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    That's spot on, on the other side you are quite proud when you actually made a ship of that heap of wood...
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    Laurvig is today Larvik in Norway F.Y.I.
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    My first wooden model was HMS Badger from Caldercraft. Except for the quality of the wood (that almost put me off the whole shipmodel thing) the kit was a wonderful entry to wood ship building. The instructions are step by step all the way. The rigging part took you from start point, up to this block, down to that block and behind this line down to belaying point.... I still take a glance at these instructions when I do the rigging on models where rigging instructions are just a bunch of red lines on a drawing...
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    Remember that Dusek is now reissuing the Mamoli kits. Quality can not be compared to the old kits before the fire... Look here: Mamoli model kits are back
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    This is how I made the rudder. I guess the original is more elaborate, but it's better than what DeAgostini wants you to do. The deck. On the original almost no planks have the same width due to different nationalities working with different measurements. I did four butt shift No where near the original but better than DeAgostini... And here is the big problem. Theres almost no space to work on trying to do a good keel planking. This is my third attempt under way before she went in the closet waiting until all shipments have arrived. I found the thin strips easy to peel off and easy to sand off, so when you have taken the pictures for your blog you could always replank the keel and rudder... You are doing a great job, and I wish I could do the painting you do.. I am way behind on that. Being colorblind takes away the fun in painting hundreds of figures...
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    Just to show what great stuff this kit has: 64mm without the tail. A great chunk of a figurehead!
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    I found this, but it's french. "French Naval 12-pdr gun on its carriage side view. Source: Jean-Charles Soulié" All the spanish cannons I found was breeched the ordinary way. I have built one cannon for alignment purposes and I just inserted a brass rod in the hole so it looks like a bolt or something...
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    Option 1 without the yard, yes.
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    It looks great! Have you decided what to do with the mast? I would do only the lower mast. It's just a piece of the ship so why not do a piece of the mast as well? On the Götheborg the inhaul tackle was not attached when we fired the cannons....
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    Mike Well, they are small, so small I actually misplaced the whole bag... But quality was good, very uniform in size with no blemishes.... ceramic I think.
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    On my way to hold up a bank or jewelry store... This is one must have, even if it's not a ship...
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    Did you not have 5x5 left over when you did the deck beams early in the build? Someone was drunk at Occre at the time they made this kit, even the pictures from the instructions show the 5x5mm pinrails with extra long belaying pins Those brass discs are the gun carriage wheels I think... Again, a great build!
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    Yes, I know that, I was just trying to be ironic
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    Cool, I was worried I'd have to ask you every time I put a order...
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    Do we need permission from MSW to send CMB a e-mail?
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    I was thinking (I know I'm bragging...) that maybe a bunch of us here in Europe should compose a e-mail to CMB about the benefits of them becoming supplier of Master Korabel. Maybe a British member could compose this (as english is my second language) and everyone here who is interested could sign this e-mail?
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    Cornwall model boats would be great! As they ship worldwide you could cover a lot of potential customers. (Like me for instance... I really need your blocks!!! And your yawl, and the rest of your stuff )
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    Hi Mark, I discovered that the gunport lids are 16mm but the gunports are 14mm (same as inner part of gunports)... From the pictures on the box and the instructions it looks like the lids are the same size as the opening... What do you think?
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    Yeah, I might have gone a little over the top with the bricks. I'll have a look around for something more like your sheet... Your stove is great! To me it looks as the columns in the pictures are completely different from those in the kit. The wider square will look better at the base anyway I think... One could maybe remove two sides of the square but I don't believe one would get the same look as in the pictures anyway...
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    I hope I don't hijack this thread now... Chuck: One problem with living in Europe is the shipping, vexrobotics has a shipping fee of €92.90 (!!!) for 12 plastic gears. Add to that 25% salestax... The Swedish government believes that they loose millions of tax money on us who order stuff on Ebay and such so there is extra fees on cheap stuff ordered outside EU now... wefalck: Ok, two sets of same gear for a serving machine. Got it. Serving machine is the one I need first of all. Still have some model rope... Graham: No metal lathe... I'll be on the lookout for some drawings for a ropewalk, found a couple of sources on Amazon for the gears, but postage is double of what the gears cost so I'll wait until I find more stuff to order... Only need some drawings to follow as I'm not technical enough to do them myself... I'll be back in the end of this month with more stupid questions when I get some gears. Thanks all of you
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    It's the damn cogwheels!!! Don't know how to get them or even what to get....
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    That stove looks good! Maybe I'll try and get one of those sheets as well. These are the ones I'll try using. 1:48 scale. I'm going to have some problems with the mortar I guess...
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    Yes they are indeed...
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    I'm quite satisfied with the kit. I bought some lighter colored strips for the deck, but the rest of my kit has ok quality wood. All the plywood straight. My first model was from Caldercraft and the wood was so bad it almost ended the hobby for me... And the kits I built from Turkmodel/NCB are far worse. My DeAgostini Vasa is from Artesania Latina and is maybe equal of Nuestra. I'm also building "Terror", Occres latest kit and the that wood is better but the instructions are worse... But we'll se how I feel when I get to the galleries....

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