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  1.    Jolly Jo reacted to a post in a topic: Lady Nelson by Lapinas - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64
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  6. Jolly Jo
    She looks absolutely magnificent! That's (a) top notch craftsmanship, congratulations!
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  11. Jolly Jo
    Aloha ye all! Back from my holidays it was time to go on with the build. After being a little lost what to do next I had the revolutionary idea to just follow the plan... This means fiddly stuff. The bowsprit and anchor bitts are just loosely put on deck yet. I also stained the port cap rail as it was of a lighter tone than the starboard one.
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  20. Jolly Jo
    Very nice indeed! Now, if anything goes wrong it's your fault 😆
  21. Jolly Jo
    She's a beauty. Your attention to detail is remarkable, well done!
  22. Jolly Jo
    Well done, Mark! Scrap wood is so versatile if one has the right idea.
  23. Jolly Jo
    That's excellently crafted, Steve, bravo!
  24. Jolly Jo
    Thanks Mark. It's basically double cooked linseed oil with pine extract from the German manufacturer VLVR
  25. Jolly Jo
    The bulwarks got raised as planned after the third gun port was cut. As the oak strakes were wider than the bulwarks I had to cut and sand them to the right width. After repainting the bulwarks the walnut cap rails could finally be glued on and oiled.
  26. Jolly Jo
    Good job Mark, the bend looks really good! As an old the saying goes: The better the bending, the less the sanding
  27. Jolly Jo
    Blackened the barrels with burnishing gel and built a carriage prototype from oak today. The wheels are from stained 4 and 3 mm beech wood as I didn't have any other at hand. As the oak didn't stand out much from the deck I decided to paint the carriage red and also sand the tail piece. The wheels are darkened in Photoshop to decide whether to paint them black or go for walnut. I'll order some walnut.
  28. Jolly Jo
    Well done Steve! You will win a lot of prizes...
  29. Jolly Jo
    That's what I thought about my first first planking as well but it doesn't have to be perfect to fulfill it's purpose anyway. And it is likely to look much better than you think after sanding. Good luck!
  30. Jolly Jo
    A satin look to match the anchors would be nicer, at least to my taste.
  31. Jolly Jo
    Hello all, today's work was making a mockup for playing around with bulwark proportions and different aspects of armament. My plan is to raise the bulwarks. At first I thought I put the deck to high but I didn't. Checking other build logs again I saw that all of them had about two and a half planks above the false deck whereas I put on just two. Therefore I will top them up with two stripes of 1.4mm oak wood of my stash I already bent to shape. The mockup represents the new height. Next will be cutting two additional gun ports aft. I couldn't shake the feeling that just two 3-pounder guns per side wouldn't have been enough, even for self defense. Therefore I contacted @Daniel Dusek, the new owner of Mamoli, who generously sent me 6 barrels of his new designs for this ship. The barrels are a bit longer and better made - all muzzles got the same, evenly centered bore now. Thanks again Daniel! I was also thinking about the gun port dimensions which are currently 8x8mm like stated in the manual. I tried 7mm square on the mockup and like it better so I will change the existing gun ports accordingly. Next will be scratch building carriages (the one on the pictures is an original cast metal one for the small guns) and then gun port covers.
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