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  1. This is an interestIng link of the lifespan of plastics: https://thediecastmodel.com/how-long-do-plastic-models-last/
  2. Congratulations George. You have done a magnificent job on this model and the workmanship bears this out! Your work certainly inspires me to keep working on mine. What's your next ship?
  3. I'm with Rick on this. Your log has been exceptionally helpful George and I am most thankful to you. Sorry I can't help on your davits question.
  4. Today I complete the topgallant masts. The second photo show a side view of the model, with the various masts loosely attached. I still have more to do on them, including installing fids, eyebolts, and blocks.
  5. Over the weekend I made significant progress on the Bowsprit, Jib Boom and Dolphin Striker. The work on the Bowsprit and Jib Boom was fairly easy. The paint scheme is as per James Buttersworth's Flying Fish painting. The various holes for the ring bolts and other rigging components are difficult to see but have been completed.
  6. Spent all day today building the dolphin striker. This tiny part turned out to be one of the most challenging pieces to date. All of the small metal fittings on the dolphin striker were made by bending thin blackened copper wire. For the lower metal band I used adhesive copper tape. The lower fitting was made from a single piece of wire. On another note, I mentioned that I discovered the other day that I was missing one size of wooden blocks. I contacted Model Expo and soon after I received a reply that the missing blocks were on the way. What fantastic customer service!!
  7. Quick update. The spreaders on the 3 topmasts. I was hoping to start adding the blocks to the masts, but discovered on size of blocks was missing from my kit. While I await the missing parts from Model Expo, I will work on the bowsprit and jib-boom. I implemented your suggestion George to strengthen the spreaders with copper strip on the main topmast and mizzen topmast spreaders. I added copper strip where I could on the already completed spreader on the fore topmast as doing otherwise would have required a complete rebuild of the structure. Adding the cleats to the 2 new spreaders went much better than what I encountered on the fore topmast. Put it down to learning from experience and using finer tweezers.
  8. Thanks George for this great suggestion. I was very concerned about them breaking or bending when attaching the rigging.
  9. Since the last update I have begun working on the the topmasts & bowsprit. These have been loosely mounted on the ship. In the past few days I have built the top on the fore topmast (see photo). I will be painting the top white. The trickiest thing about building top was the fabricating and mounting the cleats on the spreader. I had to try different types of wood incl. multilayer strips before I finally found something I could cut without the tiny wood pieces falling apart.
  10. I wish you a soeedy recovery George. Covid is on a surge now, even for those fully vaccinated many times. 3 family members living in 3 different cities have had it in the last month.
  11. Thanks George and Rick for your quick, helpful responses. It will certainly be much easier adjusting the rigging made with the thread/cord rather than with stiffer wire.
  12. Forgive my ignorance about the standing rigging on the Flying Fish. From the drawings and instruction book, it looks like the standing rigging is to be made from dark thread, meant to simulate tarred hemp. UNDERHILL states in his book on clipper ship masting & rigging that "By the beginning of our period ( i.e.clipper period) wire had to a large extent superseded hemp for all forms of standing rigging". Should I be making the standIng rigging from blackened brass wire? Thanks.
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