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I rebuilt this model for a friend

I am just starting out designing kits. It is not the same as building one which I miss. Without know a rough time frame allowed for such a model, I do not think I would have the time to do a Hahn kit. I have no experience with plank on frame. All of my ship's are plank on bulk head from...

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I have completed 12 scratch builds, several of them on SOS. The project I started in 2010 is now complete and I find myself with no plans to make another. All of the ships I have made will be/are going to the US Navy. I am getting that the sponsored build would be a kit provided by the...

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Done.

Second one I have done. This one is as she most likely appeared in April 1861

Ship name is on, the rudder is on, the rest of the boats are aboard, and the belfry is done and on. I see there are some rudder hinges somewhat out of alignment I need to fix.

Some of the Ship's boats and rope coils going on.

Further progress on the United States. Quarter davits are on and the ship's wheel in mounted along with the binnacles. Every line except those for the boats suspended from davits is now rigged!! Rope coils will go on as I finish the boats. Here is one with all the ribs in.

I fixed this yesterday.

One side of the anchor detail is done.

While the ship's boats outer hull priming is drying, I went ahead and started putting on the anchors, making the stern quarter boat davits and the anchor fish davits for the United States.

Except for rigging the anchors and stowing the ship's boats on their davits, all the running rigging I will be doing is done on the United States. Here I have finished the braces, and the fore and main yard clue and sheet lines. The ship's boats are next.

Only the Braces left of the running rigging.

Rigging the Mizzen yards on the United States. First photo shows a "before" view of unbelayed lines.

Most of the standing rigging is done

Ratlines are done.

One of my ships. I use copper tape. I cannot properly simulate a nail head in 1/72 scale. It would be 1/256th of an inch to be in scale.

Being "flush" the nail heads would have some degree of indentation into the copper. The reason for this is most likely that wave action across the hull could, over time, allow micro organisms to catch on the edges of the nail heads. Constant movement through the seas allows the growth to...