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Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48

I finally join the watching crowd and will happily accept a standing place. Lately there seems to be no time to sit down anyway as I am busy renovating an apartment for our youngest daughter. Almost 2 months since I was in my own little shipyard.
I have enjoyed reading your latest adventures and climbing the steep learning curves. The outcome is spectacular as was to be expected based on your earlier builds.
BTW. I love the Kattner Sanding Center, a great place to take a rest.
 
Herman said:
I finally join the watching crowd and will happily accept a standing place. Lately there seems to be no time to sit down anyway as I am busy renovating an apartment for our youngest daughter. Almost 2 months since I was in my own little shipyard.
I have enjoyed reading your latest adventures and climbing the steep learning curves. The outcome is spectacular as was to be expected based on your earlier builds.
BTW. I love the Kattner Sanding Center, a great place to take a rest.
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Thanks for finding me over here, Herman. Indeed, a little girl always needs her daddy - even when she is a grown up. The gift of your time (and I suspect your money) trumps whatever you would have accomplished sitting in your model ship yard.

The Kattner Sanding Center is pretty special - especially when it is used for things other than sanding ROTF. I recall that you also like to retreat to your backyard.
 
dockattner said:
(and I suspect your money)

The Kattner Sanding Center is pretty special - especially when it is used for things other than sanding ROTF. I recall that you also like to retreat to your backyard.
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Yes, I am the cheapest hobby construction contractor she could find (let's call it a hobby). But most ideas for improvement came from me, so I have myself to blame. You want them to have a nice home, don't you?

You are right, when the weather is right I prefer working on the model in my backyard. Sometimes I can spend a long time filing a piece of wood in the garden, while I have a sander and further instruments standing in my shipyard.
 
dockattner said:
Hello Friends,

Over the past two days I have managed to make actual progress on the stern of the ship. With several failures in my wake, I was starting to have a pretty good idea of how to fabricate the top timbers of the fashion pieces.

As it turns out there was less 'curvature' than I had envisioned. I would love to blame Mr. Lemineur for the previous failures, but at the end of the day I think it would be better to own my own mess rather than blame someone who has forgotten more about ship construction than I will ever know.

Unexpectedly, Nigel has now offered to move to the US to guide me during the balance of this build, so that is comforting...

Everything is loose fit and prior to fairing...

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I wish I had more excess for the fairing process, but at this point I think it will be acceptable. Keep in mind that the exterior of this stern section model will be planked - everything you see will only be visible from the inside, and the particular shortcomings will almost certainly be lost in the overall experience of taking in the build out of the interior.

The learning curve has been steep...but I hope it will pay dividends in the future...
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Good morning Paul. It would appear that you have got those fashion pieces (why they called this I have no idea) just right. Lovely photos but those counter timbers and fashion pieces look frightfully fragile. I know you have plenty finesse in your building however my thoughts are with you not to break these at a pointRedface. Well done fashioning those fashion pieces ROTF. Cheers Grant
 
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