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I've only just found this log, Walter, so now I'm following. As a fellow Sphinx builder, I'm really looking forward to seeing your modifications. Have you thought as far ahead as rigging and sails? What's the plan for these, if any? Nipper -
That square tuck looks much neater with your framing arrangement. Great thinking on your part although I realise you haven't defintely decided to go with it. This is a good example of how your blog is so helpful. Your willingness to go off-piste in order to improve a model (even such great ones as Vanguard's), helps me to think a bit more outside the box as well (pun unintentional but it's appropriate!). Little alterations such as these make the model more personal and more satisfying. Nipper
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What a wonderful job Andrew! The figures really do add a lot of interest and it's a lovely model - congratulations. I agree with Thuky about shading. I use Army Painter Quickshade - easy to use and makes a huge difference especially on figures so well detailed as Chris's. Nipper
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Wonderful work Andrew! There is no doubt in my mind that you would have regretted not putting in the proper number of reef points. Looking at your model makes me realise how wonderful a boat looks with the sails gently billowing! Now I am even more determined that my next build will have sails - fortunately it's a brig not a three master. Your build log will be such a help to me. Nipper
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That sail looks fantastic Andrew. Thank you for the excellent explanation and photos. Now I can't wait to get onto my next build for which I will fit sails, once my Sphinx is finished. I especially like the way you've created the wind in the sail effect. To me, that looks much more lifelike and interesting than the Antscheri approved version. Nipper
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That is fantastic planking on your Sphinx - congratulations!! Nipper
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Andrew I pondered on the same issue when adding furled sails to my Alert - i.e. the issue of the mains'l yard fouling the foremost shroud whenever the yard was braced round. I couldn't see a way round it, unless the force of the wind caused the yard to move forward away from the mast, thus giving a bit more of an angle for the yard to turn. What a great build you are doing. Definitely right to re-do something rather than forever sigh whenever you look at the finished model! Nipper
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I will follow along, and I look forward to this very much. I'm especially looking forward to your thoughts and conclusions from the research that you will do. I think that the research is as enjoyable as the building of the model, especially when it leads to a bit of creativity in changing the model to better match the historical evidence. Or as you refer to above - to those occasions when the evidence is inconclusve and you have to decide which way to go! Some of the most enjoyable moments I have experienced in buildng my models have been when I've gone to bed, with my mind still mulling over a problem - do I do what source A says, or do I follow source B? Sometimes the clearest solutions appear at those sleepy moments! Nipper
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Lovely work Andrew! What make is your mini-lathe, pictured above? I've been planning to buy a Proxon in order to make the masts for my Sphinx, but yours could be another option. Nipper
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Thank you Chris for perservering with the figures. There is nothing comparable to this on the market! Nipper
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Please don't Chris. You are always so good at sharing your thoughts and plans, but the trouble is that you can never please everybody. I think that you yourself have said exactly this before. I think that asking for constructive comments about a project in the planning phase is a good thing to do. But maybe do this just once, and then use the ideas that you like and rely on your sculptor to get it right. None of the other miniature figures I have seen (other than yours) look quite right anyway, except for the very expensive large scale ones that are intended to stand alone as a display item. Nipper
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Are the bands around the buoys there to simulate the wicker frame, of which they were sometimes made? Nipper
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Chris I'm so pleased that you've gone ahead to commission some new figures in appropriate poses to go in the cabin. The responses above about uniform accuracy etc show how highly we are interested in this. I've said before that your figures are the best available, certainly at 1/64, so the more you are able to extend your range, the more popular they will be! Nipper
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Congratulations BE, and thank you for sharing your build with us. Looking forward to your next one . . . ! Nipper
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I've just clicked to follow your build - can't think why I haven't done this earlier. Great planking! Nipper
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Yes, that confirms what I was thinking. Thanks Chris. So I'll base my Irene on the Caldercraft Cruiser hull, and then I won't feel so bad about hacking it about! Nipper
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Now I'm really flung into doubt! My next build is going to be the Dutch brig of war "Irene" from Petrejus' book, and I was planning to buy a Caldercraft Cruiser for the basic hull ("Irene" was converted from HMS Grasshopper - a Cruiser class brig) and then scratch build or buy in (from Vanguard as much as possible) the fittings, and bits and pieces. Now I'm wondering whether Harpy would make a much better starting point, because it will have the up-to-date quality of Vanguard models, and the "legacy" kits from Caldercraft do not compare. But perhaps the hull shape of Harpy is too different from the Cruiser class brigs, as Chris intimates above. Chris - I'd be grateful for any thoughts. Nipper
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YES PLEASE CHRIS!! The Vanguard figures are so good, none better certainly at 1/64 scale. For those who like to crew their models, it would be wonderful to have figures sitting around, or leaning against the rail etc. etc., not just "in action" as if they are repelling boarders! Vanguard's fishermen, and the cook, are really good poses. Nipper
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Chris' s manual for Alert - see rigging Plan 15 - shows all three sets of bowlines belayed to the rail in front of the windlass. Nipper
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I found on my Alert that the spreadsail yard had a mind of its own until I fitted the braces. Congrats on your beautiful work - a real inspiration and a joy to follow. Nipper
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I don't want to clog up Johann's wonderful build log by continuing the comments on museums, but it is all about money. And the continual dumbing down, like you see on TV documentaries, where the makers are attempting to catch the interest of a generation used to stimulation from fast moving images. So many museums are having to reduce their displays and focus instead on eye catching and interactive exhibitions to catch the interest of young people - and let's hope they are successful in this. In some museums, I've found, a room that may once have been cluttered with many artefacts has been transformed to highlight a single object, surrounded by supporting information to truly bring out the object's importance and relevance to historical record. Done well, this is brilliant, as long as specialists like us have an opportunity to get into the storerooms to see what we want to find out about. And again, this is about money, in order to finance a museum's cataloguing, storing, and archiving costs. Nipper
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Kevin A tough decision but I agree with many of your followers above - it's the right one in order to give your loved family friend a chance to enjoy the remaining days. I'm sure you will make every one of them special. Nipper
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I love looking at your work OC, and I admire and agree with your pursuit of realism. It looks like you have abandoned the idea of representing the smoke from the firearms. Certainly, it is very hard to create smoke that is convincing. Also, if one is going to take realism to its full extent, one would have to include more than the smoke from the muskets and rifles. How to create the pall of smoke that would have been blowing over the whole battlefield, obscuring your beautifuuly painted figures?! Best to leave that to the paintings, like the one above of LHS. Nipper
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It's fantastic B.E. - no wonder you feel such a sense of achievement! I notice the sheathing from telephone wiring that you have used for the lanyards on the gunports. Doesn't that work well! That's another great idea I will borrow from you, if you don't mind. What thickness are the gunport lanyards - 0.20mm? Nipper
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Excellent idea Chris - so that a new generation of modellers will say, in 20 years' time, "I cut my teeth on Vanguard's Sherbourne" !! Nipper
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