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druxey

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  1. Lovely atmospheric work. It it always sunny there?
  2. Yeah, Kevin, I feel your pain. Getting the cat tails scored under the beams is very tricky.
  3. Henry: cumulative error means that the first thing one does is a tiny bit off. The next, measured from the first, is a little more off... and before you know it, everything has become way off. It's the rolling snowball effect. The only way to avoid this problem is by repeatedly re-measuring and checking things, be it a distance or an angle. With a scratch build like yours or Kevin's, it's imperative. One can't be even a bit careless and get away with it. Ask me how I know!
  4. Every time I look at the quality of your work, and attention to detail, it makes me smile. Beautiful!
  5. Well done, overcoming obstacles. Often one needs to invent workarounds of one sort or another, whether it's a kit or scratch-built model. Succeeding gives one a great feeling of accomplishment.
  6. Too true. I'm actually writing a novel on time travel using a steam powered machine. Definitely dangerous! On a more serious note, the 'blank' panel of the lower gallery is logical, as it balances another blank one on the foremost panel.
  7. Not looking after this now could develop into a 'knock on' one of cumulative error. I've had that happen, which is most annoying!
  8. Just catching up with your progress now, Kevin. Coming along! The bitts are vertical to the keel rather than the deck sheer, I believe. (I don't have the plan with me right now.)
  9. First consideration: how big is the space? That will often dictate what is practical and what is not.
  10. Very nicely rendered, Mathias. Never make a thing simple if you can make it complicated!
  11. This may sound bizarre, but in the first photo it appears that the seat and wheel, as well as the foil/rudder, is rotated. Was steering literally by the 'seat of the pants'?
  12. Like many of us, you wish for a 'way-back' machine to see how it actually was. All we can do is make an educated guess.
  13. This order makes perfect sense as the false keel is sacrificial. Thank you for this, Bruce.
  14. Nice attention to detail! Chart cabinet looks very convincing.
  15. Very nicely reworked. Having only the stern of the model is very convenient for tipping it up on end to work on! Papierverschwunden!
  16. First, it is considered standing rigging and therefore was tarred to preserve it. Secondly, sailors got this on them when they climbed the rigging, hence the traditional name 'tars'. I'm sure Trevor could confirm that!
  17. I wonder what the jaw capacity is?
  18. I think cut and move the third timberhead from aft is the reasonable. The fourth might be omitted altogether and the fifth moved aft.
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