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druxey

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  1. Bulkheads are generally solid flat pieces cut to shape; frames are hollow and often built up of several pieces like the real thing. Look at HMS Winchelsea for an example of the former and a Swan cross-section for an example of the latter.
  2. Don't lose your drive now - you are doing so well!!! Beautiful work as usual. Dobri.
  3. Never noticed the wall until you pointed it out! (You can always crop the photo.) Nice progress, Thunder.
  4. Nice ropewalk and nice workshop, Amalio!
  5. Very nice, Mike. A Forstner drill bit will do a non-tearout job nicely, but you did well with the hole-saw bit.
  6. Welcome here, Mark. There's no such thing as a stupid question. You'll find helping hands here. It may interest you to know a book is coming out shortly on the Hayling hoy of 1759-60. Yes, she worked Portsmouth harbour back then.
  7. She is making up into a very sweet hull, Thunder. I wish I could remember the year that the ad appeared. I do recall that this was a separate, inserted and folded sheet with a full-colour photograph of the completed model on it.
  8. As you are living in the U.S., perhaps you can find inspiration for thatching material at a Michael's store?
  9. Should I be anywhere near München.... unlikely, but thank you so much for the invitation. Your model would certainly be well worth seeing!
  10. Impressive 'save'! And congratulations on your 80th as well. Many more healthy years to you.
  11. Is the central figure perhaps representing Neptune, flanked by two nereids?
  12. Coming along very nicely indeed, Pat. Your work is very clean.
  13. I'm sorry to read about your friend Muz. That is a lovely way to salute him.
  14. Gallery lights: Make and fit all the munions (the dividing pillars) first. Then you can make patterns in card to fit each opening.
  15. Clinker and clench are different names for the same thing! I remember the advertisements in the '70's in Model Shipwright for this kit. Couldn't afford it back then, but lusted after one!
  16. Absolutely, Shipman! I'm sure I too, with my faults and foibles, qualify for that diagnosis as well....
  17. I wonder whether the treasure trove of recently discovered Black Sea wrecks may hold the key to some of these mysteries. I understand that they will be examined more closely this summer....
  18. I remember, as a kid, seeing him and his models in London at Model Engineering exhibitions. I was too young to truly appreciate his work then. He was an odd character who today may have been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.
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