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  1. druxey
    Interesting approach to the hances and moldings. They look very good in your photo, Chuck.
  2. druxey
    Ouch! Are they - I mean were they - carbide? Those are very brittle.
  3. druxey
    No harm at all, LH! One way to procrastinate completing your dissertation, unless you were crafty enough to make St Philippe your subject....
  4. druxey
    Thanks for bringing this significant find to our attention, mic-art! Tak!
  5. druxey
    No problem. It's a small detail and hard to see on a small screen.
  6. druxey
    Yes, I meant the sheer of the quarter gallery and my sketch is only approximate. I'm sure you can improve on it!
  7. druxey
    Beautifully done, Frank. Small point (and it may just be the photograph); the netting looks too bright. Congratulations on a lovely model.
  8. druxey
    The lyre will look correct if its 'horizontal' axis is parallel to the sheer. Hope this helps!
  9. druxey
    Well, James, aren't you the lucky reviewer!
  10. druxey
    Glad to read that you are back in the shipyard . Also glad that you are recuperating nicely!
  11. druxey
    No book is 100% accurate; errors will creep in despite authors' best efforts. I'm not excusing egregious mistakes like the example cited, but Murphy can intrude. As an example, right now I'm researching mid-18th century ketch rig. There is a lovely contemporary rigged model in Chatham. However, this must have had 'restoration' of rigging at some point. If I took it at face value I would be wrong. One forestay is simply wrapped several times around the bowsprit heel, for example. The repair looks very old, so could be mistaken for 'original practice'. And there are other weird anomalies as well. An historian friend of mine put it well: "Read elsewhere and read critically, always." Of course, if you are model-making simply for fun, it really doesn't matter!
  12. druxey
    Yes, there was a long tradition of allowing shipyard workers to take home 'chips'. However, there was considerable abuse of what constituted a 'chip'! The figures quoted in the papers cited show that many trees' worth of wood were liberated each year.
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    Some neat info in those pages. In these papers, nearer the end, there is a delightful discourse between 'Candidus' (Q's) and Publicus (A's) beginning on page 10 of An Earnest Address to the People of England Containing an Enquiry into the Cause of the Great Scarcity of Timber Throughout the Dominions Belonging to His Majesty. Also there are comments about losses in shipyards due to theft. One instance was a shipwright who left a fortune of 10,000 pounds to his widow. He had worked there for about eleven years on a salary of 45 pounds per year!
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    I stretch SilkSpan like watercolor paper and use dilute acrylic paint on it. It works for me.
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    Here is the news: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45951132 A 2,400 year old Greek merchantman.
  16. druxey
    Expecting a long winter, Pieter?
  17. druxey
    In 'real' ships, sharp edges are to be avoided. Rope can wear against them and a sailor would suffer badly if thrown against a sharp edge or corner.
  18. druxey
    Welcome to the group, Ronald!
  19. druxey
    An exercise in fortitude and patience.... She's coming along really nicely, Rob.
  20. druxey
    Outstanding result, Javier. Well done, so, congratulations - again!
  21. druxey
    Perhaps what you are looking for is: A peak halliard - to hoist the outboard end of the gaff A throat halliard- to hoist the jaws end of the gaff Vangs - to control the peak of the gaff to port or starboard. Brails - to control the sail
  22. druxey
    If the sails are brittle, there's a good chance that washing them will disintegrate them. Nicotine is soluble in water, helped by a couple of drops of detergent added. Is it possible that the model is acceptable with stained sails?
  23. druxey
    Would they be ventilation or bridle ports?
  24. druxey
    That's all we need: a hooligan modeler hurling scale rocks at windows! Seriously, that looks excellent, Gary. In my experience, all my microscope cover glass pieces looked like that when I tried to cut them to size. Must have been a cheap scriber, I guess. Your results are far better than mine.
  25. druxey
    I think that this is a different one, Dan. I think it has the provenance and is authenticated.... If you click on 'visit site', it takes you to the newspaper article and details.

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