Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Daniel, Thank for your very kind words. Glad to see you back to your Old Ship Yard again, Golly but I will never catch you now.
Regards Lawrence
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates, Well we have finally got to the fun stage in out HMY Fubbs build, the little fellows and I have installed the previous built the poop and Quarter decks beams. We installed the Great Room Forward paneling and planked the forward side. We have dry fitted the Bulkhead Break and built and dry fitted the Golden Dome and built the Entrance way Dome cribbing and installed two deck planks to support the entrance way cribbing and dome. And last but not the least we have installed the Rudder Cap.
Regards Lawrence
Regards Lawrence
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I very much like your latest post.
Not just because of the great workmanship, but also because some of it is now ahead of where I am!
Not just because of the great workmanship, but also because some of it is now ahead of where I am!
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Arthur, Thank you very much for your very kind words. Yes a lot of my last post is very simulator to my previous post but that is because there are so many little details coming together at this point, but after my next post things will be spread out just a bit better, ok.
Regards Lawrence
Good morning Lawrence. You have skills Lawrence- this is good. Cheers Grant
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Lawrence
Hello Grant, I do thank you for your very nice words and nice comments. This is a wonderful kit, so well put together it is hard to not want to do a good job of building her.
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates, Today the little fellows and I have completed the Bulkhead Break that we have installed with the Entrance Way Door and Glass, Window Frames and Glass. WE have installed some of the Quarter Deck planking that our plans called for. We have also installed the Entrance Way door step, we have also planked both the ships outside bulkheads to almost the top of those windows. The Entrance Way dome is still dry fitted. We also gave all of these items a coat of Polyurethane.
Regards Lawrence
Regards Lawrence
This is just really impressive progress Lawrence. We can see how much you are enjoying this build!
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Paul, I thank you for your very kind words and nice comments. Yes Mike Shanks has don a great job of putting this kit together and I will try very hard to make this adventure for him to be done at the best of my ability.
Regards Lawrence
The entrance with the door, window frames and glass looks very nice, Lawrence. A very stylish part.
Regards, Peter
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Lawrence
Hello Peter, Thanks for your very nice words and comments. Yes the Entrance Way door is a very nice part of this build. It's to bad my camera showed the windows all cloudy of which they are not, may try to replace these pictures.
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates, Today the little fellows and I have installed the stairs down to the Great Room. We have fitted and installed the Beam section around the Mizzen Mast. We have fitted and installed the short pieces of the Poop deck planking to show where and how this deck would look if it were fully planked.
We must take a little break away from the Old Ship Yard as our outside garden is far behind and neglected because this HMY Fubbs is so enjoyable and time consuming.
Regards Lawrence
We must take a little break away from the Old Ship Yard as our outside garden is far behind and neglected because this HMY Fubbs is so enjoyable and time consuming.
Regards Lawrence
I sound like a stuck record with your Fubbs Lawrence , however worth repeating…
-Brilliant work. Cheers Grant
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Grant, Thanks for your overly kind words and nice comments, We do enjoy these very much, they keep edging us on in our great build the HMY Fubbs.I sound like a stuck record with your Fubbs Lawrence , however worth repeating…
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates, Well after a few trials and errors, a couple of little re-builds the little fellows and I have installed a plank between the water ways and the Great Room deck clamp, for no other reason than to tidied it up just a bit. We have installed the water ways along with the Spirketting, along with planking the upper bulkheads. We did add the window glass to the round dome entryway that we did overlook in our last post. We did taper out the top of the hull framings to be able to attach the Cap Rail and trim a bit later on.
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates, The little fellows and I spent the day cleaning up the Transom, fitting the four windows, giving them all two coats of Polyurethane, Glazing and installing them.
Regards Lawrence
Regards Lawrence
What is the material used for the glass? It looks really good!
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Allan, I thank you for your visit to my HMY Fubbs, she really is a very interesting build at this scale. The window glass is Acetate it is all ready pre laser cut, it is very clear but my camera seams to change that just a bit, it seams to make it look like very old glass.
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates, Not much to show for a days work in the Old Ship Yard. We decided that we wanted to paint the upper hull blue, the colour blue that we chose would not cover properly even after 3 coats so we decided to add a blue base coat and then apply out blue paint.
Regards Lawrence
Regards Lawrence
A nice color Lawrence. This should look great!