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Ouch!!

Glad to have you aboard!!   

That's very nice.

9 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

 Glen, that last photo is awesome! I can't get over how real the Kraken looks, just amazing. The Kraken being surrounded by its current all white state one would expect to see a........wait for it.......Polar Bear. 

What NO Penguins lol

This is going to be a very cool ,  like there was any doubt  😉.  Looking forward to seeing the water    

Good luck at the Vets my friend , man can you build fast,very nicely  done , is an understatement  WAH  !!!

Looking good, if it is fuzzy, I use 400 grit sand paper or steel wool. Sand it down and re spray. Some times I use lemon  oil, but be careful glue doesn't  stick well to some finished surfaces.  😅 

Well thanks to everyone for their ideas on the  servo. As luck would have it our meat slicer broke, so I tried  to fix it, it's a no go. But now have some gears and small motor  for winding the rope.  We will see.

 The first Mate dropped off these sails, all done except for the seizing,  and staining of the sails in coffee.  I put one one for a peek, looks good to me.

 Now continuing  on with the shrouds and deadeyes 

 I know , I have been doing my shrouds and deadeyes  backwards,  making them and tied to the mast. But It works for me, and they look even, or close enough  lol.

I have a few more books coming tomorrow  that will help.  I   am trying  to do modeling better as to how it supposed  to be done as to how I am doing it. But happy with my progress.  So here is were we are now. Lots of outside interference and  building has slowed, plus a pick up of  some side work that will slow me down for a month or so  🤔.   

Oh well,  See you soon, thanks for looking 

Hello, I am a newbie here at MSW, you have come across a valuable  site. The people who have commented so far are Masters, They will answer  any questions  or lead you to the right one, all you got to do is ask. Whats the name of your ship?  And if you can, start a log for your ship, 

Good luck on your journey  and 

Still in a sate of WAH!! Way cool. Check out @hollowneck,  his Camilla log is fantastic,  best water I have seen, my opinion,  there are doing a work shop in June  here at MSW on water making, but we can't wait that long  can we lol.

OR, use Australian  ginger beer, it like      water  I hear. Lol 😆 

Like I knew I would be in AWW but this is  WAH!!

Try here  hope it  works for you    

https://modelshipworld.com/forum/41-traders-dealers-buying-or-selling-anything-discuss-new-products-and-ship-model-goodies-here-as-well/

They look good from here, but like what Mike saying  if it's going to haunt   you for ever change it, but it's under the boat, so you won't see much. Ps modelers don't take short cuts lol.   

Very nicely done!!  I will be jumping over to your Cheerful log , see you there , again nicely done. 

OOhh how I wish🤩. That is so cool!!  Great job

To serve ,or not to serve that is the question  🤔?  As I dive deeper in to my modeling journey  , I want to up my game on how my models look.  I wanted to try serving the lines on the Mayflower,  but I had no idea what to do.  So started looking for pictures, Holy it looks hard. Then I find out about server machines, ok but to get one I have to pay enormous amount of shipping.  I can't get passed the First Mate,  shipping is more than the machine find a better way😒.

 So I looked at how they used to serve lines before machines. Ya that ain't happening  lol. So I decided  to for go the serving on the Mayflower . But will do as much seizing  as I can.. Studying rigging and moving forward,  I came up with the idea  to do all the shrouds, ratlines, and standing rigging first.

 So I broke out my third hand and started, I have four done with  three on the ship, temporarily  not tied on, as I want to tie both sides at the same time.

 So with 36 shrouds to go and all the rat lines I will be busy for awhile for sure.  But I will get there lol. I t can get overwhelming  rigging,  but I have learnt to back off a bit, study  more and come back better I hope

 Lol   The plan is to do at least one shroud a day already two days behind schedule  lol. But this is were I am at now.

  Thanks all for looking and helping me out. Most of all thanks for helping me learn how to build ships. So much to learn, so little time left lol.

 Bye for now, got some work to do lol.

Very nice job. I almost got this one last year when I lost my mind and bought 7 models. So I will follow along. Very nice work  

Hello, this is the place to be, lots will help you on your journey,  Good Luck !!!

Well very slow process,  I have all the yardarms done and put away. Been having  a hard time deciding how I wanted the ship to look. I decided  to leave the plates brass because of the dark stain  of the wood.

 Plus trying to make a plan for rigging.  So between  the plan and my Neanderthal writing this is what I came up with. Started the deadeyes,  first of 20 on this side done . I used a line to  install the plates, messered  and lined  it up,drill little  pilot holes for the nails. Hope they line up lol. 

 So I will be working on shrouds for awhile ,but I have the ratlines to look forward to can't wait lol 99 ratlines on the wall  Sea you      

Looks really good, I too hope you don't  chuck it. It will grow on you, I did one for my niece . many mistakes and a few broken pieces, but when she seen it she loved it. And I was sorry to see it go. Would I do another one NO.  lol

 But you did a great job.   Was fun to follow along , Nicely Done,