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Nice work, Joss. Looking forward to the next installment.
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EdT's Naiad is also and excellent reference source. Problem is, there's so many excellent reference sources for techniques around here that one could spend weeks reading and researching and never get any building done.
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Joe, Bigger is better, but like everything else, the concept of "best" is a compromise. My scale of choice is 1:64 because of the compromises. A different set of circumstances and I might be doing ships in a bottle or extreme miniatures. If it goes the other way, I'd love to do a 1:24,
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Good to see you've returned and your doing well. We missed you. Your Syren is looking good and that's great idea to have something else to work on while waiting for glue to dry.
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I think I'll fall back to the "how long is a piece of string".... The term "best" is relative. What's best for you may not be best for me and vice versa. We have scale tall ships here from 1:400 (ships in bottles) to 1:24 for a 74 (I think it's a 74...gotta' check) and it's huge. Each of these is "best" for the person building them.
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Nice deck... no dremel tool for you on this one.... nope... This calls for the real-deal!
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Colin, Outstanding work on the exterior. Love the details.
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Toni, Good catch and excellent fix. If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known.
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barrel sizes
mtaylor replied to chrish67's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
Chris, Here's info that might help: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/138-re-post-of-info-on-barrelcasks-sizes/ -
Joe, You are correct. If I were in the market for a table saw, guess what I would be buying?
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Jay, I tried a couple of frames to cut out the individual pieces and build the frames like say, the Triton and the Swan class ships. Ended up doing the Hahn way. I ended up with a nice scrapbox full of kindling for the fireplace. One way saves wood, the other time. On this ship, I choose to save time. Lots of nice woods out there that less expensive than boxwood... cherry and pear are two that look good to my eyes.
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Very nicely done, Colin. What did you end up using for the scroll work? I can't tell from the pictures and I may have missed your saying in the text.
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Sergey, Very nice work you are doing. I like the way you improve the bad parts.
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Michael, Your clean build and attention to all the details makes this a masterpiece. I'm enjoying watching this log progress.
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As someone once put it a long time ago... "a clean desk is the sign of work not being done". Or maybe it was "a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind"???? What Keith said about needing a cleaning again soon. That is a nice work area, clean or dirty.
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Matti, Some ships (mostly warships) were planked on the inside of the weather deck bulwarks. Some weren't. There's no hard and fast rule on this. The extra planking gave some protection to the deck crews from grapeshot, canister, and assorted small arms fire. The Berlin seems to be one that had the planking.
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Rich, Good luck on Monday. Hopefully, you can get some work done on the model this weekend to take some of the pressure off...
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Golden Hind by Keith B - FINISHED
mtaylor replied to Keith B's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Wonderful work, Keith. The loss of a camera with un-saved pics is hard to take. But, please continue to share your log. The Hind is a fascinating ship. -
Thanks for looking in and the support, everyone. When I saw this, I realised the fore and quarter decks will be the real canvas for the work. Christian, I had thought about it but then I recalled the Admiral's directive: completely planked, no "unfinished look".
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Tony, I have the MM saw. The slitting blades use the adapter. And yes, MM seems pricey on blades, etc. I too am looking for another source....
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Played with a mockup of how much of the gundeck will really be seen. It was a real eye-opener to me. The first pic show both the foredeck and quarterdeck and walkways mocked up and on "beams" The second shows how much is actually visable. Based on this, there's not going to be a MkV deck, but I do want that whole deck smooth as a baby's backside. And all appropriate furniture in place. Back to sanding and sanding and sanding and.....
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Popeye, She's looking grand with her finery hanging the breeze. I'm enjoying watching this build and the fun you're having with it.
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Nice fix on the "s" curve at the stern, Brian. She's looking good.
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Royal William by derebek - 1/72
mtaylor replied to derebek's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Nice work on the hull and lovely carving work. What kind of wood are you using for the carvings? -
Wonderful planking JP.. have one on me to celebrate.
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