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druxey

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  1. I'd thought about that. One would have to crawl up the stay.... Fortunately we only have to rig that at model size!
  2. A very nice presentation, Albert.
  3. Nice yokes for the swivels, Toni. Well done. They are a beast to make!
  4. No, the length of the top (platform) is the unit. The euphroe sits forward of that be one to one and a half lengths down the stay.
  5. In contemporary rigged models, the euphroe appears to be about the length of the top to 1 1/2 the length away from the front of the top along the stay.
  6. Looks very plausible, Cathead. Nicely done! I had no idea that the wreck was so deep down. Thanks for posting that photo.
  7. Don't forget the myriad deadeyes, the various hearts, euphroes, and other assorted odds and ends! I always use the 'just in time' approach as I go: it's much less boring than turning out dozens and dozens of blocks all at one time. I use the same approach for spinning up cordage.
  8. Check all the information given in Volume IV, The Fully Framed Model, HMN Swan Class Sloops 1767-1780.
  9. Beautiful! I was anxious seeing the earlier photos, as a horseman leans forward as the horse jumps, and the Vale painting shows him upright. However - whew! - I see you corrected that in the final photos. Bravo!
  10. Coming into the finishing straight.... Good going, Toni.
  11. Somehow I missed your June 30 post, Eberhard. I had assumed the break was for reasons of business, not a nasty virus. I'm glad to read that you have recovered and can continue your beautiful miniature work. Gute gesundheit!
  12. Sometimes the stem curve is made of two different radii, which complicates things! If you are lucky, you can see the prick-mark left by the draftsman's compass when he drew the arcs for the stem and rabbet. Take a line vertically up from the point where the straight part of the rabbet begins to curve and look carefully. The other method is to make an arc of the specified radius (13' 7 1/2" in your example) and put the center at different points along the curve and strike several arcs. The intersection of those arcs will locate the center of the curve.
  13. If the planks are rough-sawn, probably a powered planer is easiest if you have access to one. You really only need to face one side and one edge before re-sawing.
  14. If it's any help, try to control your breathing while painting small detail. That will steady your hands. Nevertheless, your painted decoration looks beautiful.
  15. Your work at such small scale is very impressive, Javier!
  16. Gosh, Michael; we may have stood side by side back then without knowing it! I did exactly the same thing. The treatment of windows - more properly termed lights - was a convention seen on many display models from about 1880 to 1950.
  17. Beautifully realized, Doris. The earlier the subject, the less information we have. Have you looked at photographs of Vasa's head to see the seats of ease on that ship? Although Swedish, it is almost contemporary to Royal Katherine. That may give you a guide. If I may comment, the Vale painting seems to have the figure and tip of the knee of the head slightly more angled up than in the Sheldon model. You might want to check that.
  18. Ah! That is another level of difficulty, then. Either decal or photoetch seem to be the only realistic possibilities for those details.
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