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No, I belive I misunderstood. You did say seizing, I can't read all that well. But for seizing, I use the smallest thread I have If the line is black, I use light color thread, if the line is light I use black, for contrast.. But I was told to use the smallest thread I could fine. My apologies for the confusion 😕 Bob M.

Hello Toolmaker, I am in the process of getting ready to do some serving , I can find alot of info on how to do it, but little on what sizes to use. Check out @Blue Ensign, log for his Pegasus. He lists some sizes he used for his 1:64 , that's what I am baseing my lines on. Plus it's a fantastic log as well hope this helps. I have only made 18 inches of practice line so far lol. Good luck, I be looking to see what you find. Bob M.

Good luck on your journey, have fun😁 Bob M.

Nice looking ship, top self my man!! Bob M.

Wow, I thought it had a coat of stain, I really like that color, can't wait to see what it looks like with some finish on it. Great work. Bob. M.

The stain job looks great I like it, nicely done.!! Bob M.

This is definitely the best place to be, everything is right here. As far as Zen go's I don't know, I still hear voices telling me to buy another model. Good luck on your journey.!! Bob M.

Just a little progress, I have rigged 3 cannons so far, I had to order two cannon carriages, and unlike @ERS Rich order which took a week from the UK to Boston, mine took 4days to come from the UK, then it stuck in Montreal Canada costoms for the passed 5 days and counting lol. Oh well what can you do. These cannons are fun to rig, I have no idea if these are done correctly but it's they way I did them. Breeching rope and two blocks , then seized the lines and glue them in. I made a plan so that when the other two cannons finally get here I will remember how I did these lol. The rope coils look ok, I made four turns of the rope, and I guess I should have only did 2 or 3 turns. Oh by the way, Private First Class Gnomer Pile got himself a make over. What do you think, He was very insistent on keeping his KB Lantern copper and the light on. He got caught up in a painting spree the other night, I painted 17 figures , and his cousin Goober.. These figures are ok for my diorama that I am doing, but they have no face, if you zoom in close, the are faceless. But from afar they will be OK. Man I am tired, lol. Gardening and canning by day, painting and rigging by night lol.. Thank you so much everyone, taking the afternoon off to watch the Bowl game, here in Manitoba, but right after that the First Mate says it time to change the attachments on the tractor from rotter tilling to potatoes digging lol. The fun never stop. How does that saying go, I will sleep when I am dead lol 😆 😂 Later my friend's. Bob M.

Well done, very impressive. Congratulations Bob M

Nice work Keith, that looks impressive. I have an old fuel oil tank that looks just like this except mine is silver, great work Bob M.

Congratulations on a wonderful model, it looks awesome, well done , mio amico. . Bob M.

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Well I can't believe it's just been 30days that I have been working on this ship. It's a dream to put together, everything just fits were it is supposed to. Except the cannon balls. The frist rack I put together the balls kept flying everywhere. Then I drop the bag. Yep, those little, tiny winy balls all over the black and grey carpet that's in the ship room. No cuss words were used lol. I don't know how many spare balls I had but I have one extra, which is better than one short.lol. For the next three racks I put a drop of Phatic glue first then added the ball , they stayed in place. SO this brings me to step number 217, which is the start of masts and rigging. Yeppie.. I have everything done except the cannons, all eyebolts, nails, paint thouch ups are done. Bang two coats of 2x flat clear coat, and she look marvelous. But now I have to go get my 16x24 deck , on my house, painted, and the First Mates garden is ready for harvest. I will have to rototill for her as well. And on raining days I will be painting figures for the King of the Mississippi , plus adding the water for the river and working on the train. So it may be awhile before I start the mast and yards. I made up a mast board to build up the masts when the time comes. Ok my friends that's it for awhile, ya right lol. 😆 🤣. Thank you so much everyone, you all have been such a great help. On to serving and seizing and masting oh MY. Lol right after painting and rototilling and canning oh my. lol 😆 😂 Bob M. PFCGP GOOBER

Awesome model my freind, well done definitely a keeper. Bob M.

Thank you for joining, from the other side of the pond , up north in Canada Bob M.

Nice work Mike , Bob M.

Very nicely done, great looking ship . BOB M

Hey @DocRob , yes I should have left the figurehead off until later. You would have thought that I learnt my lesson with the Pegasus, I broke that figurehead four time before my daughter said she will buy me a new one, lol. I put that one together, Now the Pegasus figurehead sits in a jar, waiting till I get back to it. I was going to leave the figurehead off for now, but the upper rails went on over the figurehead, so I thought I had to do it now In hind site I could have left the upper rail off on one side till It was safe, but I was more concerned about putting it on than the smart way of doing it, oh well. The wales and channels were installed, the first upper two steps go in-between the photo etch crowns. After that I used a straight edge ti line them up , and I still got them off a bit, but you know me, it'll will do. I made the hand rails above the dome, and on the stren, painted those this morning. I do have some small cleats to put on the bell tower and the Staghorns to install . I am waiting for my replacement cannons, two of the cannons didn't stand a chance against a 270 pound Neanderthal. You couldn't even tell what they were lol. As far as the ship's boat goes , I had three choice, One use the boat from my Pegasus build, I tryed that, but the lights in the ship yard started flickering the temperature dropped , and the furnace growled. I took it off everything went back to normal. Lol. Two and three are a 18 foot cutter and a 24 foot yawl, both are two large. So I message @Gabek to see what he thinks. He's my figure man and all resin parts. The man is fantastic. I might not even put one on, but DocRob" s ships boat is fantastic Ok , once around the horn for pictures, then going to try to rig the four cannons I have left. Then it's TIME to get ready for mast and rigging. Were did August go, lol. So this is how she looks today, almost like page almost like page 216 of the manual. And it says your model should look like this at this point,, and I belive it does lol Thanks so much everyone for all the help I gotten over the last three years now I can see some positive things happening in my builds. But I am not cocky I have so much to learn. Ok thanks for looking, now on to the RIGGING. Bob M PFCGP Goober

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Well done, congratulations Bob M.

These are the pictures that go with the last post, you can see I lost the nights feather. Oh well only we will know. On to the stairs and finish the rails and then the channels. Then I am going to go back and look things over to see if I missed anything, two things I have to nail the photo-etch on and the top Pintle strap has to be painted black and put on. Ok later my freinds, our internet is so bad, having a hard time with loading pages, this sucks. but the son is on it, He says it's our server, so he's dealing with them for me. It will be the middle of next week before this is fixed.lol I wonder how far I will get on the Duchess before I can up load pictures. Lol. Thanks for all the likes, and the looks , still Grinning, but not as much lol Bob M.

The ship's wheel turn out decent, IMHO lol .As well as the rudder and fish plates. I had some troubles with the windlass bitts belaying rails , for some reason they were to short. So I added a few peices. It will do. Then two things happen, One Pile and Goober were in a huddle, they were trying to save my feelings, oh boy let's have it . It was going so well, but apparently I have glued a piece of photo-etch upside down. these little dots are at the bottom in the book, Now my computer is acting up, we got several problems 😑. They coming on the 5th to upgrade so they say. Lol. I can't load any pictures, but I had the bow sprit mast on, and just had to nick the mass so the night feather fit. It looked great. But I broke it off some were and the hunt is on, but I think she's lost oh well strike two, what can you do lol. Talk soon my freinds I hope Bob M.

I needed coffee today, late night. Lol The ships wheel went together great. I just got my new speed paint kit.And I painted the ship's wheel. I think I will paint the tips of the handles black. Pile gave it the once over, but having rigged the ships wheel on my Pegasus, four times, I nailed it first time. I am just letting things dry and the lines stretch out. so now I will put together the Mizzen bits , maybe the aft deck rails , stairs, pumps oh my so much fun, enjoying the moment 😄 Bob M.

Nice work, Bob M.