Ship display

[Mariner1941]

Brass pedestals look great but when purchased from a model shop are expensive. I use brass bathroom pull cord handles via Ebay and cheap as chips (probably cheaper than a portion of chips - French Fries for those of you who don't reside in the UK). They come with a nylon washer you just need to pull off.

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This pair cost about £4. They're notched for my current build of Victory Models (Amati) HMS Fly.

I use modified lamp shade finials .they work great. I add a polished brass washer as a base. All are examples of modified lampshade finials. On the White Swan I just turned the pestles on my lathe.

 

[Thanasis]

Allow me some more ideas...
The last one is from my wife's curtains' rings...

Thx

 

[Roger Pellett]

Very nice! Great to see some Great Lakes vessels. I am particularly interested in the Whitney Brothers Tug. There is a Whitney family here in Duluth that is associated with shipping and once owned a tug.

Roger

 

[Smithy]

I am afraid my model will have a fate of a Sand Mandala.

I have built thousands of models over a sixty year career (so far) and have kept none of them. I’d like to think that I have been creating a decades long ‘model’ of the temporary and repetitive nature of the universe, but unfortunately that would be a rationalisation after the fact. The truth is that I was tidying up, clearing away the toys that I’d finished playing with.

However, I have usually retained the best of them for some time, maybe even a year or two and I’m very intrigued by the monk’s practice of destroying their mandalas at the instant of completion. That’s something I have never done with a good build, although I remember several that met that fate because they didn’t come up to an acceptable standard.

I wonder what it would feel like to spend a year building my Alert and destroy it a minute after it was finished?

Wow! This is very interesting!