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Jim Lad

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  1. Jim Lad
    Hello Steve, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  2. Jim Lad
    Just catching up. She's growing into a really beautiful model. John
  3. Jim Lad
    You're really charging ahead, Kevin. John
  4. Jim Lad
    Delightful work! Marek - please write in English!! John
  5. Jim Lad
    Wefalck, do you have an example of the 'rounded' waterway on a steel built ship? I've never seen it. John
  6. Jim Lad
    Ron, I assume that you're talking about wooden ships. The waterway actually guides any small amounts of water along the deck and the scuppers run through the waterway at deck level and take the water outboard. On an iron or steel built ship with wooden decks the wooden deck sits on top of the metal deck nd the waterway is a form of gutter along the edge formed by the outer edge of the deck plates. John
  7. Jim Lad
    This build continues to amaze, Kevin. John
  8. Jim Lad
    An interesting thought, Keith, but I don't think there would be any difference in colour. Manilla rope bleaches out pretty quickly to a light grey. John
  9. Jim Lad
    Or cement slurry, Andy! John
  10. Jim Lad
    Hello Julian, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  11. Jim Lad
    Still charging ahead, Kevin! John
  12. Jim Lad
    Now that is really looking very nice, Melissa. Congratulations. John
  13. Jim Lad
    This is the sort of colour, Kevin - MV 'Kooringa". By the way, the vast majority of cargo ships had white superstructure. Most buff superstructures were found on ships in dirty bulk trades like carrying coal or ion ore. John
  14. Jim Lad
    Hello Konrad, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  15. Jim Lad
    The accommodation block is coming together really nicely. A dull reddish brown was probably the fashion colour for decks at the time, although I've also seen a dull green. John
  16. Jim Lad
    Just catching up with what you've been up to, Michael. Amazing work, as usual. John
  17. Jim Lad
    You're progressing well, Kevin, and it's good to see the obligatory 'model maker's cut' on your thumb! That's a beautiful model of the wreck that you posted, by the way. John
  18. Jim Lad
    That planking's coming along very nicely indeed! John
  19. Jim Lad
    She's coming along very nicely - a good recovery from your side panel disaster, too. Just for your future reference re the lifeboat; in practice, the grab lines would have been fixed at each bevket point along the hull, not just freely looped and the boat cover and lashing would be over the top of the grab lines. Just a very small point in your delightful build. John
  20. Jim Lad
    Congratulations on the completion of your beautiful little model, Håkan. John
  21. Jim Lad
    Hello, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
  22. Jim Lad
    Hello James, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  23. Jim Lad
    Kevin, Your post that quoted my post reads, "thank you as it will be in a cutaway, i will be aware now when it comes to the upper deck and access, it will be helpful then to see what types of goods would be held in this area, as i had presumed that the name shelter, meant that" Not sure what you were going to say, but the tween deck was just another cargo space (the 'shelter deck' title being merely a bit of legal jiggery pokery by the time these ships were built), but as the tween decks were much smaller spaces than the lower holds, they were useful for stowing smaller or more delicate parcels of cargo or for partial stowage to assist in maintaining a good metacentric height for stability purposes. John
  24. Jim Lad
    According to W E May in his "The Boats of Men of War", a survey conducted of the Royal Navy a little later than your period - in 1618 - showed that 1st, 2nd and 3rd rates were carrying three boats; a longboat, a pinnace and a skiff. We would find the boats carried to be very large. May mentions various dimensions for the longboats carried which were about half the keel length of the ship carrying them. Pinnaces varied wildly in size, but were standardised at between 26 and 29 feet, while skiffs were around 20 feet. John John
  25. Jim Lad
    How did I miss the start of this epic project? What a great model to build Kevin. Further to Roger's comments on shelter deck ships, on all the shelter deckers I sailed on the tonnage hatch was permanently sealed off from the remainder of the tween decks by a rivetted or welded bulkhead, but so long as the hatch wasn't (legally) weather tight it was still considered to be an opening and thus made the tween deck into a shelter deck for tonnage purposes. John

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