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It has as much detail as anyone might wish for. No comparison with the AOTS series for accuracy and complexity. -
Not so much restore as rebuild! That is a very neat job so far, Paul.
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Lovely work as ever, Johann. The cutting of the edge strips for the gratings is impressive.
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Congrats on your growing family! Your lack of progress is excused, I think. I wish you many happy years in your new home.
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Quite the month, Kevin! My condolences. Try not to take your electronics to sea again, eh? Hopefully you'll be up and running again soon. I use a Mac Time Capsule as external back-up. As two computers can use it, it came in very useful when my wife's iMac hard drive quit. It was easy for her to download all her files on her new iMac Pro.
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Looking lovely, Frank. Great job with those raking stern timbers. All those clamps made me think of a row of exotic budgerigars perched on a wire!
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Lovely progress - but why stop now? Seriously, the model is a gem as is.
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Those railings and metalwork are first class, Adrian!
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Just catching up on your progress, Rob. Lovely work indeed! The sea in your diorama looks impressive as well.
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More tools - Luthier, jeweler, fly-tying
druxey replied to vossiewulf's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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Congratulations on completing the framing, Ben. The idea of omitting fillers in a regular pattern is a good one.
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If you look at contemporary paintings, ensigns and flags are translucent. The material had a very loose weave, as surviving examples show. You've imitated the effect very well in my opinion, Chuck. Excellent! And the rigging looks great as well.
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Oooh, nice! Also love the adjustable spanner (wrench) that you made lo those many years ago. Do I assume that the compass will work when completed? Otherwise you might just use brass for the balls (adolescent snigger).
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If that is a snatch block, the open side should face forward. It's hard to see whether yours do. Coming along nicely!
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Make sure that the set comes with the tables for setting any proportion you wish. (The photo above shows the paper chart.)
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Looks pretty good to me. Would the aft end of 'Deadwood 5' have a lip rather than taper to a point?
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Superb!
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There you go! Thank you so much for offering to help Steven out, Dick. This is another wonderful way in which MSW can work.
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Perhaps one of your Aussie model compatriots with a miniature saw could volunteer to cut planking stock accurately for you? (I know that Oz is very strict about importing wood or other vegetable matter).
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Another thought, Mark: how would an 'all single' framing pattern fit? The station line frames would have an air space in the plane of the station line.
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Jaager: Fillings between frames to the flooorheads was to provide a level surface to the limber channels and pumps. Otherwise water would pool in the air spaces near the keel and rot out the bottom. This was usual practice in British naval vessels. In merchant ships limber holes were notched into the underside of the floor frames close to the keel for water to drain to the pumps.
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