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Great purchase David, the Petrejus book is one of my most referred to books. Armament looking very good.- 114 replies
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Welcome to MSW Joanne!
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Update for this evening, Cannons & Carronades rigged - phew! 🙂 I'm not sure I will be rushing to rig guns as small as this again in a hurry.... overall happy with the result, but there areas I think I could do better on next time. I've also started adding shot garlands, just simple rope triangles, as no fixed garlands/racks are visible on the plans. For a good discussion on the subject, this thread is worth a read. The shot is selected bird shot I have in a jar, there is a good assortment of sizes, so I could get pretty close for the scale shot sizes required. I have also replaced the belay pins with 5mm brass ones, I bought the pack Ron recommend, so now I have well over a hundred more of these to use in future builds. Now need to do some clean-up and remove the accumulation of dust and bits on the model. Thanks for the likes and dropping by.
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Will be following along, I have got a CC. Snake in stock that I have always managed to avoid doing for over ten years now, not sure this is going to help! 🤭
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Really neat planking Ronald, rest in peace Mugje! ☠️😆
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Firstly thank you everyone for your kind words and and good wishes regarding Belle and my recovery; taking it a day at a time, hopefully progress will be noticeable before too long! 😁 Back to the sadly neglected Trial! I have mostly been wrangling fiddly little blocks and trying to rig cannons/Carronades. So far done all the breeching ropes and about half the tackles. The eagle-eyed will spot that two of the Carronades are run in, these will be the ones that have gun crews around them, much later in the build. Also I have managed to take off the belay pin racks without too much damage; currently waiting for replacement belay pins that are more acceptable. - I don't know what all the fuss was about, I thought the "monster" ones would have doubled up nicely as cudgels/clubs to repel boards with! 😆 Until next time, thanks for looking in.
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Looking very good Will, nice lines.
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Nice work on the deck fittings, those pumps looks especially tidy, good idea to use square wood rather than dowel for the casing.
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Thanks Alan, Looking forward to seeing this come together, the sea looks very good. I’m back on MSW after an absence, won’t hijack your log here, the reasons are on my Trial log.
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Snap! - I will follow along also as inspiration to get mine started one day. great start.
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Hi Alan, playing catch-up on thread after being away from MSW too long, your seascape looks great, hope the redo on the paint work goes okay.
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If you start a build log with your Norden, you can tap into loads of help and advice. But looking good to me. 👍
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Hi Brian, good to see you progressing your Granado, sorry been away from MSW for a while, so playing catch-up. Looking forward to seeing those masts and yards added.
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Welcome to MSW! , also from North Yorkshire. 👋
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That is a very nice build, congratulations.
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Guilty as charged…. 😆
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Having had chance to trawl back through the posts on this I’m astonished at the reaction from some. Think of the possibilities, Chris has a few times teased that a Centurion might one day appear in VM’s range, where would we be if we did not have a variation of the scene in post #499 with Anson and Saumarez consulting a map? Please stick with it Chris, your VM customers will support, never mind the ones carping from the sidelines.
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Hi OC, been having a pleasurable time catching up on your brilliant diorama. Congratulations it is stunning.
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Agreed, that is so carefully done, really impressed, I’m enjoying catching up with your build log. 👏
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Another masterpiece Chris!
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Congratulations David, superb finish, does your Daughter take orders for Ensigns? 🤣 looking forward to seeing your Speedy log.
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Hi Dan, playing catch-up with your log, wonderful progress, a really smart finish, very neatly done.
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What fantastic progress you have been making Simon , really envious! 😁 For one reason of another I have not been doing much on my Trail for a while. Glad to have yours and David’s Trial logs to check in with!
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