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Great result!!! Thank you for the advice

If you don't have any brass browning solution, here is a method that works. If you want to brown the brass, not blacken it, take a sealable container from the kitchen, pour some household ammonia in the bottom, float a smaller container holding the brass parts on the ammonia, seal the...

...question. Paint? Not good. Too delicate Salt and vinegar? Sure, if you want to wait for hours and hours and...well, ad-nauseim. Try Brass Black! Gunsmiths use it to blacken brass gun parts. It is fast acting too! Perhaps this has already been addressed. So forgive me if I am repeating. Dave W.V.

Part 12 - Brassing the Hull - Making a Start ( I think it’s going to take me a long time!!) Jock Willis’ original spec. for the Cutty Sark states “Yellow Metal Sheathing. Vessel to be sheathed from Keel to 18 ft water mark on top of paper and tar, sheathing to be smoothly put on, sheets...

I added the belaying pin rail around the mast. You cannot see them here , but the supports for the rail are difficult to work with and require patience. I also sanded off the area for the top rail on each side. The walls are my next sub-project. I spray painted the laser cut parts before...

Great - very clean and accurate work Will you blacken the brass hinches etc. afterwards, or will you keep the "brass-look"?

Hello a welcome. Thanks for your continued support for my build. I’ve been working on the cannons for a few days, I think with a fair amount of success, so here’s what I’ve done so far. The barrels are turned brass and would be difficult to fault, they are excellent. The pear parts, 240 of...

Good morning Mark. Wow you are owning this HMS Fly. Cheers Grant

An extraordinal well built. A lot better accessories are now available today -not in my time - but expect too, that this will influence the final price. Anyway again an extraordinary build

Nice informative post about the use of the deadeyes and chainplates, Mark. They are nicely aligned. Regards, Peter

Channels, chainplates and deadeyes. The sets of channels are painted dull black and attached to the sheer rails on either side with headless nails and glue. Strips of natural walnut are used to trim each channel edge and effectively seal the openings that will accommodate the deadeyes. The three...

Ciao Jimsky. Questo sito è straordinario. Oltre ad essere ben strutturato c'è una partecipazione e una qualità di modellisti e modelli in scala semplicemente eccezionale. Scusa se rivedo solo ora queste realizzazioni straordinarie ma c'è talmente tanto materiale (immagini e testi) di alta...

1. Great presentation. I have been building these things for 40 years and still learned a few things. - bill36

Thanks all for the nice comments, likes and visit. There was not much work done till now. Just not much time to do undisturbed my work here. But the last few days I did a little work and here is the update. The ratlines on the sprits mast are done. And I started to fit the marsen on the main...

....continued from the previous post I have the photoetching roller set, use the smallest bar to round off the edges. The result is exactly what I expected to see. Carefully inspect from each side, If the emblem doesn't fit on all edges, or you see gaps, roll it again until it conforms to...

Greetings all. This is way long past-due log of Part 2 of 3 series: Accesories\Uspscale mini kits of naval guns. To those of you who came directly to this post, please follow the below link to get familiar with our discussion about aftermarket naval gun mini kits...

Ahh ok, now I got it (hopefully :-)) that is what I meant with "Another way is to blacken the pin before it is fully inserted into the wood [with a little hammer]." cheers Dirk

Hi Paul, the sheer rail is solid black wood. But it would be no problem with the brass pins too if it would be inked wood. I just put a drop of my blackening solution on the pin and it is black in seconds then I simply carefully wipe off the rest. Another way is to blacken the pin before it is...

Hello Mates! When I last posted, I needed to reduce my beakhead aft to fore and keel to top of the beakhead. Tobias shared a proven method using his mill, to perform the same job with a rudder. I decided to use the same approach. To the head shaking of some machinists somewhere, I have...

Still working on the planking... I can only complete one on each side on weekdays. But I hope to (finally) wrap it up this weekend. Meanwhile I've been trying out how to blacken the replacement brass cannon. I've been working with this: The results were mixed at first. The bottom cannon...