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    Easy for you to say Glen, me thinks this is more experience and good skills coming to the fore. You will really have to look outside-the-box to find a real challenge for your next hull build ... and BTW, the craft looks great in its setting - very nice work indeed. cheers Pat
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    Hi all, the method I use is based on the 'square' idea but utilises a jig. I make the jig as a triangle with a flat base that sits on the deck. I then cut the leading edge to the correct angle have set that up with a protractor; the angle (or straightness of the trailing edge does not matter. I glue/tack a small slat on either side of the leading edge forming a channel within which the mast sits - but I also do not glue the mast in. This cradle of sorts holds the mast in the correct alignment while I place the major standing rigging that stabilises the mast. The jig is as thick, or slightly thicker, as the mast itself. I usually make this from scrap wood (preferable something stable such as MDF) but it does not have to be very large; typically, a base of 2-3", and about 4-6" high I find is more than enough, and it remains small enough to extract it though the gaps in the rigging - note that I have usually fitted the upper masts off the model before this. I tack-glue a bit of scrap material (usually plastic) to the base that has been shaped to conform with the side of the inside of the bulwarks, or other fittings keep the whole assembly centred on the centre-line and aligned correctly. This done of thin material and tacked only so that it can easily be removed/separated from the jig for its removal. I hope this all makes sense? I then level the model in my building base (if not done earlier) by placing small bubble levels on the deck and adjust as required. Once level, I secure the hull in the building base. This method allows me to have the mast at the correct rake and also minimizing the chances of it being moved too far to port or stbd. Just an idea for an alternate solution.
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    Wow Glen, those sails came up a treat mate; very nice. cheers Pat
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    Great to hear stage/phase 1 of your op has progressed so well Keith. Those frames already show the nice lines of the vessel. Ditto John, very mean, but I know that 'requirement' very well cheers Pat
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    Very nice indeed; a very nice little side project Steven. Suggest the sails as a Christmas present? cheers Pat
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    Looks great Vlad, nice job on the rigging. So, if you wish hard enough, or leave the appropriate enticement, the Christmas elves may find time out of Santaa's workshop to finish it for you cheers Pat
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    Looks great despite its best efforts to thwart you Glen. Hopefully still enough room in the neck to get your masterpiece inserted? cheers Pat
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    Ha, would I do that? You had me worried when I opened your latest update. Before reading the associated text, it was a case of - Woa, what's Glen doing with snake skins Thankfully only leaves/bark. Great idea for preserving them. Looking forward to seeing them in situ; they will really set it all off. cheers Pat
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    Very tidy work John, she's looking great. Great to hear the proposed new project will probably go ahead. cheers Pat
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    Nice job on those braces Steven, they came up a treat - they look very symmetrical. cheers Pat
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    Glen, are you sure you haven't confused this with another site? Just askin..... Pat
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    That's always the way isn't it Glen? Probably natures way of ensuring we don't get to complacent I suppose Anyways perhaps worth another tot? Now where is that keg? cheers Pat
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    Wow Glen, that is very nice work at any scale let alone at the eye-watering scale you are working with. I think that deserves a double 'tot'. cheers Pat
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    I haven't commented on this build earlier Greg, but i have been lurking and watching this build come together. You have become a real whiz with PE; some really nice detail you're adding in this (re)build. cheers Pat
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    Nice work Vlad; looking good. Not too far to go now. cheers Pat
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    Oh you guys! You lot have it all wrong - it is Aus that is on the right side of the sphere; not strange at all See told ya: Why sit indoors, be cold and all rugged up to celebrate Christmas? The above picture from Keith A says it all (well except for a celebratory drink in hand). While I am on the subject, for years you guys have also got it all wrong WRT Santa's sleigh. It wasn't flown with reindeers, but rather with 'boomers' (yeah the sound they make when they bounce off the ground ); the only problem is they end up making for a lot more road maintenance BTW Keith, turkey on the Barbie is 'delicious' mmmm mmm. cheers Pat
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    Very nice work Glen, really starting to come together now. I think the turned down leading rails also look the part - good choice. cheers Pat
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    Thanks Mark and Bruce, appreciate your kind comments. Keith (LOL), love the out-of-the-box thinking. Also helps with mixing the nightly cocktail I feel I am getting better each day, and once I have finished all the delayed Spring chores and summer maintenance, I hope to devote much more time to the model - hopefully very early in the new year. In the meantime I am still tinkering with how to make those tops 'come-together' and sorting out some much neglected fixes in the workshop (mainly dust collection). cheers Pat
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    Thanks for good wishes Keith B, Keith A and John, much appreciated. It was a light dose John but it has had some lingering effects WRT lethargy Pushing through that seems to help - have to avoid sitting down in the 'gobble-up' chair in the afternoons or I find myself dozing. Now to get on top of these darn 'tremors' - sometimes I spread more glue over the desk than on the piece. cheers Pat
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    LOL - love this banter - and, of course your skills on display in the build Glen cheers Pat
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    Those figures and the ballista will really set the upper deck off Ian; looking forward to see them in situ eventually. cheers Pat
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    Good to hear the first one went well mate; best wishes for a successful second op. Watch out though, the improved clarity may show some things you would prefer not to see (like wrinkles etc) cheers Pat
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    Thanks Rob, much appreciated. Updates are slow as just as I was getting back into it I came down with Covid (first time) and now trying to catch up on all the spring chores before Christmas. I hope to be up to speed and back into the workshop after Christmas. cheers Pat
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    Great progress Glen (wish I could report the same). Neat solution to connecting the hulls but still able to pass through the mouth of the bottle. cheers Pat
  25. BANYAN
    Good luck with the eye surgery, as you say quite a routine thing these days. Hope the recovery is fast and brings the desired results. cheers Pat

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