Jim Lad
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Hello Ferrus, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Hello Brianne, and a warm welcome to the forum. you're certainly on a very tight schedule there. The planking of the wheelhouse might be very difficult given your time constraints, as you have no thickness to work with and to do that job properly you wound probably need to remove the entire deck structure from the model. Do you think you could cut a straight edge to the correct length and simply scribe lines into the structure to represent planking, as it will be painted anyway? The wooden 'rat lines' would have been fixed to the shrouds with 'U' bolts around the shrouds and bolted through the wooden slats. Simply gluing them in position might be the way to go as you have little time available. Check out the many images on line of the 'Krait' as she is now restored at the ANMM in Sydney for your correct colours. Best of luck with the restoration. John -
Hello HWM and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. As Mark said, it would be good if you could start a build log for your interesting project. john
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The sheathing looks good, Nils. I wouldn't have thought a work boat that far north would have gone to the expense of coppering. John
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Great news, AL! Welcome to the team. John
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Kevin, I agree that a new thread would be easier for people to pick up on and to follow. John
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Hello Dave, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Been a while since I checked in on your beautiful build, Keith. It used to be quite common for launches, especially work boats, to have a fore and aft aligned steering wheel. John
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Hello Dion, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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The backbone of your model looks really good, mate. Also very positive news re the tumor. Ain't chemo a fun time in your life!!! John
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Hello Evan, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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On our local news this morning as well. Looking forward to seeing your model grow. John
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Terry, at the period you're interested in, a tye was shackled to the centre of the yard and led up through a sheave in the fore side of the mast at finished in an eye on the after side. The halliard ran through the eye and ran down to the deck on each side. John
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Sorry, terry, my bad - maybe I wasn't thinking! Sheets come down to the mast; halliards are out at the rail - tackle on one side of the deck and secured to a pin on the other side. John
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Hello Mary, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. I'm really sorry to hear of the loss of your dad. maybe model making will help you to remember your good times with him. John
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Terry, i can't give you an answer for your specific ship, but by the late 19th century halliards typically led to blocks shackled to deck rings at the foot of the masts. This interesting photo clearly shows sheaves in the pedestals of a merchant ship of the early 1840's, but by your period there had been massive changes to rigging practice. John
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Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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My metal ruler was wrong.
Jim Lad replied to modeller_masa's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
In the end, a minor discrepancy in the accuracy of a ruler doesn't matter at all, so long as you always use the same ruler for your project. John- 34 replies
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A lovely build, Mike. all it needs to finish it off are some good chain and wire lashings on those tanks and trucks. john
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A very nice recovery. John
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Yes, that's a pretty well known image, Steve, showing an extremely lucky group of seamen. The usual result of an iceberg collision was a fast sinking and death by drowning!! John
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Just catching up, Nils. That planking looks really good! John
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Ouch! Best of luck with that complex repair. John
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Hello Dearborn, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
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