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Ray got a reaction from maggsl_01 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from Mirabell61 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from aliluke in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from MEDDO in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from fnkershner in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from WackoWolf in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from Bettina in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from Mirabell61 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray reacted to Beef Wellington in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Thanks BE as always, and all the 'likers' - means a lot to have so many excellent modelers looking in.
Mizzen topmast stays have had me thinking for a while - it just doesn't seem to make sense to have standing rigging attached at both ends with no method of adjustment. I followed a general principle seen elsewhere and made the stay up with a loop to go around the hounds (not served around the hoop as its only 0.5mm line - need to draw a line somewhere, and seems tricky at this thickness). At the other end, I inserted a bullseye (sourced from Bluejacket) and attempted to simulate a splice. This was lashed to a ringbolt on the maintop as per plans - this would allow adjustment. I went with thin black line for the lashing to avoid looking too busy, don't think its too much of a stretch.
Stay before installation
The bullseye lashed to maintop
The completed mizzen standing rigging at the hounds.
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Ray got a reaction from Barbossa in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from Blue Ensign in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from mtaylor in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray got a reaction from WackoWolf in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from fake johnbull in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from Aussie048 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from jaerschen in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from mort stoll in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from fnkershner in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from Timmo in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from Beef Wellington in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray got a reaction from jim_smits in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The barricade has now been painted black and I think looks better for it, the ships wheel has also be painted and made up, and the rail on the great cabin roof has been fixed on.
Black barricade
Ships wheel
Cabin roof rail
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Ray reacted to MEDDO in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
I like the gun level views. Looks great. Lots of work to rig all those guns.
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Ray reacted to Beef Wellington in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Thanks Ray for sharing, very nice progress pics, shes really coming together. Love deck shots. On the barricade, I have seen a few admiralty models with these painted/stained black and thats probably the route I would choose knowing the wood would probably not look the best left natural with what I'm assuming is ply.
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Ray reacted to Klaas in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Nice work Ray, i follow this build with a lot of interest
What about painting the barricade in natural wood, and then varnish it?
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Ray got a reaction from WackoWolf in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Time to complete making up the quarter deck fittings and add them the the model, I first added the pin rails all of which had the holes opened up to take the belaying pins, next came the deck cleats (which were drilled and pins added) then I added the eye bolts to the deck and the channels, here I did make a boo boo and drilled the holes the wrong side of the main mast hole, so now there are eye bolts right around the mast hole. Next the cavil blocks were modified to bring the top away from the side of the bulwark this will allow ropes to be tied to them see photos, if not altered you could not tie off on them. I made up the barricade a bit fiddly but not to bad at the moment I am undecided as to whether to leave it unpainted or paint it black.
Pin rails
The barricade
Barricade dry fitted
Cleats
Cavil blocks
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