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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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Well I have just taken delivery of a few different sizes of rope from the above mentioned firm and first impressions of it is that it looks superb.....far better than any other product I have used in the past....I live in good old blighty and within four to five days it had winged its way over the atlantic and landed on my doorstep.....awesome product, awesome service.....cheers ropes of scale...
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well i think it is time now to start to fix the masts into position.....and hey presto....here they are....including bowsprit
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blocks added to the hull with a few rigging lines added for ease of application later...
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How to seize a block to an iron band
harlequin replied to Laggard's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
that is why i dont care about historical accuracy in my builds.....i just enjoy the process....if a kit is inaccurate i am not bothered. -
cant add anything that hasn't already been expressed...all the best with your fight against your illness, it looks like you have plenty of cornermen here to help if needed...
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Bowsprit now added although not yet fixed, and you can tell it is an old corel kit because of the style of the nameplate which i have painted and added the self adhesive 5mm lettering.
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