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thanks Brain, no they don't, that wasn't something I had in mind, taken so long to get here its just an on/off switch.

thanks

Colin

now for the rice pudding....

thats about it, I need to wait for the gravel to dry before I add the barrels, then onwards and upwards.

good everything still works...onwards then.

Hi everyone, after some time away from model making I have found the time....(hope to hold onto it for a while)

anyway after starting our own backyard allotment plot and now eating the fruits of our labour I can relax...remind me not to have so much chilli's;)

onto the cross section..pictures.

a base from scrap wood, stain and beeswax..

...more on the next post.

Thanks for the comments,

Slog, yes it does have a full hull, only I chose to do the waterline.

druxey, Yeah I've always used a scalpel, number 10a all the way:), wow your a SE London lad then..ha, I was born in Lewisham, grew up in the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, moved and lived for some years in Eltham (Well Hall) and now I live in Welling. Its has changed....a lot.

Thanks Tim and Andy, I helps me also get into work on a cold Monday morning, knowing that I want to do this or that on the model, and yeah if you get a ships door in your order you know where it came from..ha

Its slow (time is limited) but this is exactly what I want it to be, absorbing and therapeutic..at work?..cant be bad.

Colin

Hi, just wondered if you would like some picture I took of the wonderful cutty sark just last week?

I have quite a few, some really good.

Hi, thanks for the comments.

With regard to your painted finish, was the paint sprayed/airbrushed or pot and brush applied?  I do like the finish that you have achieved, I presume a flat varnish has been applied on all the painted surfaces?

 

The outside of the hull was painted but some talc was added to reduce the shine (so no flat varnish), inside the ship no varnish was used, only basic stains, in fact 2 stains were used, the first to get a foundation dark oak effect, and once dried lightly sanded back, then  a more richer stain was used and once again this was lighty sanded back. Finally I used dark oak beeswax, this was rubbed on and buffed to the result you see on the model.

thanks

thanks Tom and grant, oh and Tom, I am watching your build as well even thought Ive not posted on your thread 

postman has delivered some resistors..now the fun starts.

Hi Yves, it only contains a stubbed main mast, so you could add your own.

Thanks for all those great comments, I had to delete a few post as it seems I had duplicate post, no idea why that happened.