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Thank you for the definition. It reinforces the idea that all wildlife in Oz is out to kill you! Thank you for educating us non-Australians. -
I have never seen all three worms applied at the same time as you show this done. Impressive!
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Very nice work. Perhaps batiporte means port sill.
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Sorry to read about your circumstances. Hope power is back soon and things improve.
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Interesting comment worth considering, Dan.
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I won't argue with you about the sizes of 32 and 24 pounders, Siggi, but those 12 pounders on the quarter deck look much too large. Why would anyone want to paint the truck rims black? The paint would mark up the decks that they kept scrupulously clean. It is not logical. As for my comments about paint, my understanding was that lower decks were whitewashed, as there was limited light - my comment has nothing to do with any personal preference! Yes, I've seen blue painted inner bulwarks on contemporary models (also blue-grey and grey-green), but only in cabin areas. I stand to be corrected in my remarks.
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I have reservations about the Royal George sectional model. If you look carefully, the trucks of the guns have black iron rims - something that would never have been the case on shipboard guns. Only land-based batteries would have had iron-shod wheels. Secondly, there appears to be no difference in size between the lower deck battery, presumably 32 pounders, and the guns above. The quarter deck guns were 12 pounders - they should be considerably smaller. The inboard paint scheme is questionable, too. The model has been 'improved' by obviously 20th century labels. What else might have been improved or altered as well?
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Thanks for the explanation and giving me both a useful expression as well as a smile for the day!
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Reworks often work much better, John! BTW, what is the origin of the expression 'a Claytons update'? Seems like a useful phrase to have on hand.
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I believe that the eye-splice at the bulwarks was replaced early on by a half-hitch, then seized to itself allowing removal of the breeching rope.
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Judging by the photos, this looks better already!
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Hah! I had long discussions with a very knowledgeable gentleman some years ago. I had argued that laniards were running rigging as they were adjustable, but he persuaded me (eventually!) that they were tarred to protect them against seawater. So - dark laniards are more 'correct'.
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Good going, though, Steven. The size of the assembly against the monster match is impressive.
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Where indeed? Sigh. I've often thought about the idea, so wrote a novel about a steampunk time machine to get it out of my system.... Like the concept, it didn't work.
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Irritatingly, there is no reference beyond a turn around the cascable in Caruana's volume. However, as a gun might tend to 'leap' on recoil, a turn around the cascabel with the seizing above (as shown in the previous post) might be more logical.
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Just catching up on your opus magnum, Marc. Very impressive 'digging' for accuracy of reconstruction. I am curious about one thing, though - the lower gun deck: why would it need so many scuppers? As it is below the weather deck, surely the ship was not that wet?
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Exactly! You can understand why this method was used as the breeching absorbed the end of recoil.
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The bottom line to all this discussion is, WOOD WILL MOVE. All you can do is minimize this by humidity control and not making any part too large. As suggested, painful as the thought may be, it is now a matter of re-doing some of the work by replacing the fractured pieces.
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Nice looking breeching line. I believe that the line wrapped around the cascabel and crossed over itself before it was seized.
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