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  1. Craigie65
    Hi Glenn, Looking excellent. For the rigging do you have rigging tools? I bought a set from CMB and find them invaluable in getting into hard to reach spots. Especially when paired with a fine pair of long tweezers.
  2. Craigie65
    Slow down Glenn! It’s at least 2 months before you get your Indy. This one is looking good and will be a nice addition to your fleet.
  3. Craigie65
    I use Veloset, which is a relatively fast setting woodglue. Find it gives you plenty of time to work the part, but sets quickly enough to see some progress. I buy it from Wonderland Models in Edinburgh, but I am sure it must be available elsewhere.
  4. Craigie65
    Hi Glenn, I found the planking on this one a bit more challenging. Did you taper the planks as well as edge bend? I struggle with getting the taper right. Each time I think I understand where I have gone wrong, but by the time I am ready to plank a new model I have forgotten the lessons learned. Looking forward to seeing the colours you have chosen.
  5. Craigie65
    It’s a difficult one. At this scale would you see the individual planks? Perhaps not, but at the same time I want people to see that it is planked and not just a preformed hull. Marco photography is ever the harshest critic. For me your hull is perfect. You are seriously tempting me to finish mine!
  6. Craigie65
    Are you making a stand?
  7. Craigie65
    Looking really good Glenn. That is the hardest part over. You will breeze through the ratlines, you would have had enough practice with Sphinx!
  8. Craigie65
    Hi Glen, Do the top deadeyes need rotating to me a mirror image of the lower one?
  9. Craigie65
    Thanks Dan, that is really kind of you to say so. I nearly want back to her the other day, but I am not far off finishing HMS Exeter - just those damn photo etched railings to go. You never know might just get her finished before Christmas. Andrew - I did see your logs. I had a stack of aircraft i tossed when we converted the garage to my office. I kept but three, one of which is my favourite of all time the Hurricane. A sadly underrated and overlooked beauty.
  10. Craigie65
    I have paused and returned to plastic. I am toying with stopping the build admiralty style with no masts - I would only have to add the lower deadeyes. The only thing is, I have the sails and it would seem an expensive waste not to use them!
  11. Craigie65
    I sure you will move the sail up a bit to get the lower boom on the main. I think the ring it fits into needs to be glued to the mast. I found the rigging a bit simplified in places, but I guess the kit is aimed at a novice. I could have done a bit more research but TBH this kit was purely for fun and I loved every minute of building her.
  12. Craigie65
    Very neat
  13. Craigie65
    Perfect colour!
  14. Craigie65
    I am looking forward to the Indy being released. Not sure my wife shares that enthusiasm. 😂
  15. Craigie65
    You will have this finished in no time. What is next on you list to build?
  16. Craigie65
    Wow you are keeping busy! Nights must be drawing in in Scarborough
  17. Craigie65
    I had fun painting mine. Luckily they behaved themselves and remained attached to the double sided tape whilst spraying. Just needed to remember to mark the tape with “bow” and “stern”!
  18. Craigie65
    It really does bring it to life. Have fun with the timber heads - lots of fiddly removal of char 😉
  19. Craigie65
    Yip, this took me quite a while too. I tried to use a waterline marker, but found it too difficult under the counter. In the end I used the Mk 1 eyeball to run the masking tape before spraying the anti fouling coat. Decided that I was not going to have a boot top on this one.
  20. Craigie65
    Looking good, but be careful, the plans are not 1:1. They are about 85%.. which reading properly you are aware of! Sorry
  21. Craigie65
    Looking good, you are certainly cracking on with your biuld!
  22. Craigie65
    Good warning - I used the plans for one mast and could not understand why it looked wrong when attaching all the cleats, eyelets etc. There was also bit of discussion on this when it came to the sails. @AJohnson was making his own. Turns out plans were reduced by about 15%. Anyway your build is looking great - the mast look very neat. Mine has stalled just shy of starting the masts. Tempted to leave it, but I do have the wonderful sails and it would be a shame not to use them.
  23. Craigie65
    Looking good!
  24. Craigie65
    Excellent work!
  25. Craigie65
    Numbs the pain of the midges 🦟 And the minuscule photo etch on my return to the dark side of plastic ships😱 (with apologies to Bowline for the detour on this excellent build)

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