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  1. mtaylor
    Nothing wrong with that carving, Micheal. I'm thinking like the others. It looks great.
  2. mtaylor
    I'm in agreement with John. I too get confused as to which is which. Great job.
  3. mtaylor
    After seeing this level of detail and the size... I'm giving up and taking up knitting. Wonderful work, Igor.
  4. mtaylor
    The bottom picture appears to be a clipper, maybe Cutty Sark but I"m not sure. I agree with Druxey... what in the world were they thinking?
  5. mtaylor
    Tony, The lower deck as shown is the "berth deck". There were small cabins toward the stern and the rest was open for hanging hammocks and possibly some storage. Below that in the hold, just aft of the cross section appears to be the cable tier. Both fore and aft of the cross-section area are storerooms, magazines, etc.
  6. mtaylor
    Charlie, Those should work well together. My current build is cherry framing and swiss pear planking (the swiss just isn't a "brown" as regular pear). I've planked in cherry on my Wasa/Vasa and I think it looks pretty good. It's aged and when to that deep dark cherry color. I think it will all depend on the final "look" that you want.
  7. mtaylor
    Thanks Bob. I'll give that shot... I want one of them.
  8. mtaylor
    Beautiful and intricate at the same time. Just breathtaking.
  9. mtaylor
    Beautifully stunning work, Giorgio.
  10. mtaylor
    Wow... they did miss the boat on cutting that strongback, didn't they?
  11. mtaylor
    Greg, The easiest way is to secure that bit wire in the tailstock.
  12. mtaylor
    Beautiful work, Fam. And that is a big update. Those are fiddly yet a very big part of the visual appeal of the ship.
  13. mtaylor
    Oh my. And here I thought some of the others deconstruction was pretty radical. I take it that you're just going to sand down the bulkheads otherwise you wouldn't got to trouble of tearing off the planking.
  14. mtaylor
    I wouldn't wish that on you, Nenad. I did the cradle stand on my Wasa/Vasa and only epoxied the stand at four points to the hull. The ship sat out for several years before I got the case and I never had a problem. A bigger problem were idiots to saw it and wanted to move the rudder. Grrrrrrrr..... So maybe you don't need the heavy screws and glue?
  15. mtaylor
    Probably. Royal William, Soleil Royal, Wasa/Vasa, Sovereign of the Seas are in there also. There's an awful lot of these over the top ships sold, but few get finished. There's not just complexity but also redundancy to be taken into account. Building, installing, and rigging 20 guns is one thing. Doing 50 or 100 is another. More planking, more rigging. Maybe instead of rating them on experience, they should be rated on the stubbornness and determination of the builder?
  16. mtaylor
    That's plastic, Ulises? I saw the pictures before reading the text and thought they were the real deal. Well done!!!!!
  17. mtaylor
    They're .mpg format. Windows Media Player if you're using Windows.
  18. mtaylor
    This is kind of hard to quantify as each manufacturer seems to have it's own system on "rating". Generally, the more guns, the more masts, and the more decorations (aka fiddly bits), then the higher rated it should be.
  19. mtaylor
    Well.. at least we didn't have to shoot the messenger. Just replace him. I'll go quietly now... oh.. there's my coat.. And a little happy dance for all this deconstruction and re-construction....
  20. mtaylor
    I'd rethink the hairdryer, my friend. Heat and soften and break the glue bond. I hate to hear that your ship suddenly had important parts falling off.
  21. mtaylor
    Worse case scenario, Patrick. Paint the engine room and the engines black. No one will know.
  22. mtaylor
    Ian, I'm playing catch up.... I like what you've done on the Victory. As far as the light reflections, there's only a couple of choice.. spray with a clear matt finish, rub out the hull with 00000 wool.. the plastic type.. available at home improvement shops, or change to an indirect lighting. I guess it's what you want the ship to look like when seen in person, not in a photograph.
  23. mtaylor
    There is Bob. It's called MSW.
  24. mtaylor
    Jason, What Carl said about the lip... He's right.
  25. mtaylor
    Very nice work, Jack. Coming right along, she is.

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