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popeye the sailor

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  1. neat way of replicating decorative knees........very nice & great progress!
  2. no Nils.......it's my abbreviation for photo etch where do you get it from.......looks very good enjoying your progress so far! that is a really neat way of doing railings........I'll have to remember that!
  3. so, you need to remove that one as well. would it help you, {repaint and make your marks} if you were to make a jig for the height that the windows should be at. just a small piece of flat stock cut to the height that the frame should be. make the marks for the centering and with the structure flat on the table, lay the jig against the front of it. locate the part using the centering marks and the jig. there is also slow setting CA out there on the market. what were you going to put in the frames? darkened cello? you could also use the same jig on all the windows, so they will all be at the same height.
  4. I use a water based filler, and I thin it down to a thick cream, instead of the consistency of paste. I use an auto body filler spreader to apply it, so it fills in the gaps, but doesn't leave a lot on the surface. sanding takes half the time......a lot easier on the arm
  5. so....the plot thickens.......I'm thinking that it did a bit more than remove paint.......am I right?
  6. keep up work like this Augie......and your house WILL be a museum! looking very nice......love it!
  7. exactly Tim..........everything has it's moment. never heard of un-cure, but if you just stripped the paint.......then that's no big deal. just paint her back up and you'll be back to square one in no time
  8. looks awesome Andy :) it's a good thing you know your way around this ship........you won't lose track of where you worked on her last ! nice progress thus far!
  9. I've run sail cloth through the printer...........I have the the Testor's decal maker. I import the flag design, size it with the program, and then print. then I spray it with the decal bonder to prevent the ink from running. it's easy to shape after it is assembled on the rigging.
  10. looks very nice Vivian.......most of the time, you can stretch the scale a little, and you can get away with it. you just have to be careful on how much you do it. you did well here though.......and you can build in a little extra detail to compliment it. very nice deck work hope you didn't hurt yourself too badly
  11. it looks great Tim..........if your only sin was staying away from the bench, then your forgiven. there's no time limit an easy way to repent, is to get that detail on there! looking forward in seeing what it will look like!
  12. you've really put a lot of fine detail into the rigging.......some of the tackle is simply a work of art. great job Gil!
  13. great start to the build Nils. is that P.E. your using for the fittings?.......doors and such
  14. any small update is a good update Patrick........it's always the finishing touches that are the tiniest....but they are the most important!
  15. she looks great Patrick! the rigging really fills her out nicely........congratz !
  16. good to see some sawdust.......looks really nice. I'm ready for spring......
  17. is this a build you've already completed, or is this you next build? I wouldn't miss it for the world!
  18. now you did it........you were supposed to spring it on her later when you needed them :D the sails look great! I hope you made her an honorary member of your shipyard they are going to look super on the ship :)
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