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Your skills are absolutely incredible. Beautiful workmanship. Thanks for posting. 

Nice blocks.

I second the vote to hollow it out and not paint yourself into the corner of having to leave her upside down on deck. 

Looking great.

Very nicely done.

I like option #4 now. It's pretty nice. Looks very much like weathered Teak.

Looks much nicer than the cast pewter one. 

You haven't even started on the needle gunning, priming and painting yet. There's a touch of paint on her to do I'd say. 

Another Cutty Sark. Excellent. Can't wait to see your progress.

Agreed. She'll be sweet. Looking good. 

Simply amazing.

Thanks Holty.

Very nice metal work. Beautifully done. 

Beautiful job.

I want to bash a Lady Nelson in to Hornblowers Witch of Endore. I think she's the most suitable model for the task and she'd require very little modification. How do you find Lady Nelson? Instructions enough? Material of a reasonable quality? Difficulty level for a first timer? 

Thanks,
Daniel

Nenad,

The row of ports were cut later in life. Deciding when you want your model to represent will determine how many to put. Forward there are 4 ports for the men in the focs'l. They were there from the beginning. I wouldn't put a row all the way along her hull. It looks wrong for a grand lady like her.

Nenad, I think the lighter grey you first showed on her majesties' real deck. You get around the weathered deck but not weathered hull by telling yourself that no skipper will varnish his decks but he'll paint the ship. That allows the deck to weather but the rest of the hull to be improved from time to time as the mate sees fit. 

Yes, I'm looking forward to that privilege Adam. Since I spotted her for sale for you and all.....

#3. If you can make it even lighter I'd do that. I'd want it to look weathered. If you're going for a like new look, then #2 might be best. #1 doesn't look right to my eye for some reason. Weathered teak can look very light grey. It goes very well with tarnished unpolished bronze or copper. A nice weathered green look with a grey deck. That's what I'd be going for. Our lady was a hard working Queen and as such would often have had a weathered appearance throughout her career. Particularly under the Portuguese.

Nice job on mousing that hook. I can't imagine doing it at that scale.

Nice job.

I remember greasing one of those fairleads in the old Jean Parisienne. I spent a long time pumping several tubes of grease into the fairlead until she was loosened up enough and would roll properly again. They really are easy maintenance though.

Looking back at my last post here, I didn't even tell you how cool I thought those shackles you made are. Nice job. They are really jewels.

Once they're installed, you'll want to wire them shut. This means passing a thread of wire through the hole in the screw and taking a few turns around the leg of the shackle next to it. This will keep it from coming undone in use.  Google Mousing a shackle. You'll find something about it.

Nice work.