Meteor 1851 by Jim Lad - Scale 1:96 - Immigrant Ship

[Mark Pearse]

best wishes John, we'll miss the updates

 

Mark

[druxey]

As a professor of mine years ago observed, "If it works, it works."

 

I hope your health is back now, John, and we'll see further progress on Meteor in May.

[Jim Lad]

Thanks, all - and for all who have hit the 'like' button.

 

John

[BANYAN]

Small but good progress John; life takes priority.  I hope your immediate health issues get sorted and my best wishes for your forthcoming 'leave of absence' from the museum.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Piet]

Anny additional frame is progress John and we'll be here in May waiting for you. Hey John, is your Heath Robinson the same bloke we know as Rube Goldberg? I'm quite familiar with his methods, use it often.

 

Cheers,

[Jim Lad]

Thanks for the kind thoughts Pat and Piet.

 

Piet - William Heath Robinson was an English illustrator who devised all sorts of weird and wonderful machines - he was just a few years older then Goldberg.  The saying 'Heath Robinson contraption' came to mean a make do string and wire solution to a problem.

 

John

[popeye the sailor]

I hope that your commitments are not health related John....May seems like a long time.    I also hope that you'll still be able to visit while your away.......I still regard you as a mentor of mine     I wish you well and hope there's nothing serious afoot.....fingers crossed for you and Pam.

 

life and family first   

Edited March 14, 2018 by popeye the sailor
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[Jim Lad]

Not health related, Denis - family.  I don't think I'll be able to access the forum during our time away.

 

John

[Cap'n Rat Fink]

Hi John

 

Been gone a long while finally read thru your whole log here to catch up. Love the history of your chosen projects. A nice model in the works.

[Bedford]

Well the lengths one has to go to in order to find a new build.

I went into the museum today, no model stand, wander around, find new little corner and what do you know, there's a lovely bit of framing of the Meteor with your name on it. 

 

I thought she looks a bit different from your other models so I'll be very interested in this one. 

 

And now I learn I'll have to be patient, shall do, all the best John.

Edited April 15, 2018 by Bedford
update

[Jim Lad]

Well, finally, a very small update.  What with rush trips overseas to visit ailing relatives; the world going crazy at home and all sorts of extraneous happenings at the museum, I've hardly touched the Meteor of late.  I have, however, managed to get a few more frames fitted, so here she is as of this week.  

 

As I have some medical procedure scheduled for next week, it may be awhile before the next update, but never mind - she'll get there eventually!

 

John

 

 

[russ]

John:

She is looking very good. Nice to see you back at it.

 

Russ

 

 

[wefalck]

Whom are you telling ... just watching this at the airport on my way to my 93 year old mother. Still she comes along promisingly!

[BANYAN]

Nice progress John, she is certainly starting to show her shape.  

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Jim Lad]

Thanks for the encouraging words, folks - and to those who pressed the 'like' button.

 

John

[druxey]

All the best for next week, John.

[Jim Lad]

Thanks, Druxey!

 

John

[mtaylor]

I happy to see you got some work done on her John.   I hope all goes well next week.   

[Jim Lad]

Thanks, Mark!

 

John

[Mark Pearse]

Hi John

 

all the best, I look forward to seeing the model develop. 

 

Mark

[Jim Lad]

Thanks for the encouraging words, Mark!

 

John

[vaddoc]

Hopefully all is going well with the health issues John. 

Your hull looks very good, especially considering you hand draw and cut the frames!

Speedy recovery

 

Vaddoc

[Cathead]

I've just discovered this thanks to your kind comment on my own build. What a lovely project! I have a future dream of building a family-related vessel as well, in this case my wife's grandfather's sailboat from Lake Michigan on which her mother sailed growing up. I think it'd be a neat gift for my MIL. In the meantime, I love the look of this vessel so far. In my office, I have an ink drawing of German merchantmen that I purchased from an art dealer in Switzerland along with a German map of the world from the same period (wife is half-German and I studied it for many years). So it's quite neat to see a build of a German sailing ship. Looking forward to whatever progress you might make!

[Jim Lad]

Thanks, Eric.  Perhaps I should make a small correction, though - this is a Hamburg ship, not a German ship, as unification didn't officially take place until 1871!  

 

John

[Cathead]

Fair enough, I was thinking culturally more than politically.

[vaddoc]

 

What is the wood you are using John?

[Jim Lad]

This is Privet, mate - it's a noxious weed in this part of the world and grows into quite a fair sized tree if left on its own.  Wood can resemble box very closely - and being a noxious weed, nobody minds if you go out with your chainsaw!  

 

John

[wefalck]

Well, saying of a Hamburg ship that it is German before 18.01.1871 is still correct, as it were the German states before then.

Finding conclusive plans for German merchantmen is quite difficult due to the archival losses.

[popeye the sailor]

just catching up John........finding it to be very hard to visit in here,  since I'm currently not working on anything scratch at the moment.   I hope you are well......I read that you had a visit to the hospital of late.   the hull frame is coming along........a little here,  a little there........it's still progress     here's hoping you get more time to work on her....look'in forward to seeing her planked. 

[Jim Lad]

Thanks Denis - I've got quite a bit coming up in the near future, so progress might slow down even more! 

 

John