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Klaus, I'm happy to see this log come back. Beautiful work on her.

Hank, I'm looking forward to following along.

Karl, You have made my day also as this ship is on my bucket list. Your work is truly inspiring.

Jay, I fiddled with one of those but I guess the cheap disposibles just aren't up to the task. One of my little projects currently is figure out how to make a reciprocationg saw using these Xacto saw blades:

Hi Pat, I saw that and added my mod based on it. I forgot to check the MSD when I was posting to see if the article was back. My bad.....

If you're doing a French ship from the 1700's this book is a "must have". Even if you're not building a French ship, his techniques are worth the price. It's available in several languages. I have no connection to ANCRE other than being a happy customer. From the ANCRE website: DESCRIPTION Bernard Frölich has always been a builder of ship's models. As a geographical engineer, he discovered Jean Boudriot's books and monographs in the late 70s. He fell in love with the beauty of sailing ships of the classic period and since then has dedicated all his free time to building historical navy models. This practical experience made him a genuine authority in that field. He has published numerous articles on that subject over the past years. At our request, he has gathered, edited and significantly enriched these articles in order to produce his book. L'ART DU MODELISME describes the author's experience and methods in 300 pages abundantly illustrated with numerous drawings, sketchs and more than 600 commentated photos. In this book, Frölich describes in detail all the crafts that a shipmodeler must master : he must be in turn a shipwright; a carpenter; a cabinetmaker; a marqueter; a blacksmith; a ropemaker and a sailmaker. He shows that any beginner, if he is industrious and persevering, can master this art. This fact becomes all the more evident since we can see the tremendous progress made by the author himself through the use of photographs of his own work. This book itself is a tremendous learning experience. In the first twenty pages Frölich describes his studio, his tools and equipment and his library. He then devotes about one hundred pages to the timbers of a 1730 merchant vessel , the Mercure, and to M.de Tourville 's three-decker vessel of 1680, L'Ambitieux. In the next one hundred twenty pages, the author discusses the equipment, fittings, guns, decoration and sculptures, ship's boats and rigging. The final sixty pages offer a description of Frölich's own models (all at 1:48 scale ) : the schooner Jacinthe; the lugger Coureur; the brig Cyclope; the bomb ketch Salamandre; the 12-pdr frigate Belle Poule; the merchant vessel Mercure and the xebec Requin. The unfinished model of L'Ambitieux - the Chevalier de Tourville's three-decker vessel - is abundantly described in the chapter on framework. Although the author denies it, this book is a genuine treatise on historical naval shipmodeling. The photographs included show that the skills of today 's shipmodelers match the talent of the creators of the period model pieces preserved and displayed in our museums.

MicroMark sells a micro power sander. So far, it's worked very well for those areas I can't get my fat fingers into. The sanding pads are sticky and hold well. I've also been cheap and cut up sandpaper and rubber cemented it to the sanding "shape". Micromark also sells this one: Again, I'm finding it very useful. I found that the tips can be trimmed to fit openings (such as gunports) which makes it a lot easier to rough them in before using a sanding stick.

For small parts, you can chuck brass or wood into the drill press and use it as a lathe.

Wefalck, They're not rated for that speed, that's why I have monitor for heating. The tech I talked to, thought they would be ok if I had been using the mill and the bearings were run in. However, I'm only runing it at speeds above 3000 rpm in short bursts at this point.

Here's a link to the section in the MSW Database with LED's... http://modelshipworldforum.com/ship-model-furniture-and-deck-fittings.php

Pablo, Your cross-section looks great. Rusty is right. We will always find something we don't like and can do better. Sometimes it is better to redo it, other times, ignore it.

Rusty, The treenails and limber boards look great.

Clay, Good to see you returned from the den of the computer gods. I'm looking forward to seeing some more of your excellent build.

Hubert did post videos here, but I haven't seen his name come up yet.

Hi Colin, Good to see that you and your build log are back.

Hi Kats, I'm happy to see your back and reposting. What the others say: This is a very special re-build.

Pop that question in the rigging section. It's possible someone has an answer. Or, PM Gill directly. Maybe he'll re-start his log.

Hi Denis, I'm happy to see you're putting the log back up. I was hoping to see it finished and now it looks like I will since your back and posting the progress. No rush.. no pressure.

Grant, Good to see the log going back up. Great work!!!

Mayohoo, good to see you found your way back and will carry on the build log. I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks for the nice comments everyone. Harvey, I almost tossed mine for the same reasons. But I remember walking her in around '74 in Baltimore. The kit looked like she did then. So it wasn't fiction. It was laziness. They never changed the kit after the truth was out. It was a few people pointing me in the right direction that spurred me into this bash. Funny thing.... I noticed that AL include the hull hog that was there in '74. BTW, the scale is pretty close to HO and not what they had on the box. A bunch of stuff was either fiction or the wrong scale. Thanks Frank. I've had few people say they like that stern shot. Maybe I should give up model making and go back to photography?

Ok... it's something else going on.. I'll get back to you when I find out.

Hold that thought on the print and download buttions. They're not working right for me, but appears to be my settings. Might work for you.

Mark, You made that capstan look easy this time around....

Better unshrink yourself Michael. At that size, jumping off the work table to get a piece of wood might...no... will be disasterous.