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Kevin

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  1. Please start a log, all the questions you are asking, are repeated in most logs, it will save you either, asking the question in others ongoing builds, or having to PM someone, Having your own log, others will see what you are doing, give praise, and suggest ideas, to questions you have not thought off. I appreciate the questions you have at present are the gun-port lining, but these will lead on the the completion of 2nd planking,, then the greatly loved by all copper tiling. There are plenty of members around to help, and LOL if in doubt check Gill's Victory out
  2. oh well i was close - close in the respect that it was a big grey ship thing, Never mind that my submission was the wrong name, wrong country, and bore no resemblance to the photo posted
  3. looks a bit HMS Barham
  4. Jerry it is nice to see you making progress in the build, lol - im unable to find your build log
  5. hope everything is well at home Gil,give our best wishes for a speedy recovery to your wife
  6. from these picture, it would appear that at last billings are improving their standards, the figure head looks good
  7. also apart from the obvious sanding i also painted the inside of the stern pattern white to give a sense of depth
  8. look at gils and put the windows in so the sill is seen from the stern, i lightly sanded each window on the 4 sides, and placed a dab of c/a in the corners they fit lovely keep an eye on the front and back of the windows they are slightly different, also the middle level ( i think) are different again there seams to be a top and bottom where six panes of each window are different to the top three, i put the 3 planes towards the top, not that it is noticeable when painted that much
  9. well done, my friend, yr about to do lots of bits that will change the overall appearance of the build
  10. STENA FORWARDER until 2007 Feb MONT VENTOUX until 2005 Aug SEA CENTURION until 2002 Dec STENA AUSONIA until 1998
  11. i look forward to watching this build grow and hope it is not another 20 years good luck
  12. This day will be launched his majesties ship the Victory, estimated the largest and finest ship ever built. Several of the Lords of the Admiralty, Commissioners of the Navy, and many persons of quality and distinction, are expected to be present, for whose receptions great preparations are making through the Town" London Public Advertiser 7th May 1765 The order for the Victory to be built at Chatham was signed by the Navy Board on the 7th July 1759. Work started almost immediately and the first timbers, those for the keel were brought together at the Old Single Dock on the 23rd July 1759 in a ceremony that even have been attended by William Pitt the Elder - the then Prime Minister, and the future Earl of Chatham. Once her frame was complete she was left to ‘season in frame’ - a process that would normally take six to twelve months - but in the case of Victory lasted form many years - until the Seven Years War had ended - before work restarted on her. Launched on 7th May 1765 she was completed and fitted out - not for war but for the reserve fleet. It was not until 1778 that she left Chatham for sea service - as Augustus Keppel’s flagship. Following the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797) she returned to Chatham where she underwent a Great Repair - before returning to sea as Nelson’s flagship and the battle of Trafalgar
  13. OH NO another ugly one
  14. very nice, well done if this was a modern vessels, each of the panels would have a separate health and safety poster on it, like mind the mortar pit, beware of death - sort of thing
  15. wonderful work, ill be interested to see how you would approach the sail cloth, and make it look distressed
  16. must have read this wrong, lol - no one ever agrees with me
  17. oh well, lol thats my middle name
  18. http://wonderduck.mu.nu/the_muroc_maru
  19. Looking forward to you getting back to building, get well soon all the best
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