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Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - Steam Yacht
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Libertad 1925 by Valeriy V - Scale 1:100 - Spanish Type F Light Cruiser
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That metal work is looking brilliant Mark and it's a very good demonstration of the effect of tinning solutions
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Pomeranian Rahschlup 1846 by wefalck – 1/160 scale – single-masted Baltic trading vessel
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Herzogin Cecilie 1902 by Jim Lad - Four Masted Barque
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Tally Ho by vaddoc - scale 1:12 (maybe) - as rebuilt by Leo
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Hercules by vaddoc - 1:64 - Steam Tugboat
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Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - Steam Yacht
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Looking good, as expected! Thanks for the Micro Kristal Klear tip, I'd never heard of it
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Having crewed the 123 year old steam tug Waratah and having been below in the aft accommodation (nowhere near as grand as Cangardas) I can assure you that even in that old girl you could not hear the shaft spinning. I would imagine the only thing that might create a disturbance is the propeller when she goes astern or if it catches air, I imagine it would be very well balanced.
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Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - Steam Yacht
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Thicknessers make excellent Christmas presents !
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John, my ex wife used to do family daycare so there were always kids in the house and one in particular saw my model of the schooner for Port Jackson and straight away commented how cool it was and "can we play with it"? Thankfully it was up high and protected by glass. That particular little demon would have turned her into kindling in minutes.
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I'm with Wefalk, just the other day thinking we haven't seen Michael for a while and suffering pilot cutter withdrawal. Welcome back Michael
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Yes, now that I've seen it I can't unsee it. I guess I was too focused on the details to see the whole properly.
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I just took some more measurements, mid ships, and she's actually out by 20mm! No idea by looking at it without the string line but it's painfully obvious with it.
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Well there's news on this one and it's all bad. I've been laid up with a new knee so thinking a lot about this build and today I was well enough to set it up on a table and run a string line down the centre. This was important because if I'm going to put the effort into this then it's going to get a proper deck with the planks following the curve of the hull and joggled into a king plank and if she's not symmetrical that becomes very problematic. I can shave planks here and there to fake it for minor discrepancies but although she looks pretty good to the eye the string line tells a very different story. The hull isn't straight and there is as much as 9mm difference from one side to the other, it's also got a bit of a twist in it. What does all that mean? She'll be scrapped as I'm not interested in the nightmare that would be in trying to make a silk purse out of this particular sows ear. If I decide I really want such a model in the future I have a set of plans for "Altair" and it will be a lot easier to build something straight from scratch than to fix this.
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Yes my friend, some details are better left unphotographed as that could make them look quite crude compared to your normal standard of work but rest assured the bigger picture will suffice as we know they will be very well built.
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I was going to say you need to get the cleaners in before handing over to the owner That's come together beautifully Keith, well done.
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You're going all out Mark, really looking the goods.
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Love the lamps and definitely better to make them in pieces than try and get complicated shapes like that in one go.
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Mate, my son works for such a contractor and hates it, always trying to convince him and the guys that the right way is generally quicker and gives a much better outcome. On the subject of model boat interiors, I met one of Jim Lads compatriots ( a model maker at the Australian National Maritime Museum ) who had been to England and visited the NMM there just as they were using an endoscope to look inside the old admiralty models. These models, as many know, were used instead of drawings to show the admiralty what every deck would look like so they are fully detailed and had not been seen by anyone since the admiralty signed off deck by deck as they were closed up with the weather deck.
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