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Excellent work Harty, another great and skilful build from you and such a lovely looking ship too!! Well done mate, I am watching with interest!!
Bernie.
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Today has been mostly doing windows,painting and doing the in yer face brasswork. Nearly got it all done now, only the bow and the centre cabin to do, but got all the windows and doors to do there first  . I have set up the waterline for the future instalment of this by laser  ,should be some fun  . Keep finding little bits I,ve missed, any road up here is how she stands at the minute  
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Never ceases to amaze me how fast you can work Harty and yet still maintain the high level of neatness that you do!! Excellent stuff sir - loving it very much indeed!! More please!!
All the best,
Bernie.
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Today has been mostly the bow end and a few deck fittings and scanning other builds to see where everything goes. Found a couple of things so they were put right. Haven,t shown much of the bow end so here it is as it stands 
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One of the alterations was at this end. The mouldings were positioned too low and had to be bent to fit a bit higher. They look a bit better where they are now I think 
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Drainage pipes now installed and thats all folks, see ya later and Monty you don,t do too bad yourself on the detailing 
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Hi Harty, Still keeping up the good work I see. Are you going to paint below the waterline? And have you found many kit problems yet? Cheers Peter completed..... Endeavour Longboat, San Francisco 2, Virginia 1819
building Royal Caroline
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Thanks for the compliment Harty, very kind. Yet more excellent work from you today sir and looking forward to the next update with anticipation!! Keep up the good work!!
Bernie.
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Hi there Peter, the only problems I think were a lot of my own doing and not paying attention to plans and the like. Also you see other builds and say oooh I,ll build that in that looks good. Everybody sees different and I think you have got to go the way your skills allow or the tools you have got allow you to do it. My tools consist of a couple of hand drills, 2 mini craft drills with a few attachments ,a couple of scalpels, mini hand saw, tweezers, a load of cheap car boot sale clamps. a ruler, a little modellers mitre block, a bunch of files, sand paper,glue, a few surgical clamps which are used to help in the rigging and a pencil. Getting back to this boat, I would not reccommend this as a beginners although I did find the planking a doddle, its everything else, ie all the deck fittings have to be scratch made to name but one , Expierience is a must on this one I think  . PS, I think I am being swayed towards coppering. This ship had a long lifespan and I think it may have been coppered at some stage for it to last that long unless some buff out there can advise differently
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Today has been mostly doing this wall. I have deviated from the plans on this and tarted it up a bit, tried to make it look a bit more interesting . 
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Decided to give it a new belfry so I used the one from the Surprise that I won,t be needing. I will tart this up a bit with some gold paint . 
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State of play at the end of the day stands like this. 
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Looking good Harty  Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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A fine looking model there Harty and some super work from you again, love it!! Will you be doing anything to enhance the two staircases?
Keep it up mate looking REALLY nice!!
Bernie.
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Hi there Monty, yes you are right about the staircases, they do look like they could do with something extra so I had a think and a rumage and came up with this. Wot you reckon? 
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Hello Harty,
I don't know much about period ships, but that certainly looks believable to me!! Only thing is, where the rope exits the topmost stanchion you have it turning towards the dowel in the centre of the ship. Would it not be more likely that it would continue towards the higher deck at the top of the stairs and be fixed at the baulkhead to stop anyone from falling off the ship?
Sorry if that sounds stupid, as I say I don't know much about these ships, I was just thinking more about 'Health and Safety' LOL!! Still a nice build though!! Keep up the good work mate.
All the best,
Bernie.
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Good point Bernie, I will endeavor to rectify asap. Trying to think up a new way of rigging the deadeyes instead of the soppy brass effort supplied, it looks to naff and untidy. Maybe do something with hooks and ropes .
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Well here we are again, tried a couple of ways on these deadeyes and I think I will go this route. Wire up a hook with a bit of .75 rope,lash it round the deadeye, trap one side of the rope end and then just tie it off with a simple knot 
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Also today I have had a go at the lamps on the sterboard. These are big chunky efforts made with "proper" brass and are surprisingly heavy. Now I dont pretend to be the worlds best at soldering but something had to be done to stop these things flapping around. So here is my effort, just need a bit of touching up . 
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Got all the ringbolts on and the front end done apart from the beak. Still looking for some matierial to construct this but I will get there in the end . 
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