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  1. Jim Lad
    A big day (for me, at least) at the museum on Friday. That was the day that I finally finished fitting all the rope coils at the foremast and could get the well deck boats fitted along with the well deck gangway. It was a bit of a struggle to get it all in around the running rigging, but it finally fitted beautifully! John
  2. Jim Lad
    I think all that fine tuning would drive me bananas! 😧 John
  3. Jim Lad
    Lee, steel wire rope is actually a mid grey colour when new, but quickly weathers to a dark grey. simply use dark grey of black thread where there is steel wire. John
  4. Jim Lad
    Great to see you back on deck, Nils. I trust your good lady is now fully recovered? John
  5. Jim Lad
    Poor old Captain Bill looks very cold out there in the open, Keith! 🙂 John
  6. Jim Lad
    An interesting ship to model - made famous, of course, by the painting 'Nelson and the bear'. John
  7. Jim Lad
    Up to your usual standard, Siggi! John
  8. Jim Lad
    Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  9. Jim Lad
    Looks good, but I think I'll have to stick to pencil and paper! John
  10. Jim Lad
    Coming along very nicely, Antony. John
  11. Jim Lad
    Very courageous move to simply start again! John
  12. Jim Lad
    Haven't looked in for a while - she's looking magnificent! John
  13. Jim Lad
    Wow! Planking starting already. John
  14. Jim Lad
    Beautiful work on the radiators, Greg! John
  15. Jim Lad
    Thank you for your fulsome praise, Keith! John
  16. Jim Lad
    Looking good! John
  17. Jim Lad
    Make sure you're wearing a mask when you sand that stuff, mate! John
  18. Jim Lad
    Congratulations Craig and Keith! 😀 John
  19. Jim Lad
    White would be a good choice, Keith - make the interior details stand out a little more. John
  20. Jim Lad
    That's looking so good, Craig! John
  21. Jim Lad
    I can just hear two naval architects talking, "You call that a catwalk? Hold my beer." 😀 John
  22. Jim Lad
    I don't consider it hijacked, Pat! It's really sad that Victoria, with its rich maritime heritage, has to rely on privately run museums to conserve and display that heritage. By the way, we have a 'Couta boat on display in the floating collection at the ANMM - couldn't get much more Victorian than that! John
  23. Jim Lad
    Coming along very nicely indeed. John
  24. Jim Lad
    Thank you all for your very kind comments. Wefalck - the model had the strange legal status of being owned by the museum but not being part of the museum's collection. John
  25. Jim Lad
    A big day for the 'Duchess' yesterday. As you can see from the images, she now has all six yards crossed on the foremast. still some rigging to complete on the royal, but at least its there! The other big news is that our Senior Curator confirmed to me yesterday that the model has now been accepted into the museum's collection in spite of still being far from completion. This is really big news, as normally only completed models are ever accepted. John

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