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I know this kit is a bit rubbish but I'm dead keen on building a stable of HMS Royal Navy ships and starting with a sixth rate ship of the line and building upwards.. also it only has 20 cannons and doing all the details of the cannons x20 seems boring to me Goals for this kit are: Knowing that some of the bulkheads are wrong I am going to utilize navisworks and either do some 2d or 3d modelling and see if I can create my own bulkhead patterns that fix the problems and recut them... im thinking about laser cutting .. will have to see how the budget goes. Filler blocks under the first planking to provide that stability to the first planking and give a solid base. Small metal 90 degree angles to keep the bulkheads straight to the keel Less glue and more pre shaping with minimal glue to stop staining and minimal filler... famous last words.. Mark of a good craftsman?!?! Rigging the boat with sails furled to see the running rigging as well as the other rigging. It's a pretty little ship and I think I can do her justice.. will take 6-9 months I think. The 1:100 scale will make the rigging quite small though for my sausage fingers. Anyway looking forward to it.
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Hello Everyone. I'm starting The HMS Greyhound. Although, I will be converting her to the 1779 USS Protector. I've already communicated with Hamilton about the challenges of this endeavor. I will most certainly be buying him a drink before, during and after the build. A little background and explanation before I start so I get my intentions across. I have an ancestor, one Ebenezer Fox. Said ancestor was alive and galivanting during the Revolutionary War. Great Great Grandpa Ebenezer wrote a book called the Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer Fox. I attached a pdf version. Young Ebenezer ran away from home and got aboard a US Navy Ship, The Protector. He was present during its notable win against The DUFF. He was also aboard during the battle with the Roebuck and Medea where it was captured by the British and renamed the HMS Hassar. My plan is to convert this ship into The Protector. My ancestor states that it was a 20 gun frigate, but other accounts has her listed as a 24-28 gunner. I'm choosing to go by Great Grandpas description. I plan to add sails, this kit has a sail plan, but no sails. First question is are the sail templates actual size? and is there enough wood for planking? the one package looks small. My last kit was the 1768 Bark Endeavor by Artensia Latina and It had TONS of material. I know I'm going to have to order more "parts". I would appreciate assistance with a shopping list for those who have done this kit and discovered the wrong size parts. Im still in the planning stages and making sure everything is accounted for. The pictures below are what I received. I will post again once I begin, after the honey do's are competed. Thank you all in advance. adventures of ebeneezer foxe.pdf
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Well it arrived today in a nice tidy box well packaged and presented, i checked over all the contents and decide my build strategy, i first checked the keel for squareness and found that it was not sitting totally flat when on its side, so i gently flatened it aided by abit of friction/heat, next was to design/build a building frame so it was to the shed i ventured....i found a piece of 2"x1" soft wood, after cutting to length and shaping the ends, i fitted four pieces of balsa that where placed against the keel for aligning, then after gluing in place with some strong glue. Here is my first pic showing the above, but as i dont have a close up or wide lens just 55mm minimum on my dslr, i may struggle to show close/fine details.... C.
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Hello everyone, A little background. I got this HMS Greyhound from my parents when I was in high school. At the time, I knew little what I was doing and less how long it would take. It didn't help to learn that whoever designed the kit seemed to be a few cannons short of a broadside when it came to plan drawing. Daunted by these difficulties, I did only the first few steps in putting together the hull, sanding it, and placing the first planks before I paused the project. Then I forgot about it for eight years. When I got back to it, my skills were about the same but my patience and will to persevere were far higher. I offer my thanks to the people who answered my questions on this site back then. My apologies for forgetting about y'all for about a decade. The bad news is that High School Me had made a few mistakes. Well, many mistakes. Mistakes that involved glue and delicate wood and couldn't be fixed. But with the right amount of planking, sanding, and perseverance, they could hopefully be hidden. Thus began my covert Corel corrections. To begin, here's the earliest set of photos I can find of the model. The upside down one resists all editing.
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Hopefully I'm creating a new build log for my current build (my third ship) of the HMS Greyhound, 1:100 scale. I got it at ModelExpos' minimal price (I think) $69.00!!! Too good to pass up so I purchased it and added it to my stack of ships waiting to be built. I have quite a few waiting to be built safely tucked away in large sealed plastic containers in my garage on a rack. After completing my HMS Bounty by AL, which took almost two years I wanted to build something smaller that I might be able to complete quicker. So, I grabbed the HMS Greyhound out of the garage for my next kit. I've been hesitant to post anything on this kit because I'm embarrassed about how bad of a job I've done on it. My first kit, The Corsair came out well enough as a first build. I got a bit better and learned a lot more with the Bounty and then it all went to #@^&* on the Greyhound! First, let me say that it was / is the worst kit I've ever seen. Corel's parts, wood and especially instructions are absolutely terrible. I take some of the blame because I was anxious and time after time should not have moved forward until everything was correct. Bottom line, my frame went together a tad bit crooked. Then, I thought I could straighten it out as I moved on and then I planked the exterior and installed the gun ports (should have made my own). I noticed quickly that the instruction manual didn't match the separate large plan sheets that again, didn't match the picture on the box. Finally, out of desperation and disappointment I telephoned ModelExpo and they were very nice. They offered to send me a new keel and framework. While I shared in the mess up by finish planking the exterior, they asked me to pay for the veneers, which I thought was very fair. At first I said okay but before I hung up the phone I decided that I was over a month into it and didn't want to start over. I thanked ModelExpo for being so nice and decided to keep building and use this kit as (what I'll call) a practice kit to test different build methods. At least that is what I kept telling myself! Over the next couple months the project just kept getting worse. I was now out of scale. Family and friends kept saying it looks great. But, i knew anyone with any experience would notice things right off (why I don't really want to post it). I then took a look at this web site again since the crash (yes I was disappointed having lost my past build logs). I saw Ted Hamilton's build log on what started as the Greyhound and he encouraged me to keep going and sent me some build stats that did help. Since then I've tried to be more patient and rather than toss the thing in the trash (which I came close to doing a few times) I kept moving forward. The ship is not yet complete but for better or worse I'm still learning how to be a better craftsman. I've changed the ship from having too shiny an appearance to dulling it down and even painted Corel's shiny gold parts to a flat black. I personally liked the look better after doing this. I've decided to finish it up and not sure what I'll do with it as far as displaying it! Hopefully by swallowing my pride and posting pics of the build up to where I'm at now, you can see what I am talking about and try not to make the same mistakes. I have a lot of pics so I will start uploading a few at a time until I'm current. I will accept any advice as a learning experience that can only make me better. This is a great site and the people are even better! I'm happy to be a part of it even though I'm a novice. Ron
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Hello all: I've not yet quite completed the Model Shipways Glad Tidings, but since I've been under the weather today and in no mood to work on the current build, I thought I'd jump into some research, reviewing and trouble-spotting on my next build, Corel's HMS Greyhound. According to Corel, this kit represents a 20-gun frigate of 1720, and in my initial (albeit solely electronic) research, I did discover a couple of references to a "Greyhound" dating from 1720. However, I also found more common references to a sixth-rate 20-gun frigate built at the Deptford yards and launched in 1719. It seems that the Corel kit could reference one of three historic ships: 1. HMS Greyhound (1712) - a 20-gun sixth-rate captured by the Spanish in 1718 2. HMS Greyhound (1719) - a 20-gun sixth-rate broken up in 1741 3. HMS Greyhound (1720) - a 20-gun sixth rate on which I could find little information. In addition, I found references to a sloop called Greyhound, which is clearly not this vessel, but that has a much more colourful history chasing pirates. The National Maritime Museum also has in its archives the log of a Lieutenant serving on the HMS Greyhound with the dates 1713-1727, dates which overlap all three of these vessels - though it is possible that this is the sloop... In any event, it was only after the 1719 Establishment that the sixth-rates were formally defined: -- 20 guns on the upper deck (6lbs) -- 364 tonnes -- 106ft (gundeck); 87ft, 9in (keel) -- 28ft Beam -- Complement of 140 officers and men Apparently three sixth-rates were newbuilt to the 1719 specifications, one being Greyhound, while seventeen others were rebuilt to accommodate the Establishment. I suppose the 1719 and 1720 vessels I've found could be one and the same. In any event, the Corel kit corresponds to the most general specifications - full ship rig and 20-guns on the upper deck. Though I found out that technically this type/size of vessel would have been called a "Post Ship", frigates being defined as ships of at least 28 guns....confusion and contradiction abounds! Anyway, that's about all the historical information I could find...now on to the kit....
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