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Yes, the curved deck planking seems to be a French thing. As Bonhomme Richard, Boudriot made an educated guess as he had to reconstruct some from the plans of the original vessel. There's many differences between French and English ships. Part is wood supply and part was philosophy. The French had a school set up for ship designers and were willing to try different things. They hull planking differed from the English also as did their hull designs. The American frigates hulls seem to inspired by both with the design favoring the French. I might be wrong on this last point but it just seems that way to me.
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It has been an interesting ride, Alan. I'm slowly reading your volume 1 and am looking forward to volume 2. There's a lot of insight to the times in those articles.
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The melting going on at the poles, there's no telling what will be uncovered. Possible a log will be found.
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I'm curious about your little mini sander... is there something to search (keywords) for on Fleabay or Amazon? A small one like that might be better in some instances than dragging out my big one.
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In actual practice, the thicker wales were made using thicker wood. So the appearance of "overlapping" (like a on a lapstrake hull) is deceiving. Here's photos from a frigate cross-section (Triton here on MSW) but you can see the way the wales (black) were on piece and thicker than the rest of the planking.
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I've read about the Navy and the Marines fighting the AF. Luckily cooler heads have mostly prevailed. I'm wondering is this history will repeat itself with the starting up of Space Force where the AF will claim they can hit any ground target with a magical space weapon. <snark off>
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Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
mtaylor replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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Many of the scratch builders make their own. Look for the ANCRE builds as the ones building them seem to do a lot of making of blocks, etc. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure who's log to look at.
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I don't have a steam box but have had much success with soaking the timbers for a couple of hours and then using a curling iron. I work the timber where the bend is needed by holding on the iron and moving it back and forth. It takes some practice but so far so good. I also do what others have recommended and that's cut the rails (or planking or beams) into pieces per Allan is an excellant idea. If you use decide to use the curling iron, I suggest you buy the admiral a new one and then take hers. Seems to work better with keeping them happy than just going out and buying one for yourself.
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Incredible preservation and excellent detective work sorting it out that lead poisoning was the problem.
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That's really a pity, in my opinion. As kids we went down to the railroad station to see the train come in and unload. Then there was the parade to the fairgrounds and putting up the tents, etc. We've lost something using semi-trucks and hockey rinks, etc for circuses.
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I think the AF has begrudgedly and slowly accepting they have to do CAS. The ghost of LeMay is still around. There's still a lot of missile men, bomber men, and wannabee aces running things. And, if it weren't for Congress and pressure from the Marines and Army, the A-10 would be history. I read something where the Army/Marines offered to take the A-10 off the AF's hands and all hell broke loose as the AF just wanted to junk them. Saner minds have prevailed, IMO.
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Sounds like a good plan, OC. The recovery so far is looking great. Nothing like a few worn spots and some scars on a war bird.
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Welcome to MSW, Zeno.
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Dave, Welcome to MSW. I can't help with the plans, however, I do suggest you change your screenname. MSW gets crawled by lots of bots and your current screenname will get you lots of spam.
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Had to clean the monitor when I read that. I guess the answer would be.... very carefully.
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I emailed Gary a couple of days ago and got an answer back today. He's been pretty busy with yard work and other stuff. He's healthy.
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Back then, most drivers didn't like seat belts. The reason I was always told (I asked a couple of drivers once) was that the fuel tank was self-sealing and the drivers wanted out fast if something went bad.
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M-50 Israeli Sherman - FINISHED - MP Models - 1:35 Scale
mtaylor replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I would also. Especially the "Ronsen" Tank. I did get to drive an M901 when I was doing the manuals for it. Between fuel, ammunition, various greandes, side arms and that big fuel tank..... nope... don't want to be in that beast, I'd rather take my chances in a chopper. -
Do like many model ship makers do. If the other side is good, then the bad decal side is the "wall side".
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I think you are nailing the figurehead, Mark. I like the idea of the shield per Druxey. Pity we don't have access to the time machine to see what it actually was.
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Beautiful, just beautiful.
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I'm pulling up a chair also. When I lived back in the mid-west, there were a lot of Civil War sites to see, unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to Vicksberg
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I have memories of visiting the AF Museum and they had the foam on the wings but not for long. They quickly ground down the leading edge as most of their A/C's back then were outside where people touched, climbed on them and generally didn't think about sharp edges.
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I'm trying to remember... mostly details other than changing the way the bulwarks were set up in the kit. Cannons got tossed as they looked too much like laser cannons from an old movie. I made Parrot guns to the replace the kit ones. There's two guns on the main deck at bow and stern, the drop-downs on the bow and stern and then there were some rigging changes. I added some staysail yards. Down in my signature is a link to the build and to the photo gallery. Note that the log is a bit confusing as MSW had a major crash that was unrecoverable and so I managed to restore the photos for the early part of the log. If you'd like to discuss this, I suggest we do it in my log instead of cluttering up JD's log. Indeed it was. After that, they went to steam. She spent the Civil War overseas intercepting Confederate cargo and also the slave traffic.
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