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very nice work Thunder

 

your cutter looks excellent...

 

Nils

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Thank you Nils, Apart from one small area under the bows I am happy with it, especially as done on a winter holiday away with only a few basic tools. Usually after an evening in the village pub. 

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She is making up into a very sweet hull, Thunder. I wish I could remember the year that the ad appeared. I do recall that this was a separate, inserted and folded sheet with a full-colour photograph of the completed model on it.

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View of deck with Bulkheads trimmed down above deck level and extra fitted to sides of gun-ports. Also shown are the deck 'stringers' in place, deck beams and central deck supports.

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Having fitted the beams and central supports the deck can be laid. First you have to make a false deck out of a sheet of 1mm ply. This all seems a lot of extra work but does make the curvature easier to acquire than the usual kit methods. Photographs show ply deck fitted, margin planks fitted and first planks raised.

 

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The first two planks to starboard of the king plank look to have a gap but it I just pencil marks.

 

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Full length of deck completed for first planks. Also shows Waterways in place pre-painted black. Planks at stern are to be cut back when planking the stern section. 

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Once the deck was completed the heights of the marked gun ports were double checked. to do this I built one of the gun carriages. The guns came with nicely turned barrels, two side cheeks of the carriages and two sets of trucks complete with shafts. To make it easier to glue these together I made up a simple jig. This would also help ensure they were all the same.

 

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As the gun ports needed little adjustment I started to cut them out. Usual way by chain drilling around the perimeter and then cutting out.

 

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Starting to look like a war ship now.

 

Next gun port lining and inner bulwark planking.

 

 

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By the way, don't look at the wall behind too much, I was decorating at the time.

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Why didn't I think of that!!

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As you can see things moved along greatly, Deck planking completed. Bulwark capping rails made by cutting from ply sheet and fitted. Cleats fitted, cat heads built and fitted, Gratings made, skylights and companion ways. Most of these are shown in place but not yet fitted. The only part that came in the kit is the whip staff main lathe turned section, all other fittings are scratch. On the work mat you will see work started on the cannons. Each truck has been drilled and plastistrut rod inserted to represent the extension of the shafts. Belaying pin racks are also fitted.

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External also progressing with chain plates, hawse holes, catheads, and wales. These photographs are excellent for showing where needs a bit of extra sanding and finishing.

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Some more shots of deck furniture:

 

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Here you can see the rudder post coming through the deck, companion ways and kevels. The gun ports have eyebolts and kevels for securing the lids installed.

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Main companion way and skylight (and thumb). Brackets for top of main companion way were made from a sheet of brackets found in an old etched sheet which I had brought 20 years ago.

 

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another view of same items. The skylights have clear sheet installed, the smaller one of which is showing as reflection here.

 

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whip staff progressing, much to do yet.

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Well, I kept calling it a whip staff and no one picked me up on it. So, either no one is looking at the log, we all don't know what it is called or you are all just too kind to the forgetful model shipwright.

 

Anyway, progress with building the Windlass, windlass bitts and pawl bits.

 

First photographs show my effort to clamp it in place whilst the glue dries. One clamp is simply onto the keel to add a stop to prevent the second clamp from slipping. Bowsprit timber placed through the hull and on top of the windlass. Second clamp then pressing down onto the bowsprit timber.

 

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Pawl bits added.

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Completed windlass with ratchet and pawls and the belaying pins in place.

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Some more of the deck furniture items under construction, two chimneys, hen coup and cannon ball racks, cannon balls provided all else scratch built.

 

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Now shots of the stern counters and rudder construction with some shots of stern planking.

 

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Cannons under construction and on the near completed hull.

 

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And here is three rigged. I would of expected carronades by this date but the book with the kit specifies cannon.

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Now gun port lids. Read the instructions after making and it suggested two square sections. I made the outer section out of three pieces of plank. Each lid had to be made to suit the gun port as they are not square. The sides are parallel to the ships frames with top and bottom parallel to the waterline. Each then has three planks that are fixed to the internal layer in such a way as to match the hull planking in that location.

 

The effect of the lids being this shape means they do look a little strange when in the open position as they do not stick out square from the hull. However, looking at photographs of other, contemporary, cutter models this does seem correct.

 

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Each gun port was fitted into place and then sanded flush with the hull.

 

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They were then fitted with the hinges taken from the etched sheet I had brought many years ago and tiny eyelets left over from a Caldercraft kit. Holes drilled in the hull to insert the ends of the hinges and rigged with ropes over the bulwark rai to the cleats fitted previously inside the hull.

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Thunder, you're doing a fantastic job of this!  I really love these obscure kits, they are of beautiful subjects but the materials can leave something to be desired due to their age - in this case you have shown both knowledge and talent in bringing it up to a much higher standard of construction! BTW, love the choice of paints and finishes, too.....Steve M

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Thank you Coxswain, it is good to know that someone thinks it has been a good build. The planking timber was very nice to work with if not a bit smelly! 

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Anchors and anchor tackle / catheads in place. Anchors were missing from the kit so supplied from elsewhere. Stocks scratch built.

 

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Wasn't till after I took this photograph that I found that the starboard side had been damaged.

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I also need to do something about the 'clover leaf' hawse hole. I wore the bottom of the hole with the section of anchor rope but it doesn't look right.

 

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Chain plates and lower dead eyes in place. The dead eyes and strops were supplied with the kit but, although everything was supposedly made for the kit, they were too long so had to be cut back. This took away all the secure fixing so I am concerned if they will hold when coming to rig the shrouds.

 

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One was missing, can you guess which one?

 

If they look like they are not going to hold I will have to clean off the paint and solder the leg to the eyelet they are passing through. Should of done that before painting!!

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last items of deck furniture fitted.

 

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The holes in the top of the belaying pin rack must be part of the turning process. These need filling and touching up with paint.

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Hull near completion, final checks required and snags, already discussed, need rectification.

 

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VERY sharp and clean build. Looks more like a scratch build with hand picked lumber than a kit.

Lou

 

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Lou,

 

To be completely honest, although I used the kit timber for the planking the only other items used are the cannons, cannon balls, dead eyes and belaying pins. Otherwise everything else is scratch.

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Either way the build has very sharp and crisp details while still being smooth, if that makes any sense. 

 

Are you going to leave the two midships and aft gun ports empty?

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Lou

 

Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence

Currant builds:

Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold)

Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral)

1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin)

Currant research/scratchbuild:

Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes

Non ship build log:

1/35th UH-1H Huey

 

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Yes, going to leave them empty, the records I have said she only had the eight guns. The bow gun ports would be unworkable so there couldn't of been any there anyway.

 

The wood seemed to hold its edge very well and was tight grained. Lucky it was that good as she is single planked. I was happy to get away with not using filler.

 

I have just purchased another very old kit, and it is a poor kit, but the wood, although not very 'pretty' is the most flexible I have ever come across.

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You mus be constantly on the alert for old kits. It will be interesting to see what the new one is and what you do with it.

 

It is my understanding that in most cases the furthest forward gun port looking opening was almost never an actual gun port, but a port for handling lines and such and had a gun port lid to keep heavy seas out. I always wondered if the port design also served another purpose as a location where a cannon could be moved and used as a bow chaser when needed, and as camouflage to confuse the enemy as to the number of guns on board, a fairly common occurrence it seems in the accounts of some of the engagements I have read about. 

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Lou

 

Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence

Currant builds:

Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold)

Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral)

1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin)

Currant research/scratchbuild:

Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes

Non ship build log:

1/35th UH-1H Huey

 

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I thought the same as you. As this ship spent most of her service in the pursuit of smugglers you would think the ability to mount bow chasers would be highly desirable. In Speedy's case I don't think you could move them into position let alone have space to fire one. Carronades on slides would be more probable.

 

 

 

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