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Rustyj

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  1. You're off to a great start! I think you will be just fine and should be real comfortable.
  2. I scratch built one years ago and this is very inviting. Hmmmm.
  3. Thanks Glenn and B.E.. Thank you. It is Admiralty Paints wood (walnut) brown with some coats of dirty brown weathering power. Also thanks for all the likes and stopping by.
  4. Congratulations. You've done an outstanding job Tim. She's something to be proud of!
  5. I've made the bell standard and bowsprit bits. To attach the bell I used some brass wire instead of the supplied pin. I also assembled the windlass and ladders. As with everything else the fit of the parts was great and did not require any "adjustments" on my part.
  6. Very nice work Bob. I too found the aft deck rails very delicate and had to repair a couple.
  7. Thanks Matt and Bob. Much appreciated. Towels are the newest modeling tool for me. LOL Glad to hear you got your shot. We're up to a total of 2,000+ 1st and 2nd shots a day. Thanks Glenn, looking forward to seeing how that goes.
  8. Hi All. Things have been a little chaotic at work the past three weeks as we've become a mass vaccination site. Time in the shop and on MSW have been curtailed. Anyways here's a bit more of where I'm at. I've painted the gun ports and I highly suggest you paint them prior to pinning the PE to the outboard side. Saves a bit of clean up if you are a sloppy painter like me. Mast coats were added with the edges rounded just a bit. Just something I like the way it looks. The gallows, main mast bitts and staghorn cleat beams were assembled and placed along with the hatch combings. I also assembled a cannon and rigged it with the breach rope. I attempted the tackle but even using 2mm blocks and the smallest hocks I could make there was no space between the blocks and I did not like the look. So I will just be adding the breach rope.
  9. Thank you Jean-Paul. The PE is nice and thick so that helps. Also there's around four coats of primer then four coats of the final color. That gives it even more depth.
  10. The mid deck bulkhead which was made earlier has now been placed. The spiral staircase glued in, the tiller housing and tiller handle are done as well as placing the ships wheel and rigged the blocks to the tiller. I used a light brown rigging thread I had from Syren. Also the quarter deck companion rails, binnacle, mast coat and bitts have been glued in place too.
  11. Coming along nicely Bob. As far as canon rigging goes I'm gonna play with one and see how much tackle to add and what looks good.
  12. One of the best part of the build! Thanks the grating was just placed for the picture. For once I followed the directions.
  13. As the build has been progressing I've been building some of the various deck pieces. If I'm waiting for glue or paint to dry I would work on a piece. Here is some of what has been built so far. This will make things move much faster when I start working inboard.
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