Avoca
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Chief Petty Officer 1st Class · 486 pts
Melbourne, Australia
Member since Sep 2026
Last online 15 hours ago
Age 66
About
Recently retired with a renewed enthusiasm for building 'things'.
It is my goal to reproduce, in model form, copies of the sailing vessels that transported my forebears to Australia.
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"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes". SunTzu. - Cheers.
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2 blogs1854 'Clipper' Tayleur Build.
Hi all, A new day, new information and... and new project. Planning to assemble a large scale wooden, or mixed media, replica of the RMS …
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Convict transporter 1840's, "Palmyra"
Looking to recreate this vessel in a scale model. Is there anyway to get the ship's plans? Cheers.
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Re: Membership payment options...Off the back of Alessandro's words... FYI - for those interested, here are some basic privacy tools that are all free at the basic level, and if not free offer a variety of privacy focused payment options. I u…♥ 2 likesRe: Membership payment options...@ChrisF The way you and your wife, as described, approach the internet and 'life' in 2026 is really the only way. And, best practice as far as I can see. I mean, tick, tick, tick. And yeah, it takes an awful l…
♥ 2 likesRe: Membership payment options...@fireboat Fair enough, and understood. For what its worth, for transactions[block], crypto is secure, but not overly private, which, interestingly, was/is the primary advantage over traditional banking, nobody…♥ 2 likesRe: Membership payment options...@EdW Interesting read. Although, another Private UK Company, interestingly from the same corporate address as yesterday's business and one that includes the same two directors of yesterday's, on the payroll. A…♥ 2 likesRe: build blog@ChrisF Wow, what an awesome project and build work. Just stumbled on this build by chance - noticed the Dremel logo and had to investigate. Such an awesome craftsman Chris, I can only aspire. Wow...Re: Question of the Day?Phew... for a moment there I thought Wordle might spell it 'gail'...♥ 21 likesRe: Membership payment options...@zooma Ads??? This site has ads??? And, PayPal is a full KYC* business. Trust me, they already have your bank details, and access to more. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer♥ 2 likesHmmm, we have a scaling issue...Rapidly came-up against the reality of the 'limitations of computing power' of my laptop vs my ego conundrum. (Fishercat, got a spare GPU or two... and maybe another 16GB of DRAM..?) A full size (225ft x 39.4f…
♥ 3 likesRe: Membership payment options...@EdW Understood and very much appreciated. I would be happy to do just that, thank you. Having settled that, please be aware, I appreciate the amount of time, effort and money that goes into these, quality, si…♥ 2 likesAI - The tech I love to hate to love to hate...So, in an attempt to fine tune the Lloyds Register Survey Line Drawing I was given, and better define the Tayleur's 'edges', I ran the image through a few AI systems, freely available online, which returned so…
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♥ 2 likesRe: Membership payment options...@fireboat Fair enough, and understood. For what its worth, for transactions[block], crypto is secure, but not overly private, which, interestingly, was/is the primary advantage over traditional banking, nobody…♥ 2 likesRe: Membership payment options...@EdW Interesting read. Although, another Private UK Company, interestingly from the same corporate address as yesterday's business and one that includes the same two directors of yesterday's, on the payroll. A…♥ 2 likesRe: build blog@ChrisF Wow, what an awesome project and build work. Just stumbled on this build by chance - noticed the Dremel logo and had to investigate. Such an awesome craftsman Chris, I can only aspire. Wow...Re: Question of the Day?Phew... for a moment there I thought Wordle might spell it 'gail'...♥ 21 likesRe: Membership payment options...@zooma Ads??? This site has ads??? And, PayPal is a full KYC* business. Trust me, they already have your bank details, and access to more. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer♥ 2 likesHmmm, we have a scaling issue...Rapidly came-up against the reality of the 'limitations of computing power' of my laptop vs my ego conundrum. (Fishercat, got a spare GPU or two... and maybe another 16GB of DRAM..?) A full size (225ft x 39.4f…♥ 3 likesRe: Membership payment options...@EdW Understood and very much appreciated. I would be happy to do just that, thank you. Having settled that, please be aware, I appreciate the amount of time, effort and money that goes into these, quality, si…♥ 2 likesAI - The tech I love to hate to love to hate...So, in an attempt to fine tune the Lloyds Register Survey Line Drawing I was given, and better define the Tayleur's 'edges', I ran the image through a few AI systems, freely available online, which returned so…♥ 3 likes