HMS Winchelsea 1764, 32 gun Frigate 1:48, Syren Ship model by Trussben

Smithy said:
What is ebony dust like? I imagine it’s very fine very toxic?
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Yeh - the dust is not nice - dust masks must be worn.

The other issue is that it’s quite a oily wood so it will stick to your cutting blades and leave residue, it will clog your sanding surfaces quickly and worst of all - it spreads into other woods quite easily and “stains” them.

But when used - it does look awesome, you can replace it with Swiss pear stained with black dye and not know the difference ( but then you have to worry about the dye going places that you don’t want ).
 
Smithy said:
What is ebony dust like? I imagine it’s very fine very toxic?
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Yes,,toxic depending who you ask..very fine almost greasy dust..sticks to everything..Gabon ebony I think it is banned for import in the US.. I got mine from a Luther friend.. hard to work with, but lovely..not a wood expert ..just my opinion!
 
trussben said:
Halfway through Chapter 11, the gangways and their ladders along with newel posts and their fancy work is done.

The Chesstrees and fenders, with their friezes completed.

All of the Channels installed and I have started adding the channel straps, I looked at both boxwood or ebony deadeyes and I didn’t like the look of either so I have ordered some Swiss Pear deadeyes hoping they give the look that I want.

I have also made a decision about the swivel guns - I’m not going to install them or their mounts - not keen on how they look on finished models that I have seen sticking up and altering the flow of the model.

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what a nice looking ship. congratulations.
 
Jimsky said:
The site doesn't reduce resolution; it is compressing the image for smaller size. What resolution was your image before uploading?
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Reducing size of the image ( 2.6MB to 280K ) is basically reducing resolution from 5712x4284 to 1400x1050 on that second image, that’s a 75% reduction!

Is that 1400x1050 a setting on the site?
 
trussben said:
Reducing size of the image ( 2.6MB to 280K ) is basically reducing resolution from 5712x4284 to 1400x1050 on that second image, that’s a 75% reduction!

Is that 1400x1050 a setting on the site?
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I'm not sure what max allowed image resolution is when you upload photos. @Donnie Donnie, can you clarify, please.

Basically, the software reduces the image size by compressing it using the 'add-on', Let's see what Donnie finds out.
 
Jimsky said:
I'm not sure what max allowed image resolution is when you upload photos. @Donnie Donnie, can you clarify, please.

Basically, the software reduces the image size by compressing it using the 'add-on', Let's see what Donnie finds out.
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As far as I know the quality not affected just the file size,but @Donnie can tell for sure.
 
Yes, it is a fact that the forum does compress images. I will state my opinion here. It seems as if (the last few images) are soft as if the focus is very slightly out.
The forum has a very good compression algorithm that maintains the sharpness.

When you "Resize" an image using a Graphic Program, you usually can set the compression parameters for the least amount to the greatest amount.
You can also compress an image without resizing - just by using a compression engine - such as what the forum does and yes, it will compress automatically to about 270K.

May I ask what Brand of camera are you using and do you have the camera set up for auto focus, manual or what? Again, what I see is an "overall" softness which tells me that somehow the camera shot the subject slightly out of focus. Speaking of which - on high end cameras you have various focus types.

Unless you are shooting this using a mobile device (phone or tablet)

ps. one last thing. Is this something that you just noticed or has it been this way when you started your Log?

This image that you took at the beginning looks tack sharp to me.

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Also take a look at this stage coach in the Showcase Gallery. All the images are at 60k !!!

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It has just started happening, just using an iPhone and the images are perfectly sharp when looking on it, I also uploaded to another site and the images are sharp on there.
 
Interesting. Can you email me one image from your phone to sosforum@shipsofscale.com
It seems the forum had problems in the way past with iPhones and some other tablets w the way the forum processes the images.
 
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I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max

I just used my iPhone to take a few pictures and the images I uploaded (and viewed on the forum) are NOT good. So, I have been looking into phone settings to see what is going on. This also appears to be a problem with other users of iPhone on all social media sites.

I would think that with the exposive popularity of forums and social media platforms (Facebook, instagram, etc.) Apple would have settings in their app to take care of this gross image processing problem.
 
Started Chapter 12 while finishing off the few final parts from the last one as I wanted to see how these headrails were looking like.
Putting the headrail pieces together was no big ordeal, sanding them thinner towards the fore was ok, but then I went to put them on the model and found them too short!!!! They wouldn’t reach from the catheads to the hair brackets.
I studied the plans and other peoples builds - the plans show the height of the head rails timber head bottom to match the top height of the snatch block - so I actually pulled off the hair brackets and moved them slightly aft so the the rails would make these positions correct, it wasn’t by much like 1/16” perhaps.

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