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steven

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Has anyone ever looked at a hull being planked and decide it just was not up your standards or below your limitations and just tear it all apart to do it again?
I have decided to do this on my pinky schooner hull.
I can now understand why many people give up on this model. But I won't..lol
Bummer
 
steven said:
Has anyone ever looked at a hull being planked and decide it just was not up your standards or below your limitations and just tear it all apart to do it again?
I have decided to do this on my pinky schooner hull.
I can now understand why many people give up on this model. But I won't..lol
Bummer
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Good for you Thanasis... Hang in there.... but didn't you join this site to learn from those who have "been-there,done-that"? It just seems wrong to "... tear it all apart..." when you have, at least a dozen shipmates willing to help you. Maybe there is a simple fix that will astound you, maybe not. Perfection is for the gods, and that isn't you or me. Wishing you the best, Terry
 
steven said:
Has anyone ever looked at a hull being planked and decide it just was not up your standards or below your limitations and just tear it all apart to do it again?
I have decided to do this on my pinky schooner hull.
I can now understand why many people give up on this model. But I won't..lol
Bummer
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many times!
 
Thank you Terry.
I really don't pursue the perfection, but also I don't want to lose my time correcting something that would need more time than making a new one, or keeping a sloppy model that would bother my eye for ever.
This model is one from my early ones, the time I wasn't much experianced and none shipmate at any forum could help me, since my mistake was related to the proportions (length-width-heigth) that I shoul kept from the beggining. There were more with the same fate (at least another two) :cool: but these failures made me more painstaking.
At that time I ddn't know that "the smart ones learn from the mistakes of otheres". :)
Thx
 
Thanasis said:
Thank you Terry.
I really don't pursue the perfection, but also I don't want to lose my time correcting something that would need more time than making a new one, or keeping a sloppy model that would bother my eye for ever.
This model is one from my early ones, the time I wasn't much experianced and none shipmate at any forum could help me, since my mistake was related to the proportions (length-width-heigth) that I shoul kept from the beggining. There were more with the same fate (at least another two) :cool: but these failures made me more painstaking.
At that time I ddn't know that "the smart ones learn from the mistakes of otheres". :)
Thx
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I didn't say that to be critical. Your post sounded so much like my situation that what I said could well apply to me. Dogged determination to follow through with something can be very fragile at times, and from what I've read on this site, the expertise is there for you. I think they can offer a fix for darn near anything that a modeler can mess up. All we've got to do is hang in there and be willing to take their advice.... at least that is what I believe.
BTW, If you want to have a good laugh follow my repair build. As soon as I can take some pictures and learn enough about Coral to upload them properly, I'll post a novice's attempt to fix a vintage (1974) Sergal SOtS kit that I started back in 1978. So I guess my encouragement to you, was for myself as well. Smooth sailing my friend, Terry
 
Terry, I never thought you had the intention to criticize me. I know there is much willingness among the mates of this forum to help someone. But sometimes facing a crucial mistake, you have to consider by your own what would be the best for you and the model and make a decision.
Later you might find that there was another easiest way but you can console yourself thinking "I gained experiance". :cool:
Thx
 
This happens to me at least once (or twice or countless more times) with each project.
As a wise and far more talented and experienced retired Marine friend of mine told me:" "Sometimes it's best just to declare victory and move on"...:rolleyes:
 
Have you thought about just buying another Pinky Schooner and putting the other off to the side and then you will have extra spare parts from the old one in case. That is what I would do.
 
steven said:
Has anyone ever looked at a hull being planked and decide it just was not up your standards or below your limitations and just tear it all apart to do it again?
I have decided to do this on my pinky schooner hull.
I cinuously on my L'Hermionean now understand why many people give up on this model. But I won't..lol
Bummer
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1. YES!
2. Continuously on my L' Hermione. It has about 650 planks and 27,000 dowels.
 
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