tight fit - the pintle still has cleaning of the solder to be completed. Everything is made of copper except the nails I used to simulate the rivet heads which are brass. i tried making some small nails but have yet to refine/improve my technique (based on Ed Tosti's method) and really need to make a jig for this. With my nerve issues I find I cannot hold the wire in a plier with grovve as Ed does. These turned out okay as shown in the completed rudder, which I will hang after painting the rudder head and fitting the strap and eyes to accept the emergency chains and shackles. cheers Pat

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