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John, Ray and Joe....thanks for looking in and your kind comments. The basic ship is done.....so I took some pics of it before I started putting the masts on.

No plank Brad.....it only comes out when I need to get rid of 'unneccessary baggage'.....lol...dead men tell no tales ! Somehow amongst the hundreds of parts...I manged to lose three of the supports that go below the side plates. So I made some up out of .040 square styrene. The white ones are the clones. The support in the center of these the is the 'imposter'. The swan is on....now I'm looking for a miniature bottle of champagne to christen it with. 564

Thanks for the encouragement guys Joe....I would love to find some of those minions in the right size. More detail work done. All of the side plates are on....just need to finish with the supports that go underneath them. 484

Looks fantastic !!!

Thanks guys...I appreciate the comments So this is where I got to yesterday. I put the bowsprit gammoning on and some details outside of it. 392

Chris and Art...thanks my friends. JC...it's a Teac from '73 This is one of the steps I was very nervous about.....putting on the open cannon doors. Between getting the rigging right and glueing them on with a very small surface contact, I was anticipating problems. But they went on with a minimum of fuss' Here's the side with the closed gun ports.

I'm glad my truck has the tow package so I can get it there....LOL

Joe, I wasn't done with the fiddly cannon bits yet. There are a total of 12 cannons visible on the upper deck. Each cannon has three ropes attached to it to draw it back and forth into position. So a nerve racking 36 times trying to super glue little bits on the cannons. Yahoo!!! One cannon in place.......11 more to go Cannons are in place....hopefully they'll stay their for Cap'n Clutz

I'm bringing a package of Saltines for you to eat on the way to DSC.....LOL

That's Capt'n Clutz to you matey.....LOL The ship suffered minor damage but it was also repairable. Mike....that was just for photo purposes....it's tucked away safely now I added more details to the front and rear of the ship. I also added ropes to the gun doors on the closed side and installed them.

John...no pretty pennys....a lot of dirty dollars Thanks JC....I 'm waiting for those 13" minilites Joe....you got that right Brad....AARGH....'avast ye landlubber !!...LOL Well....I'm finding out why I put this aside. There are 128 of these little pulleys which need to be cleaned up. And there are probably 40 more of another variety. I managed to knock the case and ship off of the coffee table and got a good chunk out of the case. But it's all good because the case dude was able to cut off 1 1/2 inches off of the bottom. Fortunately it still clears at the top.

Thanks John...and no worries. Chris....Thanks and see you in a week. I spent the first couple of building sessions cleaning it up.....so I decided to get a case to put it in to keep it free of dust. I painted the sails in Tamiya white primer and masked off the yards and sprayed them Testor's wood.

Thanks a lot for all the kind words, guys. Joe...I'll be at DSC...see ya there !! Next step is the upper sides. I put them in place without glue but I didn't like the color. It's too dark, so they'll get sprayed with a slightly lighter shade of brown. The upper sides have been re-sprayed and installed. I also painted the railings with an even darker shade of brown. So this the point at which I stalled out at back in 2012. From here the ship was put aside until the beginning of March of this year. The reason it got put back on the bench was I got involved in a ship build on another forum.

Well then I'll do one right now......LOL Before I could go any further, I needed to build cannons to glue onto the lower decks before the sides went on. Each cannon is 7 pieces X 34 cannons total yields a couple of days of cannon building. Here are the lower deck cannons in place waiting for the sides to be glued on. And the sides are on

I've been convinced to put my on-going build of the pirate ship 'Black Swan' on here by my friend John Teresi. This is a copy of the movie pirate ship Black Pearl, but with the name and figurehead changed to bypass Disney's copyright. I actually started this back in 2012, but put it aside until last month. Hopefully, this time I can stay on it until completion. Box art and a shot of the 800+ parts. The very beginning of the build.

You guys are welcome....I'm glad you enjoyed them.

Just got done editing my pics from the show http://public.fotki.com/2whl/model-shows/nnl-west-2015/

might be who their singing about......

Once he wore grey he fell and slipped away from everybody's sight The wizard of them all came back from his fall this time wearing white

Ebbro came out with two different versions of the Tyrrell 003.....one is the same nose that is on the 1/12 Tamiya kit and the other is the flat 'shovel' nose. I have the kit above and I like it. The tires in the kit are especially nice. The rest of the kit is Tamiya-like in quality. You should buy one....you won't be disappointed

There is a way to block those sellers who have ridiculous prices. It's at the top called ..."sort by price..lowest first"

Then maybe instead of spending ALL night beating this topic to death.....you would be better off at the bench working on those abilities

NEVER.......no one has the right to tell others how they MUST build.

Here's a link to my pics....... http://public.fotki.com/2whl/model-shows/san-fernando-nnl-2014/ Best of Show winner........John Teresi's Head Hunter