Jump to content
MSW Spring Donation Drive

HIPEXEC

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,698

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by HIPEXEC

  1. HIPEXEC
    I can't get to the engraving store on account of this virus. So, my ship has to wait until the store re-opens to do the finishing touches. I hope all is well by all of you. Social distancing has its pros and cons, but we have to put a stop to this scourge.
  2. HIPEXEC
    I added a pennant on the main mast and made paper plaques to simulate the brass ones I'll have made. I installed a miniature replica of the USMC Officer's sword. I'm still cleaning up and repairing minor damage. I'm getting there even after over three years!
  3. HIPEXEC
    I'm basically finished with what I can do. Now, I have to go through the instructions, pictures and drawings to catch small stuff I might have missed. Also, I'm still "graying" the pure white running rigging. I might add a mast top pendant. I'll also have to find my original files on the Argus to make sure I got it right. I can't believe I started this model on January 19, 2017! That's three years three months of working on it. Of course Stage four cancer and 20% deep tissue burns got in the way.
  4. HIPEXEC
    I finished the lifts and braces ! Now I have to repair all the damage I did when my bandages caught on completed rigging! I'm also "graying" up the new rigging. It is pure white and very glaring.
  5. HIPEXEC
    You're a good man, Jesse Lee
  6. HIPEXEC
    All the foremast yards are now braced. I examined my work using these bandaged and burned hands and I'm aghast at the amateurish work I am now turning out. Compared the my past two ships which can be examined with a magnifying glass for fine details, these look like a cartoon version of ship building.
  7. HIPEXEC
    Thank goodness I've built and rigged other model ships because The Model Shipways instruction manual, pictures and plans are impossible for a person like me to make anything. I don't have the ability to follow detailed written instructions like in the Model Shipways book. They are full of very elaborate and detailed written instructions. I need pictures and detailed prints to build. Most good kits provide both. Different people have different aptitudes. I was a military and airline pilot for 30 years and all approach and departure charts had both type instructions: detailed written and detailed pictorial.
  8. HIPEXEC
    Now i'm bracing all the yards. Tough with my fingers.
  9. HIPEXEC
    I'm rigging the anchors cock-billed and ready to drop.
  10. HIPEXEC
    Putting together the anchors. Had to take a break from rigging! They'll need some touching up before mounting them.
  11. HIPEXEC
    All yards are finally lifted. Now I just have to belay the last two. 🤪
  12. HIPEXEC
    Thanks, Jesse. After nine months, the pain blends in with normal sensations.
  13. HIPEXEC
    Long time no posts? Are you OK?
  14. HIPEXEC
    Two yards to go! My next build has to be with minimum rigging...theses bandaged fingers don't want to work easily.
  15. HIPEXEC
    Main topgallant yard gets a lift
  16. HIPEXEC
    Another lift rigged on the fore mast
  17. HIPEXEC
    The lifts on the main yard "un-rigged" itself so I had to re-rig it. I also just finishing the foremast yard lift.
  18. HIPEXEC
    Good luck! First planking is hard
  19. HIPEXEC
    I've installed the lifts for the main yard. Tough with bandaged fingers
  20. HIPEXEC
    All the yards are hung. Now, I have to rig all the sheets, guys and lifts. Very tedious and slow work.
  21. HIPEXEC
    Half way with hanging the yards
  22. HIPEXEC
    Jesse, This ship has all paper flags.
  23. HIPEXEC
    If you have a color printer you can print high quality paper flags that look okay and you can make the ripple effect you might want to have.
  24. HIPEXEC
    Two yards down...six yards to go. My next build won't have this much rigging. My old burned fingers don't work well anymore
  25. HIPEXEC
    I rigged the first yard. The main spar to the lower main mast.

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...