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Re: Royal William 1/48 scale
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Thank you Donnie and Grant
,I much appreciate your comments, and a big thank you for all the likes all you guys gave me,
Best regards John,
My new windows arrived just before Christmas,
The one on the left is how they arrived and on the right after cutting down to size,
The two lower windows replaced,
and the two above replaced, these four windows are slightly larger than the ones that will go across the top,
and all the top windows replaced, there was a lot of cutting and trimm8ing to get them to fit but I like them better than they were before,
thanks for dropping in,
best regards john.
The one on the left is how they arrived and on the right after cutting down to size,
The two lower windows replaced,
and the two above replaced, these four windows are slightly larger than the ones that will go across the top,
and all the top windows replaced, there was a lot of cutting and trimm8ing to get them to fit but I like them better than they were before,
thanks for dropping in,
best regards john.
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These are a nice upgrade John!
Very impressive John, those windows look great.
I'm back to catch up on the Royal William, had a little bit of an accident awhile ago and broke off one of the horses hooves, to start the repair I drilled a 1mm hole through leg and glued in the piece of 1mm brass wire,
Close up pic,
then I drilled through the hoof and super glued it in position,
Just have to touch up with some gold paint,
and a new addition to the family, Schnooky keeping an eye on things,
thanks for looking in,
best regards John,
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The last of the cannon on the upper deck being set for height etc,, they are not fixed in position yet, still have to attach the eye bolts etc,
and from the starb side,
and on the after deck, you can see a strip of wood that I'm trying out for the decorative wales between the carvings,
and another view,
best regards John,
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Just a little bit of a catch up,
all the dead eyes, just a little bit of adjusting to do,
preparing the chains,
the mizzen channel fixed in place,
The holes drilled out for the main channels,
and fixing the main channels in place,
overall view,
and a couple of views of the main and mizzen channels,
thanks for looking in,
best regards john,
all the dead eyes, just a little bit of adjusting to do,
preparing the chains,
the mizzen channel fixed in place,
The holes drilled out for the main channels,
and fixing the main channels in place,
overall view,
and a couple of views of the main and mizzen channels,
thanks for looking in,
best regards john,
Fantastic John!
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John my friend
it's looks marvelous
Thank you for the nice comments and also thanks for all the likes,
Best regards John,
Its a beautiful looking model John. 
The decorative wales for the ship, I was going to make my own but came across these on a doll's house site, just had to trim them down a little bit ,
I had to take a little bit off the sides to get them to fit,
a close up,
and after gilding them,
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Good morning John. Stunning work. A dolls house site......who would have thought
. Cheers Grant
Thanks guys, it's amazing what you can find on the net,Good morning John. Stunning work. A dolls house site......who would have thought
Best regards John,
Started doing the deadeyes and chains, I scrapped the first version and went with these ones, the copper ring around the deadeye and a straight shaft with a small plate on the end, these are the forward channels,
after painting,
and the main channels,
thanks for looking in,
best regards john,
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I have added the long moulding rails between the carvings on the port side, three views,
best regards John.
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Well thats all the side trims and dead eye strops attached, time for the entry ports,
The entry ports have some very fine wrought iron type decorations, I did try and make them out of both fine copper and brass wire but to no avail, everything kept melting, so i turned to my normal source of things and I found a nice flower holder in one of the charity shops, maybe I should call her The Salvation,
this is the holder, cost was three dollars, it a type of pressed metal, I tried to solder it but it wouldn't take so i Super glued it together,
I cut a section from the holder, and then smaller pieces from that,
this is what I ended up with and next to it is the platform grating that it will sit on,
both starb and port sides,
thank you for looking in,
best regards John.
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The entry ports have some very fine wrought iron type decorations, I did try and make them out of both fine copper and brass wire but to no avail, everything kept melting, so i turned to my normal source of things and I found a nice flower holder in one of the charity shops, maybe I should call her The Salvation,
this is the holder, cost was three dollars, it a type of pressed metal, I tried to solder it but it wouldn't take so i Super glued it together,
I cut a section from the holder, and then smaller pieces from that,
this is what I ended up with and next to it is the platform grating that it will sit on,
both starb and port sides,
thank you for looking in,
best regards John.
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After adding the porch roof, nothing to fancy, and also a couple of spindles , all will be gilded except the roof and the base which will be painted black,
after painting and gluing in place,
and another view, next up will be the boarding steps,
best regards John,