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  1. druxey
    To begin with, read one (or more) of the pinned planking tutorials on this site. We've all been there! http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/Planking primer.pdf http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/Lining Off your hull for planking.pdf http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/NailPatternJig.pdf http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/plankingfan.pdf
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    Thank you for making me smile this morning, Ab! Love the figures animating your model as well.
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    Thanks for keeping us up to date, Keith. Glad the end of reconstruction is in sight.
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    Ditto, ditto! Well done indeed!
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    While the jig solves one problem, it creates another - that of making the throat and end seizings 'in the air'. I use a jig simply to mark the underside of the line where it wraps around the deadeye. After removing the shroud or shroud pair, I can hold things using third hands while applying the seizings. Then I pop a deadeye into the bight (the line has sufficient stretch to do this) and reinstall the shroud over the masthead.
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    As a footnote to Trevor's contributions, Humphries took off the lines of South Carolina, ex L'Indien in 1782. She had been a French design built in Amsterdam. She was heavily armed with 28 39-pounders (continental guns) on a single gun deck. She was extermely fine below water, fore and aft - more clipper-like than a heavily armed warship. As a result, by the time she reached Philadelphia, she had hogged 'amaisingly' (Humphrey's own note). However, she was the prototype for Humphrey's heavy frigates and, noting this deficiency, as well as the extreme sheer of her decks, he built in preventative measures including early diagonal riders.
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    Congrats on your early ambulation as well as the success of the surgery, Bruce. Also on your progress with the model.
  8. druxey
    Interesting bio. It ticks off many of my boxes - Dickens, Babbage and Lovelace, Shute, set design (may harpsichords substitute for organs?), steampunk, and, of course, ship models. You've come to the right place, apparently! Welcome indeed, sheepsail!
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    !!!! That will be a lot of sanding!
  10. druxey
    Good recovery!
  11. druxey
    Well done, Giampiero. It's a tricky one to do, fitting it around the headwork and under the bowsprit. I wonder how long the original figure lasted at sea without damage!
  12. druxey
    With all due respect, I would use epoxy for metal/wood or metal/metal joints (if not soldering), rather than CA.
  13. druxey
    Good progress, Chris!
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    Everything old is new again! I've been using a ruling pen for years with acrylic paint. It take a little experimentation to get the dilution 'just so', and, as Hank suggests, keep the support off the work to prevent bleed-under.
  15. druxey
    With lack of any other evidence, you'd be safe to go with a standard lion. Wait - wasn't there the story of Androcles drawing a thorn from a lion's paw?
  16. druxey
    Don't forget Unicorn or the Great Britain! But it's an uphill battle to maintain maritime heritage.
  17. druxey
    Those wedge-shaped fashion pieces are nasty beasts to tame! Well done.
  18. druxey
    I echo Greg's sentiments, Ab. It's tough losing folk one cares about. That is a lovely model indeed. For 'English' rigging, the Van de Velde paintings and drawings are very helpful. The one contemporary yacht model in the NMM has modern rigging that isn't quite right.
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    I should have specified 'half an Icarus'. My bad!
  20. druxey
    What a delightful subject. Will you be setting the model into a sea? If so, will you add Icarus?
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    Congrats on completing a very nice model.
  22. druxey
    All I can add is that primary, contemporary evidence is the best thing, short of the wayback machine.
  23. druxey
    Best wishes as you plan the relaunch of a valuable resource in contemporary form.
  24. druxey
    Just catching up; a fascinating discussion, gentlemen!
  25. druxey
    Progressing nicely!

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