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Ferrus Manus
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We're a short way up the hull with the paintwork on the stbd side. Some of the running strakes will be banded, as in the box art, at one inch intervals. The base decorations for the stbd side may or may not be done tonight, probably not. Tomorrow is already an early morning. I will show you as much as i get done tonight.
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First things first, painting. I want to give you all (and especially Kirill) some insight into how i paint. The very first thing i did with both hull halves was to paint everything above the first wale a sort of beige color: This will serve as the base for the future paint that will go on the upper half of the ship. I am doing a good portion of this in line with the box art painting, however, i will likely change some things and keep others.
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The stated scale is, i think, 1/168. Not 1/600.
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Give 'em the old pirate treatment. Maybe if gibbeting was still around, IP theft wouldn't be an issue. 🤣
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There's quite the story behind this one. This is a model I have walked past for years at my local hobby shop, before this event took place. I have a great uncle who lives in Reno Nevada that i rarely get to see. Well, my dad and his girlfriend went to see him yesterday, and i got to talk to him on the phone. He said he wanted me to build a ship for him to display at his house, and this is the story thereof. I was able to go to the model shop a few hours ago and pick this up. Another comment: The stated scale of the ship (1/150) is laughably inaccurate. This replica of a ~100 foot ship builds to around 19 inches. A 1/150 model of said ship would build to about 9 inches. The math computes to a scale of about 1/64, and to back that up, this is actually the same mold as the 1/64 Revell mayflower. I am impressed by the size, which i consider purely a canvas for extra detail that's impossible to put onto a smaller scale ship. As for painting, I will likely base the majority of the paintwork, especially the upper paintwork, on the box art as well as my Golden Hinde. Ready? Here we go!
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ZHL are known pirates. There is NO forgiveness or support for known pirates, whether the kit itself is pirated or not. Buy from CAF, because ZHL probably stole it from them. The US patent office isn't doing its job.
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I guess i had simply failed to understand what you had planned to do.
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That's the same reason i decided to forego the parrels on my galleon; not enough space.
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I see what you did with the sail on the first one. This time, i would recommend putting some kind of glue on the sail before it's rigged, so you don't have to fix it in place with a wire. Even better, i would remake the sail using silkspan.
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I could probably find you something on how exactly parrels are rigged, if you wanted.
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Also, you could definitely do the parrel right if you wanted. There's certainly enough space there, and you could definitely find or make a belaying setup. If you want to do the parrel as it would have been, refer to the point at which i explained parrels and square sail tacking in this log.
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Moreover, if footropes did exist, they would probably have been tarred black lines.
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I'm pretty sure the footrope hadn't been invented by that point. Can someone else verify this?
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Perhaps those were the same type of ships that bore the Sea Peoples to the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean, and the rest is history.
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You're right, Roger. That's why I am doing this mostly for fun, and plus, it's useful for my scratch projects in the future.
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How would you possibly be able to construct a shell-first carvel-built ship? At least with clinker-built ships, the overlap of the planks provides a general direction for where the planks should go.
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What i find interesting is that this is probably the same type of ship that St. Paul would have traveled to Rome on. Granted, that ship would have been constructed in the first century AD.
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This is a picture of the Vasa that i have significantly edited in order to make the lower planking more visible. I don't see any drop strakes. The below-waterline planking is nearly impossible to see clearly in any photo i've seen.
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