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CaptainSteve

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  1. It's been quite some time since I last looked in on your work, Hubac (alas, studies have meant that my modelling room has remained unvisited for many months). I am absolutely blown-away by your progress, and I could spend many study-days just drinking in the photos of your work. Your research and attention to detail is producing a true piece of art. Keep it up. 

  2. Verily, ‘t hath been some time since me last posting … but Chuck didst prompt-eth me to do some digging and I didst manage to recover-eth some lithographs.

     

    What wit’ me limited carving skills, it took-eth many an attempt afore I were to have a full set of decorations for me barge. Fortunately, Chuck did provide two extra sets of carving blanks … and these were all eventually required to produce a full set.

     

    Unfortunately, as I didst mention, pictures of those appear to be lost to the annals of time (and NiCad battery life-spans).

    Fortunately, however, some later pictures DID survive …

     

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    (The general viewing public shouldst be aware that the above carving is approximately 1inch by 1 inch, in real life)

     

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    Next, an friend of mine (and the Barge’s eventual care-taker), helped with the gilding of my carvings, using actual gold-leaf …

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    Whilst I still need to take and post some final shots of me Barge, I were to be most impressed with the eventual outcome, Chuck …

     

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  3. Hi Chuck,

    My Queen Anne barge was completed some time back. The final scrollwork was completed with gold-leaf, and actually looks quite striking. I did have final pictures, but they were lost in the Great Camera Tragedy of 2019 (the batteries went flat). The barge currently sits at a friend's house (the one known as Snoopy). I will endeavour to take some photographs the next time I visit and will post them here.

     

  4. My non-existent sailing experience couldn't give you a definitive answer to your question, Nikiforos, but I do know that others who were building the Bounty launch at the same time that I was did mention adding a bowsprit and jib-sail to their kits. I can only imagine that there would have been many different rigs, depending upon design and usage, among other factors. 

    Cathead opened up a discussion on the matter here, which you may find useful.

  5.  

    11 hours ago, Omega1234 said:

    Hi Mark-oh boy....I swear it’s not my fault.  I place the blame solely on the clean-up crew.  They’re obviously not up to the task.  I mean, how hard is it to pick up some popcorn😏?  Hehehe.  

     

    You'll be needing a tiny, tiny vacuum cleaner next, Patrick.

    (Or a tiny, French maid)

    :cheers:

     

  6. 17 minutes ago, Cathead said:

    When I showed this update to Mrs. Cathead, she commented "You know, you could just stop there and have a really nice model of the wreck."

     

    Nah. Yours looks too good, CH. I think you would have to drop it a couple of times ... mebbe kick it against the wall some.

    :cheers:

  7. 4 hours ago, Heinrich der Seefahrer said:

     

    II. The Mafia way to deal with it

    ... (Send out some professionslal killers to eliminate all the guys that read this thread.)

     

    I just wish to point out that I have never read this thread, nor have I looked at any of the pictures. Whoever "liked" your posts using my log-in is a dirty rat. I'm going to hide now. Possibly in a mountain cabin. Or possibly somewhere else.

    :cheers:

     

  8. Speaking as one lone voice, I will not be purchasing from Model Shipways ever again. I abandoned my USS Constitution build, primarily due to two factors. Firstly, I wanted to convert the kit to an 1812 variation. Probably due to my lower skill level (and patience), I struggled with this immensely. Secondly, as has been pointed out, almost every aspect of the MS kit has to be scratch built. MS largely provides just the strip wood.

     

    A third factor for me was that, despite a number of writers saying that MS customer service is very good, I did NOT experience this at all. Indeed, quite the opposite. On the two occasions when I contacted them for additional wood, my queries took in excess of three weeks before the goods were even shipped. And that is not counting for transit to Australia. Multiple e-mails were required on my behalf to get progress on my requests. On one occasion, I even received a rather curt reply back from MS, stating that "these things take time". This was after having re-submitted information on my order (which MS somehow lost) and not getting any response for three days (working days, mind you ... I took the time differential AND weekends into consideration).

     

    There are plenty of quality model suppliers on the market (OcCre, Caldercraft, Syren etc etc), and in future I shall be spending my money with them, instead of Model Shipways.

     

    (I would love to one day re-attempt a build of the USS Constitution ...  but that day may have to wait until Chuck releases a kit of this beautiful ship)

     

    [RANT MODE OFF]

  9. On 4/25/2019 at 3:10 PM, Heinrich der Seefahrer said:

    B.)

    Relocating the masts is also a point not to be neglected - I still think about not to install any masts due to the amount of daylight shining through the gratings, staircases and mastholes into the 24pdrs MD lightening some detail. On the other hand the white painted masts do have some nice effect onto the decks appearance at all. And the bowsprit does work together with the flagmast aft. 

     

    Just a thought, Heinrich, but you could do her with mast stubs ... a la the Admiralty models of yore.

     

    (Now I'll just return to quietly following and enjoying the amazing research that you, Hubac and EJ_L are doing.) 

  10. Some time back, I produced this effect by scratching random, longitudinal grooves in my planking with an Exacto knife ....

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    ... the grooves were then filled with a standard HB pencil, before I applied a few coats of wood stains, lightly sanding back in between. As I recall, I used Old Baltic, Golden Teak and Oak stains from Feast Watson. If you are at all interested (at the time, I never thought anyone else would be), feel free to check-out my Bounty Launch log in the link below. Start about halfway down pg4 ....

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