Well, I posted yesterday an image that showed what I thought was a problem with the sails on the Revell kit. My reasoning was the…
I’m not working on the Golden Hind today. But I do want to go back and do a “follow up” on a couple of things–so…
The rigging of the foremast is complete. As anybody who is an expert on 16th century rigging will immediately notice, there are a couple of…
As soon as I came down on the “free floating” nature of the sails I should have known that I would discover some aspect of the…
Lew Glaser, the founder of Revell, had a dream. It was a slightly mad dream, but all visionaries appear to be slightly mad. He saw…
Ratlines, deadeyes, and assorted related parts–INSTALLED SIR! YAY! Maybe the injection-molded ratlines and shrouds ARE an abomination, on some level. But for me and my…
I remember getting a writing assignment in the seventh grade. We had one hour to write a story. I sat and thought for half-an-hour before…
I’m continuing to “do” the vac-form sails. Each one needs to have the threads glued to the edges, as explained in the previous blog entry,…
The very plastic sails in this very plastic model are non-starters as provided in the kit, even though they are probably the best vac-formed sails…