Gahm
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Your figurehead is shaping up very nicely! I found building the figurehead at that scale is a bit of a challenge - but also a lot of fun! And you have some "artistic freedom". When you search the Internet you will find all kinds of examples of mermaid figureheads in different positions, with different fins, etc. I chose one with the arms at the side because it is relatively easy to carve
.Thomas
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Beautiful work, Bob! Absolute pleasure to watch!
Thomas
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This is a superb planking job! Beautiful work!
Thomas
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Thank you Glakie and CaptainSteve, and thank you for all the likes!
I found specifically Tamiya masking tape a very useful tool, and not only for covering up areas when painting a part of the model. It sticks well to pretty much any surface, you can nicely write on it with a pen, it is pretty transparent, and it peels off easily. So it is perfect for marking things on the model without leaving any permanent traces.
Thomas
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A little update: I have finished all carronade sleds, which means they are now all equipped with wheels and breech rings. I also added the 22 eyebolts with split rings to the Syren deck. To transfer the correct positions from the plan to the model I used masking tape. The tape first was aligned on the plan parallel to the gratings and the positions were noted on the tape (the black contours on the plan nicely shine through the masking tape, see image 1). In a second step the tape with the marks was aligned parallel to the gratings on the Syren deck, the position marks fine adjusted, the holes drilled through the tape, and finally the tape removed (image 2). Images 3 – 6 show the current status of the model.
Thomas
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After several weeks of traveling and lots of other projects I finally resumed work on my Syren again. Nothing exciting - I just continued building the carronade sleds. So far I finished drilling the holes for all photo-edged sled parts and mounted them with the 0.4mm rivets from Scale Hardware on the sleds. Images 1 – 4 show the current status.
Thomas
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Our Emblem ®
US Brig Syren by _SalD_ – FINISHED - 3/16" scale
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
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Beautifully done, Sal! Your long guns look the part, and the new wheel cleaned up very nicely! I have looked at the commercially available wooden wheels myself and found them all out of scale. This is clearly a part where Chuck's Syren company could come up with a nice little steering wheel kit.
Btw, if you continue at that speed your Syren will be finished at Christmas
Thomas