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Jim Lad
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Looking forward to seeing the boiler embellished with these delightful details! John -
Pat, I suspect that your lithographs may have let you down on this occasion. As Wefelck says, brails could only be used on a loose footed sail and they were not required at all on a hoisting gaff, as the sail was furled by lowering the gaff, not by brailing up the sail. The mention in the warrant of 'peak' and 'throat' brails also sounds unusual; it sounds more like they're talking about the halliards! There obviously must have been sheets to control the spanker - are they perhaps listed under the boom rather than the sail for some reason? The trysail wouldn't need a gaff, but it would be unusual for the storm sail to be rigged differently to the regular sails at that would entail a lot of extra rigging and unrigging when the sails were changed. I'll be happy when you finish this model and go on to something a little less mysterious! 😀 John
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Lovely work, Craig. John
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Cap San Diego by mikegr - 1/160
Jim Lad replied to mikegr's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1901 - Present Day
Those new railings make a huge difference. John -
Hello John, and a warm welcome to the forum from Sydney! John
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Never mind the slow progress - it isn't a race! John
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Welcome back to our wonderful hobby, and a warm welcome to SW from 'Down Under'. John
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Hello Dave, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Is there anything you don't have in there? 😀 John
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That's a very nice looking boiler you're building there. John
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That deck covering is very realistic, Gary. Very well done, indeed. John
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Plenty of space to work there, Håkan! Looks like you've got a nice supply of timber over there on the far right. John
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Good morning all, My good friend and fellow museum model maker, Col Gibson, now feels that he has reached the end of his model making career and has asked me to find a good home for three of his treasured books - Harold Underhill's 'Masting and Rigging' and the two volumes of 'Plank on Frame Models'. These books are free to a good home but unfortunately are reasonably heavy and will cost a fair bit to post, so I thought as a first step I would offer them to any of our members who are in the Syndey (Australia) area and can pick them up. I can easily get them to the museum. Alternatively, if any members are planning a trip through Sydney in the reasonably near future, I would be happy to hold on to them for a while. Please let me know if you are interested. John
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Phil, this is not what a gentleman does! I remember reading an account of a Marine Lieutenant at Trafalgar who said in a letter to his sister after the battle that he spent the entire battle desperately trying not to simply throw himself on the deck and hide as he walked 'casually' amongst his men! In an article on your Civil War I read that one reason for the heavy casualties during the conflict was that at the time it was considered the manly thing to do to just keep on advancing no matter what the consequences. I think if we're not careful we can fall into the trap of projecting our way of thinking onto our ancestors. From what I can gather they saw the world and life very differently to us. 😉 John
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Looks good, Jeff. John
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Thanks, Gary! John
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That stem band was well worth the time and trouble, Phil. John
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Very nice looking planking. You could always paint the underwater hull and leave the remainder as polished timber. John
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Epoxy is always my fall back option when i have something difficult to glue! That bow is looking good, Phil. John
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Looking good, Keith. Why not simply lengths of wire soldered across the ends for the handles? John
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