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the gantries look impressive Greg! that is a tremendous amount of detail I have the same pin vises....both of them

thanks Kevin and Ed........and to all who hit the like button. I've done a little towards fitting out the mechanix last night..........entered a contest from Eduards {win a free model kit...and what a kit it is}......and solved a problem with my printer in the process. but hey......what's life without a few chiggers in the armor? but this is key to continue. I hope to have more to report today almost forgot: if anyone goes to the Eduards facebook page on the 17th through the 20th...........please vote for me 🙏 the model kit is a three pack of Fokker planes flown by Ernst Udet in 1:48 scale! it's a really awesome kit!

you've made some really great progress since I last looked in lots of fine detail....and it all looks so real. nice to see the sub assembled to the point your at now....really shows how much work you've put into her! really great job! this is one huge model!

looks cool Jack! but.....you gonna tie that sh__ down back there?? don't drive on da hyway ya know the EQ looks ya just bought 'em at the local Wal Mart! don't spare the mud but really..........shermie looks great!

grilled imitation Swiss...........never had it, but I'll tyry it want a Baloney & whipped cream sandwich.......a three stooges treat! {tried it when I was a kid.....it was pretty good!}

thanks OC

thanks for the kind comments Richard and John. to envision how this vessel looked in her day is tough, only having one real picture to work from, but I think I have a good direction to come up with a decent model of her. today I did a bit more. thanks J.......not really building two at the moment.......still spinn'in my wheels on how to plank the counter. I laid one plank, and that one was OK........but I laid another one today, and right now it's sticking out like a sore thumb. I gotta remove it and try something else. as far as the work front goes........two have been confirmed positive in the warehouse, which is a separate building on the same property. the shop has seen one driver come in with a fever...but so far has not been confirmed to have it. they are fools to think that we can work six feet apart ALL the time........and their guidelines {to me} are less than adequate. if we have a 100 degree temp, they will send you home and pay you for the day. your out for three days........if this just an isolated spike and your fine the next day, you still can't come back...your to rely on your PTO and PPTO to pay yourself. to compound the issue, you have to get clearance from Sedwick, Walmart's care provider....you will need to be tested. the stumbling block here, is that you have to have the symptoms to be tested. now.......if I had the virus, they would pay me for the time out.........but when we transitioned to the PTO program from what we used to have, they took our sick time and put it in a sort of limbo. the only way I can use it, is if the admiral gets sick, or I need to be out to care for her........even them I can only use 80 hours of it.........I have all my sick time....all 192 hours of it! I get it........this is some terrible stuff.........but when I have a manager that treats me like I have the plague, and I have to comply with their petty rules {even though what I do in the course of the day won't allow it}, and I hear the general manager preach the six feet rule {but if I'm OK with it, we can be close to one another}, it just tells me that all they care about is keeping the Walmart engine running, and they don't give a sh__ about me! sorry to vent folks......but if I said this to them, they would tell me to go home {and pay myself}. they don't hear us and they don't care. the news I'm hearing is not good, and everyone know what the problem is........and I'll drop it right here, because one crazy New Englander doesn't know what goes on in the Ce-ment building *hic* so.........on with the update the aft cabin was assembled again........it was given a slanted roof and a companionway. the portholes were also drilled out and fitted. I still need to do more to it as well as paint. as for the fore deck.......seeing that it is in the picture, I cut out a section for the windlass. it's still in the planning stage. I got held up for a few moments during all this.......somehow the tube of CA got close to my little hand drill and cemented the mandrills together. .....had a great time cleaning it out. so on the deck, the aft cabin looks like this: and with the grates instead of a tiller, the Clotilda had a wheelhouse. that is the next aspect I made...... there's more fleshing out to do back there.......I know it looks a bit bland. the last thing I did was add to the fore deck..........I didn't get back to it until later.....I did get some ideas of the mechanism I don't think it solves the problem, but it does expose the windlass and its workings. I will likely run the mast down through the forward cabin to retain its size. one thing here is I can't do the cap rails until the fore deck is done, so I will continue to flesh it out and go from there.

hello all.......here's another thrilling update while my colleague leaves me in the dust {jealous how yours is coming out J}. I'm finding that the location of the masts is making it hard to do a good representative of the Clotilda; the grates are not accurate, and adding the fore deck and windlass, there really isn't enough room for the forward cabin. altering the fore deck will give me enough to have some sort of cabin there, but it won't be proportionate to the actual ship...........it's like this particular hull is a few feet shorter than the Clotilda. the build goes forward ---> tracing the shape of the bulwark, I made up the parts that will become the cap rails. I cut five of them seeing that I have the two hulls....one is an extra. bundling them all together, they will be sanded to take down the high spots and make them all look alike. that is a roll of some demonically rough paper...takes them down in a hurry first........the inside edge, then turn the clips around and do the outer edge. between sessions of sanding, I was looking and thinking over the fore deck issue. you can see how much room there is between the fore deck and the mast hole. I've also thought about running the mast through the cabin roof.......if push comes to shove, that's what I'll do. the pieces below the hull are the walls for the aft cabin....I still need to put it together. I tried earlier, but it fell apart when I began to sand it....just crumbled in my hands.....the pieces of 1/8 strip glued to the side parts will thwart that from happening again. arriving with an idea for the windlass, I finished sanding the cap rails.....this time using finer paper. they were unbound and fanned out....light brushes with the paper knocked off the residual hairs that the hard sanding left. dry fitting one.......I was saddened to find that they possessed too much of a curvature and were way out of whack....totally unusable back to square one cutting another bunch and bundling them up, sanding commenced again. these are not as wide as the first batch. I guess you could call this 'aggravated sanding', 'cuz it didn't take long to bring'em down to shape. these came out much better.......they will still need to be fine tuned here and there, but they match the bulwarks. all I need to make now is the section for the transom. the first two pictures were taken on the 5th..........these last two were taken today. amazing what five days will bring I did more today.........don't have the pictures out of the camera yet, so there will be another update later. thanks for look'in in.....thanks for the likes stay safe 😷

she's a sweet looking vessel James! I've always wanted to do colored sails.......I have many pictures in my library. the rigging is not too terribly complex..........the sails really enhance her

awesome job J! I'll have something to follow when I get to the rigging 😎 the deck layout looks very good.

don't kid yourself........the cockpit and instrument panel looks good. sad that once the halves are together, a lot of it won't be seen, but you'll know that it's all there

nice work with the instrument panel........looks good

looks nice! sweet look'in vehicle

engine looks really nice

very nice progress Lou........engine is really neat!

if we had premonitions Andy, we'd all have perfect lives you seem to be doing quite well on what you have and memory. it's refreshing to see a train piece made from scratch.......like what was done before scale classification came to be used. very nicely done!

super progress EG.........sweet look'in ride

silently following along Jack........nice choice on the tank great looking tank! if your looking for extra infantry and personal, old model kits has sales on groups of accessory kits {3 or 4 kits to the bundle} at a decent price.

I do the same thing Joe.........with the exception, that of late.......things have gotten away from me a little {putting it mildly}. it also gives me time to think of solutions should I run into a problem.......work on something else and think it over the spit is look'in good. there are lots of kits out there that have these small nuances......specs that are a bit off. most of it due to the research done at the time. some are keen to address....easy, but the ones that require a lot of modification can be a coin toss.......is it really worth it. you can start a log any time really, especially if you have pictures to show the progress up to this point

pretty knarly chopper you got there KP the interior looks really good......looks like you've done the paint to the exterior as well. a very good start

is that the supplied ship's boat? looks really neat your progress looks real good too! I haven't even made the rudder yet........I'm currently working on the cap rails

that's one amazing beat up ship Greg..........all you need to do now is to 'wring' 'er out awesome job!

the guns look great! very nicely done.........even more amazing when it's only part of the deck still more to go !

I have two Ecto 1's..........I've done some modification to do both

perhaps a a trimmed piece of thin leather would cover them over. nice start on the air frame