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John - thanks for your comment. In short - of course! And I would love to, but given the demand the costs are ludicrous. And in addition, if you install panels a surcharge will also be payable to the electricity suppliers in the future!
---------------------------------------- Don, Doug, Erik and rmks2000 - thanks! As mentioned in my initial post I said I would also try and provide some info on the actual bird - I know nothing about it and have never seen one. Would take stunning photos though I am sure!
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Now for some information on the actual bird………..
General
Bear in mind the bird in the second picture has its crest erected.
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Thanks for all this good info, Kevin!
A most interesting bird. Incidentally, I first came upon the word "Wryneck" as the name of a Royal Navy W-class destroyer (sunk off Greece in April 1941) when, as a youth, I was memorizing Jane's Fighting Ships. Only later did I learn that it was the name a bird not found in Baltimore. Don Image source: HMS Wryneck |
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Thanks Don. Interesting.
I just had a quick read up on the ship - I am tempted to say perhaps she was "jinxed"! Aside from the obvious "W" Class connotation, I wonder why they chose this name? I can find nothing regarding this. I am sure they must have been aware of the implications of the name, which actually makes it a strange choice for a ship. There was only one other "bird" in the 'W' class, 'Waterhen', and in this case as a name for a ship, this makes sense. The other "W" names are a hodgepodge of everything, mainly places.
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I think it was the "W" that decided. By the end of WWI, the Royal Navy was starting to run out of names for ships.
Many years ago, I read a most interesting article in the Naval Institute Proceedings by a man who was involved in the naming of U.S. Navy ships during World War II. At that time, the USN had a fairly systematic methodology for naming ships, but the enormous WWII building program ran into the problem of running out of ships names, especially for submarines, then named after fish and marine creatures. As I recall the story, the man developed a close relationship with the marine biology staff of the Smithsonian in order to get the names of more obscure fish and sea creatures. Finally, they ran completely out of names, but since there was a backlog of fish that had not yet been named, the two of them invented names, so that there are a number of fish named for submarines named for invented fish names. But we digress from your model. Don |
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Making the Breast.
The body is made up of two parts, the breast and the back, which are then joined together.
Starting with the breast. Picture 1 – The part cut out. The method of assembly is straight forward. Start on the sides and glue the tabs one by one, leaving each tab to dry in between. Work on each side alternately. Leave the triangular centre section tab until last, until after the two halves have been joined together.
Next, the two halves are glued together. I started joining the part from the centre, but leaving the triangular tab still UNGLUED, and allowing each tab to dry before glueing the next. When joined, I then gently shaped the body with my fingers and also burnished it from the inside with a burnishing tool, so it was nicely rounded out. I then stuck the final triangular centre tab down. Picture 6 – Typical burnishing tools. But you can use a loose ball bearing, small spoons etc. Pictures 7 to 9 – The finished result. Next will be the back of the body.
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Great start to the body of the bird.
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Making the Back
On to the back.
Picture 1 - The part cut out. The neck region is to the top. Assembly is pretty straightforward and basically mirrors the process for the breast above. In the case of this part, the tabs were glued in order from the neck area down, working from the inside to outside, while glueing the tabs on each side alternately. The part will then gradually form its shape.
Picture 2 - The inside after this part is complete. Note the extra reinforcing strips dotted around. Pictures 3 to 5 - The finished part ready to join to the breast. Next, joining the breast and back together...
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Very deft work.
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Thank you Don.
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