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absolutely stunning! Not bad for a first build. Regards Claret Also working on:
SOTS.
Moebius 1/32 Flying Sub with PE & lights.
Waiting in the wings:
Polarlights Spindrift from Land of the Giants.
finished:
007 Iconic DB5.
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claret wrote:absolutely stunning!
Not bad for a first build.
Regards
Claret Thanks Claret, it really is great to hear from you again....  .. Hope your build is going well.... Regards Alan
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 Lovely job on the ratlines Alan looking bril  Rgd Martyn Building ?
Completed. Soliei Royal . Sovereign of the Seas . Virginia . Scotland . San Felipe . Corel vasa , Santisima Trinadad X section , Vasa
Next Build ?
When sailors have good wine, They think themselves in heaven for the time. John Baltharpe
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Joined: 04/04/2013 Posts: 89 Points: 270 Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
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hi Alan just spent the last hour looking at your build and still not seen it all! a credit to you beautiful job. regards Ant Current builds :
AL's HMS Surprise
Model Shipyards HM Cutter Mermaid
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Martyn Ingram wrote: Lovely job on the ratlines Alan looking bril Rgd Martyn Thanks Martyn, am sure you'll have fun adding the ratlines to your rigging..... .. Thanks again. Regards Alan
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antswain wrote:hi Alan
just spent the last hour looking at your build and still not seen it all! a credit to you beautiful job.
regards Ant
Thank you Ant, thanks for taking the time to look in on my build, very much appreciated.... .. Getting to the final stages now but still have some 16 issues to get through plus some additions of my own.... .. Thanks again... Regards Alan
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Hi Alan, That rigging wow you have certainly have the knack to fit them (need a master class here)great job Alan. Regards Trev. Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
OcCre- Santa-Maria (Kit).
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tf64 wrote:Hi Alan,
That rigging wow you have certainly have the knack to fit them (need a master class here)great job Alan.
Regards
Trev. Thanks Trev, appreciate the compliment.... .. Only advice I can give with this is learn how to tie knots and make sure you have bucket loads of patience, patience being the prime ingredient.... .. Thanks again.. Regards Alan
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Finally finished issue 118 tonight and although it doesn't very different I can say a lot of time consuming work has been done... . Started once again by adding some brass etch onto some already fitted ornamentation, fiddly but made easy with the pick up took described earlier... Added brass etch onto the other side of the prow. Next task was to take the 6 cannons, gently filed away imperfections from the casting, gave them a coat of primer followed by 2 coats of gun metal black and finished off with a coat of satin varnish... Fitted the cannons centrally in the gun ports... Last part of the build was the futtock shrouds on the upper sections of all the masts, shrouds on the upper main and foremasts before finally finished with another batch of knots on the ratlines.... .. Next up is working on the yards so till then, happy building all.... Regards Alan Gandale attached the following image(s):
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really looking superb Alan have you used a ropewalk for rigging on this model im really thinking about it for my Surprise. Looked at johncals and makes it look special - gotta get there first though!  Current builds :
AL's HMS Surprise
Model Shipyards HM Cutter Mermaid
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antswain wrote:really looking superb Alan have you used a ropewalk for rigging on this model im really thinking about it for my Surprise. Looked at johncals and makes it look special - gotta get there first though! Thank you Ant, appreciate your kind comments... .. Haven't used a ropewalk for this one, just used the threads supplied but I have run the threads through some bees wax to reduce the furry effect... Agree with you, the work on johncals rigging looks fantastic, his efforts have certainly paid off.... .. Right now my time is being spent making and dressing the yards, another time consuming process.... More soon I hope... Regards Alan
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Joined: 16/08/2010 Posts: 2,771 Points: 8,344 Location: Brighton
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HI Alan sots looking superp. look forward to seeimg your progress. Ian. Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Hi Alan, BRILLIANT WORK. When you`ve got nothing to do!!  How about a ships guide to the different parts. May be useful to new ship builders and to be honest me as well.  Can`t wait to see the end result of your Sots, not far off now for sure. Awesome Build, Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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Thought I would give a small update on where I'm at and what I've been doing since my last update... Issue 119 started with painting and fitting of 6 cannons just as in the previous issue.. Then it was onto the main part of the issue, the making up of the yards. This also included the work that should have been done in issue 111, the cutting, tapering and staining of the yards. Didn't do this then as I had decided to replace the supplied dowel with walnut. Cut and tapered the walnut yards, gave them 2 coats of walnut stain finishing with a coat of clear matt varnish... Moved onto fitting all the rigging blocks, these were all stained using medium oak stain as I wanted to get an old look rather than the clean pristine look as supplied. When done looked through the next issues and saw the yards didn't include any footropes so decided to make up my own... .. Tried different methods of making up the supports including blackened brass wire but didn't like the way it all looked. Experiments let to me settling with .25mm rigging thread creating a loop at the end by tying around a cocktail stick and each support was wrapped using .15mm thread. Brushed them down with watered down PVA to set everything in place... Finally secured the footropes through the loops. The footropes are now finished on the main mast and bowsprit, still have the main and mizzen to do before moving onto the next issue... A very long session with more to do but am sure I'll get there in the end..... Happy building all..... Regards Alan Gandale attached the following image(s):
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ian smith wrote:HI Alan sots looking superp. look forward to seeimg your progress. Ian. Thanks Ian, always appreciate you taking the time to look in.... Regards Alan
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delboy271155 wrote:Hi Alan, BRILLIANT WORK. When you`ve got nothing to do!! How about a ships guide to the different parts. May be useful to new ship builders and to be honest me as well. Can`t wait to see the end result of your Sots, not far off now for sure. Awesome Build, Regards delboy271155 (Derek) Thank you for the great comments Derek very much appreciated.... .. There have been times where I wished I had nothing to do but thankfully they have been few and far between plus I have too many builds waiting in the wings preventing me from sitting doing nothing.... .. No chance of me being bored... As for a ships guide to the different parts, thought I had this covered as I progressed through the diary but if you can give me an idea of what form the guide should take then I'll see what I can put together.... Always happy to oblige a fellow modeller... I know I have to bring the build index up to date but that is for another time I'm afraid.... Thanks again Derek, Regards Alan
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Very nice work Alan and well done with the extra addons it all makes a great build better, keep the pic's comming Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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arpurchase wrote: Very nice work Alan and well done with the extra addons it all makes a great build better, keep the pic's comming Thanks Andy, appreciated as always.... .. Thought the omission of footropes was quite a major feature for these ships, the spars to me looked naked without them.... .. Strong possibility I will be adding additional rigging to that instructed so will see how we get on.... .. Thanks again.. Regards Alan
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Joined: 30/01/2013 Posts: 4,604 Points: 13,607 Location: Monmouthshire UK
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Brilliant work Alan, a stunning build It will be a historic moment indeed when this build concludes. I'm sure you will replace it with something equally as good though Steve
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stevie_o wrote:Brilliant work Alan, a stunning build It will be a historic moment indeed when this build concludes. I'm sure you will replace it with something equally as good though Steve Thanks for the fab comments Stevie, still some 16 issues to get through yet plus the few extras I have in mind so will be a while yet before it's done.... .. Have plenty to choose from for my next build and the hardest part is choosing which one, that'll be another challenge no doubt.... .. The extras I've done here is a very time consuming thing to do especially with the way I've done it but think it makes the effort all worth while.... .. Thanks again.. Regards Alan
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