Kevin
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LOL - Chris if i had some spare pocket money, i would set up a subscription to model boats for you, as it is - i dont. -
a little bit off topic, but i have recently been given a lot of my old photos, been stored away for safe keeping - (after divorce) Both HMS Odin in the early 1980's, for me those were the good days of the Royal Navy, when we had a purpose and some ships to do it with (not going political)
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i have not looked to see hoe Gil did his
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USNS Savannah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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you got me into a blind panic then - dont know why- im years away from rigging and dead eyes
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May 26 1758 HMS Dolphin (24), Captain Benjamin Marlow, and HMS Solebay (28), Captain Robert Craig, engage Marechal de Belleisle (44), François Thurot. 1811 Boats of the HMS Sabine sloop (18), George Price, captured privateers Guardia De Via, Canari and Madina in the roadstead at Chipiona. HMS Pilot (18), John Toup Nicholas, destroyed and captured a number of vessels at Stongoli. HMS Alacrity (18), Nisbet Palmer, captured by French corvette Abeille (20) off Bastia, Corsica.
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Total build time 835 hours Good evening Early enjoyed today, and even though I winged about my painting standards, - so be it, the rest of the build is nothing special either Stern Davits, I was posted a copy of a scan from Haynes Victory manual, so im fairly confident the dimensions of my rig is in the right ball park, I will fair these off so that they finish over the ¼ gallery, but for now they can be put away as they are a bit of a hazard The stbd gallery is nearly complete well – the lower windows – upwards are, just to tidy any paintwork up, and I can then get on with the other side All the best Kevin
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lovely work,
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so for scale it looks like they are about as long (extending past the stern panel) as the roof of the 1/4 gallery
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brilliant thank-you, please don't remove
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thanks Yon, no i have not got a copy of that
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good afternoon everyone God - i wish i could paint, lol - i try so hard to make all my work presentable- and then spoil it with a paint brush Anyway - the panels between the stern windows are complete, The holes in the top left and right are for my stern davits for one of the ships boats, these are 3mm square wood stock, any bigger and it will interfere with the edge scrolling.this size is smaller than the cat heads - so i am not sure if it will look to small and be out of scale
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May 25 1768 James Cook promoted to Lieutenant and given command of the bark, HMSEndeavour. 1795 HMS Thorn , Cdr. Robert Otway, captured Courier National in the West Indies. 1801 Boats of HMS Mercury (28), Cptn. T Rogers, re-took and brought out Bulldog from Ancona but had to abandon her. 1811 Tamatave and French frigate Nereide surrendered to HMS Astrea (36), Cptn. Charles Marsh Schomberg. 1812 HMS Hyacinth (26), Cptn. Thomas Ussher, HMS Termagant (18), Cptn. Gawen William Hamilton, and HMS Basilisk (14), Lt. George French, silenced the fortress and destroyed a small privateer at Almunecar. 1814 Boats of HMS Elizabeth (74), Cptn. Leveson Gower, took Aigle off Corfu.
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picking up one of the above dates, made my hair - as a ex submariner stand up 1939 - The submarine Squalus sunk in the Atlantic with the loss of many lives and the worst part of this tragedy was how the 5 that were saved only did so by sacrificing their 26 crew mates by closing the Bulk Head door to the battery compartment to stop the rest of the submarine flooding. This must have been one the most difficult decisions for any sub mariner and these men who were lucky enough to survive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sailfish_(SS-192)
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Andy how much of the shroud is served - is it just down to the catharpins
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nice to hear that yr ok, i am going trough all my list of pages of topics that i follow, and not heard of for a while and yes please update your build log and please put a profile of your build in the thread that is under my signature, the reason for asking is on page one all the best
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Chris at present i am doing the Caldercraft Victory, i doubt i will do another version of the same ship, but i love the work and the investigation you put into this, The Euromodel Royal William is/was to be my next build, but there are quite a lot of new more accurate kits around waiting to be built. Again thankyou for the research you do into keeping the non scratch people happy
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Wackowolf LOL - he is not back, i was asking - where is he
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then i suppose all the other stays and lines would prevent the yards being pulled together under the weight of the boat, still a big task and made worse in bad weather, with a pitching sea, which brings me back to why on bigger ships, why were they not always carried external to the poop deck, but thinking about it i suppose they would be more liable to damage, from the elements and cannon fire
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Decoyman Been a couple of months since i have seen a build progress of your build, just wondered how you are getting on all the best
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Good morning everyone nearly a week since i managed any build work on the Victory, but its a bank holiday here this weekend - WITH NO DIY- intentions are to progress the stern/1/4 galleries - and inserting some stern davits, for one of the ships boats, as to which one goes there i may have to puchase a 1/72 scale cutter, not my photo
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May 24 1779 Black Prince, owned by Irish and French smugglers, is commissed as an American privateer through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin. 1808 HMS Swan (10), Lt. Mark Robinson Lucas, destroyed Danish cutter (8) at Bornhohn. HMS Astræa (32), Cptn. Edmund Heywood, wrecked on a reef off Anegada in the Virgin Islands. 1810 HMS Fleche Sloop (16), George Hewson, wrecked on the Shaarhorn Sand, off Newark, Elbe. HMS Racer (12), Lt. Daniel Miller, wrecked on the coast of France
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nor by me, there are some fantastic looking plastic builds on this site all the best
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