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immaculata!!!...where are the dozens of people who should be responding to this with open jaws? hmmmmm

OUCH!!!

ahhh.....wisdom.......now you gonna make me have to think about it all....let's see....well, my father, when i was young..............oops, sorry, wrong thread ....big smiley....................haha, i guess, i must have learned something, or i wouldn't be able to truly appreciate the masterful...

when i see work like this, it makes me embarrassed that i ever built a model ship.....maybe in my next lifetime, i'll have the money and the patience.....absolutely superb!!!....

have to say...very inspiring......

merci ancore....

it's a relief...thank you.....

anyways, that's it for the soleil royal.....so glad i got it out of my system.......the kit's wrong hull has been bothering me subliminally for so many years......may be the last of the to do list in this lifetime (smiley)...still a bit of touching up to do..........cheers, vic

superb......!!!

got these belaying pins from .... Dry-Dock Models & Parts they're a little larger than the originals...

okee dokee...thanks.......will consider that..............vc

.i have to get extra thread too cause i'm building my own shrouds..... hmmmmm....on the heller kit.....what size black thread for the main and topmast stays?.......and what size for the shrouds?...

gads no....i just put things together as i'm go along....have no idea what it will look like until it's done...so sorry........

the case should look like this when it's done....now i'll have two ships to rig......lighting with the strip led's is tricky....i have them down the sides too, and in this case, on the bottom....but on the soleil royal, i left off the bottom ones, cause it just accented the white hull....i'll...

very kind daniels...thank you,,,and yes, especially if all the cannons went off at exactly the same time.....but then everyone on both ships would be deaf, which would end the war, aside from the possibility that the s.r. would be on it's side or even fall apart....sorry, i;m in a flippant...

took a break to make a case.....will be black, with cherry red velvet background and floor....side glass panels will be black siliconed in, and the front glass panel will slide in from the left side and will be removeable...waiting for lush curtains to confirm they have the sample i sent...

gee, i didn't expect to get that much of a reaction as there are much better painters out there...am grateful...thanks.....oh...the hull is made out of pearwood with black walnut wales which i ordered from joseph at......http://modelerssawmill.com/....the bottom hull i just used basswood which...

merci maarten!!

vielen Dank uwek....i looked it up (smiley)

i thank you, and although i didn't go for an immaculate build, i'm basically very happy with the results...i filled in the space on the stem with a casting from the stern railing...squished the mold in a vise, and filled with resin...still had to trim some....maybe i'll bite the bullet and try...