What my FX9 was born to do

[dodger]

Over the past couple of years I have taken almost no serious pictures at all. But the Little FX9 has been working hard. It takes pictures of my silly little things like this...something I doubt I could do at all without its anti-shake. I made this little rig to remind me that eventually I have to install 34 like it in the latest thing that's creating dust in my front bedroom. Nothing like instilling dread into yourself months before it's absolutely necessary.

[jmr]

Andy,

that's intricate work! Well done.

[stuny]

I agree.

[rougewave]

Andy, what vessel are you working on? I just finished a biography of Thomas Cochrane which details he's use of just such advanced weaponry in service to the empire.

[dodger]

Hi Ben...It's a pretty basic kit by an Italian firm called Corel, purporting to be an HMS Unicorn of 1790. Being me it'll be anything but basic when it's done....the manufacturer's "research" seems to have been done on a weekend, for example the Unicorn of 1790 was nothing like this one, which I (and others) reckon to be the 1746-1770ish Unicorn. Because of all the extra research and scratch-building work involved I have the job pencilled in until some time in autumn 2010, I suppose. Started Easter last year.
Here's where she was at a couple of days ago, with a little Baltimore Clipper I built just after Christmas, on my dreadfully untidy bench.
(I keep intending to buy the Cochrane book - I'm sure you know he's the character that Jack Aubrey is mainly based on in the Master and Commander series. Recommended reading, if you haven't already: Six Frigates, by Ian W Toll; wonderfully written book covers the foundation of the US Navy proper.)