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    Default *What's on your workbench for May?

    My wife gifted me two Warlord Games Black Seas fleet packs for my birthday last month, The US Fleet and the Third Rate pack. I started working on one of the three plastic frigates first. While overall the detail on the hulls is quite nice, I must say there are things about these Warlord models I really do not like. The spars are cast flush with the masts so they can't be cut awy without damaging the mast. They are all at 90° so every ship has only a following wind dead astern. The first ship I wanted to model was the US Chesapeake. The stern gallery for it is no where even close to the Chesapeake's stern. This is something that would have been so easy for Warlord Games to get right as there is plenty of easily available reference to the historical stern.
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    The next thing I don't like are the clear acetate ratlines. You just can't get rid of the shine and glare on them. So I have been experimenting with two jigs for making the ratlines.
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    The set from the first jig I mounted on the lower masts and I'm using the second jig for making the ratlines for the upper mast. The second jig is actually faster even though it only produces one set at a time.
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    Oh, and while at least one of the two named resin frigates in the pack came with boat davits, none of the plastic frigates did. All of the US frigates had quarter and stern davits so I created some.
    Last edited by Volunteer; 05-16-2020 at 23:04.

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