06-04-2015, 05:11 AM
With the colder winter weather to keep my balding head warm I wear a hand knitted woollen beanie, which is just as well cos wool can stretch to fit my swollen head. 
Thank gentlemen for your kind words but I must point out that the “Three Foot Rule” is very much in play here. Unless the light is poor I still don’t need to wear spectacles to read the newspaper, but when doing this close in small work I do wear 3.25x glasses which while helping to see what I’m doing also magnify the discrepancies, which when I’m trying to duplicate items are more than obvious, and which I tend to get rather fixated on. Then her-in-doors walks past, has a look and says something along “they look good” and taking off the magnifying specs, I have to agree. I think that while striving for perfection is an ideal goal, I have to learn that getting things to “look about right” can be pretty satisfying. Besides most people are generally looking, not necessarily seeing.
Tonight I have been having a crack at the deck fairleads, I’ve made three out of the four required but have gone cross eyed in the process.
Having proved to myself I that can, if I were to scratch build another vessel, I would seriously consider using commercial parts that are available, though I still have problem I that I like to actually see what I’m going to buy.
If my sums are correct, in 1:125.5 scale, the outer dimension of a life buoy is 0.27” with a 0.136 inner, and having found a drawing of the USS Lowry, I can only see 4 life buoys, so they should really be a piece of cake. (Aren’t I great at delegating??
) Are we going to see any Lowry progress pics???
Cheers, the Bear.
Thank gentlemen for your kind words but I must point out that the “Three Foot Rule” is very much in play here. Unless the light is poor I still don’t need to wear spectacles to read the newspaper, but when doing this close in small work I do wear 3.25x glasses which while helping to see what I’m doing also magnify the discrepancies, which when I’m trying to duplicate items are more than obvious, and which I tend to get rather fixated on. Then her-in-doors walks past, has a look and says something along “they look good” and taking off the magnifying specs, I have to agree. I think that while striving for perfection is an ideal goal, I have to learn that getting things to “look about right” can be pretty satisfying. Besides most people are generally looking, not necessarily seeing.
Tonight I have been having a crack at the deck fairleads, I’ve made three out of the four required but have gone cross eyed in the process.
Having proved to myself I that can, if I were to scratch build another vessel, I would seriously consider using commercial parts that are available, though I still have problem I that I like to actually see what I’m going to buy.
Sumpter250 Wrote:why 1:125.5 scale ? you ask?
If my sums are correct, in 1:125.5 scale, the outer dimension of a life buoy is 0.27” with a 0.136 inner, and having found a drawing of the USS Lowry, I can only see 4 life buoys, so they should really be a piece of cake. (Aren’t I great at delegating??
) Are we going to see any Lowry progress pics??? Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."