Stevinne
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Stevinne got a reaction from mtaylor in Hi everybody! I'm an Officer of the Watch in the British Merchant Navy, ask me anything?
Welcome!
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Stevinne reacted to Jack12477 in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Took some time off from my shipyard to go work on another project I'm involved in, restoring a 1912 35-40 foot Ice Yacht Manhasset. a project our club started 2 years ago but was stymied by lack of a heated large workspace. One of our members let us use his workshop for a while. So we've been disassembling the backbone (aka keel) to inspect the interior for any rot. This involved first removing the basket (aka cockpit) which on this ice yacht is attached to the underside of the backbone. Removing hundreds of recessed and plugged screws from 100+ year old timber is not an easy task. the wood you see in the photos is vertical grain old growth 40-50 rings per inch tongue and grooved timber. Surprisingly, it is in pretty good shape with a minimum of rot.
Some photos of the work follow:
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Stevinne got a reaction from popeye the sailor in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Looking forward to following this build. An interesting subject, and from what I hear a good kit.
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Stevinne got a reaction from thibaultron in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Looking forward to following this build. An interesting subject, and from what I hear a good kit.
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Stevinne got a reaction from Old Collingwood in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Looking forward to following this build. An interesting subject, and from what I hear a good kit.
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Stevinne got a reaction from mtaylor in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Looking forward to following this build. An interesting subject, and from what I hear a good kit.
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Stevinne got a reaction from Canute in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Looking forward to following this build. An interesting subject, and from what I hear a good kit.
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Stevinne got a reaction from Jack12477 in John W Brown by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1:350 - PLASTIC - liberty ship
Looking forward to following this build. An interesting subject, and from what I hear a good kit.
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Stevinne got a reaction from keelhauled in Confused About How to Move Forward
Get the Mastini book. It is designed for the beginner and will help you immensely. If this is the first layer of planking, it looks pretty good. Remember, the great thing about working with wood is that a lot can be corrected by sanding later on. Finally, it's been my experience that ship modeling instructions are notoriously bad. If this is the first layer, I would press on while reading mastini and the other links mentioned here. The thing, I find, about instructional posts is often I can't connect them to real world actions until I try to do something. So, if you are like me, read and plank and realize you can always make it better on the second layer. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and a lot of folks probably have hulls they are not so proud of beneath that beautiful second layer of planking.
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Stevinne got a reaction from Jolley Roger in Confused About How to Move Forward
Get the Mastini book. It is designed for the beginner and will help you immensely. If this is the first layer of planking, it looks pretty good. Remember, the great thing about working with wood is that a lot can be corrected by sanding later on. Finally, it's been my experience that ship modeling instructions are notoriously bad. If this is the first layer, I would press on while reading mastini and the other links mentioned here. The thing, I find, about instructional posts is often I can't connect them to real world actions until I try to do something. So, if you are like me, read and plank and realize you can always make it better on the second layer. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and a lot of folks probably have hulls they are not so proud of beneath that beautiful second layer of planking.
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Stevinne got a reaction from pontiachedmark in Confused About How to Move Forward
Get the Mastini book. It is designed for the beginner and will help you immensely. If this is the first layer of planking, it looks pretty good. Remember, the great thing about working with wood is that a lot can be corrected by sanding later on. Finally, it's been my experience that ship modeling instructions are notoriously bad. If this is the first layer, I would press on while reading mastini and the other links mentioned here. The thing, I find, about instructional posts is often I can't connect them to real world actions until I try to do something. So, if you are like me, read and plank and realize you can always make it better on the second layer. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and a lot of folks probably have hulls they are not so proud of beneath that beautiful second layer of planking.
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Stevinne got a reaction from mtaylor in Confused About How to Move Forward
Get the Mastini book. It is designed for the beginner and will help you immensely. If this is the first layer of planking, it looks pretty good. Remember, the great thing about working with wood is that a lot can be corrected by sanding later on. Finally, it's been my experience that ship modeling instructions are notoriously bad. If this is the first layer, I would press on while reading mastini and the other links mentioned here. The thing, I find, about instructional posts is often I can't connect them to real world actions until I try to do something. So, if you are like me, read and plank and realize you can always make it better on the second layer. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and a lot of folks probably have hulls they are not so proud of beneath that beautiful second layer of planking.
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Stevinne got a reaction from frankwil in Confused About How to Move Forward
Get the Mastini book. It is designed for the beginner and will help you immensely. If this is the first layer of planking, it looks pretty good. Remember, the great thing about working with wood is that a lot can be corrected by sanding later on. Finally, it's been my experience that ship modeling instructions are notoriously bad. If this is the first layer, I would press on while reading mastini and the other links mentioned here. The thing, I find, about instructional posts is often I can't connect them to real world actions until I try to do something. So, if you are like me, read and plank and realize you can always make it better on the second layer. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and a lot of folks probably have hulls they are not so proud of beneath that beautiful second layer of planking.
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Stevinne got a reaction from russ in Confused About How to Move Forward
Get the Mastini book. It is designed for the beginner and will help you immensely. If this is the first layer of planking, it looks pretty good. Remember, the great thing about working with wood is that a lot can be corrected by sanding later on. Finally, it's been my experience that ship modeling instructions are notoriously bad. If this is the first layer, I would press on while reading mastini and the other links mentioned here. The thing, I find, about instructional posts is often I can't connect them to real world actions until I try to do something. So, if you are like me, read and plank and realize you can always make it better on the second layer. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and a lot of folks probably have hulls they are not so proud of beneath that beautiful second layer of planking.
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Stevinne got a reaction from Baker in Golden Hind by dkuehn - Dusek - Scale 1:72
I'm interested in this kit, so I'll be pulling up a chair and following along.
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Stevinne got a reaction from nikbud in Virginia 1819 by nikbud - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - Scale 1/41 - First Wooden Ship Build
Very nice. Congratulations.
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Stevinne reacted to nikbud in Virginia 1819 by nikbud - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - Scale 1/41 - First Wooden Ship Build
Hello all, and thanks for the comments and likes throughout this log.
As promised here are the pictures of the finished model.
This has been a fun build, even though it has taken three years!
This kit is an interesting introduction to wooden ship building, especially for someone who is used to step by step plastic models. It is a real shame that this is a kit of a “boat that might have been” rather that a real boat. Having said that it allowed me to do a bit of kit-bashing. I have made some really obvious schoolboy errors, like the stitching on the sails and the use of poor materials in the chainplates. The kit instructions are poor when it comes to the rigging so I had to learn rigging from scratch - not easy when it seems like a foreign language.
However, I’m glad I chose this kit as my first, I have learnt a lot about ships and shipbuilding and will stand me in good stead when building my next model, and eventually my ambition of building the Bounty.
I hope you have enjoyed reading this log, and please, if you have any criticism let me know - its all a learning experience.
Cheers
Paul
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Stevinne got a reaction from Canute in Air Brush Paints
I've been too lazy to read all the replies. For me, I use a badger double-action airbrush and compressor and model master acrylics. I thin with water or acrylic thinner, but generally adjust the size of the needle to get the spray I want. I find this is easier.
Each time I use it, I blow a full bottle of water through it to clean it. Then I check to see if it needs additional cleaning.
I go for very thin coats, repeated multiple times.
I like the Badger because it is easy to disassemble, clean and get spraying. I'd tried a Model Master airbrush and the thing locked up within 15 minutes, never to be used again.
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Stevinne reacted to markjay in Charles W Morgan by Calhoun Zabel - RESTORATION - Warning: Graphic
good beginers guide
you may want to pick up a copy of this, good beginers guide. I've had mine for over 20 years.
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Stevinne reacted to uss frolick in Rigging Civil War Naval Guns
According to "Warships of the Civil War Navies", by Paul Silverstone, page 86, the USS Tom Freedman initially mounted one 32-pdr/60 cwt and one 32-pdr/37 cwt. The former was swapped out for an 8"/55 cwt in April 1863, and they also added a 12-pdr rifle.
That gun looks like a 32/60 cwt.
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Stevinne reacted to uss frolick in Rigging Civil War Naval Guns
Notice in the Thomas Freeborn photo, that altho the gun is rigged on a traditional carriage, it is sitting over a pivot trace, like the one in the right lower corner, and the wheels appear to be lifted just barely above the deck. (Note the wheels shadows.) As huge as that gun looks, the trunnion is only about six inches in diameter, it having the same width as the bore, making it a 32-pounder. At first, I thought she was an 8" shell gun, just due to its great size compared to the foolish fellow looking down the sight. I had not heard of a 32-pounder mounted on a pivot during that period. They seem to have rolled it over a rectangular wood, deck-colored platform, that I had first thought was just the deck, and then raised/attached the gun to it, but the carriage's shadow is just not right for that.
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Stevinne reacted to Talos in Rigging Civil War Naval Guns
Pretty much rigged the same as it had been before. The biggest shift in broadside guns (besides the newer guns themselves) was the shift from the old-style four-wheel truck carriage to the two-wheeled Marsilly carriage before the war. This design meant they could shove a wheeled handspike under the rear of the gun and easily rotate even a big gun like a large Dahlgren from side to side in the port or even move it from one side of the ship like the other. They could also be mounted on pivot carriages as well of course.
Here is a great shot of a Dahlgren in a Marsilly carriage, this one mounted on the deck of USS Hunchback, a converted ferry.
The older-style truck carriage was still around too though, as seen here on the USS Thomas Freeborn.
There are plenty of photographs, drawings, gunnery manuals, and ordnance instructions from the period. Certainly enough to know for sure.
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Stevinne got a reaction from reilly in Mamoli model kits are back
I hope the CSS Alabama comes back soon. Not enough kits out there of the sail-to-steam era.
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Stevinne got a reaction from EJ_L in Mamoli model kits are back
I hope the CSS Alabama comes back soon. Not enough kits out there of the sail-to-steam era.
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Stevinne reacted to Daniel Dusek in Mamoli model kits are back
Hi Stevinne,
I plan to release Alabama on the end of this year or beginning of next year.
Daniel
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