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 Rank: Amateur Level 1  Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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Well blow me I've actually started on my build, admittedly it's just the launch to begin with.
The paints are on their way from DeAg's shop so I will be painting the launch as I go in the manner that the partwork suggests.
Once the launch is complete and I've made the slipway jig for the main build I will get on with the big ship.
Updates will appear here on a sporadic basis.
Kev
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Joined: 20/04/2010 Posts: 141 Points: 426 Location: Worthing, United Kingdom
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Welcome aboard, looking forward to seeing your build! 
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Joined: 04/04/2010 Posts: 3,955 Points: 11,809 Location: uk
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welcome kev,hope you enjoy the madhouse of uncouth matlots and ruffians.and lets see these build pics asap. Current builds: SotS, USS Consitution, San Felipe, D51 loco, HMS Surprise, RB7, Arab Dhow, Jotika HMS Victory Completed builds: HMS Pickel, Thermopylae, Mississipi river boat, Mary Rose, Cutty Sark, San Francisco II, HMS Victory x5, Titanic Lifeboat, Panart HMS Victory Launch, Hachette Titanic, Virginia Schooner, Endeavour Longboat. http://www.model-space.com/gb/
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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I've been around here for a while so I'm used to the "banter", it's just taken me a while to extract me digit and get started on the build  
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Joined: 22/03/2010 Posts: 2,065 Points: 6,295 Location: Gorleston-on-sea
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Welcome aboard Kev, hope that you enjoy your build mate... Current Builds: Deagostini HMS Victory: Deagostini HMS Sovereign of the seas. Completed Builds: Del Prado: HMAS Bounty: Hachette: RMS Titanic: Del Prado: Cutty Sark...
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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Progress (and I'm using that word extremely loosely ). I've got the frames for the launch put together and 1 plank on either side. That's where things are stalled due to club layout commitments at Dartford model railway exhibition and Modelworld in brighton (if anyone from here is going to Modelworld I'm on the "OAKLEY" N gauge layout, look me up and say hi), also I have commitments on the club's Miniature Railway permanent way construction, and somewhere in all this I have my business to run  . Kev
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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The dockyard is closed for the moment, but after my birthday at the end of March it will re-open due to the fact that SWMBO is going to buy me a plank bender as my pressie.
Once the paints (that are on their way) have arrived I'll be opening the armoury and starting weapons construction.
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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Plans have changed again, the paints are on hold (for some reason my card payment never went through so obviously they didn't arrive), and the plank bender is on order. In the meantime space has appeared on the work-bench (my desk) and I've made a jig for the build. The internal keel has been put together and is now in the jig whilst I get on with making the ribs.
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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All the ribs are almost in place now
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Rank: Amateur Level 1 Groups: Registered
Joined: 19/04/2010 Posts: 35 Points: 105 Location: Hailsham, East Sussex
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Some further pics showing progress to date, which admittedly is very little due to a back-log of railway modelling on the workbench that needs clearing. File Attachment(s): KevinWalsh attached the following image(s):
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Joined: 24/04/2010 Posts: 5,787 Points: 17,662 Location: Stafford, United Kingdom
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Looking great! MWG BUILD DIARIES: HMS VICTORY, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, SAN FRANCISCO II, HMS HOOD, HMS ENDEAVOUR LONGBOAT, HMS VICTORY X-SECTION, 007 DB5, NISSAN GTR, CUTTY SARK, RB7, AKAGI, BARK HMS ENDEAVOUR, HUMMER H1, MITSUBISHI ZERO.
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Joined: 13/02/2011 Posts: 2,227 Points: 6,801 Location: UK
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Hope you enjoy your build,you will benefit from this forum there a great gang of ship builders,and very experience. tf64 Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
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