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BANYAN

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  1. As with everything you do Gaetan, you strive for the highest standard you can achieve; your dedication certainly shows in the quality of your models (and photography) - impressive. cheers Pat
  2. Very nice work Greg, you are showing some excellent detail (and talent) with this model. Those nets must have severely restricted ship's speed when deployed? cheers Pat
  3. You've made some significant progress G.L.; it is all looking very good. You must be close to finishing now? cheers Pat
  4. Some good progress made there Steven. I will be quite interested in how yo age these 'filler repairs', have you any ideas on that yet? cheers Pat
  5. To echo Druxey - Magnificent! That rigging is a masterpiece of execution. I very much look forward to your next volume of the series. cheers Pat
  6. A very nicely faired hull Keith; this will certainly give you the nice solid base for the planking you were after. cheers Pat
  7. Nice design Dave; that will be a very nice case - what is the wood BTW (or did I miss that)? cheers Pat
  8. Thanks Patrick - I am sure I reserved a special place of punishment with my 'oaths' when doing these small pieces cheers Pat
  9. Jeffery, a little later than what you need for your period build, and Gregory for info, the only formula/rule-of-thumb I have found is for clippers (I knew I had seen something somewhere in my reading ) . E. Armatage McCann in his series of articles published in the Model Ship Builder magazine (originally in the The Ship Modeller magazine), titled "Rigging of Clipper Ships" - part 3, page 10 provides: "The steeve was 4 to 5-inches to the foot" using the length the bowsprit extending from the bed to the cap. Note this was for clipper ships of the 1850s. cheers Pat
  10. Thanks for the feedback and confirming my thoughts Rob; much appreciated. Now I just have to settle on the final positions but I will leave that until I am well into the rigging plan. cheers Pat
  11. Hi Rob, this is being built at 1:72. I just noted an error in the build title, thanks cheers Pat
  12. Now that's the way to 'get back into it' - double whammy it great to hear you sounding enthusiastic about it too Mark. cheers Pat
  13. I didn't think these old salts were that well dress-coordinated Stunning detail Michael, I love the brass lamp. cheers Pat
  14. A silver lining can be found in everything (well almost), glad you can get some 'bonus' detail from the rebuild. cheers Pat
  15. She's looking great Ben, you must be pleased to see her taking on some of her 'finish' now. cheers Pat
  16. I am glad you asked as I seem to have gotten myself confused (reading far too many books at the moment while sorting the spars for my build). I am building a Gun Despatch Vessel steam-screw sloop which had an Aberdeen style bow and the steeve , when measured from the horizontal of the WL, was 15 degrees. It was Goodwin "The Construction and Fitting of the English Man-of-War" page 174 that provided the guidance I wrongly attributed to Underhill (memo to self - check before posting next time ) - basically, 25-30 degrees for ship-rigged vessels - smaller classes closer to horizontal. I dare not state more as this book is still in copyright and, sorry, I will need to check with moderators how much can be cited re copyright. I used underhill to get averages of the steerve angles, and angles of the caps for the 1850s, as he has many accurate drawings of clipper ships of many designs; hence my subliminal association. cheers Pat
  17. No problem Marco, hope the info helps. WRT kinks, sometimes they are caused by one of the stock/source threads not being at the same tension - one of the most important things before starting to twist/turn is to ensure that all stock threads are equally tensioned. cheers Pat
  18. Thanks Eberhard, that clears up my separate query to you cheers Pat
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