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  1. glbarlow
    Thanks Frank. I’m retired, I have lots of time. I enjoy planking but it does become a chore after a few months of it. I’ll be glad to finish the deck and move on. Your Winnie is looking amazing.
  2. glbarlow
    Welcome to MSW and thank you for your comment, I’m glad my log is helpful. I googled this chart showing thickness of monofilament line in mm. https://www.beadkraft.com/reference-monofilament
  3. glbarlow
    That’s some really nice planking Frank, very impressive. Your turn at the counter is exceptional.
  4. glbarlow
    Interesting how obvious the cut down is, seems almost unfinished
  5. glbarlow
    Chain pumps, why would you include chain pumps🤣😂🤣😂
  6. glbarlow
    Much better. You need a long 1/64th batten, gives a better look at the fairing being easy to bend and follow the run. For me the curve between the first and third bullhead was the biggest challenge, why many use balsa filler at the bow to help out with the run of planking.
  7. glbarlow
    It all looks so nice. The deadeyes look like a row of the ‘wow’ emojis, which is a perfect response to your work. The pear and cherry makes for such a special Winnie.
  8. glbarlow
    It’s all good Joe, I am an expert at deconstructing having done it so many times. No time-outs, just a bit of reorientation. I’ve found the second or third third time I do something it sometimes turns out better 😊
  9. glbarlow
    You have a lot of very nice work, we want to be able to find it easily.
  10. glbarlow
    Thanks Rusty, though I am looking forward to being done with planking for a while.
  11. glbarlow
    From the manufacturer, www.rptoolz.com. They are clever enough to print their website right on the cutter. It’s pricey but worth it.
  12. glbarlow
    Thank you! I got them from Shapeways.com under the category ‘humans’ at 1:48 scale. I selected one and hand painted them to kinda look like me. I borrowed the idea from Chuck as a fun way to have an appreciation for the scale of the ship.
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    Deck Update About 2/3rds of a planked deck. The port waist battery in for a trial fit. Light coat of WOP but final sanding and scraping to come. Don’t think I’ll complete the deck and chapter 4 before my upcoming photography trip to Patagonia (originally scheduled March 2020 but then this thing happened.) I can only hope Winnie will wait for my safe return with a couple of hundred images to process. If interested you can check out my first Patagonia trip at GlennBarlow|Photography
  14. glbarlow
    It needs to go in much much more, more than your line. A batten should notch into the rabbet and smoothly run through the first three bulkheads and continue on from there. As you can see from the plank you're holding it would never notch into the rabbet as it is. This is the toughest and along with the stern the most critical part of the build at this stage. Look at all the build logs and I think you'll see what I mean.
  15. glbarlow
    You'll catch up to me soon, it's looking great.
  16. glbarlow
    This looks great, but I’m all Apple. I know they don’t make it easy for developers but I’ll wait and hope you get an iOS version you’re comfortable with, don’t trust myself at the terminal level.
  17. glbarlow
    Your signature links don’t appear to be hyperlinks to your builds and gallery?
  18. glbarlow
    As many have noted, very well done! Your log just sort of stopped though the model is marked as finished. Did you post a gallery?
  19. glbarlow
    Very neat work, time well spent. Let the planking begin.
  20. glbarlow
    The process has begun, nice work!
  21. glbarlow
    Yay Surprise, and not the HMS Rose impersonating her in the movie...
  22. glbarlow
    I think the black strake isn't black? As Chuck, notes the handy thing about putting in on after the above the wales planking and after the second layer of wales is you get a nice clean paint line on the top of the wales with the not painted black strake above it. Maybe it's nomenclature and what your showing is actually the top plank of the wales?
  23. glbarlow
    Straight up dark annealed steel wire, no paint or blackening. I may hit a shiny spot with Admiralty Iron Works black (my favorite black paint) for the most part I don’t touch them just for the reason you stated. Wire is wire, but I like this Hillman brand bought on Amazon.
  24. glbarlow
    Did you add sanding sealer to the boxwood decorations? That helps even out the color.
  25. glbarlow
    Your new cannon is light years better than the one the right. The natural wheels look great, that’s how I’m doing mine. I like that you made your own eyebolts, but would offer the breaching rings are way out of scale too large. Check the Syren Ship Models build monograph for Cheerful or my build log, which followed it) for a best way of making and installing breech lines. .45 - .5 mm rope is a good size for the breech rope in my opinion.

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