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Paul Le Wol

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  1. Paul Le Wol
    Andrew, congratulations on completing your Lobster Smack! Very nice. Looking forward to Miss Adventure.
  2. Paul Le Wol
    Beautiful work Harvey!. The crow’s nest is superb
  3. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you so much Gary, @FriedClams your Comment is very kind and I appreciate it a lot! I’ll definitely be starting another build log. A build without a log is like a day without sunshine. I think that’s how the saying goes 😀
  4. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Jacques, totally agree with the previous comments. Beautiful planking.
  5. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you @druxey and @Thukydides . I appreciate your Comments very much. I would also like to thank everyone for their Likes and for dropping by. I forgot to mention that before.
  6. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Everyone, my thanks to @JacquesCousteau, @ccoyle, @kurtvd19, @davec, @Glen McGuire, @Keith Black, @Jim Lad. Your generous comments make this effort so worthwhile. Thank you Chris for updating the title. Not sure what comes next Jacques but it will probably be another work boat of some sort. Watching everyone scratching together their builds has been a great inspiration!
  7. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Everyone, hope you are all doing good. Thank you for the Comments and Likes! Well I finally got the lead out and finished the shroud lanyards. Here’s a few pictures of that process. The lanyards do lean on the upper slat of the fences a bit. When you look at the high resolution photos of a sharpie on Alamy you can see that the lanyard straddles the top slat and the middle slat has been trimmed. I didn’t think it was bad enough to make those modifications to the fences. I also decided to leave off the oar locks and the oars. They might be added at a later date. So on that note I shall declare this build finished. Some photos of the completed boat starting with the imaginary anchor. I realize that there are probably more than a couple of historical inaccuracies present so it anyone has any ideas on how to make this a more accurate representation please feel free to share your thoughts. I won’t be changing anything but perhaps future builders will be able to benefit from them. Thank you to everyone for joining me in this build. You have made this project very enjoyable.
  8. Paul Le Wol
    Here is a chart of the wood strips that Joe sells.
  9. Paul Le Wol
    Dave, congratulations on completing this wonderful looking Dory!
  10. Paul Le Wol
    Glen, what strikes me most about this SIB is the difference between the tranquil presentation and the chaos going on inside the bottle. Congratulations on finishing this amazing project!
  11. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Gary, good to see this much anticipated update. The roof looks great. Everything does !
  12. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Gary, thanks so much for your comments and support. Going to have to start thinking about what’s next. Only have a couple of hours worth of work left on the sharpie
  13. Paul Le Wol
    Great weathering effects on the base Glen. Looks superb. Going to have to add Concrete Block to my list of shop tools to acquire 😀!
  14. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you very much Dave. Started this build in March of 2023. That’s quite a while ago and it’s gone by very quickly. Hope time starts slowing down some 😀
  15. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Glen, thank you for your comments. They are appreciated very much!
  16. Paul Le Wol
    Just to add to the airbrush topic. @Landlubber Mike suggested in a post to check out Vince Venturella’s Hobby Cheating YouTube channel. #213 is about cleaning. Excellent channel.
  17. Paul Le Wol
    John, thank you very much for your generous comments!
  18. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Keith, thank you for your comment and thank you for joining me on this ride. It’s been a lot of fun!
  19. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Everyone, I hope you are all having a great New Year. Thank you very much for the Comments and Likes. This will probably be the second last post for this log. It’s coming together quickly. I started by stropping the 5mm deadeyes that a friend gave me. They are from an abandoned Billing kit. Slices were cut from a 1/4” brass tube. After being cleaned up they were heated. When cool they were shaped around the deadeye and then the whole thing was placed into blackening solution. The fences were made next to see if there would be any clearance issues with the deadeyes. A template was made from a file folder. There is a slight curvature in the deck where it runs past the cabin so the horizontal slats were edge bent all together. They are 1/32” x 3/32”. According to Chapelle’s drawing, none of the posts are spaced equally. Probably to avoid scuppers and things. After a test fit the fences were given a coat of clear shellac and then airbrushed. A #22 copper pin was used in every other post to attach the fence to the deck. The posts are 3/32” square. The pins are glued into the posts but not the deck. A length of.009” rope was attached with a clovehitch to the shroud ( with a bit of varnish) where the top of the deadeye is located. This rope is used to tie the knot where the shroud passes itself at the top of the deadeye. Once these are finished it will be just a matter of cleaning up some ropes on the deck. Hope to see you soon.
  20. Paul Le Wol
    Bob, you’ve built a beautiful ship. Perhaps you can start a build log so that we can see her completion. I have been using Ropes of Scale synthetic rope and using Vallejo Matt Polyurethane Varnish straight out of the bottle to shape it. If you need it to look like wire rope or cable I think Ben will work with you to get the color you need.
  21. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Patrick, welcome to MSW. Good luck with your Calypso. It looks like a very nice kit. If you want to comment on someone’s post, go to the bottom of their post and click on “Reply to this post “ .
  22. Paul Le Wol
    Dave, thank you very much for your support.
  23. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you Glen, I’m finally absorbing some of the metal work knowledge that’s available in this forum.
  24. Paul Le Wol
    Very nice Keith!
  25. Paul Le Wol
    Looking great Jacques!

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