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Those look great, like BE I did them for my Pegasus, mine are still looking good after all these years. Like most rigging I discovered getting the right tension without being too tight was the key - that and gentle tugs a line at a time to get it right. As always a nice tutorial!
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Thank you for taking the time to tell me it was helpful. That has always been my primary goal of my logs. I have learned so much in this forum. I’m happy to try and help pass it along to others.
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Have you tried the usual figure 8 seizing method, seems like that would make it a lot easier?
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Of course😀I drill 3 different size holes to make up the gun carriages, so... Note they’re color coded too as are a number of my tools using these little rubber sleeves I got from a dentists supply website after seeing my dentist’s assistant use them to quickly recognize instruments. I actually have 5 pin vises, you never know😀
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With the weather, electricity, and heat (lack there of) situation I decided to work on building my remaining 5 carronades. I described my process way back early in this log when I turned to them after my first frame was shattered in a fall to the floor so I won’t repeat it here. I like to use as many tools as possible it seems 😀. These I can do in the short intervals I have available to have ship time right now. Here’s hoping things get back to normal this weekend when it should warm up.
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Just amazing work. Just as with any tool from a #11 blade on up, having the CNC means nothing without your artistic and technical skills to use it. I see nothing controversial with using all the tools available today to create such a masterpiece.
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We’re having rolling power blackouts here, 40 minutes on, 40 minutes off with no end in sight. -1 degrees may not be a big deal in the east, but it’s not happened here since 1949. Consequently I’m not getting much boat yard time in. Too busy trying to stay warm and grab a little internet time when I can. Hopefully by the weekend.....
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You’re really flying building this. And doing such a great job.
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I think it’s ok to leave them off altogether. They were easy to move in reality. To me they seem a bit of clutter to the otherwise graceful look of the frigate. I didn’t replace mine on Pegasus, but I should have.
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I’ve never understood the purpose of using white line then staining it with India Ink, a disaster waiting to happen. I always use dark line to start with. For what it’s worth I’ll never be good at tying rat lines, it is not the highlight of my modeling. Nice details in the rigging, you always add that extra something. Meanwhile I’m spending days on channels and strops.
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Badly worded, of course I’d mill my own strips, nothing to it after Cheerful. I meant the wood to cut the strips from. I thought the second option was Pear, I see it’s now it’s instead Cherry. So if I chose Cherry, and mill my own strips, the Cherry to do that you can provide as well as all the Winnie version of mini-kits. I guess I can see this all for myself once the store opens.
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Amazing as always. What brown paint did you use? It’s such a perfect match to the wood. An interesting thing about this ship is the lack of a rail or high transom. It seems like the duchess could easily be blown off the stern during her morning stroll about the upper deck. 🤣😂
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Nicely done Tim, it looks great. I’m sure you are justifiably proud of your work. I’m impressed with how much you’ve learned and how far you came form your start. It’s a great model!
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