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Sorry to hear this Kevin and we know how you feel as we in the same situation with now with our Belle who has tumours, the vets likewise are all for operating, but we have like you decided against it for the balance between quality of life and the suffering she would go through is not right we feel, as tough a decision as it has been for us. 
Totally understand and support your view, shows the depth of love you have for your little friend. 

They look very neat! 

Nice shelf collection, that would be years for me to build and fill those shelves. 😆

5 hours ago, jpalmer1970 said:

Your intricate rope work at this scale is very impressive !

Agreed! 🤯

The other thing to consider is if you are going to rig your cannons. I have found out the hard way it is easier to rig them off the model than on. So you could leave the eyelets off until you rig them (if you are). I made a little jig to do the cannon rigging on my Trial and @Thukydides has really good posts on his Alert build log on his process for pre-rigging cannon. 
Agreed opening out holes in bulwark sides is a bit fiddly, but slow and steady usually works out. 

1 hour ago, jerome said:

Gorgeous!

Absolutely, so glad you dusted this off Craig and finished her in all her glory!  

11 minutes ago, Scottish Guy said:

Living in a small fishing town is just what calms down my brain and myself, even if the tourists can be annoying sometimes lol

 

Micha

Apologies, hell I must of been one of those! 🤣

Hi Micha,

Welcome to MSW! 
I have fond memories of the far North coast, we had many family holidays in the Durness and Balnakiel bay area. 
 

Good luck with your next project, hope you do a build log. Vanguard Models do a couple of really nice Scottish trawlers aimed at beginners  

Thank you for sharing your insights and learned techniques for working on such small ropes. I am definitely going to try an emulate your work on my Trial when I get time to return to it. 
One solution I have been trying for fixing rope is “Matte Medium” used for acrylic paintings, it dries clear and has a matt finish. So far it has not left a white or flakey residue. I have got Liquitex branded, a small bottle to experiment with. 

That is looking sooo nice Craig! 

1 hour ago, James G said:

Good luck! I have this book as well and this is one I’m considering for my first scratch build too. Am very interested in following your journey. Thanks for sharing.

As do I and will also be following your progress, good luck. 

Great looking cannon and carriages. I made the same mistake with the quoins on my Trial. I think I got away with it for heights, but it would have been better for spacing them all at the same height in the ports if I’d waited until fitting the cannon to the deck. 

I’m having a few days off work at the moment, we are staying in a little East Coast town called Filey in North Yorkshire.  
There is a plaque on the cliff top in the town, hope you can read the text, also a couple of pictures of the bay for those interested taken this morning, the last picture are the cliffs of Flamborough Head where the battle took place. 

That is really good, as others have said this is exceptional at 1/64 scale. 

That looks great Simon, good luck with the post window fitting renovation/decoration works. See you the other side! 

Great progress Dan, I agree on Chris’s interesting subjects. I got Adder as it is so unusual. I have been tempted by Caldercraft’s Convulsion before, but Adder, or Sparkler in my case scratches that particular itch. 

Hi Dave, I’m also door gun carriage rigging on my Trial and found this thread very helpful.

 I am going to show one half of my build with cannons stowed and one ready for firing with crew. 

Looking good Dave, that is a lot of work with the improvements you have made to the gun carriages.

Hi Simon, yes I did pre-shading of some planks so the white wasn’t uniform. I also did some waterline “grunge” but initially over did it, so put a light coat of white over it to make it more subtle. From a distance it just looks like light shading, only close up do you see it is mucky green to simulate algae. 
 

Hopefully not too much for you to do. Hopefully in a few weeks we will back on with our Trial builds. 
Solid start you have made. 

Good luck Bob and get well soon. 

Wonderful build Dan, think your presentation pictures at the end are really good. 

9 hours ago, CDW said:

Hi Dan

 

Don't worry about a thing. I enjoyed learning more about the original, factory finish on this aircraft by everything you shared with me here. Thanks and don't hesitate to contribute in this way to any of my build threads. 

 

And likewise, thanks to you as well, EG. You are a storehouse of knowledge on so many subjects we model, and I always look forward to you sharing that information on my build threads.

Also apologies for setting that particular Hare running! 🐇
A half remembered detail I recalled about Mustang wings. But I did know the folks here on MSW would know the details.

Seems modelling with painted and stripped bare metal is fine if you can get the evidence for your particular kite and what happened to it in the field. 
Love the knowledge out there in MSW! 😁

Once again Dan you are blazing the trail for us slow coaches. Looking forward to seeing you build this one, next on my list after Trial. 

Hi Simon, good to see another Trial log started. Mine stalled at the moment thanks to the Admiral’s latest DIY project!