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  1. Popeye, You had the third round of bad luck...now you can progress on the Goth without fear!!! So if it rains.. it's pours. May good luck now pour on you.
  2. Looks great, Ron. If and when you run out of things to do on this one, there's always the next one.
  3. Grant, I think "Wow!!" pretty much says it all.... WOW!!!
  4. I do love that barrel... even if it is solid. You're moving to you and your wife's roots (so to speak) is so cool....
  5. Looks great, Christian. On the figurehead, I guess you could do a full paint job or make it look wood. I'm thinking just wood..... Worst case would be painting, decide you don't like it, strip off the paint and do it again.
  6. Ferit, I'm very impressed with your shrouds and deadeyes. On the color... the tar darkened with age. So new rigging wouldn't be black. I did my Wasa all in light linen and I like the way it looks. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.
  7. Lovely and precise work Gary. You're moving the bar on us.... up of course.
  8. JP, If you haven't done so, put a link to your post in the discussion about "Cleaning your ship" in the General Discussion. Interesting looking tool.
  9. Looking all trim and proper and good, Ben. I guess we'll just have to be patient..
  10. Clare, The planking is really showing off her lines. I'm following your research and the paths it's lead you down. The dropdown panels on the stern might possibly have been iron and all the way around. The Constellation (1854) had those all the way around the stern. Makes sense that you'd want the maximum field of fire. On the armament itself, there was an arms race going during the not-so-Civil War. It's probable that one or two of the intermediate configurations just didn't work out. A 50 pound Dahlgren would be a monsterous gun. They had planned a 110 pdr for the Constellation.
  11. Popeye, I'm doing about the same... the hot weather brought out the weeds in the lawn..<sigh> Plus fighting for time and sanity due to a mad crunch going on at work. I'm currently lining off the hull from the wale to the caprail to get a sense of the flow and lines as well as spacing. Nit-picky work but I think it'll pay big dividends later.
  12. Floyd, No anger from member of the Forum Police. Just a feeling that this is greatest site to be in and it's filled with good people helping other good people.
  13. Sweet looking gundeck with your special cannons. Have a good trip and see you when you get back.
  14. Wonderful work, Adriaan. The lights are the Pièce de résistance and make it something special. I'm surprised to hear the bar is now open.... I would have figured not until launch.
  15. Mario, I blink and you're finished... and fantastically so. Looks wonderful with all the bits you've added.
  16. Buck, I just gotta' ask... that tap doesn't turn or work, does it??? Good luck on the move. Do keep an eye out for that fellow who runs the Colorado Shipyard. He's either fishing for moose, or fishing for trout using an RC bi-plane.
  17. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Beer-o-clock, wine-o-clock, drink with an umbrella in it-o-clock... works for me today. Greg, actually I'm not counting those days at all... I'm counting the days until I can retire. Hmm.... I wanted to "like" all your posts, but I got this (direct quote from the error message) "You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day".. strange... didn't know we could do that.
  18. A great start on the figurehead. I can't wait to see it finished and in place.
  19. TJ, Nice to see your Triton again. You're doing a beautiful job on her.
  20. Sjors, The capstans look great. Excellent work, my friend. But he's already up to step 4: Buy power tools. I heard that somewhere else.... Peter Pan maybe?
  21. Very well spoken, and very well done, my friend. Your ship has soul and it got it from you.
  22. Moose, trout and deer.... anything not to do rigging? BTW Augie. That moose in the middle of the stream is probably why no fish. They didn't want to get stepped on. I guess I've been lucky... haven't hit anything bigger than 'possum.
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