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[Deleted member 3568]

Well all the oars are painted now.


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[Deleted member 3568]

Well I am so annoyed I thought I had some oars over and I had finished them but no, stupid idiot there are 32 PAIRS of oars, not 32 oars, now I have to order more of the steps to cut down for the handles, or I display it from one side only.


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[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all well I've got to do all 64 oars again, I ordered some more ladders to do the handles with ( ordered more than I needed as I could see them being usefull for other things) luckily I ordered the wrong bits.


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now when you compare the two I just have to redo all the others


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[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all well the advantage of taking my boss to have her hair done is it gives me 5 hrs sitting in the car, so I've bought a bag of oars and glue with me so looking forward to hours of glueing oars.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all I've been racking my brains trying to think of a way to do the tassels round the canopy, I cant find any which match the cord I've done the flags on the mast with, so, I came up with this.


take a piece of double sided tape and stick it to a piece of paper


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tack that each end to a lollipop stick


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wind the gold thread round the lollipop stick


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Cut along the edge


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then glue in place


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[takeslousyphotos]

This is Epic Ken....... A really cracking job....... I have a question?........ What in the he'll does she have done to her Barnet that takes 5 hours for Christ sake?

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Well it's not just her Barnet she shops as well, incidentally how much do you think it cost in Harrods, have a guess I bet you're no where near.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

A hair do in H.A. RRODS?......... £ 300 ????

 

[Deleted member 3568]

That's closer than I thought you'd get 394 quid. And she has that about every 3 mnths. Looks no different to me when she's had it done.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

That is ridiculous....... Where does the money come from ?....... Is she "Old Money" or won the lottery or some-such ?

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Old money her first husband was worth an absolute fortune, fleet of rolls own jet and helicopter, her husband she's with now is worth about 16 mil, he makes boots for the house hold cavalry got the by appointment to the queen, his boots start at 5000 and go up from there.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

Old money her first husband was worth an absolute fortune, fleet of rolls own jet and helicopter, her husband she's with now is worth about 16 mil, he makes boots for the house hold cavalry got the by appointment to the queen, his boots start at 5000 and go up from there.

Bloody hell.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Bloody he'll indeed, and she can't afford a new mower, unless I hand my notice in, she spends about 2000 on qvc every week.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

Bloody he'll indeed, and she can't afford a new mower, unless I hand my notice in, she spends about 2000 on qvc every week.

When I lived in America, I met a bloke worked for QVC...... His job was customer service, and he was tasked with keeping in touch with customers that spent more than fifty thousand dollars a year on their crap...... and that was twenty years ago.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

She always says " oh their so nice I could buy lots more" I recon she's talking to him.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Dun da da da,da its finished


I will post better pics tomorrow but here she is.


I few suggestions for anyone building this, don't glue the trumpets on the angels on the stern till the kit is finished( cant count the number of times I've knocked them off). do not glue the side railings on till the end they were constantly getting in the way making it difficult on numerous occasions, and most annoyingly including the rigging stage, I know you tie some of the rigging off onto it but you could always tie off to the framework some where temporarily.


other than that it is a great kit and all goes together well.


will post some better pics in the finished section tomorrow.


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I would like to thank everyone whose kept me motivated on this kit, especially takeslouseyphotos who without his help on getting missing parts this kit would never have been completed.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

Ken, it was a pleasure to be of help and to watch this being built........ You`'ve done a superb job mate. Stuck with it and turned out a stunning build........ Now, did she have a sister ship you could build to go along side it? You could make it into dio....... Perhaps a fleet of five or six would be amazing :D :D:D

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Actually I would happily build a fleet, if I could afford it, it really is a great kit, my only reservation is on model ship world a chap last week said he was inspired by my build and bought the kit and it is missing all the sprue's my kit was, so heller have a problem with this kit, it's such a shame as the moulding is phenomenal.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Ok so I've reguilded the damaged guilding and the actual damage is not as bad as I feared the worst bit being he broke one of the side arms off and I cant find it anywhere os will have to try and scratch one(those canons are tiny, maybe a stretched sprue or a matchstick in the lathe, it's also now missing one of the flags (which I also cant find) nothing I can do about that so will just touch up the paint where it was snapped off.


here is the damage.


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[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all well its back to its former self (wonder if he will damage it again taking it to frinton)View attachment 122463

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