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Dave_E

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  1. Dave_E
    Nice! Start a log and we can follow your progress! 👍
  2. Dave_E
    Welcome aboard! Nothing like a shipyard that has air conditioning! 👍😎
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    Welcome to the forum! 😀
  4. 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! 👍
  5. Dave_E
    I’m pulling up a chair! 👍😁
  6. Dave_E
    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. 😑
  7. Dave_E
    Hi Keith, I’ll turn this into mm and layout the frames. Thank you! 👍😀
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    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. 😊
  9. Dave_E
    Bienvenu sur le forum! Glad to have you aboard! Look forward to your build. 👍
  10. 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. 😊
  11. Dave_E
    REALLY NICE! 👍 Is your shop in the basement? Ah the basements. Fond memories of train rooms and rec rooms in the basements of relatives. My entire family was from Green Bay, spent a few years there, graduated from West High, class of 75. What body of water will you sail her on?
  12. Dave_E
    Thank You All for the input. I put on a “wash coat” last night before bed. All it takes is a day, can’t explain it as I walked into the yard this morning and WOW, the first thinned coat looked great. In fact if I was building a “weathered, in dire need of a refit” ship, I could leave the first coat alone and go for it. I’m very positive after the second coat (maybe a third if I have to), it will look like I thought it should. 😀
  13. Dave_E
    Hi John, Welcome aboard! As you may have discovered already, there is a lifetime or two of modeling experience here. Friendly and helpful hobby enthusiasts here for sure. 👍😀
  14. Dave_E
    VERY NICE site Wefalk! Thanks for pointing that out. 👍😀
  15. Dave_E
    Thanks Mark, I’m setting the pictures up side by side on the computer to compare. 🙂 They are REALLY close. If I put the paint coupon up to the light it gets brighter like yours did with the flash. I guess I'll go with it unles someone has another suggestion.
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    Hi All, I had a paint scheme worked out for the Lady Nelson and I bought a set of paints for The "Mars" from Caldercraft. But after a sample aplication on the same kind of wood (walnut), the Ocre yellow isn't what I thought it would be... it's more of an orange color that yellow I think. Also the paint that is labelled "dull Black" sure isn't too dull after the second coat. See pictures below. So what color is the brighter yellow that is used in Nelsons Navy for the gunport areas? What brand also perhaps? Thanks
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    Humblest apologies
  18. Dave_E
    Show us what you come up with when you do.
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    Hi Kirby, When you were fitting the pedestal mounts, how loose were they on the keel? Are you going to rely on the nails going into the baseboard for the stability of the model?
  20. Dave_E
    Hi All, Good hard couple of days. First picture is the stern facia... red arrows show where I broke it while working with it, green arrows are where I had to cut to resize it to fit. Somewhere way back when assembling the frames, I got that last one a little mis-shaped and have had to adjust everything. 😐 I have filled the gaps and with paint, I think it will be fine. I've been gripping the hull pretty good and must now get the dinky, fragile parts "feel" going. Got the main wales on. But where I need ya'lls help is the stand mounts. As you can see by the picture, they are rather loose and really don't fit. These are what came in the Amati kit. How do you secure these to the keel with such a sloppy fit of the brass mounts?
  21. Dave_E
    Condolences Steve, May our Lord give you peace and comfort. 🙏 Excellent work on the ship.
  22. Dave_E
    Hi SUB, welcome aboard! Good decision! Lots of learning and help to be had from this forum, good choice! Start a build log, I think that's how you'll get the most help. 👍
  23. Dave_E
    Hi All, After sanding, and filling and sanding some more, I'm to the point of stopping... cause if'n I don't, I'll burn through somewhere. Counting on the paint to help with imperfections (I hope). Included pictures of the starboard side in the rough to sanded and filled. On to the main and upper wales while I'm in a plank bending frame of mind, then the decks. The transome was sporty. I am amazed how strong these things are. I was really man handling it while working on it. I'm also glad it looks better 2-3 feet away. 😆
  24. Dave_E
    Keep at it Masa, looking good. 👍😄
  25. Dave_E
    Hi Mark, welcome aboard Mate, glad to meet you. 👍

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