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Le Requin-Zebec-1750 POF 1:48 (ZHL)

Good afternoon, all, I wanted to share what a great morning I had visiting one of our SOS brothers Dean @Dean62. Dean showed me his shipyard/hanger room and his awesome 1:72 war plane collection which in person is even more impressive. Dean had some bloodwood and pear strips, and I have a Microlux tabletop saw so he traded some of the bloodwood strips for the use of my saw. Everything worked great on the bloodwood, but my old blade got hot and wore out when we tried cutting on the pearwood so I will get replacements. He and I will get together again soon at my home when I get replacement blades and finish our strip cutting of his pear stock. Here is the two of us in his garage.
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Daniel20 said:
Good afternoon, all, I wanted to share what a great morning I had visiting one of our SOS brothers Dean @Dean62. Dean showed me his shipyard/hanger room and his awesome 1:72 war plane collection which in person is even more impressive. Dean had some bloodwood and pear strips, and I have a Microlux tabletop saw so he traded some of the bloodwood strips for the use of my saw. Everything worked great on the bloodwood, but my old blade got hot and wore out when we tried cutting on the pearwood so I will get replacements. He and I will get together again soon at my home when I get replacement blades and finish our strip cutting of his pear stock. Here is the two of us in his garage.
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It was great to spend some time talking models and techniques and cutting wood planks. I’m sure the bloodwood will look great on your ship. ;) And I look forward to seeing your shipyard and getting some pear wood cut!
Ps - notice the sweat on my shirt, Texas heat was in full stride today!
 
Daniel20 said:
Good afternoon, all, I wanted to share what a great morning I had visiting one of our SOS brothers Dean @Dean62. Dean showed me his shipyard/hanger room and his awesome 1:72 war plane collection which in person is even more impressive. Dean had some bloodwood and pear strips, and I have a Microlux tabletop saw so he traded some of the bloodwood strips for the use of my saw. Everything worked great on the bloodwood, but my old blade got hot and wore out when we tried cutting on the pearwood so I will get replacements. He and I will get together again soon at my home when I get replacement blades and finish our strip cutting of his pear stock. Here is the two of us in his garage.
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Nice one Gentlemen!
 
I've been working the 4 gun port openings under the quarter deck (2 ea. side) installing the upper and lower sills. Once again, I am using Boudriot's Monograph as the plates it contains are many times neater and clean than the kits drawings. The kits drawings are poor quality copies of Bourdriots drawings. You will see where I lightly colored in the added ribs used to support the sills via rabbits cut in their sides.

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Since these 8 pieces were not included I went back to the rib drawings and traced the section I need on paper and used scrap pieces to fabricate what I needed and glued them in next to their partner rib.

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After a lot of careful measuring, it was time to remove portions of the ribs and cut in the rabbits. I made a special hand saw just for this process.

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The result on the port side.

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I also set the step for the foremast.

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Hopefully I can rotate some of these pictures through editing after posting.

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you next update.
 
Daniel20 said:
Good afternoon, all, I wanted to share what a great morning I had visiting one of our SOS brothers Dean @Dean62. Dean showed me his shipyard/hanger room and his awesome 1:72 war plane collection which in person is even more impressive. Dean had some bloodwood and pear strips, and I have a Microlux tabletop saw so he traded some of the bloodwood strips for the use of my saw. Everything worked great on the bloodwood, but my old blade got hot and wore out when we tried cutting on the pearwood so I will get replacements. He and I will get together again soon at my home when I get replacement blades and finish our strip cutting of his pear stock. Here is the two of us in his garage.
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Dean62 said:
It was great to spend some time talking models and techniques and cutting wood planks. I’m sure the bloodwood will look great on your ship. ;) And I look forward to seeing your shipyard and getting some pear wood cut!
Ps - notice the sweat on my shirt, Texas heat was in full stride today!
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It’s always nice when you can meet another fellow model builder of the SoS. Nice to help each other, Daniel and Dean.
Regards, Peter.
 
Daniel20 said:
I've been working the 4 gun port openings under the quarter deck (2 ea. side) installing the upper and lower sills. Once again, I am using Boudriot's Monograph as the plates it contains are many times neater and clean than the kits drawings. The kits drawings are poor quality copies of Bourdriots drawings. You will see where I lightly colored in the added ribs used to support the sills via rabbits cut in their sides.

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Since these 8 pieces were not included I went back to the rib drawings and traced the section I need on paper and used scrap pieces to fabricate what I needed and glued them in next to their partner rib.

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After a lot of careful measuring, it was time to remove portions of the ribs and cut in the rabbits. I made a special hand saw just for this process.

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The result on the port side.

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I also set the step for the foremast.

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Hopefully I can rotate some of these pictures through editing after posting.

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you next update.
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Nice to see that you made your own interpretation and combination, Daniel.
Regards, Peter
 
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