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  1. Jim Lad
    Hello Lars, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  2. Jim Lad
    Things have been moving ahead a little faster than I expected as most of the corrections on deck have now been made, so I've been able to concentrate more on the standing rigging. I'm now back to the main mast and currently working on the royal rigging, so almost finished there. You can also see additional coils hanging over the side indicating that the lower halliard fittings are in and ready for the yards. The fore spreaders are also now fitted. I always fit the spreaders after the rigging is done, as the very slightest alteration in angle of any of the upper backstays throws the spreader alignment off, so better to fit the spreader to the actual rigging than the other way around. You will also see a clothes peg hanging on the main topmast stay near the deck. This is as a result of a self-inflicted disaster when I tried to trim a loose end down near the foremast base and slipped, slicing neatly through one leg of the stay! 🥵🥵🥵 I think it will be OK but will see tomorrow when I try to complete the repair. John
  3. Jim Lad
    Hello Andrew and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  4. Jim Lad
    That stem looks really good, Phil. John
  5. Jim Lad
    Excellent paddle wheel frames, Keith! John
  6. Jim Lad
    Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  7. Jim Lad
    For comparison, a contemporary painting of the Revenue Cutter 'Stag' giving chase off the needles. Note the size of the boat stowed on the starboard side of the deck. John
  8. Jim Lad
    Looking good, Phil! Cut from brass or copper sheet if you have the metal working tools, Phil, otherwise (as it will be painted) you can make it more easily from a good quality, close grained timber - either cut from a single piece or built up from various smaller parts as convenient. John
  9. Jim Lad
    First class awning, mate! John
  10. Jim Lad
    Just superb, Paul! John
  11. Jim Lad
    I've already got my seat pulled up ready for the start! John
  12. Jim Lad
    Håkan, I am an absolute master of 'just put it down where you last used it you know where it is, spend half an hour looking for it again'. I think I would have time to build many more models if I could only master that important workshop skill! 😀 John
  13. Jim Lad
    Truly beautiful "blacksmithing", Valeriy! John
  14. Jim Lad
    Your little pond yacht is looking very smart, mate! John
  15. Jim Lad
    No worries with that engine room detail, Keith. You can handle it! John
  16. Jim Lad
    Always a big moment when the hull planking is finally completed, Phil! John
  17. Jim Lad
    Thanks for all those lovely images of the details of your model, Gary! John
  18. Jim Lad
    A cunning idea to create that upswept stern, Keith. John
  19. Jim Lad
    Hello Phillipe, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  20. Jim Lad
    Great story, Phil! Over here, our Government was in the process of instituting a lottery system to call up people for the army (1 in three were "lucky" if I remember) for Vietnam when I came ashore to study for my second mate's exam. I was 10 days too old for the first draft - which I considered fortunate as they were taking people out of navigation school for the army. The only was out of being in the P.B.I. (poor b..... infantry) was to join the army water transport section prior to being selected in the lottery. At least they were offering instant commissions for anyone with a second mate's ticket! John
  21. Jim Lad
    Keith absolutely nothing like your model, of course, but I thought that this image of a model in the Whitby Museum might show you the interesting effect of a steel hull left as polished timber. John
  22. Jim Lad
    Looking good, Phil! John
  23. Jim Lad
    She's looking very nice, Al! As for the tidy desk, there's an old saying - "A tidy desk; a tidy mind - take your pick!" 🙂 John
  24. Jim Lad
    An interesting pearler, Tony. Very unusual that she was built in Hong Kong, and she was quite small for a pearler. Have you any reason to believe that her hull differed substantially from the usual pearler/ If not, you'd get a pretty accurate waterline model by using one of the few available plans of locally built luggers. John
  25. Jim Lad
    A good start, Keith. John

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