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  1. Frank Burroughs
    For a $100 dollars tools and wood were bought. Can't wait to start! Back to painting the hull.
  2. Frank Burroughs
    I can wait. Just spent a hundred dollars on wood and tools to make mast and spars. Looking further into "Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and Enhancing Commercial Kits". I do believe rummaging around in the NJR and asking too many questions will suffice for awhile
  3. Frank Burroughs
    alrightythen, I have a few questions before investing. What saw will work for cross grain work? How does a cork borer work? Which one would be suitable? What diameter brass wire for jackstays? So, I am buying hard maple for mast and birch for spars. How thick should the sheets for each be? where should the wood be bought?
  4. Frank Burroughs
    small flat razor file like this?
  5. Frank Burroughs
    10 Pc Dipped Handle Diamond Riffler File Set, 220 grit left over from my carving days. Could be 150 grit. Will this do as warding files?
  6. Frank Burroughs
    Before I buy, can some kind soul weigh in on whether these books would help significantly. 1) Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and Enhancing Commercial Kits Hardcover – April 15, 2022 by Kerry Jang 2) Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model construction from Kits by Frank Mastini 3) A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building by Richard, M Van Gaasbeek Or, is all I need is the guild and the USB stick The NJR vols 1 - 60 I bought! Please suggest any others. models to build I have: building now: Revell CSS Alabama 1961 1/96 scale Model Shipways Shipwright 3 Kit Combo Series gathering dust: Revell USS Constitution Old Ironside Ship 1:96 Scale Soliel Royal Aurora Heller no. 6550 1/100 scale planning on buying: Revell Cutty Sark 1/96 scale
  7. Frank Burroughs
    brass wire is used for jackstays => clever Do you paint the brass wire to blend in? bamboo kitchen skewers and bamboo toothpicks for small masts and spars => very useful I am wondering what kinds wood to buy for the main and foremast. Same with the larger spares. Trying not to buy power tools till the next model. Right now a dremel variable speed and a drill press are it. Read that it can be vertical or horizonal. Using the idea of a grooved board and sandpaper
  8. Frank Burroughs
    Thanks for the 1980 document. Brass has strength over wood. Looking into it this was found: "no lathe is needed: just make a shallow V-groove in a piece of wood, chuck up the wire into your mini-drill and work away on the way with a sanding stick with, say, 600 grit 'wet-n-dry' paper. Not even a mini-drill is needed, you can just hold the wire between your fingers, turn it by, say, 30° and count the number of strokes with the sanding stick to achieve roundness." wefalck Posted November 25, 2021 Sounds about right for a beginner . The model I am working on is Revell 1961 CSS Alabama 1/96 scale.
  9. Frank Burroughs
    Making a mast (or spars) from square stock By Elia Gianopulos and ed. by NRG Staff Is this a good start for replacing plastic mast and spars?
  10. Frank Burroughs
    Rethought putting in wooden dowels for the plastic mast and spars. After spending money for after-market parts it seems like the thing to do.
  11. Frank Burroughs
    Stated work on the model yesterday. Working on a 1/96 scale model is better for my hands. Decided to buy as many after-market upgrades as possible. No sense in making money and not spending whats left over needs. Wants come next, right! Weathering videos have conflicting choices. The kit instruction has me using turpentine. Any rule of thumb when using acrylic model paint washes to simulate rust, salt and other weathering? I need to do the best job possible with what I have. Not going to make this model historically accurate by cutting new gun ports and what not. Wooden mast and spars are for the next model. So is making my own rope and sails. One step at a time
  12. Frank Burroughs
    Upgrade Kits CSS Alabama model kit revell 1/96 Being this is my second model, a accurate model is not as important as learning. However if one or two might add greatly to the model. Revell CSS Alabama 1:96 - set of 434pcs CNC walnut blocks and Clamp of Deadeyes Revell CSS Alabama 1:96 - set of brass guns for kit Revell CSS Alabama 1:96 - set 60x wooden blocks, hooks, eyelets, ropes for guns Revell CSS Alabama 1:96 - set of 11 pcs profesional ropes and chains Any worth the money?
  13. Frank Burroughs
    Think Monday will see the first paint to go on her. Thanks for the listen.
  14. Frank Burroughs
    Funny you should ask. I am finishing the rigging this week. Primed the CSS Alabama for painting. Had to take a few months off to pay off my credit cards. God, I missed working with my hands! Picked up Aurora Heller "Soleil Royal", 1/100, as my fifth model
  15. Frank Burroughs
    I just finished this series. Most excellent read! Hornblower's legacy books by James Keffer 1 Hornblower and the Island (2014) 2 Brewer's Luck (2015) 3 Brewer and the Barbary Pirates (2019) 4 Brewer's Revenge (2017) 5 Brewer and the Portuguese Gold (2020) 6 Brewer and the Black Rose (2022) 7 Hornblower and the Journey Home (2021)
  16. Frank Burroughs
    "Voyage: A Novel of 1896" by Sterling Hayden is a very good read. It is the story of a clipper ship full of burning coal going around the Horn. Rich vs. poor, the sea hostile to man and the the struggle of man against himself.
  17. Frank Burroughs
    never thought of that
  18. Frank Burroughs
    A new printer needed. I assume a regular 11" by 8.5" page, color, printer would do. When I start printing out the 1/96 scale plans for scratch builds they can be taken to a print shop. Correct assumption?
  19. Frank Burroughs
    CSS ALABAMA: ANATOMY OF A CONFEDERATE RAIDER By Andrew Bowcock is way above the budget for this model. If I remake this ship in wood, I'll spring for it. CMS Alabama: Builder, Captain, and Plans by Charles Grayson Summersell and Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama by Stephen Fox are my purchases for this go around. Are you going to replace the plastic mast and yards with wood? I will probably not because this kit off Ebay is a mess. It is going to be raffled off when finished.
  20. Frank Burroughs
    Are your rigging instructions separate than your assemble instructions? I am looking for rigging instructions.
  21. Frank Burroughs
    I finally downloaded assemble instructions. The chrome parts are not included. The look like engine covers from a car model. Problem: rigging instructions are not included. This is going to be interesting. The search begins!
  22. Frank Burroughs
    I am wondering if the chrome parts are from another kit. Don't think 1800 ships had them, lol.
  23. Frank Burroughs
    The CSS Alabama has the hull already copper-ed. There are chrome parts. The blocks are tiny! I am using Tamiya acrylic paint. My gut says primer all but the chrome. Then I read about taking the chrome off and painting the parts silver. So, I ask, what would you prime?
  24. Frank Burroughs
    The CSS Alabama, Revell 1/96 scale, has arrived from Ebay today. It is the 1961 kit. A quarter of the parts are off the sprue. I am defiantly raffling this completed model off at the local weed shop! Still, for what was paid, I am happy.
  25. Frank Burroughs
    In this video he say the CSS Alabama length is correct. Revell's Kearsarge was released first . 2:38 in the video.

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