popeye the sailor

nice to see your back at the table is this a kit that your modifying?

decorations are looking splendid Nils.....really looks good !

nice looking little boat Nenad

very nice looking wheel Frank!

looks amazing Danny.......great progress picts!

did you use an airbrush? they'll give you a thin even coat......does take some getting used to. depending where you bought the kit, and how old the kit is, those dents can be popped back out without too much trouble. the Revell 1:96 series kits are really nice....they are the right size and they look good when built.....I built around four of them. back in the day, you could send a missing parts request to Revell USA, but I think they stopped honoring them.......Revell Germany still does though. I have extra sails for the Cutty......got two of thee three sheets by doing this. I noticed you used gray primer......good, but with today's paint selection, you could have bought flat black primer, which would have been a better choice. be careful with rattle can sprays too......some are automotive grade, and the harsher chemicals can eat or distort the plastic. try to stay with flats rather than gloss. the decks are the Achilles's heel of this series of kits......the section lines are the devil to get rid of.....even harder to line up. I've even tried adding a tab under one side, for the mating edge to sit on...to stitch them together.....any warpage, and they look out of sync I have a second kit of the U.S.S. United States...this one I made the decks out of wood and planked them {there is a log here...haven't touched it in a few years though}. the best way is to assemble the sections first, fill the mating line with plastic putty, removing the excess with your finger before it totally dries. when dry, rub it with a folded up cotton cloth....it will buff off the excess....paint to taste. I recently bought my second kit of the Constitution...not sure if I want to go through the trouble of making a wood deck for that one....they do make a wood veneer for this model {and for the cutty too}......I have a link somewhere in my bookmarks. I could swear that the picture of your sail sheets showed the jib sheet a lighter color that the other sail sheets. I had that problem too with the Cutty......the sheets I got to replace them were more of a beige color, than the ones supplied in the kit. I painted them in a flat light gray...and all sins were forgiven.......again....don't use an automotive primer or paint, or they will melt before your eyes. {actually they tend to shrivel up....been there } if you chose to go with the veneer decking ..whether you go with a decking kit: http://www.scaledecks.com/our-story.html {look in the shop} ....or one plank at a time {been there, done that}, you could use CA to glue it down. be careful how much you apply. check out contact cements too.

really nice fittings....details the yard very well chain instead of rope?

look in some of the U.S.S. Constitution builds and even in Dafi's Victory project {look back in his log a bit for his take on them}. you could even cut some light cloth........rectangles 10 mm X 15 mm {seems like a good size}..........paint them with diluted white glue, roll them up and then fold them over {5 mm}....allow them to dry like that. my proportions may be off, so you might have to experiment a little. look at Usedtosail's Constitution log - page 30....

nice looking model you've built here I got this one for Christmas...haven't opened the box yet. thanks for the head's up on the fit problems, your log will come in handy when I tear into it

wale watching at it's best looks much better !

looks very nice in blue......sea Blue? yep......that's the model I did of her. thanks for the compliment feel free to use anything in the log.....I added a few extras in there. I had a great time building her. I still have a good amount of international Orange really nice job with the painting....do you use an airbrush?

thanks for getting back to me Keith. I agree that there must have been a pulley affixed to the cap rail, acting as a form of sheave. but for a line to come from the winch pulley on the pilot house base, there must have been a pulley gallow set up yo redirect the line to the sheave pulley. I made a crude drawing using the parts diagram sheet. the deck ........from this I drew the pilot house, the proposed gallow with the pulley, and the sheave on the cap rail. I do admit, the winch pulley on the pilot house base is crude......all that is supplied is a drum with no guide plates on either side. I might try and do something with it, to make it look more like a spool. the round circle on the cap rail is the sheave. without a pulley to redirect the line, the line would not gather properly on the spool, having constant pull to the right......all of the line would gather to the right. now for the winch near the starboard bulwark....in front is a large spool......in the back is a small spool. I think the large spool is a net spool, ans the smaller one is a line spool. the two on the top act as tensioner spools, which aide in keeping the slack off of the line spool. at first I thought the winch on the pilot house base was the line that was used to drag the boat onto the beach.....but it seems unlikely, given where the line origination is starting from, then having to travel almost the full length of the deck...to a possible sheave at the bow. it would be super to see either one of these winches in action, so I could wrap my head around it better. I'm probably over thinking things, trying to give them some sort of functionality. I think it would add quite a bit to the model if i could.

dry fitting is part of the process.....very nice display saw your vid.....very nice.

I got to see it just fine so cool to see....thanks for sharing

studding booms! very nice..........is that a brass plate?

nawwwww....I'd just break out the sub rolls and have at it now if I go in the kitchen, she'll follow me we need to go to the store and get more Recotta.....I suggested getting two when we picked everything up.......drat! the great Ricotta caper........ got another length of planking on........it will give it time to dry zipper ready to close

took me about two hours to clear the driveway......good thing it was light fluffy snow. the bad thing is when I blew it in the air, it created such a white out across the road, I had to be extra vigilant for oncoming cars. I did make a little progress yesterday on the Norden.......closed the starboard side up some more. while it dried, I did a few things to the structures. the two front corners of the pilot house, I cleaned it out and cemented in some 1/4 round Plastruct stock. the two inner ones will be sealed with filler. I have a mind to do mahogany siding, but I will need to install the windows first. I started to flesh out the companionway on the forward structure. I likely created a painting nightmare in the process.....but I'll work it out. I got a bit further on the hull........hopefully I can close it up today. the admiral was making her sauce for Lasagna during the day yesterday........I managed to get a taste in here and there sheer heaven! yes......it has sausage in it tried it again when I got in from snow blowing.........1 taste and I had to get away..........if I didn't, who knows what I 'd a been do'in

thanks Keith.....I would think then that there might be some other type of drum mechanism working in conjunction with the winch on the pilot house base. the depiction of the winch itself seems a little bare....just the drum without the reel guides on either side of it. there would also need to be a pulley to change the direction of the line over the side of the boat.. now.....in one of the pictures I saw, I thought I saw some tell tail netting in the larger drum of the starboard side winch. I will check into this further to see if I'm correct. I'll try and draw something......I'm no good with the fancy stuff on the computer, that I see others do. if anything else comes to mind......please let me know. it might give me an idea......you never know thanks OC the internet has given us so much freedom.......wonderful if used correctly we have so many fine folk here......they deserve to be bragged about well I didn't get to finish......having too much fun watching Gibbs in the deep snow I got one drift that's well over my waist! clean up tomorrow!

sorry if I made you second guess in any way. if you are done with that part of the structure, by all means, it should be cemented in place. that's a milestone in itself.......calls for a celebration it's nice to see a project grow. really like the direction your going with this project

well, it's nice to see that they supplied different size dead eyes for the upper steps of the masts. I've had kits that only supplied one size.....makes for a rather wonky model glad you weren't offended and read it the way I meant it. I'm by far no expert either, and I agree that there are others far better to learn from. glad to know that your enjoying the hobby. in my younger days, I'd see these kits in the store and shy away, thinking I could never do something that looked so demanding. now that I've completed a few models, I feel silly now, finding out what I really should have worried about, was the terminology of the parts keep up the good work.........your doing great!

that's the way I need to go with my Thermopylae, but at a smaller scale. very nice work!

looks really nice OC.......are you gonna go black on the wales again?

truly nice work Danny mistakes are human........how we fix 'em is our redeeming factor really like the joinery of the antenna.

that's a pretty ingenious way to paint them...........paint the one side, then flip the whole strip over and let them slide down the pins, to paint the other side. I will keep that in mind do you own a dog..............well.......you taught ME a new trick!

agreed on all counts! remarkable ingenuity Jesse.......rigged, it will look very good. most parts of the standing rigging is usually done with larger ropes anyways; it will fit in nicely super job my friend!