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  1. chris watton
    I cannot take any credit for the packing of the kits, that honour goes to my wife, Chantelle.
  2. chris watton
    That mizzen does seem to have excessive rake. I know the mizzen rakes aft quite a bit, but are you sure the mast is stepped in the hole on the keel correctly? They way everything is designed should ensure the masts are all aligned and angled perfectly. ETA, It may be OK, here is the prototype model:
  3. chris watton
    We already have Scharnhorst and Titanic boxes, so I would assume it would be Titanic size?
  4. chris watton
    Quick update, I now have Saucy jack sail sets in stock (the premium ones), they finally arrived. Also had another 20 sets each for Nisha and Erycina, with ranger sets being produced now. Also being produced is a small quantity of premium Alert sail sets (only 8 sets due to high cost). I will have one set available soon, the one shown in the pics. Alert sets will be £120 per set, but they are very expensive and very time consuming to produce, with the bolt ropes being hand sewn.
  5. chris watton
    Damn, yet another cool kit I will have to buy but never find the time to build....
  6. chris watton
    The sail set Jim used is the premium version. I should have my delivery of these sets within the next two weeks.
  7. chris watton
    Not me, good Lord! Several Pellew portraits were used, and drawings of contemporary uniform to fill in the blanks.
  8. chris watton
    Just had the first render of the 3-d file of the new figure for my approval. This is Pellew, Hornblower is being worked on now, so next week, I will have the two new figures and the Indy figurehead. This will eventually be looking out from the poop on Jim's model! ETA - Pellew is modelled in a captain's outfit, as I will be developing Indy as she most likely appeared between 1795-98ish I will most likely do a 48th and 96th version for this and Hornblower/tall skinny lieutenant...
  9. chris watton
    The later razee's were cut down old 74's, Indy is a cut down 64 of the Ardent Class, same class as Agamemnon.
  10. chris watton
    She wasn't called a 'Super Frigate' for nothing! lol (Vic is missing a large chuck of her stern, so the sizes can be deceiving)
  11. chris watton
    This will be Indy's colour scheme, more or less
  12. chris watton
    Your patience must be boundless!
  13. chris watton
    My gut instinct told me the ratlines would have spanned all shrouds, so that's how I show them.
  14. chris watton
    I do use Plastikote, have done for years, but it is James who made the models you see in the manuals - but I did also use it for the Fifie and Zulu hulls, and James did too
  15. chris watton
    Damn that's big! Am sure I could fit in that hull!
  16. chris watton
    All my model work is done on our dining room table, and that includes the 1.6 metre long Amati Victory.
  17. chris watton
    Without the flying jibboom, it makes the length a paltry 1245mm - or just mention the hull length only! Or just the deck length...
  18. chris watton
    I can now tell you that the overall length of this model will be around 1350mm, with flying jibboom and Mizzen driver taken into account.
  19. chris watton
    It is very nicely done indeed, very well done! Regarding the stern resin decoration, I have since halved the thickness, making it much easier to manipulate.
  20. chris watton
    There will be no banana shaped keel on this, or any of my new kits. I have said this numerous times before, but I could not have designed these in this way if ply was my only alternative, thickness tolerances are comical, and with MDF, it is kind of 'homogenous', so much easier to sand, with no harder and softer parts to take into account. The problem with ply is that the best stuff is not only very expensive, but also an absolute pig to sand, no fun. Then you get the cheaper crap that is next to useless except for the basest of kits that people start, thinking they got a bargain, and end up never finishing it. I know some still worry and some email about the health aspects when using MDF. I send them all the certificates of conformity. The UK supplier of the MDF also supply that exact same grade MDF to UK schools and universities. There are grades of this material (like ply), and I always make sure I get the safest (as I too sand this stuff, and laser cut it, day in a day out). I cannot wait to see Jim's model in its full livery!
  21. chris watton
    So very nicely done!
  22. chris watton
    Looks like I may be able to offer as an option a Hornblower figure, too. Or a tall thin young lieutenant...
  23. chris watton
    The figures are not cheap to commission (plus I am having the Indy figurehead sculpted at the same time). From a strictly personal point of view, I do not like to see a lot of figures (or sails) on a static scale model unless it is a diorama (Like what Hollowneck does so superbly). But maybe I will commission a gun crew at some point. I did think it would be pretty cool to have one figure, a famous captain who is linked with the subject, on the deck to give a greater sense of scale to the model.
  24. chris watton
    Wolfie Smith!
  25. chris watton
    You are right, I received my first laser machine a week before Christmas 2019, and my second machine almost two years' later to the day! Have learned a lot since then... Yesterday I submitted my drawings/designs for the Indy figurehead to my digital carver, plus details for a Pellew figure. So hopefully, these will be done in the next month or so, and Indy will have its most famous captain to grace the poop!

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