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  1. shipman
    I keep recommending these Swann-Morton tools..... https://www.scalpelsandblades.co.uk/range_23_swann-morton-supatool-blades-and-handles.php
  2. shipman
    From what I've seen over the years, the Basset-Lowke models were so inferior to the genuine in house builders models. Do you have photo's Amy?
  3. shipman
    Maury, you are quite right. Where I live (Yorkshire, UK) I'm reminded that to see and be inspired by the very best models, an expensive journey of hundreds of miles is required. 30-40 years ago I was able to visit the NMM or Science Museum, as I worked 'just up the road'. Seeing scale models of this quality, so long ago influences how I perceive what I see here. There's no substitute for the wonder of the real object in front of you.
  4. shipman
    'The model will be leaving port and going to her new owner shortly'. Sadly, launched into obscurity. Still, a blast while it lasted. Thank you D.
  5. shipman
    Another gem. Thank you for inviting us 'round 😎
  6. shipman
    Thank you for the ride, druxey. The skill displayed with this wonderful model shows what can be done in a relatively short time, not only intriguing your audience but presumably providing yourself a real sense of inestimable accomplishment. Super! Would it be possible to provide a few photographs taken from 'water level', to show the lines as most of the previous are overhead shots?
  7. shipman
    Thank you druxey et al for your feedback and explanations, which I appreciate enormously. This exceptional build is a fine addition to the legacy of other projects which this forum is so well known for.
  8. shipman
    Druxey, as the boat clearly has fittings to take a mast, what would your take be on how it was rigged? I'm always dubious of the shroud fittings on the ubiquitous 'Meadway Longboat' so often seen here, indeed I seem to be the only person regularly questioning this detail. As it is, the cutter you portray has no fittings to enable any kind of mast cordage (that I can see). My contention has always been that these boats were rarely if ever fitted with shrouds, but must have had kevels belay pins or some other purchase points for mast and sail rigging.
  9. shipman
    Looking FAB, druxey. If it were mine (HA 🤣 HA) I'd consider cambering the base, in the same way a deck has. I reckon that would help 'lift' the model from what will be its flat surroundings. Just a thought.
  10. shipman
    So....that's 5/8" thick 1:1. How wide 1:1?
  11. shipman
    K2pete, welcome. Quite a gusher there mate, but Druxey and others here well deserve such praise.
  12. shipman
    Very impressed.
  13. shipman
    'unless sitting on the stern sheets with the officers - most unlikely!' Would an officer always be present? Mistake admitting you sold the boat, especially to another member. ENVY
  14. shipman
    Very interesting sub topic: oars. I'd be interested to read more, if anyone would care to elaborate. If the oars are ash; surely they got too hot
  15. shipman
    Your hand holding the funnel suddenly brings the scale of your model into focus. I continue to be amazed.
  16. shipman
    druxey already said he's not going to use paint. Such a masterpiece needs no embellishment. Subtlety is the key here.
  17. shipman
    What else could I mean? 🎩
  18. shipman
    And an outboard? 😆
  19. shipman
    Shame you're over the water, I'd have had your arm off for the Dory book and the Swans. I'm sure they all will go quickly...good luck.
  20. shipman
    https://www.arbeitskreis-historischer-schiffbau.de/mitglieder/modelle/kutter-kl-1/ Ah, but druxey's is to a much smaller scale! The pencil says it all (and there's still some lead in it 😆 !!
  21. shipman
    Ah ha! Spotted your sleight of hand/cunning plan to hide the split in the wood, which the transom is made. Or was the reinforcing piece always 'Plan A'? 😇 LOL
  22. shipman
    Thank you druxey and wefalk for your perspectives. It's why I'm here, to learn from the 'team'. I do so enjoy these dialogues.
  23. shipman
    Thank you, Druxey. So if the standards are fixed to both the thwart and the side of the boat.... I always understood the thwarts were removable, enabling nesting and making room for a cargo/storage load? Also weren't the thwarts 'set into' the risers, preventing the thwart moving fore and aft?
  24. shipman
    What a delight this project is and as it's coming to a close I'm already getting withdrawal symptoms as builds of this quality are rare here. I've grown numb with the endless 'Medway Longboat' offerings, whatever their merits. Question.....the angled brackets (do they have a name?) at each end of and above thwarts: in real boats, are these made to 'wedge' the thwart in position, but can be knocked' out enabling the thwart to be removed when required? Observation......I don't recall many oared craft models which have the oarsman's foot rests included. Were these fittings a lot more common, but rarely depicted as they make a lot of practical sense? Thank you for the pleasure this continuing build has given to me and many others.
  25. shipman
    Love the novel if not unique method turning the supports within the brass tube.

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