HMC Sherbourne by Jörgen - Caldercraft - 1:64

[Edwardkenway]

Jörgen nice to see you back with Sherbourne I will be following all the action.

Jon 

[Jörgen]

Here is the result of one of the gun ports. The upper part will be hidden under the lid later.

 

The inside look like this, but when sanded down it looks good.

Then I of course (again...) start to ponder over the red color. 

but I think it will be to dark (admiralty to the left and Vallejo to the right)  so for now i am sticking with the Vallejo flat red because I think it will be very good against the all of the black that will come later.

The gun ports  required some putty and I have started to use this one from Deluxe. It is very simple to use and when dried you take away the excess with small amount of water.

I will use the supplied wood for the deck to rebuild the inside walls.

But first so need the front close gun port be fixed so it looks good from the inside.  

And here is the result. I have used some wood sand fixer (or what it is called...) becouse I want to use primer and then paint on the inside. The gap you see made it possible for me to get a very tight fit of the wood against the stem post and the rear bulks. This gap will later be covered with the supports for the windlast.  

Now i need to do the other side.....

 

 

 

 

 

[tkay11]

Neat work on the gunports. Don't forget to check the height (top and bottom) with the guns by putting in temporary decking before you finalise them. You can use cardboard cutouts of the profile of the guns in their carriages. I remember the ports giving some trouble in this adjustment.

 

Tony

[Jörgen]

Hmm, you are right Tony. Maybe I shall look in to the cannons already now and not wait until later.

[Jörgen]

Just checked with a cannon and it will be ok. Thank you again Tony.

[Jörgen]

I will use cannons from RB model and when I bought them some years ago I bought them with carriages. I will not use this because I want to do my own but as long as I keep the dimensions of them so will it be ok. It will look something like this:

[Jörgen]

Hi all, a small update. I have to little time to spend on the Sherbourne:(

How ever I have finished the inside planking and sprayed inside with Tamiya grey surface primer. There is two reasons for this. The first is to give the red color a uniform light background (there are big different between the dark Walnut and the brighter inboard planking. The difference will be seen in the red color. 

The second reson is to find all of the areas that need to be fix before the red color. Quite many of them... 

This is all for now. Have also lot of boring sanding work to do on my Focke Wulf 190 D9....

[Jörgen]

Hi again

 

Have manage to do some more work. The inner hull is now painted and the color ended up to be Admiralty Red Ochre and I really feels that this is the right color. It is little bit bright red on the photo but it is darker in reality. 

  

I like the color contrast between the red and the dark brown and black. (some touch ups is still needed:) )

I then made transom knee (i think it is called) on the stern. Here will also bee some belaying points. They are not on the kits drawing but I follow Lennart Peterssons book Rigging Period Fore and aft craft.  Here is how I done them.

First I did templates in stiff paper. I started with the little complicated angles.

Then I glued the templates on wood and sand down to the right form.

I glued (very little) the wood parts together and applied the outer form and the sand it to shape in my milling machine. 

After priming, filling priming and airbrushing this is the result. Maybe to much primer and color... Don't mind the shiny color, it has not totally set yet.

I also added details in the stem in the same way as above. The parts are false post and a deck hook. Here I followed Dubs Sherbourne because I really like these details. I think they add a "deep" to the model.

 This is all for now. Have some  touch ups to do tomorrow and then will I start to focus on the drift rails. 

Edited August 14, 2019 by Jörgen

[Edwardkenway]

Nice touches, I  really like your Sherbourne😃

I am waiting with anticipation for more updates

[Henke]

Jörgen, you have a fantastic attention for details. It is really inspiring to see!

 

Regards

 

Henrik

[Jörgen]

Thank you Jon and Henrik. The master pieces on this site (for example La Créole by archjofo) is so full of details so it blow your mind. I am hence also trying to add as much as I can because I really like the "busy" look. And one reason more is that I want to learn how to craft it it all and every part is practice  

[The Lazy Saint]

Well done Jörgen, this is exceptional work. I (and probably most) will never achieve this standard but it is inspiring stuff and, for me certainly, it's a standard to strive for. 

Thanks for sharing. 

Best wishes as always. 

The Lazy Saint. 

[mugje]

Great build! You are doing a amazing job on the Sherbourne, very inspiring!

[Hektor]

Great build Jörgen! But what happend? Are you occupied by your memorial build?

// Kent

[Jörgen]

Hello Kent.

No no  I am rebuilding my basement so have not so much time over for model buildnig at the moment. Have done little bit more on Sherbourne and build some 1:72 airplanes. Need to do little bit more for next update though. 

[KevW]

This thread is an inspiration as I wait for delivery of my first model which is also a Sherbourne.  

[Jörgen]

Thank you Kevin. I am sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while but this is because I rebuilding my basement so all energy goes in to that project at the moment. I only build little on airplanes from time to time at the moment. But I will continue as soon as I am finished with the rebuilding. And good luck with your build. Don't hesitate to try our own things on it   

[Jörgen]

Hi everyone. It was long time ago since i post anything here about my Sherbourne. The reason is that I didn't had the time to put focus on my models. However, now i feel that the time have come again to take up the hobby. It has not been totally down, I have manage to build some 1:48 airplanes during the time. But now have i started both my Vasa build and my Sherbourne build again. So here is a what I have done.  

My shape of the Sherbournes hull is not exactly the same as in the kit so I had to do new ones with the correct form. Also the supplied parts are of laminated wood and as stated before, I don't like it at all.

 

So here are I drawing the the exact shape on a sheet of better wood.

 

Here is the shape missmatch between my Sherbourne and the kit part. This is most probably because of lack of experience from my side during the planking work.

 

Then I cut it out and copied it to get two exactly same parts.

 

I formed the edges of the handrails with the tool suppled in the Vasa kit.

 

It was not easy to attach the handrails to the kit. So i drilled holes and pined them down with brass rods. It will be ok later because i will add filler and sand it all down. The rails will be painted black later.

 

Then i formed the stern part of the handrail. This part had to be bended to fit.

 

All rails glued in place.

Now I must do sanding work before I start to do the timberheads and swivel gun pedestals. When these are finished then will I paint and oil everything to get it in right finish.

 

Edited April 22, 2023 by Jörgen

[tkay11]

Good to see you back!

 

Tony

[Jörgen]

Thank you Tony, good to be back 

 

[Jörgen]

I just couldn't resist it. I just had to try to make a small part that included cutting brass, silver soldering and blackening of metal. I have never done it before but thanks to all of yours excellent explanations in this forum I had a clue how to do. 

I decided on the swivel mounting pintle and according to the drawings in the Alert book this part have a interesting shape with 8 sides. It also have a Iron hoop on the top.

So I took a 4 mm walnut rod and put it in my dividing attachment for the Proxxon milling machine. This was also the first time I tried to use this divider. For the milling I used the 3mm cutter. 

 

 

I started to mill and form the mounting pintle. I milled a side, then choose another degree and milled that side. It was so easy to do with the divider.

 

And in no time I had a perfect 8 sided swivel mounting pintle.

 

A brass sheet was glued to a piece of wood and in this way did I manage to cut a 0.7 mm strip. I used superglue but I am open to suggestions of a better glue for this work.

 

 

I found the perfect tool to shape the 8 sides of the iron hoop and this was the smallest Tamiya photoetch bender. 

 

Then I managed to silver soldering it together. This was easier than I thought. I used soldering  paste and a torch. 

 

I made the Iron hoop little smaller than the pintle so it would get the right look and fit well. For this it was necessary to mill out the form for it but again this was easy to do in the milling machine. I took away another 0.1 mm wood.

 

And he hoop in place.

 

The hoop was blackened with Birchwood Casey blackening solution. Again this went well since I know how to do thanks to you all. I oiled the walnut (it will be colored black later) and mounted the hoop. 

Here is the result of my first try of this kind of work and I am more than happy over the result.