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Bolsters? I think I read about that a few days ago. The ship is looking really fine. Excellent work all the way. If it's your first rigging job I wouldn't be surprised. (I'm so glad I only have one mast to deal with.)
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I understand your feelings. I went away from MSW last year thinking exactly the same thoughts but returned recently to have a second attempt. It's not the chattiest of the modelling forums so far but as Keith suggests above, things might pick up in the northern winter. I personally believe that the very serious and scholarly mission statement of the NRG and the emphasis on making build logs a 'resource' for other builders in the future rather than a party right now for current members, discourages written encouragement, personal stuff (such as your memorial), and above all, humour in the logs. It feels safer to just like a post. (Even as I write this, I'm wondering if I will be in trouble for digressing into site politics.) However, it's still a brilliant site for seeing really good models built so I hope you find it possible to continue. The site will get even quieter if we all jump ship. There might be 40,000 members signed up but the great majority of the posting seems to come from just a few hundred people.
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That is how we fastened the elastic onto our catapults back in the sixties. Exactly the same technique. We knew it as whipping. Thanks for the memories. 👦
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Yes, indeed - excellent use of such simple jigs. I think your results will be in the Goldilocks zone. You'll get the sort of consistency that suits a model made from organic materials, but not the soulless exact duplication that comes with injected plastic or 3D prints.
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Hello from West Virginia
Jack-in-the-Blue replied to ExiledArtist's topic in New member Introductions
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They certainly are tiny. I think you deserve much credit for carrying out such a complicated sequence, so many times, with such good results.
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That’s pretty darn good. I use filler like icing a cake 🎂!
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Welcome aboard, Giuseppe! I think you will find that the internet adds a lot to the pleasures of modelling. I'm looking forward to seeing your work.
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Look for a set of nut files on a luthier or guitar maker’s website. They are very small. I can’t say how small because I seem to have lost mine. Otherwise, perhaps a micro saw with the corners of the teeth ground round? For cleaning holes, rather than slots, look for broaches. They come in very small sizes.
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WARNING: I may have been mistaken 😳 I have found some evidence of high mounted channels in a book called The Built Up Ship Model by Charles G Davis. This book deals with his building of a scratched USS Lexington. I think David might be American, I only received the book today so I haven’t read much yet. Now the high mounted channels might be American and French practice, resulting in my not finding examples in British based references, or this might be a peculiar exception. I don’t know. So I must leave you to decide whether or not to follow the kit instructions. As always, it’s more complicated than it first appeared. I will still lower my channel but I no longer do so because they are definitely historically ‘wrong’ but because I think they will look better on my wales.
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My more useful second guess is that they are wrapped to cover the broken strands of steel rope which would have been a menace when folding the rope back to clear the anchor.
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Nice sofa. You are doing some good work here. I like the efforts you make to understand what's going on, the various functions of the parts of the ship etc. It's making an entertaining log. Will you incorporate the cloth/rope wrapped sections of rail at the bow? I guess that are done like that to make them more comfortable to perch upon for the late evening pipe of baccy?
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I understand! I am trying to strip out the 20th century safety features such as those engine room ventilators and the life-jacket lockers. My version of the model also has the channels fitted in a very strange position at the top of the bulwarks just below the rail. It makes no structural sense and is completely ahistorical as far as I can tell. I believe the explanation is that the replica is meant for motoring, not sailing in any kind of wind. The mast is short by about 30% and if the channels were fitted at deck level as usual, the shrouds would foul the capping rails. Since AL have given me what I am assuming is the correct, tall mast, I'll fit my channels where they should be. In fact that is the next job on my list. I had similar problems with OcCre's Beagle which is based on a non-functional so-called replica of the Beagle built as a tourist attraction. I thought it was about as close to the real thing as a carousel horse is to a thoroughbred. Meh!
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