Kevin

Merry Christmas everyone from the bois and myself

that all looks very nice and tidy

Fantastic

hows the build going @Patrick Haw?

wow, sorry i missed the start of your build, will be following, and asking silly questions, - good luck

Good morning everyone Not done an update for a while, no real reason, just one of those things, possibly the slow progress on the build, and being black in colour, non of the photos look great on my posts anyway, i stayed with the decision not to replace the turnbuckles, i will let someone else improve on my design, this then led to another issue with them as when it came to the rigging of the shrouds i needed to stop them pulling in, the kit calls for .8 on the shrouds in brown (sorry that aint going to happen) i used .7 black and also down sized the rats as well rigging 400+ 4mm blocks are provided in the kit, and most of them unfit for use, i will use what little brain power i have and down size these to 3mm and 2mm Bowsprit without any issues, i will no doubt snap it off before completion and do a repair deck fittings will complete these before the rest of the standing rigging goes in, including a chicken run under the ships boats, it maybe oversized (lol- it is oversized)

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/34930-hms-erebus-by-clearway-occre-175-scale-bashed/ is this the issue you are referring to?

Good luck

Please start a new log for the build, i will follow your lead when i get round to building mine

Here is a kit review of her https://modelshipworld.com/topic/37459-uss-missouri-bb-63-occre-1200/#comment-1073548

thank you for them, 1 will have to see if i can adapt what i have put in place

thankyou @wefalck for that info, very much appreciated

thank you @wefalckNot heard of that before "pretty Chicken"

Good morning everyone, as we get towards the later part of the year, i am getting more productive in the man cave, mainly because the bois are getting older, and i am getting more sleep, in turn allowing myself to get into a routine again. Apollo 15 months Odin 5 Months Belle Pouple continues to fight me, as much as I wanted to complete her OOB, I am having to change a lot of things on her, and as a result, she is looking quite tatty, and very messy, a lot of it is cosmetic and will clean up, but I feel i will have a "to be laughed at build" but will continue and try to complete her by the end of the year. Having made up the foremast i then looked at some of the over scaled pin rails and shorted them by 1cm, also going to use much smaller belaying pins. Belle Pou[le does not have deadeyes coming from the channels, but a series of stanchions which (to me look like turnbuckles, so I have tried to reproduce something like that, however then found it is quite awkward to get a decent tension on the shrouds as they tend to pull in, and group the shrouds to close, Using .5mm copper wire looped at one end with a thimble. the wire is threaded through the sheaving from a roll of wire, with a couple bits of plastic tubing to resemble the parts of a turnbuckle then painted and i have this personally i think it looks better than the kit and somewhere towards the museum photo (not my image)

im only up the M5 from you, but i have enough on my plate at present