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  1. Dave_E
    Thank you all very much. Another interesting point (for me anyway) has been the history of the ship itself. I love all the period sailing ships (and tv shows and movies), and found that the early United States had part in their ongoing development and purpose on the ocean. After doing a lot of research on the colonial period ships (didn’t know there were so many actually), I decided to look and see how many kits there were available for United States Ships. Note… I’m not a scratch builder and know I’ll never be one, so the next best task is to find the best kits for representation of ship accuracy and then If I want to substitute or upgrade (bashing I think is what you call it) I certainly have the option. Thought I was building models and now I’m enjoying research on Naval history. 😀
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    I guess it was Mamoli... never heard of them.
  3. Dave_E
    Hi All, IF, you were to have decided you wanted to build the Rattlesnake, which company would you buy it from, Mamoli or Model Shipways?
  4. Dave_E
    Welcome Aboard Sir! Good place to hang out if your a modeler for sure! 👍
  5. Dave_E
    Hi All, Just a goofy question I was pondering as I get ready to mark the waterline. After the procedure of marking, there will be a pencil line. Do you mask allowing the pencil line to be covered by the white? Does the white paint cover the pencil line OK?
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    Works for me! Looks great! 👍
  7. Dave_E
    Looking REALLY good Alan! 👍😀
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    Hi Kirby, Had no brass rod in the box. I do have the hinges as you have on the etched sheet of parts, but they are decorative only. Instructions tell you to use an eye on the ship side… definitely not in the kit. I ordered the kit from Syren. I’ve looked at lots of build logs and some actually have a screw eye and they don’t look good at all in my opinion. Got the brass rod at the local Hobby Lobby (my favorite go to store for tools, glue, etc). 👍
  9. Dave_E
    Recon this set works for a 1:64 scale? It doesn’t say.
  10. Dave_E
    I think I just learned something else about kits... they don't come with everything. I need 1mm rod and eyelets for 1mm rod to install the rudder. What's your favorite goto store for this kind of stuff? 🙂
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    All I can do is totally agree with these gentlemen. Outstanding! 👍
  12. Dave_E
    First deck planking went pretty good I think. I trimmed the planks one at a time and fit one row at a time, then removed that row and glued each piece in one at a time. Thus I had no glue mess to scrape. I did scrape a tad to even out a couple high spots. Now on to the rudder before I do the capping rails.
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    Thanks Fellas, doing better this morning. 👍
  14. Dave_E
    I wonder how this would look if everyone voted today.
  15. Dave_E
    Deck planking is going very well. I decided to go with a king plank instead of one plank on either side of the false deck centerline as the plans call out. I also decided to try scale planking. I settled on 20’ scale planks. I’m very sure I didn’t get the beams to scale for the ship, but what I ended up with doesn’t look to bad. I fired the worker that left the deck planks in this pile. 😂 Almost done. Progress slowed down today, the Admiral had a bad cold last week and I have it now. Hopefully I’ll finish in a day or two.
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    Nice! Start a log and we can follow your progress! 👍
  17. Dave_E
    Welcome aboard! Nothing like a shipyard that has air conditioning! 👍😎
  18. Dave_E
    Welcome to the forum! 😀
  19. Dave_E
    I’m not to the rigging portion of my build yet, but I’m going to follow yours because you are doing a fabulous job of photographing your rigging work! Looks great! Thank you! 👍
  20. Dave_E
    I’m pulling up a chair! 👍😁
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    Planks that came with the kit are .13… got to go with that, I too have no way to cut them down without wasting many of them. 😑
  22. Dave_E
    Hi Keith, I’ll turn this into mm and layout the frames. Thank you! 👍😀
  23. Dave_E
    Hi All, I am using the LN as a learning curve (while hopefully building a model I’ll be proud of and will look good). I’ve decided to do the deck planking authentically, meaning to scale. I will not be trying the tree nails for this scale. I want y’all’s help with my math. If I measure the “deck length” in mm, I get 265. At 1:64 scale, that should be 55’. I read somewhere that deck planks were usually 6, 9 or 12’. Ok, so if I decide the shipyard is going to use 12’ planks that would convert to 57 mm (rounded down), correct? I just edited the post after reading that decking would/might have normally been in the 20-30’ range? Now I’m going to show my novice research skills… I have none. 😊
  24. Dave_E
    Bienvenu sur le forum! Glad to have you aboard! Look forward to your build. 👍
  25. Dave_E
    Outstanding! Where in GB do you live? Just something about a basement workshop/hobby room that I grew up with, never got out of my system. 😊

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