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I think a lot of us have been brought undone by the water content of PVA, I know I have, had to pull the bottom off my mahogany runabout model and redo from scratch! These things keep our minds active, figuring out solutions is an important skill. -
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Libertad 1925 by Valeriy V - Scale 1:100 - Spanish Type F Light Cruiser
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Another master class, and she looks like an interesting ship to model
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Pomeranian Rahschlup 1846 by wefalck – 1/160 scale – single-masted Baltic trading vessel
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Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - Steam Yacht
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Always a joy to see how you bring these tiny masterpieces together and I'm pleased to know I'm not the only one with a black hole around my work table, I've got a tiled floor and small pieces still disappear!
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Herzogin Cecilie 1902 by Jim Lad - Four Masted Barque
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That's the beauty of being a volunteer John, they can't really push you either way and they sure can't sack you. Do it in your time mate!
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Poetic licence my friend, yes they are on her in the period you are modelling but they weren't original. Only you and a handful of us will know. I can see why they were added though, she would have been a bit roly poly I imagine.
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She's really looking the goods John
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Ah, but this is how we learn. Especially useful for those wise enough to learn from the mistakes of others.
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I was talking to someone just the other day who's doing that, can't remember who though. It will be a great trip, enjoy the sailing!
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Thanks, she looks quite "salty" doesn't she. It is truly written that "A fair line supersedes any given measurement"
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Vaddoc, you know I admire your work so please don't take this as negative criticism, it isn't! I think we can make life hard for ourselves sometimes, like all the trouble you went to in order to get the deck profile printed. All I do is plot out the relevant points and draw it. You can use pins at all the mold stations and run a fairing batten (a length of thin section flexible wood strip) around them. This not only shows you any station points that are wrong but gives a guaranteed fair curve to the hull. I've just built a full sized sail boat this way and it's very accurate and symmetrical.
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She's looking the goods John! If memory serves, when I sailed on Bark Endeavour in 2015 the manual showed 100 lines in the running rigging. She's an older style rig with fewer sails and hands aloft to do everything so I can imagine in this rig with more sails and lines to do most of it from deck level she's going to keep you quite busy!
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Keith, he got it from an RC sailing supplier here in Aus. There will be similar shops in your neck of the woods. It's a hard film kind of like a very thin x-ray film and the stuff he gave me is somewhat translucent, it's more for function than scale appearance but I think it'll do the job.
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I've made some good progress on the pond yacht, thanks to Mark Pearse for sending me the rigging cord! I've made two travellers for the sheet horses from hard brass wire, now to try and work out how the sheets were originally set up, I'm trying to make sense of the pre-existing holes in the spars. There is a bloke I know through dinghy sailing that has mylar sail fabric suitable for pond yachts, he's coming through in the next couple of days and will drop it in for me. I think it'll be a whole lot easier than me trying to sew normal fabric nicely.
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Thanks Keith, the existing mast and boom appear to be original and a second boat we've been given of similar age and size confirms that, she was most likely built as a Bermudan sloop. These are very simply rigged so it won't take much work in that regard but I think I'll need to build a nice display stand for it.
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I'm starting to make progress on the pond yacht, I've ordered some rigging fittings suitable to the period and created a new cranse iron.
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