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Super nice work, Charlie. BTW, did you see this topic:
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Here's the links via Google for this: https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/revolutionary war ship/revolutionary war ship?hl=en&gl=US&ned=us
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ancre La Salamandre by tadheus - 1:24
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Beautiful, clean, precise work, Pavel. You have captured how heavily built these mortar ships were. -
A very complex and detailed model, Patrick. And a feast for the eyes. BTW, will you be doing crew and passengers next? <whistles><acts innocent>
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Tom, Take care of you and yours first! We and the ship can wait. This is terrible news. The sad part is, I hear similar things over and over from friends. I'll keep you in my thoughts and something better than where you were will turn up.
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For "behind the scenes" type thing for the movie Danny linked to, have a look here: http://modelshipsinthecinema.com/wp/archives/823 http://modelshipsinthecinema.com/wp/archives/8422 This site is pretty interesting and you might want to explore it a bit.
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Welcome to MSW and back to the hobby. From what I'm seeing, she looks pretty good.
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Thanks for the info, Mike. I'll retest. Time is an issue as these bits and pieces aren't easy for me to move fast around. The area that's critical is the cannon to the carriage and then the whole thing to the deck. So... back to the laboratory to test.
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Ah... wide ranging ship you build there, lad. The Norden just keeps getting better and better.
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Those hardwood dowels don't seem to have much grain, do they? I have several I'm planning on using for masts and yards. I've had them for several years and they haven't warped yet. I'm not sure what log it was, but I did see that someone is using wood for their guns.
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Thanks for the likes and comments. Testing right now to find the right combination of bits and pieces. Thanks Pat. I'm finding that sometimes it's the only way. I'm tickled to hear someone liked an idea. After fishing out some parts I came to the conclusion there had to be a better way. I find I do need to replace the tape as it doesn't like staying stuck in place for week or two at time. I thought of that, but the oven is out due to Admiral's prerogative. I didn't think of the light bulb in a shoebox. I'll try that next time.
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I remember where I've come across the the "curved wood" on the port bottom. Some French ships were outfitted with this for the reasons Jud gave above. Often curved towards the gun for the carriage to pivot against when training the weapon. We have to remember that the Establishments were just periodic upgrades to the document and much happened in the shipyards that never made the Establishment for one reason or another. That port lid, again Jud may be right.
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You've picked up some good philosophy, Kirby. On the plus side, you caught the errors early before putting in more effort.
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That's a good plan, Tom. What wood will you use? As for blackening... I think acetone is the preferred cleaner, followed by vinegar to give the metal some "tooth". Been awhile for me on this but I'll be blackening my guns this week, so we'll see if that works. I'll have to dig out my notes as I recall having that issue you did before I sorted it out.
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Thanks for looking gentlemen. I appreciate the likes and the comments. I've decided to live with the cannons as they are. I did some further testing and still didn't like what I was getting as results. Things were busy here and too late I realized I should have made several jigs as I decided (after some destructive testing) to use a thin epoxy that seemed to take forever to try. I have 24 carriages assembled and pretty much cleaned up and parts for 5 more if I should royally mess some of the "good" ones up. Now to convert the shop over to metal work as I need to blacken and install the fittings, do the rigging, and install. Each gun will need 2 eyebolts on the carriage, 2 on the deck (for pulling the gun back from the port), and then 4 on the bulkhead at each port. I'll be using Dafi's fine looking (and small) eyes and hooks for all this. My eyes are now crossed and I note that I've been mumbling to myself a lot the last day or two trying to get these finished. Note that the two forward ports (1 on each side) will not be filled as these were "access ports" for lack of a better term. Here's pics of the carriages in place for position and to run some checks. Pierre is standing by for scale reference. I'll pick the 10 best for the mid-ship area that's open and if any of the rest fail to met standards, I'll replace them with new ones. Hopefully, in the next week or two, I'll also install all the furniture (oops.. need to make 2 "kitchens") and get rid of that blue tape.
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