Jump to content
HOLIDAY DONATION DRIVE - SUPPORT MSW - DO YOUR PART TO KEEP THIS GREAT FORUM GOING! ×
2025 NRG PHOTOGRAPHIC SHIP MODEL CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED ×
Ship Modeler's Handbook - Back in Stock ×

druxey

NRG Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13,273

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by druxey

  1. druxey
    If it's real sable it will be a very expensive brush! However, properly looked after, it will last decades. Some of my brushes lasted for many years, so the initial cost amortised over time was far better than a cheapo brush. The performance of a real Kolinsky sable brush, if you've never used one, is a revelation.
  2. druxey
    Same principles, but formed over a curved surface and 'fixed' with acrylic matt medium.
  3. druxey
    Impressive - and beautiful.
  4. druxey
    What joint? Oh - there it is!
  5. druxey
    Something looks a little off with your coaming: it seems very wide. Did you check the drawing? Nice grating, though.
  6. druxey
    But we do! See SeaWatchBooks: https://seawatchbooks.com/products/swan-iv-sail-making-supplement-from-the-revised-and-expanded-edition-by-david-antscherl
  7. druxey
    Great start. I'm sure that you see how awkward it would be to fair the cant frames last with all the other frames in the way!
  8. druxey
    Nice complication, pocketing the battens! That is not beginner level.
  9. druxey
    You will need an appropriate solvent to clear the heel of the brush. If it is acrylic paint, soaking in isopropanol (rubbing alcohol) will do it. For oil-based paint, something like acetone - but only in a well ventilated space, please!
  10. druxey
    Lovely atmospheric work. It it always sunny there?
  11. druxey
    Yeah, Kevin, I feel your pain. Getting the cat tails scored under the beams is very tricky.
  12. druxey
    Very neatly done! Congratulations.
  13. druxey
    Henry: cumulative error means that the first thing one does is a tiny bit off. The next, measured from the first, is a little more off... and before you know it, everything has become way off. It's the rolling snowball effect. The only way to avoid this problem is by repeatedly re-measuring and checking things, be it a distance or an angle. With a scratch build like yours or Kevin's, it's imperative. One can't be even a bit careless and get away with it. Ask me how I know!
  14. druxey
    Every time I look at the quality of your work, and attention to detail, it makes me smile. Beautiful!
  15. druxey
    Interesting hybrid construction technique.
  16. druxey
    Well done, overcoming obstacles. Often one needs to invent workarounds of one sort or another, whether it's a kit or scratch-built model. Succeeding gives one a great feeling of accomplishment.
  17. druxey
    Nice to see the most essential item in the shop: your coffee mug. Congrats on your new piece of kit.
  18. druxey
    Too true. I'm actually writing a novel on time travel using a steam powered machine. Definitely dangerous! On a more serious note, the 'blank' panel of the lower gallery is logical, as it balances another blank one on the foremost panel.
  19. druxey
    Not looking after this now could develop into a 'knock on' one of cumulative error. I've had that happen, which is most annoying!
  20. druxey
    Just catching up with your progress now, Kevin. Coming along! The bitts are vertical to the keel rather than the deck sheer, I believe. (I don't have the plan with me right now.)
  21. druxey
    First consideration: how big is the space? That will often dictate what is practical and what is not.
  22. druxey
    Looks nice? Agreed!
  23. druxey
    Very nicely rendered, Mathias. Never make a thing simple if you can make it complicated!
  24. druxey
    "Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice!
  25. druxey
    This may sound bizarre, but in the first photo it appears that the seat and wheel, as well as the foil/rudder, is rotated. Was steering literally by the 'seat of the pants'?

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...