I love seeing your work and hearing from you - but life comes first. My best wishes for your wife's return to health.
Re: Royal William 1/48 scale
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Family first! I wish your Admiral a speedy recovery and back to normal.
Great work John, I would like to join in the get well wishes and hope your wife gets better soon.
Thank you all for understanding and also for the nice comments regarding my Admiral, your all a great bunch of guys,
Best regards John,
Best regards John,
Building the railing for the very after deck, I laminated some pear wood horizontally and vertically,
glued the pattern to it with rubber cement and trimmed to fit the pattern,
I then roughed out the arches with 10mm milling bit and finished them with a small drum sander in my dremel,
for the arches I wound some copper wire around a dowell of suitable size,
the roll of wire free from the dowell,
then i cut them in half and sanded the ends so they were all more or less the same size, continued in the next post,
best regards john,
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to make sure of a nice solid connection i glued a base strip across the bottom of the arches, and a rail across the top,
then i glued on the arch pieces,
and also the rest of the decoration, the ends of the rails have to be trimmed to size,
just showing where the rail will sit,
and after a coat of black paint, the copper wire pieces will be gilded and also some red added to different places,
thanks for looking in,
best regards John.
installing the grating between the gallows and the quarter deck,
I glued the back end of the grating onto a small ledge i glued under the quarter deck beam and I glued three dowells through the gallows into the front of the grating piece,
and a couple of views of the front rails glued in place, I couldn't resist adding a little bit of Ginger Bread, and I can see where I have missed some varnish on the planking,
best regards john,
Always great to see the latest update John. 
I love your ingenuity, John, when it comes to parts fabrication. Inspiring stuff!
I agree with Paul. I love your creativity and ability to visualize! Source any material in your modeling for a perfect fit!
Thanks guy's for all the likes and the comments, well it was my turn this week, I started with a chest infection last Tuesday and it gradually got worse till I had to be taken into Hospital at 6am Tuesday morning, they kept me in for the day, ran all the tests and ended up letting me go with some anti biotics, but the best bit is that on Thursday it was our 55th Anniversary, so I certainly stuffed that up, so we will go out for lunch when Im feeling better, I'm not too bad during the day it is at night time when I take bad, should be better by the end of this week, well thats my rant for the day, hope yours have been a lot better,
best regards john.
best regards john.
Just a few catch up pics before I was ill,
Constructing the rails for the fore part of the quarter deck, I built them the same way as the rails on the fo'c'sle, drilled the round holes and then squared them, I was going to give them curved ends but with leaving all the side rails and the fo'c'sle rails square ended it didn't look right so i left them square as well,
This is some of the rails that I steam bent and was going to use,
nearly built up,
and with the capping pieces on and the side rails finished,
Painted and glued in place,
another view,
and a side view,
thanks for looking in,
best regards John,
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Constructing the rails for the fore part of the quarter deck, I built them the same way as the rails on the fo'c'sle, drilled the round holes and then squared them, I was going to give them curved ends but with leaving all the side rails and the fo'c'sle rails square ended it didn't look right so i left them square as well,
This is some of the rails that I steam bent and was going to use,
nearly built up,
and with the capping pieces on and the side rails finished,
Painted and glued in place,
another view,
and a side view,
thanks for looking in,
best regards John,
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Next up was the capstan and the Chimney piece for the Galley stove, on the varnished model it shows the chimney as a tall tapered piece whilst on the painted model it is shown as a small curved piece, i decided to go with the curved piece,
looking along the deck the capstan looks quite big but it is because it is nearer the camera,
and a nice view under the Fo'c'sle,
close up of the belfry and the stove chimney,
best regards John,
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I hope you get well soon. Take care. Congratulations btw on your anniversary, 55 years, respect that is a long time.
About the work on your rail, I can only admid that you did a phantastic job.
Praying for a full and speedy recovery John.
Happy anniversary, John!!
Thank you Jim,
Best regards John,