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Nice work and a nice recovery from the problems, Sjors. I think every kit has it's problems but each is different problems. Come to think of it.. scratch building has it's problems. No easy answers I'm afraid.
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Hi Hal,
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That's not a tool, Michael. It's a work of art.
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Beautiful work, Mike. I like your choice of woods which are setting off the framing and planking.
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Super nice work, Ben. Interesting find from Druxey... learn something new here everyday.
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Pandora by marsalv - FINISHED - 1:52
mtaylor replied to marsalv's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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No words, Frank. Whatever say would just be repeat of everyone else. This is beautiful.
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Wow... what a great stove. Fantastic work.
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Just stunning work, Nils. I'm left speechless every time I see your work.
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The monographs give a good history of the ship and depending on the monograph, detailed plans with lots of notes on the ship's construction.. There's some monographs only suitable for solid hull as they don't have any below deck info. Others, give you everything in the way of plans... including framing. Note of caution.. these monographs are basically how the full size ship was built and are really not an instruction manual on "do this... do this next, etc." Having said all that... the monographs are definitely wonderful books for reading and great reference works.
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Hi Paul,
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Kenny, If you haven't done it.. make copy of anything your using to cut like the frames. It may save you some grief if you mess up a frame. Just the voice of experience here.
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Belt sander proxxon 28 536
mtaylor replied to michael101's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
A very versatile tool. I've used it for tapering my planking as well assorted odds and ends where I needed a small power sander. -
Welcome to the wonderful of "re-do's" or "do-overs". It pretty much seems to be a way of life around here.
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Thanks Gérard and Daniel. The height surprised me also but I did a dummy cutout and that is what fits. Moxis, you have the right one which fits what Gérard said about it being the top one in my picture.
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Just an incredible amount of detail on her, Nils. Very inspiring.
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I'm sort of stuck here. I'm seeing two different styles of carriages for the French 8-pdr cannon. I'm also under the impression that this applied to the 4-pdr's also. See picture. The upper one has both axle trees connected by a beam and the side supports sit on the axletrees. Note the rounded cutout at the bottom of side support. The lower one has a large "plank", if you will, that side sit on and then this is affixed to the axletrees. Which would be right for for the 1760's-1770's? I have detailed plans for both and just need to find out which one to use.
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Ships lanterns
mtaylor replied to bluenose2's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
The old lanterns were either large candles although some were oil fed via a wick down either in the Great Cabin, or the deck below it. So, the flame would have been yellow. This era was before the red/green navigation lights and the lanterns were more for position within the fleet at night. There was somewhere, a small lantern that would come out after dark for a couple of hours to inidicate it was ok for the crew to break out their pipes and smoke... the smoking lamp. So clear glass and not colored. If illuminating via LED, then use a yellow one. -
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