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  • 20/03/2021 at 18:09 in reply to: All at Sea – British Generic First/Second Rate Ship of the Line #154089
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    Beautiful work!

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    11/03/2021 at 17:18 in reply to: 1/1200th ships – sources wanted #153735
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    David Manley has all of these and has posted them on his blog in the past

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    11/03/2021 at 17:16 in reply to: 1/1200th ships – sources wanted #153734
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    Outpost Miniatures also has a line of 1/1200 middle ages ships

    http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/naval_ranges.htm

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    11/03/2021 at 07:10 in reply to: 1/1200th ships – sources wanted #153696
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    Have you seen these Ral Partha cogs?

    http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/empiresthe-miniatures-boardgame-c-135/the-empire-c-135_137/6232-cog-p-2915.html?fbclid=IwAR23Tosf9s7DLZ7VtjlvyNntLlVi8xxC9Hv1R74gBJnLIaT0o8U4v39YqYw

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    08/02/2021 at 00:10 in reply to: Someone else trying KMH/TCG #150602
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    👍🏽

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    14/12/2020 at 07:48 in reply to: All at Sea – Conversion Work Part Two, 80-gun Ship of the Line #148263
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    You are responsible for the one conversion I did.

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    12/12/2020 at 16:51 in reply to: All at Sea – Conversion Work Part Two, 80-gun Ship of the Line #148226
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    Wow JJ you are getting good at this! I couldn’t see the cut lines at all and the finished ships are spectacular!

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    12/12/2020 at 16:31 in reply to: Minairons’ Ship of the Line sample #148225
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    Beautiful!

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    12/11/2020 at 05:14 in reply to: All at Sea – Sloops and Scratch Builds #146710
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    Wow excellent mod work JJ. You are an inspiration.

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    12/11/2020 at 05:10 in reply to: All at Sea – Argonaute #146709
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    Another beautifully painted ship JJ

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    12/11/2020 at 05:08 in reply to: All at Sea – Indomptable #146708
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    Gorgeous ship JJ

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    12/11/2020 at 05:05 in reply to: More 1/700 AOS almost ready for launching… #146707
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    Wow the ships and rigging look really good Jeff and so does the rack. I bet one could do as well with some 1-1/2″ PVC pipe.

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    07/08/2020 at 16:19 in reply to: All at Sea – British 20-gun Sloop #141871
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    Thomaston,

    Very nice! I don’t see the mistake you’re talking about with the masts? You can still get the sails on, none of the rigging appears in the way. I usually get this far before mounting sails so my fat fingers can get in and tie off the standing rigging easier. BTW, I notice these are not the acetate ratlines supplied with the BS models. Yours look much better!

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    30/07/2020 at 07:25 in reply to: All at Sea – British 20-gun Sloop #141421
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    Nice job JJ. It did look like you lengthened the hull with the cut just in front of the main channels, six guns aft and five guns forward. Came out really nice.

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    21/06/2020 at 06:51 in reply to: The Black Legion of the REPUBLIC… #138474
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    These armies are awesome Jeff! The painting is very good. The Punic wars was always my favorite ancients period. Now you need Gauls and Iberians, if you haven’t already done them.

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    29/05/2020 at 07:44 in reply to: Black Seas American Brig #137156
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    Thanks Jeff. I added blocks to the frigate rigging as well. And yes I have seen some xebecs folks have made from the brigs. They are good ideas, but I think the brigs are just too fat to make a decent xebec. I believe the Black sails schooners would make a better xebec. They are much narrower. And besides, Henry Turner has a free 1/700 3D xebec on the Wargaming3D webside if I can just find someone to print it for me! Anyway it may be a while before I can get back to this scale. I just took a commission to kit bash four Sails of Glory ships. So that is going to occupy my limited shipyard time for the next couple of weeks or more.

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    26/05/2020 at 06:47 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #136985
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    They look great Jeff!

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    20/05/2020 at 17:29 in reply to: My First Black Seas Ship #136737
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    Haha nice tool to have! I have often thought of doing the same. I have 3 old Dremels. A flexible shaft with a chuck would be awesome.

    On the unsightly mast clumps, try using a #8 thread to tie up the stay rather than the much thicker stay thread. The thin #8 thread is barely visible and if you touch it with a bit of paint it disappears into the mast entirely. I get it on Amazon, fly tying Uni-Thread.

     

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    19/05/2020 at 17:32 in reply to: My First Black Seas Ship #136675
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    Hi Jeff. Well let’s see, what are you using for thread? If it is cotton or has cotton in it you can wet the thread using a paint brush and warm water. As the thread dries it will shrink a bit. This might help a bit if the sagging is not too bad. Poly won’t shink at all. I usually run into the problem after I start stringing the running rigging. Every brace line starts adding a bit more tension to the masts resulting in previous lines slacking. I try to spread the masts against the stays to keep their tension while I secure the brace lines. This works most times, sometimes not.

    I know most folks don’t like cotton because it can “fuzz”, but I use it exclusively for standard rigging for this reason. To stop the fuzzing I wax it before application. You would think this would prevent it from being wetted, but it doesn’t, it just stops the fuzz.

    If the sag is too much you can coat the line with super glue and use something to press one end or the other against the mast or bulwarks, taking out the slack, until the line dris stiff. I use a dental tool to do this.

    Last resort is to cut out the line and string a new one.

    Hope one of these helps.

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    16/05/2020 at 17:01 in reply to: My First Black Seas Ship #136511
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    Noel, wow thanks! That is a pretty nice compliment.

    Jeff, thanks. The blocks were a last minute inspiration and I was surprised the idea turned out so well (and that I never thought of it before?) The backdrop is something I did back when I still had access to an 11×17 printer. I made several but in order to get them home in my travel bag, I had to fold them in half. So they all have this ugle crease in the center. I try to shoot to one side or the other to avoid “The Crease”! 😖

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    16/05/2020 at 07:08 in reply to: If I can do it, so can you–a 1/700 rigging tutorial #136479
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    Hey I have one of those! I never thought about using it that way.  Thanks for that. I use a vice I bought from MicroMart, I think it’s called a jeweler’s vice. It’s been worth its weight in gold. Yes all those things you mentioned are my mods.

    I finally finished the ship tonight

    https://volsminiatures.blogspot.com/2020/05/black-seas-frigate-chesapeake-finished.html?m=1

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    13/05/2020 at 18:59 in reply to: If I can do it, so can you–a 1/700 rigging tutorial #136350
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    Hi Jeff,

    So I have been experimenting with jigs to make ratlines for the the Black Seas frigate. I came up with two jigs. The first one I made can produce the whole lower mast ratline set at one time. But this proved time consuming and difficult to thread

    Ratline jig 1

    I used these for the lower masts.

    The second jig I made is much simpler and faster to thread, but only does one ratline set at a time.

    Ratline jig 2

    After mounting the ratlines I worked the rest of the standing rigging.

    While doing so I discovered the predrilled holes for the formast, mainmast and mizzenmast stays are too far forward, just inside the aft end of the chains/channels so the stays don’t show behind the ratlines. I will be drilling new holes farther aft on the remaining ships.

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    13/05/2020 at 18:22 in reply to: Leonardo da Vinci & the Prince of Foxes #136347
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    Wow this is truly inspiring. I have never seen da Vinci’s inventions used in a game before. Very cool! Next: Ornithopters, machine guns, machine crossbows (16 crossbows), multi stone catapult, etc. His military inventions were numerous.

    Edit> I visited the blog. You have covered everything I mentioned except the crossbow machine. Unbelievably cool!

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    08/05/2020 at 20:48 in reply to: If I can do it, so can you–a 1/700 rigging tutorial #136113
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    What scale were the ACW ships again? They were really nice, better than most marketed ships I’ve seen.

    Shame about the galleons too. Have you seen the 1/600 Oak & Iron galleons Julian (Model J Ship) is doing? They are spectacular.

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    07/05/2020 at 06:57 in reply to: If I can do it, so can you–a 1/700 rigging tutorial #135991
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    Ok…..

    Whatever happened with your galley casting project?

    Your 1/600 scale ACW scratchbuilt ships were awesome! Where’s the how-to’s for us more creatively challenged folks?

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    05/05/2020 at 07:42 in reply to: If I can do it, so can you–a 1/700 rigging tutorial #135895
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    Well Jeff I followed the link to your blog and found a lot of interesting posts. I was amazed at the dearth of commenters. The posts that drew my attention most were of course the ships, and I have questions.

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    04/05/2020 at 09:11 in reply to: All at Sea – New Spanish Builds, Part One #135828
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    Beautiful job on the ST JJ. Getting those fine white lines straight is a notable feat by itself. Very impressive. And as always a very enjoyable historical read on your blog.

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    02/05/2020 at 06:26 in reply to: If I can do it, so can you–a 1/700 rigging tutorial #135711
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    Well Jeff, that’s a darn good tutorial! There’s a lot of thought went into some of those ideas. You should start a blog so people have a place to go to reference your stuff. Me for one!

    Oh, and thanks for the plug.

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    23/04/2020 at 18:19 in reply to: 2D Pirate Ship #135267
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    If you search Pinterest with “Pirate Ship Gaming Mat” you will get hundreds of different ships

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    23/04/2020 at 18:11 in reply to: 2D Pirate Ship #135266
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    Pirate ship mst

     

    https://paizo.com/products/btpy8qps?GameMastery-FlipMat-Pirate-Ship

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    19/04/2020 at 19:20 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #135040
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    Biiiiggg magnifying glass!

     

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    19/04/2020 at 07:24 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #135011
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    1/4800! Good luck!

    Awesome turnout Jeff. I like the way the sails look on Hermione. Did you have any difficulty fitting them after you had done the standing rigging? I have always rigged after putting sails on the 1/1200 models.

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    15/04/2020 at 01:24 in reply to: All at Sea – New British Buids, Part Two #134815
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    See JJ you made me do it! My first Black Sea fleet pack arrived today!

    I just have to finish the little Langton Great Lakes sloop I started first!

     

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    15/04/2020 at 00:59 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #134813
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    It is looking good Jeff! The wife just brought home my first fleet pack from the PO. Can’t wait to get into it, but I have to finish the little Langton sloop I started first.

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    13/04/2020 at 20:52 in reply to: Anglo Dutch Wars – English Fleet #134751
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    Understood with much empathy! 😉

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    13/04/2020 at 00:29 in reply to: Anglo Dutch Wars – English Fleet #134698
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    Ah yes, I can tell when I enlarge the photos. Should have done that in the first place before asking the question. Sometimes my wife accuses me of just wanting to hear myself talk!

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    13/04/2020 at 00:21 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #134697
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    Just awesome Jeff! Love the paint schemes.

    The only thing I know to make those pesky cotton fibers lay down is to wax the thread before using it. I use beeswax, but candlewax works too. Just run the thead between your thumb and cake of wax several times quickly. Then once again between your thumb and forefinger to knock off any wax bits. Now it’s ready to go.

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    12/04/2020 at 16:49 in reply to: All at Sea – New British Buids, Part Two #134683
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    Beautiful ships and I love the bases! Seeing your work made me break down and order two fleet packs!

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    10/04/2020 at 01:15 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #134563
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    During the 18th & 19th centuries the union jack was only fown in harbor from a rigged “jackstaff” in the bows

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    06/04/2020 at 18:13 in reply to: 1/700th Frigate… #134385
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    Oh I really like the ideas on the Warlord site!

    This was mine

    Ratline jig 1

    Ratlines

     

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