Jim Lad
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Your hull is cleaner, Bob!
When you add the flag staffs etc. she'll be a dead ringer for the original.John
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Always good to find photos of the original, Michael!
John
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Very sad news indeed, Michael.
Hopefully Conway will resume publication in the future.
John
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She' going to look brilliant on the water, mate!
John
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Hmmmm. Very interesting idea, Michael. I'll have to give it a try.
John
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Excellent blacksmithing there. Just a bit of advice - don't fit them permanently until you need to - they'll catch on everything within ten metres!
John
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She's coming along nicely, Ollie.
Just a totally trivial point - did you know that for some totally unknown reason most boats stowed on stern davits are stowed with their bow to starboard? It's not a rule and it's not invariable practice, but it just seems that most boats are stowed that way!
Re your deadeye spacer;- that's the type used by Harold Underhill, but I've found that a 'single hole' type spacer is a pest as the deadeyes keep trying to turn around the spacer while you're working on them. Try a 'two hole' type for comparison. Get a small scrap of wood and, using a deadeye as a jig, drill two small holes spaced so that they line up with the two parallel holes on the deadeye at each end, spaced so that the deadeyes will be the correct distance apart. glue short pieces of wire into the holes and the spacer can then work by holding two holes on each deadeye, preventing them from turning when you put tension on the shroud.
John
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That looks really good, Bob!
John
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Well, Danny, if you're not making a silk purse, you're at least making a fine linen one!
John
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Nice to see this interesting build continuing!
John
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The country, type of ship and time period would help, mate!
John
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You have been busy indeed, mate!
John
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All up to your usual standard, Remco!
John
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Just catching up, Mark. She really looks first class!
John
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Nicely done, Ollie. A good finishing detail might be a painter spliced to that ringbolt forward and coiled down in the bottom of the boat.
John
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I think it's up to you, Bob - whatever you think will look best on the model.
She would surely have been flying flags at some time - certainly for her launch and probably on national holidays, so if you fly flags you'll still be historically accurate.
John