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  1. mtaylor
    Mylar? Check an office supply store for overhead projector transparencies. It not only comes in clear but a variety of colors.
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    It's not as bad as you think, Roger... A bit of a later and.... "Consists of: An aggregate produced by a cold milling machine. The machine is used to remove the surface layer of a tarmaced area such as a highway or footpath. The resulting waste is loaded into a lorry and is officially known as Road Planings although many refer to them as Road Scalpings or Road Scrapings." "Road Planings are not suitable as backfill for drainage trenches due to the high fines content and care must be taken when sourcing them as older tarmac surfaces which have been deep planed may contain tars. The use of Road Planings is generally considered environmentally sound as Bitumen is a natural substance. Using them also reduces pressure on quarried aggregate stocks. Unfortunately the days of being to obtain Road Scalpings for free have gone as the pressure of the recession on local authorites has resulted in very little resurfacing work be carried out and thus Road Planings are not as abundant as they once were."
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    That whole album is excellent. I particularly like the B&W shots. Well, when the battle was over, did you have the problems with the gentry headed back to DC as they did in 1861?
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    Congrats, Sean. You and the Santa Maria deserve it for a model well done.
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    Piet, I'm just in total awe of this and looking forward to seeing how it comes out.
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    Immaculate, Giampiero.
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    John, Looking good and well worth the effort. One question, since the wood is splitting, is the grain straight? Many times the kit wood is cut at an angle to the grain. I think we've all had our moments with wood splitting.. and then the air turns blue. Doc, There's no other video that I know of. As for lining off the hull, use his tutorial in the article database. He also includes a planking fan for the process in a separate PDF.
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    Lovely work, Sam. Just remember, with a mill, you'll probably still have to make things twice. But it is fun... so you get twice the fun re-doing things. Yeah.. I know. I'll get my coat....
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    I'm just amazed at the detail you're packing into this ship. Wow!!!! Looking super.
  10. mtaylor
    I like that hatchway. A nice touch to a good looking bow.
  11. mtaylor
    What? We have to grow up? Darn... I forgot that John carries milling cutters. Thanks for the reminder. Stay tuned Piet. We've had a small change in plans do some repair work where I had to remove a bunch of beams. The main mast step wasn't positioned exactly where it needed to be. Anyway, the solution won't be accurate but it will be "interesting" to some.
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    Sweet, Keith. They both are super clean and look very fast.
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    Kevin, Not the answer you want... tie them off when you are ready.
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    By all means send us ballots, Bug. I'm sure they've heard of absentee voting... I think we can also get the Chicago Graveyard Vote in for you.
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    Mike, I think I'll pop in my $.02 (US) after reading the pros and cons and looking at TFFM. These were 6th rate ships as I recall, sloops, not frigates. Built in quantity to fill out the fleet in smaller ships for scouting, patrols, etc. The problem is, both ways could be correct for this ship. Some NMM plans on the gundeck drawings show a shape of the galleries, others don't even for ships of the same class. And, this is tough one.. later ships of the class often had differences from the first based on experience of the captains. A good example is the Roebuck class. They had two rows of windows on the stern and galleries for the first couple. By the time they built Serapis, the top row of false lights on the galleries and stern were gone. I think you'd be safe in going either way... so, basically, I'm not saying "do it this way". But "do it your way".
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    Thanks Pat. They're a set I picked up at, I think, a local shop. Supposedly carbide but only a few are really usable. A couple have bent shafts and a couple more just aren't sharp. The milling here is requiring a fair amount of cleanup. I think I'll be tossing these soon and buying better quality online...but not from E-Bay.
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    Beautiful, clean, crisp, and very sharp looking, Mike.
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    Beautiful work, Matt. Complete models unto themselves.
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    Mike, looking super nice. As Nils said, very clean and crisp.
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    Thanks Tony for the nice words. It is indeed a very challenging part of the hobby and the internal rewards are beyond anything else. The CAD files were never meant to be downloaded given the nature of piracy on the 'Net. I've not seen any kits yet for the Triton but.....????? Sidenote: if you decide to do the complete ship at some point, there are (were?) issues with the POB version as I recall. Aldo was doing the POB and brought up the problem. I have no idea if it was fixed. http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/1512-hms-triton-164-by-aldo-pob/
  21. mtaylor
    Welcome to MSW.... Go here: http://modelshipworldforum.com/ship-model-framing-and-planking-articles.php At the bottom of that page are two things by Chuck P.assaro, the Tutorial and the Planking Fan. I think that may be what you need.
  22. mtaylor
    I think you will see the courses reefed up to almost furled when in combat. I'll have to check my files as I think I have some contemporary paintings of this. All the tops (or some, depending on weather) but main course and fore course are reefed well up.
  23. mtaylor
    I can't explain the differences, Tony. I know that all the plans for the Triton were developed on CAD and then a straight conversion to PDF's. The keel, keelson, and false keel are all the same width. I wonder if your printer is doing it?
  24. mtaylor
    Thanks Sam. Uh...buy it again...? No. It's been discontinued and there were really were not accessories for it. I've posted elsewhere on this that I think that when this one dies (or I just get tired of fiddling with getting things like vises to work) I'll get a different mill.
  25. mtaylor
    Tony, I'm not sure why redraw them? As long as you print them out and check that the scale on each plan measures out, you should be good.

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