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  1. popeye the sailor
    I can only go as far as the leash will reach.........the ball is quite heavy...LOL!! I still have my fun though
  2. popeye the sailor
    very nice work Clare. the way you arrived at the finished hull is unique. love the deck planking and the features you've put into it......really superb stuff!
  3. popeye the sailor
    hope you had a good day my friend! June ended wet...........now July is starting out hot. took me two days to get the lawn under control. just in time for me to go back to work.......oh well............ hope to see more on the planking
  4. popeye the sailor
    I have never had to add extra weight in my builds. if it's to be bolted to the stand, I see it even less. it's more of a preference thing....it's up to you I know how you feel..........we had a very wet end to june.....as a rule, I hate to cut the grass when it's wet. this means having to scrape under the deck after I'm done........the less I do under there, the better. so needless to say, I had a jungle outside. now we are having a hot spell, so it took me two days to get the lawn back into shape. I have a used lawn mower that was here when the previous tennants moved out. the self propell wasn't working, but I fixed it and got it working great! yesterday, I started to mow, and I hit the curbing around the front yard, and it took out all of the under carriage.......the self propell is wiped out! I had to remove it all.........it was wrapped around the blade. the transmission is still part of the rear wheels........puts resistance in pushing it, so now it is a chore again. I need to drop the transmission and replace the existing shaft with simple rear axle brackets, or an axle rod that goes through both ends. darn thing's a work in progress. wish I could find an old mower with a blown engine....it would make life easy. the engine on this one is very good.........prime and one pull is all it takes! you work in some very beautiful places.........what do you do for work?
  5. popeye the sailor
    is all that land yours? I'd have a garden......a big one! I was raised on a farm........enjoyed fishing and being barefoot. milked the cow by hand..........I look back on it now and BOY!!!! that was the life!
  6. popeye the sailor
    don't feel bad Sjors........I do take out now
  7. popeye the sailor
    ahhhh.....memories....they bring you back, don't it I have three ships that are still around since I picked the hobby back up.....before I got into wood kits. I always say that they are the best barometer of your experience level.....I can see my paint has improved sometimes I miss plastic.......I have the United States, that I need wood for, and I have the Lindberg Jolly Rodgers.......I look forward to fooling around with these some day soon.........got to clear the smoke I created first though one of my biggest problems with the decal maker is the transparency issue. I think I need to find a printer that will go over 600 DPI. I have an HP deskjet F2480 w/ scanner. I have the Testor's 'decal it' decal maker standard edition {I sent out for it}. the basic one will not allow you to import images into it. the standard edition will allow you to do that. I've been scanning all kinds of stuff....stencils and the like, import them in, and size them down. it will even bend the text and you can change the font to anything you want......get some really fancy placards and stuff that a way
  8. popeye the sailor
    nice work Ron.........looks real good!
  9. popeye the sailor
    that would have been great fore my Cutty Sark build........that's what got me to buy the decal maker program. the only problem I faced was that ink jet printers don't do white. if I could have found something like an ALPS printer.....all would have been right with the world. they are around, but the price is through the roof! the decal sheet for the kit was no good, so I ordered a new sheet from Revell........I got that and two of the three sail sheets. when I went to use these decals, I was dismayed to find that even those decals had micro cracked. I tried to find a place to have them made, but I got the brush-off instead. that's when I found the Testor's 'basic' decal maker kit. in the kit was a can of decal bonder.......if I knew of this stuff ahead of time, I could have saved the rest of the decals......especially the waterline markers. to get those markers, I printed off about six copies of the decal sheet {clear film}, and traced over them with a white paint marker. took about that many tries to get a passable set of markers.
  10. popeye the sailor
    I never knew the correct name for them........I just call them rub rails
  11. popeye the sailor
    there's a lot out there on the subject.
  12. popeye the sailor
    I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
  13. popeye the sailor
    I used to hunt in my younger days.......got out of school and moved to Florida for five years. when I got back, I tried to pick it back up...... but, something about sitting in cold wet leaves in the early November morns, didn't enthuse me anymore. I took the hunter's safety course over again.......didn't have to, but I did anyway. the big test at the end of the course was a skeet shoot......I did very well, got three out of five. my brother And I have been around guns all our lives......I had my 12 gauge w/varible choke, and he had his 16 gauge. I nicknamed mine 'pointer', because with 00 buck and a half open ckoke, that's all I had to do ?:>) tried to git my brother David into shoot'in.........had to enroll 'em in one of those triggernomitry classes......'cuz he wuz the worse shot in the famly.....Hee.....Hee
  14. popeye the sailor
    good to see you back working on her Andy
  15. popeye the sailor
    moving right along Mobbsie......looking great!
  16. popeye the sailor
    I'm kinda surprised that you didn't get anything in the kit. the good thing with the decal maker is that it is sized for the decal paper half sheets. using photo shop or something similar, unless you size down the field, you may run the risk of the decal not beiing all the way on the paper. all ink jet printers will not print white or metallic colors. very little can be done with the matallics......but you can cheat with the white issue, by using white decal paper. you'll more than likely have to change the background to get rid of the residual white
  17. popeye the sailor
    coining a phrase by George Bush........."not gonna do it.........."
  18. popeye the sailor
    Model Train Stuff - HO Scale Microscale Decals here's another one
  19. popeye the sailor
    hey there John......I used the Testor's decal maker. not too sure if it can be purchased in a hobby store........I know they carry the 'basic' program. I had to get mine from the site. Testors it called the standard edition. with the basic program, you cannot import anything into it, but with the standard program, you can. I've been looking around for all kinds of thing to import.......stencils and stuff. it does have it's draw-backs though......it's a work in progress. if you just want lettering, try some of these....I hope they are good for you. www.walthers.com -- main page Decals :: Decals, Trim, Pilots, Scale Accessories :: Airplane Hardware :: Airplanes :: Advantage Hobby Scale Model Decals Products - Decals & Graphics - Woodland Scenics - Model Layouts, Scenery, Buildings and Figures try these...........hope they help.
  20. popeye the sailor
    looking good Sjors moving right along, I see.
  21. popeye the sailor
    two thumbs up Bud! you gotta love it when the whole plan comes together!
  22. popeye the sailor
    your question has good and bad points. without a proper 'sanding jig' to support the hull while your finishing the planking, you could run into a problem knocking the dead eyes off. although, he is correct that this would be a good time to cement them in place. I'd suggest doing it later......a small pair of snips can be used to trim the excess thread.
  23. popeye the sailor
    ....and you avoided them for what reason???? you did a very good job in cutting them out..........simply superb! the stern face looks the nine as well!
  24. popeye the sailor
    you did a very nice job John.........all prim and proper!
  25. popeye the sailor
    I did that with the Gothenborg.......a few cracks here and there, and broke the bow stem clean off. glad to hear the damage was minor, luck was on your side

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