mtaylor
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Tim, You are far better off usiing a dye or stain. Tea and coffee are both acidic and will quickly deteriorate any thing cloth such as sails or line. For black, you could also use India Ink.
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Daniel, That's a great set of instructions.
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Phillip, Give it some time. It was only hour between your last two posts. We're world wide site and many if not most of us work. You might want to check this out: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/353-planking-instructiontutorial-by-jack-nastyface/ second post down, the PDF.
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Echo by Maury S - FINISHED - Cross-Section
mtaylor replied to Maury S's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Thanks Maury. Try the Google cache but it's fading away. If nothing else, just a couple of posts to bring things up to date will work. -
Gil, I'm happy you made your way back here. Even happier that you're one of the few (very few) who was able to recover from such a disaster on a home PC.
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Pat, Good to see this come back. A beautiful build. Just wonderful.
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Ed, I'll join the chorus of "thank yous" and then return to 'watch and learn' mode.
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Nicely done and thank you for sharing it with us, Garward. A lot of people, I'm sure, will be glad to see this.
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Just thought I'd pop in here. The rules on the old MSW were that the person who got the ship's name right, got to select and post the next ship. Otherwise, there were tons of people popping in with "what's this ship" and even they didn't know the answer. Since you are the founding "parents" of the game, you might want to think about some rules..... before things get too confusing.
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Yes, nice looking frames. I like the color of the wood.
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NIce work, Larry.
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Hi Christian, There's a few of those "raised eyebrows" type of translations. But I guess that's to be expected in any translation.
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I just use a standard run-of-the-mill #2 wooden pencil. I have a pencil sharpener handy. If I need a finer line than the sharpener gives me, I hone it on a rough piece of paper.
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I moved it here to the book sectiion where it's more appropriate.
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ancre Le Fleuron 1729 by rekon54 - 1:24
mtaylor replied to rekon54's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
By the way, Giorgo, I love your statement about professionalism. -
Well it was fun walking her back then in the 70's. Pity it wasn't the old frigate they claimed it was. It really was the 1854 Sloop that they bastardized into something they called "the real frigate". For interesting reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(1854) For even more indepth reading: http://www.comicbookbrain.com/a_uss_constellation_history.php and http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA241916 Quite the scandal...
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Popeye... I'll be following.... Great work.
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42rocker, I had two sets (one of the old bluelines and one of the new blacklines) from Hahn... I found they weren't the same... <sigh> The old set had distorted. So now it's just the newer set that I also scanned in to reprint as needed. Saved me a ton of grief when I had to redo frames. Wood... frames, keel, deckbeams are cherry. False keel is some cherry stained with Ebony. Interior planking and gratings are silver maple. And the furniture, coamings are of pear. The deck clamps are beech. I'll also be using plum and swiss pear and for the wales, some walnut probably stained... maybe holly for the figurehead. The jury is out on the staining and the holly. All the wood, except for the holly is part The Lumberyards Confederacy timbering kit without the plans or laser cut pieces. Didn't want those.
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Greg, Great to see your build back here. I'm following and learning. Now if I can just learn the "clean" part....
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Michiel, Reposting has not tarnished this at all. It's a wonderful build.
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Michael, I can't see a better reason to have a hobby. Having fun is why we do it. Should I wait for the rappelling picture?
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Here's another for rough cut planks https://www.cookwoods.com/lumber-site/ You'll have to check them out regularly as the post "specials" and also their inventory changes regularly.
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Echo by jml1083 - cross-section
mtaylor replied to jml1083's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Nice work on the rising wood, Jim. And you said you were "inexperienced"? -
By the way, 42Rocker... when printing make sure "actual size" is checked. Also, it's very good idea to put a ruler down and make sure that 4 feet = 1 inch.
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