Robp1025
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That's awesome to hear some real life experience. It makes sense to have to do that when on ships and there is no other options.
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This is looking amazing my friend!! Cant wait to get there myself.
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So ending my day with these pictures. Thank you all for the likes and comments and I appreciate you guys taging along. The journey is only really getting started but each day with new victories makes it all the more worth it.
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Alright so stern is now situated and painted. I'm getting super excited now because it's starting to really come together. Time to turn my attention to the bow and get some more of this ship together. One "modification" sort of was the placement of the rope ladder up the stairs. I didn't like how the instructions wanted it to end up so close to the deck. I made it be a little more realistic where its higher so it looks like an actual rope banister. And this is a high up view of the stern I think it's coming out great and I'm very happy with how I feel I'm getting a lot of the details to look. and some close up photos so yea this is really kind of exciting for me and sorry if this seems stupid but it's my first model so I'm like back to my childhood when I was doing my models in my living room of my parents house.
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Just caught up on this build. I love the attention to detail and the focus on authenticity. I hope one day I can be as diligent and knowledgable as you are with these ships.
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Got details done and the pin racks and wheel it was a slow day today though. However it's not a race but a marathon and I will finish 😁😁
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Cool I'm thinking I might add two eye hooks as a safety measure incase things get crowded. It's better to be safe than sorry I would say maybe @Pete D might have some insight cause he is on rigging atm
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And then Anatomy has 10 slots needed. So I'm trying to make sure I have enough there and obviously right now, looking at the instructions, there isn't enough. I've read that the rigging on this ship is really tricky because its confusing so I want to make sure it's right the first time
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So it looks like there is 8 tie offs behind the windlass by those instructions. Jt102 jt34 jt33 jt41 jt41 jt 35 jt36 and another jt33. So should we have that many pins in the rail? Or am I looking at the wrong one?
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Those are windows that I have already installed. I think OcCre added the pin rails as a personal flare maybe.
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So I have a question. In the instructions I'm seeing two pin rails directly behind the windlass But in the Anatomy of the Beagle there is no mention. Is this a historical accuracy error in the model or miss interpretation in the book?
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Welcome to the fun house my friend!!
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Thank you and yes I dont mind. I'm using my cellphone so it auto corrects it a lot so I'm having to force it to use the correct terms cause it's not in its library. I've actually gone into the book "anatomy of the ship" for the Beagle to try and learn terms as I'm talking. And there is some ability to fix the deadeyes pretty easy.
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Got the other side of the ship deadeyes straps done and then did some of the small detail pieces. Gonna push through page I and see where I can get to with the rest of my vacation.
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Ok so it's a gradual progression not having all of them straight. So I have only done one side of my ship should I follow this sequence for the other side you think or should I make sure to do it right in the next build just for uniformity in this particular build? @Techtonic @LucienL I appreciate your guys feedback and answers. I wish i would have figured this out sooner but now it's my inexperience that's coming through and lack of research. I'm thankful though to learn and get help from all you guys!!
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@LucienL I have a question I just downloaded the anatomy of the ship for the Beagle and I was looking through the diagrams and the OcCre instructions aren't the same as the book. Should I be switching the the 5 slot and the two slot to make it correct? Or is the OcCre correct?
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Going smooth and steady once you start learning the tricks to get the small pieces manipulated I got into a pretty good rhythm with them. I'm really happy with how these are coming out. Only one gave me a small issue where I used the wrong bracket which is why the paint peeled.
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Amen to that.
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Ok that's good to know and I still have 15 cm of 1mm brass so I might just make it with that. Yours is looking amazing too btw.
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So started work on the dead eyes and the finished product will be cleaner as per the first "test" assembly. Except now looking at the photo I'm realizing it's not as clean as I want...welp I can fix that lol. So them popping up like that will be tucked into the whales so it's all clean fits. I'm feeling like I'm wasting brass though with such long stems. (I'm a conservationist and hate waste 😵😵). I also do not have a extensive amount of back up supplies so there is that too which I'm trying to work on. Anyways yea going well and when I showed my wife she made the comment that it looks like cute lollipops. Felt like I should share that to see if I get any laughs.
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Ok yea that's what I meant just never saw anyone use the tape so was interested.
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Nice fixes for sure!! The upper deck is nice as well is that how the kit comes with no false deck under the planking?
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Finished up the whales so tomorrow will be deadeyes and brass work.
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Yea I'm using acrylic paint
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Yea I noticed it is pretty chunky I might try to see if there is a thinner version of white i can get and will work on metal as well as wood.
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