In a world where “truth” and “falsehood” are really difficult to identify, one thing stands clear. I’m not a “ship fan” and this whole episode…
Say hello to my little friend. Super glue allowed me to put some of the stuff (carefully!) on the “top” of the yard on the…
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…