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  1. AJohnson
    Hi Jonathan, nice careful work and well planned. 👍 And good news about your asparagus crops, love asparagus, griddled with Parmesan shavings and good balsamic vinegar. 😛
  2. AJohnson
    The hull shape looks quite similar to Nisha, as you have built both, do you think it will be the same second planking wise?
  3. AJohnson
    I do like a Hellcat and the Cats mouth adds to the unmistakable deadly lines. The 1/24 Airfix was a beast, so a 1/33 scale one is going to be impressive! 😲
  4. AJohnson
    Hi Jonathan, Great to see another "Nisha" join the fleet! 😃 Do not worry, I have stopped counting the number of times I have broken my "Nisha" 😆 Good save by making replacement parts! 👍 (Pulling up a virtual chair to follow your build.) 🍿
  5. AJohnson
    Very nice Dave, was wondering where you’d got to! Very nice set up. 👍 I also work in the garage but find I need heating and I had an insulated door fitted to replace the old Henderson crinkled metal one.
  6. AJohnson
    My rigging avoidance tactics are coming on a treat and the trawl beam and heads are now assembled and I have attached a ground rope, complete with chain "ticklers" and bridles; including the smaller Dandy bridle used to help bring the aft trawl head alongside. I have tried out the position of the trawl beam/head assembly on the model to see how it would be stowed. According to Edgar Marsh the forward trawl head was lashed securely in between the middle and aft shrouds and the aft end chained at the stern where aft head overhung the taffrail, to avoid the whole rig falling inboard in rough weather, which from the size/weight of it would have been a serious problem! Next up I'm trying out some netting for the actual trawl, I hadn't realised for some reason just how big this was going to be! 😲 The trawl beams according to Marsh were anywhere from 20 to 50 ft long; depending on the individual trawler. "Nisha" was 'middling' size wise, so using the distance from shrouds to just past the stern gave me a scale 38 ft beam, which seems okay. Again according to Marsh the actual nett was twice the beam length, so at 1/64 scale it will be just over 1ft / 300mm long! I think therefore I am going to display it rolled up under the beam! 😆 Thanks for the likes and comments. 😁
  7. AJohnson
    Very good reef points, did you do a knot near the sail on each side? I’m about to do some reef points and wondering how to do the knots at the sail end. 🤔
  8. AJohnson
    My misgivings about the styrene trawl heads were justified and one of them sprang apart whilst painting and sanding. A sure indication that they were going to be a problem when I tried to attach the trawl beam, ground rope and netting, they were just too delicate. I initially went for styrene rod just out of shear habit formed by years of plastic modelling, but styrene is not adequate for wooden model boat building it seems, well nothing like this anyway. I had considered buying some square section metal, but my Dad suggested just hammering some copper wire into shape, so this evening in an attempt to save a few pennies I set off to try that, using some old earthing wire I happen to have in the garage. It was actually easier to shape than I imagined by using a hammer on the top of a vice head and being soft wire it bent around the same timber former that I had used for the styrene versions. Next I pinned the loosely formed wire into shape and soldered, followed by a spell of filing flat and cleaning up. A couple of other details added were the trawl beam socket; again formed from the same shaped wire and the shackle eye-bolt, for this I file a slot into the wire then used a rigging eye bolt and soldered that into place. A case of one step forward, no - that is one step backwards, then one step forward again, but at least I tried something new in the process!
  9. AJohnson
    Looking absolutely lovely Andy. Your soon catching me up! 😲
  10. AJohnson
    Well Chris your current USS England build and this review have tempted me to the ‘dark side’ and I have ordered a couple of Paper Shipwright models, to have a go at this form of modelling I haven’t done before. This site is addictive, just need more time to do all these lovely projects 🤣
  11. AJohnson
    Glad to see you back building Will, after having had Covid. 😀
  12. AJohnson
    Wow, those a re very good looking sails Dan! 👏
  13. AJohnson
    Hey another little “Nisha” build log, I will follow along to this latest addition to the growing fleet of “Mumble Bees”. The advice you have had so far is sound, if you can take a deep breath and pause to absorb the planking techniques of edge bending and tapering planks available on MSW, then things will go better we promise! We are all here to help on MSW, just give yourself time to absorb how it’s gone and if you can’t face taking the planks off just yet you can always do some of the more straight forward assemblies like the hatches and winches and keep in a “creative” mode before going back. I often jump to something easy to do whilst pondering a more difficult stage in a build. Just need time for ideas to sink in, there’s no rush. Excellent progress so far, keep at it! 👏😁
  14. AJohnson
    Those pumps are very good Trond, Nice details you are now adding to your build. 👍
  15. AJohnson
    Very neat looking planking Craig! 👏
  16. AJohnson
    Update for this evening is a little progress on the sails and also a start I have made on the trawl gear, I've not had as much time working on "Nisha" as I would like, the Admiral has got me doing another garden project at the moment! I'll post pics of that over in the "Gardening" section of MSW when done. The sails have been a lesson in patience, I've painted them using my airbrush and a mix of enamels to give me the worn red colour I was after. I need to add the rigging and blocks and some reef points. I have been testing these various stages; including using Letraset style rub on lettering for the Sails on my prototype sail at the top of the 'Sails' picture. Then I think I will set to the desired bend/shape and spray with matt varnish. The "Trawl Heads' are from 1mm square plastic rod, bent around a wood former, heated and then cooled into shape. These are based on description and dimensions from Edgar Marsh again. I'm not too sure on them yet, I might have to get some brass rod of the same section and try my hand at soldering. These plastic ones might be a bit too delicate to rig a beam and net to. I'll carry on for now to see how things progress; good practice for sorting out the various trawl elements, but can see myself having to learn a new skill soon! Thanks all for continuing to follow and support.
  17. AJohnson
    Well worth the effort Chris, those intricate details are outstanding! 👏
  18. AJohnson
    The Amati figures are pretty good, they need a bit of cleaning up with a file or knife but are miles better than the many “World of Warcraft” 1/64 figures on the www that look like Hobbit’s on steroids. The NRG ones look proper ‘in scale’ figures (no chunky limbs or ‘Hobbit’ feet), so think they are worth looking at, but I haven’t bought any. The Vanguard ones are excellent, but the wrong time frame for Lady Nelson.
  19. AJohnson
    Looking very nice, 👌
  20. AJohnson
    Good fix with the little shim, I found that on 'Nisha' also when doing the first planking - and you got the stern counter on without splitting it in two like me! 👏 😆
  21. AJohnson
    I don't blame you Chris, those ones you have done look super, I can only imagine trying to roll and bend card into those intricate shapes! Hope the glue supplies are in stock for you. 👍
  22. AJohnson
    That desk is a testament to your industry! 😁 Or you could claim you are "trendy" and have upcycled some distressed furniture, very "in vogue" nowadays. 😆 Btw. you should see my workbench! 🤐
  23. AJohnson
    I Like the new look! 👍
  24. AJohnson
    Regarding leaking paint from under masking tape, one little trick I use sometimes if the subsurface is a bit uneven (like most wood strip!) is to run a light coat of Matt varnish along the edge before you paint, this will help seal the edge hopefully against paint ‘wicking’ along wood grain etc. Also be careful if comparing your build to the plans, the plans for my “Nisha” had been unintentionally reduced by 15%, not sure if that is the case with the Lady Eleanor plans.
  25. AJohnson
    Well it would be rude not to pull up a chair! 🍿

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