harlequin
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looking great so far
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sorry for not replying sooner.....i got the ports from cornwall model boats.....i have lots of spares here if you want them..not sure how many but yours if you want them.......i used the ports on bellona as a way of not smashing the boat up as the build was going badly wrong and it was a case of using the ports or binning the model....i think they look ok and are a contrast to the rest of the hull...
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give it another go Thunder.......not touched it since christmas but starting on rigging again this week...
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get it in early.....😄
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hi from the UK........post a few pics of your build if you feel you can....
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looks like a good start....there was nothing missing from my corel Bellona...as for the bearding line....i did one on mine and was very careful.....untill i dropped Bellona and snapped the bow off....see pics on my build log......
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Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the lifeboat Solomon Browne's courageous attempt to save the crew of the Union Star which had engine failure and was drifting towards rocks off the Cornish coast. All crew members perished in a brave attempt. Coxswain Trevelyan Richards refused two members of the same family aboard such was the difficult nature of the sea. RIP brave men, your memory lives on.
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i am a bit of an enigma really Chief,....I served with the Parachute Regiment, a unit not noted for our patience, and also for one who spent a few years in and jumping out of aeroplanes why i should build boats which our arch rivals the royal marines use.....ask my family how patient i am and they will tell you "not very", so it is with some surprise to myself that i reach the end of a model.....i try to look at the big picture nowadays and try to keep calm......a good drop of single malt whisky does always help.....have a good Christmas Chief...
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have more patience than me...
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Cheers BobG.....like i said to Old Collingwood, they are full of mistakes and down right rubbish, but they look ok...but mostly I enjoyed building them which what it is all about......although Bellona came within a hairs width of being launched against the wall...
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i planked after i had inserted the decks on Bellona
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never in a million years has my workplace been that tidy, nor is it ever likely to be...😀
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Variable speed dremels
harlequin replied to Laggard's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
the green one is a sander and i took the end of a drill i no longer used and swapped it with the proxon....works fine... -
Variable speed dremels
harlequin replied to Laggard's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
have a look at minicraft on ebay.......no longer produced new but always available......i have several and they are superb.....variable speed transformers mean you can slow down or speed up using one power adjustment...
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ooops just caught the flagstaff which will need refitting, no big deal.....will have to start corels endeavor whilst doing the rigging.
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without a better look it is hard to tell what is going on but i would cut back the plywood keel and try to fit a piece of second planking to take its place....pin you first piece of second planking where you have it in the picture (dont glue it at this stage) so you have a line on which to work and cut out the plywood to this line and replace it with some of your second planking, then refit your first piece of second planking permanently ....
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things always look worse in close up.....looks great to me..
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