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    Still stringing the upper ratlines. To get a break from that task I built the top, topgallant and royal yards. They're just sitting in place temporarily of course. Still a lot of work to be done before they're added.
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    I came across an older pic of the Captain's quarters before I added it. I sanded off the moulded paneling from the walls and made new paneling from strips of styrene. I can't remember why I did that now but I must of had a reason...haha.
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    To get a break from doing ratlines I add lashing to the studding booms.
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    Still doing ratlines on the upper masts. A time consuming tedious job as y'all know. The pic is of the lower foremast with spar pole and one run of ratline. As I mentioned previously I am holding off on the lower ratlines till I have some of the running rigging finished. I want to get the uppers done before I add the yards.
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    Thanks Todd. The moulded wood grain looked to pronounced, so I sanded it smooth. (I'm sanded the grain down on every part that has it as well). Once painted I ran a piece of worn out 320 grit sandpaper over it.
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    On the spar deck Christmas 2022.
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    Thanks Robert. The kit has many shortcomings but it does have the potential to build into a pretty nice representation of the ship. So much more could be done than I'm doing. As an example (It's to late at this stage) I'm really wishing I would have fully rigged the carronades at least.
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    Uh oh. Wife said captain Hull might have scurvy...lol.
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    How I'm modifying the kit's rigging blocks.
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    Airbrushing the Model Monkey 3D printed carronades. I used these for all 24 ports.
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    A bit of added detail for the kit's charlie noble.
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    How I fixed the poorly fitting masts. The mast's rakes were way off on my kit. I made new "steps" from styrene and glued them over the moulded ones on the gun deck. Then it was a matter of tweaking the holes till I was satisfied with how the masts looked before glueing on the top deck.
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    On my kit the decks were very poor fitting to the hull. I spent a lot of time trimming, sanding and tweaking the decks before glueing them in. As a result clamps were only needed amid ship. I was happy with that.
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    While doing a bit of research I read that there's good argument Constitution not having hinged gun port lids originally. Also that the practice was to sail with the guns run out, except in adverse weather. I don't know, but that bit of info was all I needed to make the decision to eliminate the lids. I filled in the moulded notches for them. I also filled in the bridle ports.
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    Backtracking with some more photos of the build over the last couple of years.
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    Thanks Kenneth.
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    Last year for my birthday my wife surprised me with the Heller 1/100 Victory kit. I guess she wants to just keep me in the workroom forever! Lol. I couldn't stand it any longer and had to pull out the hull. The Victory next to Constitution.
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    On to the upper ratlines. Ugh! I'm going to hold off on doing the lowers untill a lot of the running rigging is done. I've had to modify my workbench to do the upper ratlines. This is so I can rest my elbows on a surface for steadiness. This catches things up to where I'm at on this build presently. I apologize for rushing this log up to this point. There was a lot of things done to the kit to fix things that I haven't mentioned. But we're up to speed now.
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    The lower and top mast yards test fitted.
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    All of the standing rigging is done.
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    Bowsprit rigging.
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    Mizzen stays.
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    The lower main and fore stays. I replicated these the best I could from photos I've looked at. I've since added thicker saddle rope.
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    Backstays

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