Cap'n Rat Fink

Thanks guys for stopping by and your kind words. And you Hakan Buddy How have you been? great to hear from you. Yeah it's been awhile. I am retired now and doing whatever. I worked for many years. I hope God grants me many years of retirement.
 
 
Hello All,
I plan on displaying the model as a small diorama. Not too crazy. The theme would be that the ships retro fit is still in progress. So I have been messing around on the layout. There will be a ground cover to make it a little more realistic. I also added the back stays and the swivel guns. I have been slowing making rope hanks for the model. Cleaning up the pigtails and such. As for any pieces of thread I did not see I like using a regular ol plastic straw and blow off any dust and thread pieces I did not see. The end is in sight is all i can say. As for figures it's pretty tough finding 1/4 scale size. I do not have a 3d printer, but it would work pretty good in this case. So I may display the model without figures and later add them.
 

The first photo shows the cannon is almost ready to load onto the ship, the second is waiting in line. Those tripod hoist back in those days are cool but might not work on my board because it take a bit of room.
 
 
 

The scaffolding goes all the way around the boat. I just put a very small portion. I do not plan on covering up my model. It's the main subject after all.
 
 
 

 

 

Now you know as to why I never installed the rudder and tiller.
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

I plan on adding a few hull planks next to the ship. ready to be installed.
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
HAPPY MODELING EVERYONE!
 
 
 
 
 
 

AND HERE IS THE RESULTS OF ALL THE WORK DONE AT THE STERN FOR MY LITTLE MODEL. AND ON WAY WE GO!

NOW THE TRIM PIECE I THOUGH WAS GOING TO BE A JOB AND A HALF. BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A PRETTY EASY PROCESS. I CHOSE SWISS PEAR FOR THE HARDNESS AND IT WOULD HOLD THE PATTERN WELL, ONCE SCRAPED IN. AGAIN I HAD TO BE VERY CAREFUL THE THE CAP-RAILS BECAUSE THEY WERE ONE PIECE WHICH MADE THEM VERY DELICATE AND EASY TO BREAK. BUT IT WENT WELL.










 

HI JOHN,
    THEY ARE FOR FIBER TROUGH'S. IT'S WHERE YOU LAY THE FIBERS AS YOU BUILD HI SPEED CIRCUITS, SUCH AS 1 GIG TO 100 GIG SPEED CKTS. WE HAVE THEM BY THE 1000'S SO A LOT OF THEM END UP IN THE TRASH. SO I GO DUMPSTER DIVING PER-SAY.
 
 HI MARK,
    YEAH I'M BACK. I RETIRED AT 59YRS OLD. DOING FINE NOWADAYS. 
 
 
I WHILE BACK I DECIDED TO TAKE A BREAK FROM BUILDING THE HULL. I KNEW THE WINDLASS WOULD BE PROJECT IN ITSELF. SO HERE IS WHAT I WENT THROUGH ON CREATING THE WINDLASS AND THE BRACKETS.

FYI. I AM ACTUALLY PLANKING THE HULL BELOW THE WALES AT THIS TIME. BUT I AM TRYING TO GET MY BUILD LOG CAUGHT UP.

Thanks guys for stopping by and your kind words. And you Hakan Buddy How have you been? great to hear from you. Yeah it's been awhile. I am retired now and doing whatever. I worked for many years. I hope God grants me many years of retirement.
 
 
Hello All,
I plan on displaying the model as a small diorama. Not too crazy. The theme would be that the ships retro fit is still in progress. So I have been messing around on the layout. There will be a ground cover to make it a little more realistic. I also added the back stays and the swivel guns. I have been slowing making rope hanks for the model. Cleaning up the pigtails and such. As for any pieces of thread I did not see I like using a regular ol plastic straw and blow off any dust and thread pieces I did not see. The end is in sight is all i can say. As for figures it's pretty tough finding 1/4 scale size. I do not have a 3d printer, but it would work pretty good in this case. So I may display the model without figures and later add them.
 

The first photo shows the cannon is almost ready to load onto the ship, the second is waiting in line. Those tripod hoist back in those days are cool but might not work on my board because it take a bit of room.
 
 
 

The scaffolding goes all the way around the boat. I just put a very small portion. I do not plan on covering up my model. It's the main subject after all.
 
 
 

 

 

Now you know as to why I never installed the rudder and tiller.
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

I plan on adding a few hull planks next to the ship. ready to be installed.
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
HAPPY MODELING EVERYONE!
 
 
 
 
 
 

You all have a wonder day and stay safe.
 
 

You all have a wonder day and stay safe.
 
 

You all have a wonder day and stay safe.
 
 

Hello Everyone,
     Just a quick update here.
 

You all have a wonder day and stay safe.
 
 

Hello Everyone,
     Just a quick update here.
 

You all have a wonder day and stay safe.
 
 

Hello Everyone,
     Just a quick update here.
 

You all have a wonder day and stay safe.
 
 

Hello Everyone,
     Just a quick update here.
 

Hi John nice hearing from you. I do hope things are well with you, Hey how many times are you going to quarantine Tom Hanks out there. HAHA!
 
 
 
Well i decided to make my base of course from melamine and framed in with poplar. The poplar framing will go on after I am done with the rigging. Turning the board here and there might indent the poplar. Even classified as hardwood it's pretty soft to me. I mounted the boat deciding on rigging her on the display board. I added the masts, bowsprit, and cleats, stop cleats here and there. I first glue the boat into place, which after I pinned with brass rod. underneath I used small one inch wood screws going into the keel for securing. After all I live in So. Calif......earthquake country. Haha!
I have a little touch up painting and wipe on poly stuff left to do and I will start with the gammoning first. You will notice I never attached the rudder opting to display in a different way. All the cannons will not go on the boat, again deciding to display in a different. As for the pea shooters on the caprails they will be mounted when I think they will no longer interfer with the rigging. Oh also you will notice the red painted area incomplete. I plan on adding figures to add a little life to the model. I hope it works out right for what I have planned. So here is a few pics where I am at. I will also get back to working on my bedford whaleboat while rigging the Hannah. So away we go!!!












 

Well I am back at it with my woodworking, modeling, and home projects. But figures i live in southern California in the Mojave Desert. Right it's heatwave after heatwave. As I type 106 degrees today and tomorrow to be hotter. Oh Boy. I have a garage shop at this time. My own personnel shop, well looks to be next year not now. So i have my indoor rigging station setup inside our home ready to go for the spider monkeys to start running lines. The spars and mast are ready for rigging. The bowsprit is ready to be placed and glued in and as with the spars. But I decided it's best to start construction of the display case. It's easier to take the model and test fit without all the masts, spars, and bowsprit in the way. Once I have the way I want all the good stuff will be placed and glued into their locations. I can either set the hull permanently on the display base the rig or keep on the vise as the rigging goes along.
I decided on melamine as the base with poplar for the framed edging around the melamine base.






The 3 large strips will be for the framing of the melamine base. The one small strip you see will be milled down to be used to display the boat. I was going to use basswood, but since I had this strip left over I decided to put it to good use. The large poplar piece you see is the same of the piece I milled down for the base. Just thought i would show you it does take much to create the display base.
NOW I NEED IS A COUPLE BUNCHES OF BANANAS TO KEEP THE SPIDER MONKEYS AND THE RIGGING SHOULD GO VERY WELL!!!

NOW FOR A COLD BEER CAUSE IT'S DAMN HOT!!!