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  1. druxey
    Looking good, Frank. And thank you for your disclosure on the slot issue. We won't ever tell!
  2. druxey
    Just received this news from Model Motorcars as well. This is great to know for many of us! Perhaps this thread should now be re-named "Scale Hardware re-opening"!
  3. druxey
    Nicely done. Was there a reason not to cast the trunnions integrally with the barrel?
  4. druxey
    Oh, my....
  5. druxey
    This is only my opinion, but.... I never plank a hull as in full-size practice, where you end up with a 'whiskey strake' in the middle of the bottom planking. Installing this, as you anticipate, is awkward to do. However, you need to do this now. I suggest that the edges of the planks be bevelled in such a way as to (lightly) wedge them home. I would not make them a force fit. Hopefully this will go well for you. Next model, consider starting at the garboard and working up to the wale. As long as you keep to your mark out (which you are now expert at!), it will go much more easily.
  6. druxey
    A great start, Frank!
  7. druxey
    Congratulations on yet another fine model, John. The 'pings' of color on the sidelight boxes really set the model off.
  8. druxey
    Very impressive mass blockmaking work!
  9. druxey
    Whose rigging illustration is this, or where is it from?
  10. druxey
    Thanks for the link to your site, Gerald. Perhaps you could expound on scale turnbuckles when you have time - please!
  11. druxey
    Once the center of gravity is no longer over the base.... However, as the great comedian Spike Milligan once observed, "The ground. Very useful that. Stops one falling..."
  12. druxey
    Lovely subject, Frank. Looking forward to the episodes as they are posted.
  13. druxey
    The underside is what we were talking about, Jud. We all agree on that point!
  14. druxey
    I think that you've nailed it, Michael! Will you seal the underside, though?
  15. druxey
    I agree that those stanchions are very tricky to make. I found trying to solder two eyes on the two stanchions that required them the worst part of the job. However, you've achieved an excellent end result, Toni.
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    A fascinating observation and detail! I'm sure I would have missed that, Dick.
  17. druxey
    A good inexpensive cleaner for airbrushes is isopropanol (rubbing alcohol). I've used Aztek airbrushes. These have small interchangeable screw-on nozzles with integral needles and are easy to change color and to clean. With all due respect to Badger, Iwata and Paache users (and I've had all these makes in the past - they are all good) I still prefer my Aztek. There are no more bent or damaged needles. But, each to their own.
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    I might suggest leaving at least one 'original' boat's thwarts for posterity? Perhaps there is one boat where the warpage is not objectionably severe? Also, you might want to see if the curvature can be flattened by dampening the underside of the card with a wet brush. If this works, consider sealing the underside so that the card does not change dimension with atmospheric humidity.
  19. druxey
    Nice constructional drawings, Peter! Implacable/Duguay Trouin's stern and tafferel are preserved at the National Maritime Museum, now Royal Museums Greenwich.
  20. druxey
    Sorry about the contretemps with that shroud, but a great recovery!
  21. druxey
    Lovely work, Tartane! Well done.
  22. druxey
    Those shrouds and ratlines look very fine.
  23. druxey
    I am delighted to announce that the model has been sold and is in transit to her new home in Texas!
  24. druxey
    There's an expression, "Go big or go home". In your case, Gaetan, it should be "Go big and get a bigger home"! Seriously, I am enjoying this discussion very much. One can get very large prints made, (think outdoor billboards) but I don't know whether distortion for model-making purposes may become a factor in extremely large sizes.
  25. druxey
    Well sleuthed, Ed! Visually the changes will be well worth the time you spent in making them. And you have the satisfaction of knowing it looks and is correct.

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