popeye the sailor

super anchor! now the fun topside.........just getting better and better!

yepper........I have plenty of wood scrap.......I throw nothing away. even the parts panels have a use........either I trace the parts for another build from them, or I save them in the event I need some 'like wood' from them. I'm going to try once more....these, the third set, are still a bit too wide.......looks like they would interfere with the gun port lids. I was sure I got the right measurements. I'm going to have a good supply of ladders for future builds......GOOD GRIEF!

thanks John........that brick is going to be tough to mimic. look in model train layout supplies to see if they have anything like this....either a paper or wood texture. look forward seeing this develop

ohhhhh......right! the 'hell hath no fury' thing. :D mine has the 'Hairy Eye' .....similar to Medusa's stare......but it melts you instead of turns you to stone. her mother had it......and she trained the admiral well. I will wait to see dome update photos...love to see them..........I have to get on the ball here and make the correct ladders for the Goth.....I'm on my third set. enough to drive a guy bonkers!

good to see you back to rigging the Vic Gil........beautiful work! I notice the rigging for the bow's 'whisker boom'...I have added it into my Gothenborg build....still not quite sure where it originates and terminates. I will have to look back in your log to see.....it is similar between the two. though they are different scales.....if it's added in, it should be done right thanks for all the rigging techniques I've come away with

railings look good .........nice to hear you have a replacement mast. keep going Bud!

wonderful progress John........interested to see what the tryworks is all about

very nice work..........the hull looks great!

thanks Bob........at the moment, I have a 50 year old babbling child annoying the heck out of me. I had better get the lights in the tree before she drives me up a wall :D still at work on the ladders.........I made some new ones, but they look too wide.....made another one....and it still looks too wide.........I'm ready to call a ladder co. and tell THEM what I want....I can just hear the laughter now!

awesome work Andy..........the pilot house came out very nice!

super job on the anchor Piet.........looks very good! you will need to be careful around the housing though....paint chipping is going to be a problem. looks real good though......shows a lot of thought went into it .......for sure!

I think there was "Holiday in Vermont" and "Holiday in Connecticut "..........."Holiday Harbor"......Hmmmmmmm, sounds like a good movie for John Wayne, but there's no 15 mm guns and no horses......so he would be standing there, bowlegged in the snow :D I would like to see multi colored lights Mark.......I haven't gone scavenger hunting yet. I still need to come up with a wiring diagram for them, probably two of them will be lit. with the flasher, I'm not sure how many lights it can handle........still not sure if it works, but I'm sure Dan wouldn't have sent it to me, if it didn't. a lot of this is still in the planning stage.......I'm one of those eccentric builders.....hardly even write anything down. the broken bow post.......{a small update}.......I cemented in the second plank and clamped it to the first one. the second one rests on the bow rib, so it's pulling the first one out to the bulwark shape. I'll cement in a piece later. thanks for the good words gentlemen.......I hope to have some sort of an update soon

I just looked at the re-finished ladders.........go to hold them up against the hull.....and they're too wide! oh well........back to the drawing board!

lots of folks have good luck with the Tamiya tape for masking............I use the Frog tape {green}. painting it with a brush is bad......paint is forced under the tape {in my experience}. I haven't tried airbrush though.........I suppose light coats, letting it dry a bit between coats, might work........spray dead on, with no angle.

I've heard of this happening........Sjors had a heck of a time with this. I even had a bit of a problem with the upper shrouds on the gothenborg, but that was due to the wrong size dead eyes. it boils down to bad dead eye hole positions. as I have learned..... sometimes a bit too late as well........dry fitting is important. not that I don't dry fit my parts, but it's easy to feel safe in cementing parts on when you see the pre drilled holes. the only thing I can suggest, is if you want to correct this, you may have to re-drill some of the holes, or scratch produce new chain plates, drilling the hole yourself. perhaps other folks may have an idea for you that is less intrusive, but it's all I got. I'll have to look, but I think Sjor's Mirage is from Mantua. thanks for the congrats any updated pictures of your build? love to see your progress

that's funny Andy........I thought that as well, when I read the question.....can you imagine having to don a safety rope, tethering it all the way aft on deck. bad weather......waves crashing on the deck........I sure wouldn't want to be topside

.....just let me know when the bar is set up.........OK _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FINISH LINE

thanks John......figured I had better get going on her ........all the crap that went on and all. refreshing to be doing something that is normal.

well.....thank you all for the congrats.........I hope I can continue to keep you all entertained. but, don't get too comfy with the boys, I hope to be able to change all that soon enough I haven't done too much with them since the other day........but if I continue to have trouble with the Larry frame........you'll be looking at Abbot & Costello, and the Larry frame WILL go on to become the Andria Gail :D .......I'm beginning to like that Idea {since I saw the movie} :D nawwww..........just a small problem.......nothing that can't be fixed once I get the hulls planked......I can get a handle on the deck layouts........and all will become clearer. I'll be on the 'light' side for a bit for now........I'm going to try doing some bouncy stuff........thank you all for the good word and the well wishes

awesome work Mobbsie.........so your going to be doing shrouds now.......Great! even with the scale that I'm working with, I'm still tying on blocks...........I thought I tied on all I would need.........the great fallacy! the tops look so good......she's going to look great. I kinda wish I had done my masts like that......hope you get your serving machine back in order

the box has made it that far Sjors..........you might as well............

very good info to keep in mind.......thank you very much. feel free to make suggestions........I could use the help.....thanks again!

problem solved

looking really really good John.........I should get myself one of those draw plates, one of these days. it's in my wish list

it is amazing how the rigging changed .......through wars and capturing enemy ships.....and even venturing and studying cultures. one might think perhaps, that this was an early form of camo.......a British sailor looking through a spyglass, might see her rigged as a British ship, and make the fatal mistake. this being my first wooden sailing ship......I'm finding it a whole lot different than plastic. but I'm armed with a slew of pictures of the actual ship, one of the best ways to see how a ship is rigged. sounds like your in for a fun project......the ornamentation alone will boggle your mind. I'm sure you'll have a good time with it.....you'll have to let me know when you begin.....definite must see! do be careful with the multiple build bug......they replicate like crazy!!!! hey there Mobbsie........no problem about the ladders. the original ones are 11 rung.......I'll have to add some at this new thickness......not a problem. I did notice one problem......I finished my latest update, and I looked over at the Goth to see that I had missed the mark. just above the gun port lids, there is a slight gap in the second planking, and you can see the underlying planking. looking at the above pictures, you can barely make it out........but I saw it......in spades! I ripped them all out and redid them. now they all look like this.......touching the lids, and not up against the rail above it. with a little more work, I can get to the main shrouds.........and then I can get to that 'fun' that your talking about