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

Wow, mon ami, another year gone by! They say with age comes wisdom… so at this point, you must be getting dangerously wise! ROTF ROTF Hope your birthday is filled with good friends, good laughs, and just enough cake to keep you from counting the candles. Happy Birthday! Birthday-Cake

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RussF said:
You've hit the nail on the head Paul. I use the reasoning, and have also convinced the Admiral with respect to her hobbies, that cost is relative to the return on investment. I know many people who wouldn't bat an eye at spending $100 per person on a fine meal that might last at most 2 hours and then just get pooped out, yet they scream at spending $100 on parts/materials/kits that will give hours or even weeks of enjoyment and produce an item that will endure for a long time. I guess it's all in what you really value.

As for your brackets, I can't believe that it took you only two weeks to make those - they are stunning!

Have fun in Maine!
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Thanks for this nice post, Russ!
 
Bryian said:
I will also join in wishing you a happy birthday Paul. By the way, how did you go with testing bitumen for antiquing the model ?
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Thanks for asking. My bitumen tests didn’t turn out the way I had hoped. I wanted just the slightest bit of contrast and it gave too much and looked muddy rather than rich. In my imagination I will one day build a model that looks aged. But the SP won’t be that model.
 
Sigh… I just noticed this is my third build report to eclipse 100 pages. I fully realize this makes it completely unusable to anyone with a future interest in finding a specific detail in the construction. My apologies to that future modeler…

There was a very detailed report on another forum (now lost) that had a hyper-linked index but wow, that’s a lot of work…
 
dockattner said:
Sigh… I just noticed this is my third build report to eclipse 100 pages. I fully realize this makes it completely unusable to anyone with a future interest in finding a specific detail in the construction. My apologies to that future modeler…

There was a very detailed report on another forum (now lost) that had a hyper-linked index but wow, that’s a lot of work…
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i had a similar problem recently. Nowhere near 100 pages of course, but I made a request to delete some extranious posts. It is pending approval by the admins. I'll let you know how it goes.
 
Sorry for the off-topic, Mon ami.

dockattner said:
I am confident that @Jimsky can make your every deletion dream come true.
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Jack Sparrow said:
I wonder if he needs to know the exact post number. My ask was to delete all the posts from my log from yesterday.
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Unless a post violates the forum rules, deleting another member’s post without a valid reason is neither appropriate nor particularly polite to others, IMHO. But....I'm open to discussions/suggestions.
 
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