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A few more details added to stern area and galleries.
Wife has consented to paint crests fore and aft :fthumbup: (that's good, cause I can barely see the details).


Tired of the stern (again) will try applying wales for awhile.

Two of six on tonight; the rest have to was till next days off :(

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jemontgomery,
The ship is looking great.
How in the world do you get the wife to get involved with wooden ship building? I have tried everything from trying to get her to sew the sails with her sewing machine to helping hold a part while I glue it and the answer is always "no, I'm not interested in your toy boats". Which I respond with "they are not toys, they are my works of art - I can't paint, draw, or do anything else creative, so I build models". I can't persuade her. What's the secret?

Helplessly (or is that hopelessly?) married,
Richard

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Richard - does she have any hobbies ? You need to get her into a hobby - scrapbooking is popular among the ladies now . She needs her own hobby .

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jemontgomery,
Sorry to highjack your forum thread! I seem to be good at that.
DIVIT,
She used to have hobbies a couple of years ago but now works crazy night time hours and I only see her on the weekends. I have many, many different hobbies and I can't get her involved in any of them. Just looking for that magic spell that changes her mind.
I think I need a psychiatrist. :yikes:

Richard :coffee:

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Richard:
Sorry; No secret here.
The wife is a "hobby nut" she sews doll clothes (a miniature seamstress) she will sew my sails (can't wait to do so) and gives me advice on thread types and weights; does toll painting (even volunteered to paint the model!); does beading (gives me beads for tiny blocks,bullets,parrals and thimbles), crochets (rigging tools) and knits (I made her needles out of wooden dowels and got to keep the left overs for yards) .

Like Gary said; Get her involved in a hobby; one that can be used for model building! :banna:

But like I said; I'm building the Victory for her (yeah, right) so she is eager to help with the build. She's no good with carpenter work, so I couldn't get her to plank the hull! :=((

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Finished placing and painting gammoning knees and painting them (what a pain).
I dislike painting anything (too much of that in USN) and really dislike painting small things. :( I used a "superfine" applicator manfg. by "Microbrush" and it worked well.
If your hobby shop doesn't carry them they have a web site www.microbrush.com.

The knees were made in two sections and molded by boiling in water and using a planking iron (same method as planking). Glued in place and filed/sanded down to shape
As you can see the small forward bend was a little to sharp for the wood. It cracked, so being lazy and impatient, I glued it some more and filed it down.


Round houses put together and painted (still need detail work)

Meanwhile, the rats (Plato and Socrates) are working on their model (and leaving mine alone! :thumbup: :build: ; They don't have "Planking" mastered as yet. :mrgreen:
Tired of the bow, so next will open-up a few access ports amidships and start making cat's heads.

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Round houses (Midshipman's and Petty Officer's head) placed. Still working on trying to paint a straight line! :(

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Quarterdeck gun ports cut in and painted. Learned that it is very difficult to cut and file double planking (4mm thick). Lesson learned: cut all ports before putting in inner bulwarks/ceilings.


No matter how I tried, I couldn't get the ports exactly square (I lost my jig :( )

Be working on weather deck next, installing cleats, kevels, etc. Plans call for installing cat heads next but I'm afraid I'll break off any thing that projects from the hull at this point (I hold the hull in my lap or upright between my knees for some work. Hope to get most of weather deck done next week, then the cat heads and head rails. After that, no more "holding the hull!

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Started on fore-rail on foc'sle. Cut out carronade placements for rail (8mm dowel, drilled center and filed out core for rough shape before placing).
Painted all the rails and stanchions, prior to cutting to length (the stanchions are 5mm long, going to be hard enough for me to see 5mm, much less paint it! :banna: :banna: )

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Mr. Montgomery ,

I have been following your build and reading your comments . Your combined comments to date are making me seriously ill ( lol). I am now thinking twice about building Victory . Seems to be more pain than pleasure. I have the COREL VICTORY kit which (after studying the plans) , will have to bashed in order to reproduce an accurate (1805) model . More frustration and agony, -- Just seems to be more pain and suffering than enjoyment ?


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