My friends,
First of all, my apologies for losing the contacts on this forum, but my admiral was on the mend since her hospitalisation, and slowly, she lost her strength, and i got to do more in the house, at first i have been following some of your building logs, but a while ago everything came to an abrupt halt, because i was to busy in the house.
A couple of weeks ago my admiral got hospitalised again, and after some verry critical days in hospital , she is back home, but but here strength has faded away, so all builkding activities are still on halt, and waiting for better days.
I did manage to do something on the cross-section in the last months, and so i can give you a small update.
First of all, i made a pump, to give you an idea about the sizes, i made a picture beside a ruler, from the handle, and the pumphood.
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Very tiny, and fragile, i had 3 pumphoods in the kit, and i managed to break them all.
So i had to make one myself from some pearwood, and after mounting the pump together, it loos like this.
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After this pump, i made the small knight, this was reasonablesimple, and it looks like this
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And after this, the large knight had to be built, here it is.
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Dry-fitted on the crossection, it looks quite reasonable to me.
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It looks rather dusty, and the eyebolts that you can see, are removed again, no way that i can attach a block for the canons to the eyebolts when they are already on the ship.
Then i went a few steps ahead of the building instructions, because i wanted to make working hinges for the porthatches, and this is what i could produce.
My nails where very out of proportion, so i glued the nails in the hatch, cut them off, and filed them smooth with the hinges.
Partly ready, it came to a sudden and complete stop overhere.
I have no idea when i can place the next update, or when i can follow your logs again, but one day, i will be back.
Greetings,
Peter
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