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Haddock

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2017, 02:27:40 PM »
Your builds are always so clean and precise.
The camera has been known to lie!!

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2017, 02:35:38 PM »
                  Few more bits and bobs added.
              Turrets and cranes are just dry fitted. I don't think it's very handsome ship, might look better with masts and the fine detail added.
              Finally, some of the ships boats in place, just to see what it looks like. I may use some artistic licence here, four are suspended outboard on davits, which looks highly unlikely for two of them, they wouldn't last five minutes in a heavy sea, we'll see.
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2017, 01:05:29 PM »
Yes, the camera has been known to lie, but with me it`s usually the other way round ;)

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2017, 02:19:20 PM »
                After a weeks holiday and another week and a bit not doing a great deal, there's not been much activity in the shipyard so I thought I'd better get my finger out.
              Ships boats in place though a couple more to add later and the masts fabricated. Main-mast all brass, fore-mast, brass from the platform upwards.
          Rigging and more railings next.
      Not a pretty looking ship is it?
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2017, 03:38:32 PM »
Great work....will this ship be adorning Haddocks òle???

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2017, 05:22:33 PM »
Are there any pretty ships????
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2017, 08:49:28 AM »
Are there any pretty ships????
Roger
I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder but some warships certainly look "majestic", other types can look "pretty" to me. Perhaps "bonny" is a better description.
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2017, 08:51:00 AM »
Great work....will this ship be adorning Haddocks òle???
Sorry, don't quite understand the question!
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2017, 03:44:03 PM »
On your last build you demonstrated a technique for attaching rigging and such through holes that you had drilled and christened this technique "Haddock Hole" remember???

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2017, 04:10:37 PM »
Ah yes, there are quite a few "'addock 'oles"
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2017, 09:06:07 PM »
'Oles'

"A now recognised description of the ingenious build skills of Monsieur Haddock"

Nothing else to add, except 'Brilliant Work'

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2017, 02:32:23 PM »
Fore-mast rigged. Having trouble getting a decent picture.
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2017, 03:33:26 PM »
Fore-mast rigged. Having trouble getting a decent picture.
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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2017, 07:56:48 AM »
Probably both.

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Re: DANTON in 1:350
« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2017, 03:52:12 PM »
                  Main-mast rigged.
      Looks a bit better with a light background and a different setting on the camera, still messing about. To be fair, the rigging is about 0.003" dia so I'm probably expecting a bit much.
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