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  1. popeye the sailor
    the little ones are for the bollards......the larger ones are for the boarding ladder, which I probably won't use on my model. your on the right track. I wish they had them on the metal etch.......be careful, they break easily. very hard to drill them out too......not much meat there.
  2. popeye the sailor
    love the way those wooden decks look......wish they had 'em for the model I'm look'in to do. you did a great job!
  3. popeye the sailor
    small PE is tough.........I bought some needle nose tweezers to do the tiny stuff for my ship. it didn't help.........but I will keep trudging along sheets of grab handles can be found, should you decide to dress up the others. those guns look very neat!
  4. popeye the sailor
    interesting take on the photography. still an awesome model Carl.....no matter how you look at it
  5. popeye the sailor
    WOW! imagine doing a G scale of it! I'm sure this will have enough detail already looks awesome so far. how did you thin down the floor bulkhead.....water? you must have the bench of my dreams...........lonnnnnnnng!
  6. popeye the sailor
    no different than some of the B&W's I have of the Arizona.........makes it hard to discern some of the detail. both keepers in my book
  7. popeye the sailor
    ........and you've done some sanding......hull looks very good. nice 'n smooth I was scrolling down to your new post, and I saw the sleeper chassis, and I thought it was so neat that it looks over half the length of the hull. is that the only car you have, or do you have the entire set? super looking hull!
  8. popeye the sailor
    had to........it was almost up to my knees! been too rainy here to do it bet your patio is dust free
  9. popeye the sailor
    the two thing that bug me are injection pin marks and mold lines. look'in very nice......you've got two more to make for this deck section? I mowed the lawn while viewing your progress earlier..........your moving right along
  10. popeye the sailor
    she came out great Carl........great job on the rigging very well done!
  11. popeye the sailor
    the rigging looks very good........how did you terminate them.......at the deck or the railings? you've really out done yourself with the structures Greg....they look awesome! love the B&W picts too dirk's looks like it came from a magazine.
  12. popeye the sailor
    sorry for the late reply........I actually feel alive tonight......even after finishing the work week. have I told you all how much I hate that place ?!?!?!?! the boss was going around with a clipboard today. he wanted to know what training we'd like to see in the future.......I told him none..cuz it's useless. to watch a training video, and then not have any further 'hands on' training to back it up, is a sheer waste of time. IMO. he asked me where I'd like to see myself in five years............I just smiled and said.......retired! what a geek........truly drank the kool-aide hey there Lou.......have you been stirring the pot again? man.......I have too many projects kick'in around. to introduce another one would be insane enough.......surly would be an eye opener for all the clipper fans actually I should bring out the fishing vessel {the misfit from the Holiday Harbor fleet}........I have a neat concept going on her. I should finish her thanks Carl. I didn't know what they were.......WHAT!?!?!?! I got'em backwards! I'll try to change them if I can.....I hope to get some meaningful time in on her this week. if I don't though {fix it}, it will just be my little idio........... another nasty storm this after noon.......hope this pattern breaks soon
  13. popeye the sailor
    Carl stole my thunder ⚡ .........I wuz gonna say that. oh well.........as with any game show.........whoever hits the buzzer first that good to hear Sam.........good they caught the two knuckleheads that started the big ones! hello Frank! thanks for pok'in in and the good word hope you are doing well
  14. popeye the sailor
    gun port lids look super..........look like you plotted them well to miss the chains I was daunted when I did the Thermopylae......I waited till I had them in place. then I could add the lids {closed, of course} very nice!
  15. popeye the sailor
    very nice progress Greg........very busy...and very life like really super looking!
  16. popeye the sailor
    superb painting skills! launchers and hull looks great
  17. popeye the sailor
    brush fire is hardly the word I'd use 🚒 hope your not in the middle of it all!
  18. popeye the sailor
    bad enough you had to add those guns........be careful hull looks great!
  19. popeye the sailor
    seriously nice work Danny.......the deck is pretty busy high level of craftsmanship there.....WOW!
  20. popeye the sailor
    sweet look'in ship Carl....very well done are you gonna paint the railings?
  21. popeye the sailor
    we call'em Malted milk balls here in the states.......my favorite as well.......next to the caramel cremes the ship's boats look great! with all the chocks that were there, I thought there would be more. your making some very good progress
  22. popeye the sailor
    that would be a very interesting road trip I have done very little to these sails.......usually after they are sewn, I paint them with diluted white glue, and drape them over a rolled up towel, to give them a billowed look. these got no treatment at all. I have the last sail ready to put on, but I still need to tie off the other sails first. I haven't done anything to her of late........but I gotta get a move on. I need to bring the Thermopylae back to the table. I'm hoping to get back to her on my days off. thanks for the good word and look'in in thanks to all who hit the like button!
  23. popeye the sailor
    super.........upper shrouds are look'in very good glad your feeling better and it wasn't serious
  24. popeye the sailor
    look'in very nice CDW
  25. popeye the sailor
    thanks Sam I'm hop'in it does. we've had a lot of heat and humidity.......in addition to the rain you might have heard about. the ride to work this morning was less than fun.....hardly could see where I was going I did get a couple of bits done........one I've got to repair......really looks like s.......... the aft mast is in place with it's tassel....don't know what it is. I need to touch it up a bit. the other bit was the vent at the fore funnel. I managed to trim it.......broke a couple of times. but then it wanted to be a bear to cement into place. I started to trim off the cement blobs, and while I was doing it, the funnel became loose. so I removed it so I can perhaps do a better job of cleaning it up. keen to note that I also started with some railings..so I'll be working around the bow when I get back to her. I haven't been totally idle. I've been doing more research on the Arizona.......basically what I can add......what I can chop........alterations. along with all this, I continue to be nagged by a 'what if' I've been thinking about. not so sure I want to let out that much insanity two more days left for the work week...I hope it goes by fast.

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