Lizzy Borden

Hi Robin. yes, I paid €58 for the ship. The air mail was an additional €30.

His comms, as you say have been great so far. I'll have a search on the site.

I'm currently doing Hmcs Snowberry (the 1/72 Revell kit) to fill in and practise my airbrushing.

Hopefully I won't take too long doing it as I'm looking forward to the Dusek build.

Gaz.

Hi.

Has anyone had any dealings with the above kits?

I've ordered a 1/72 Viking Knarr to get me started into the world of wooden kits. (It looks fairly simple)

Cost was €88 including €30 priority shipping.

Cheers.

Gaz.

Cheers Jim!

In between all this I became a dad too.

Here's Alice. Scratch built too, only my wife helped on this project.

Hello all. Everyone probably forgot about this one it's been that long.

Hope everyone is well!

I fanally finished her and handed her over to my dad. Here she is.

More progress on the hull this weekend.

Thank you Patrick. I'm trying my best and I appreciate the comments.

Hi Bob. I got the wasp printed at Shapeways.com

They already had it on file in 1/96th and 1/72nd.

I've been hunting for one for ages and they basically saved my bacon. Cost was around €40 but well worth it.

The deck is finally done. Just the handrails to go ( they will be last ). Also, the 3d printed Westland wasp has arrived!

Some deck detailing done today.

A bit more progress today.

I fitted the superstructure with some powerful magnets to hold it to the deck.

Anchor ports cut and filled.

Main gun attached using a dowel so I can turn it and remove it.

Lots of sanding/filling etc to go yet.

Hello all and hope everyone had a good Xmas.

I finally had some time back on the build and managed to push it along.

Got some fine detail work done, and corrected some errors since finally getting my hands on the original shipwrights drawings from the maritime museum.

The deck is now in place and I'm filling and sanding it all into shape over the next couple of days.

Hopefully I'll get some paint on it before I return to work on Monday.

Hi all. Just checking in as I haven't been on here for a while. The project is on hold as I've been mega busy setting up my new business.

I will resume the build very shortly.

Cheers

Gary.

Cheers Allan.

I started this build in early March of 2012, and like most model shipwrights here, my build log was sacrificed to the computer gods.  I do not have a copy of all the associated posts of the old log, but I do have photos.  I am using the book and plans from Swan Books' Frigates of the Royal Navy series: HMS Euryalus (36) 1803 by Allan Yedlinsky with the plans by Wayne Kempson, and my wood is from Jeff Hayes at the Hobby Mill.  Below is my first and last picture from my old log.  More to follow.

 

Regards,

 

Clay

Hi Clay. Do the plans tell you how much timber stock and sizes you need?

Gary.

More details going on. Sighting platforms, bridge wing nav light chambers.

A bit of filling here and there on some marks I noticed.

The rear mast is too high also. I'll have to cut it down by around 10mm and re do the top.

The anchor ports on the hull will be next up.

Hello

 

This build is looking awesome so far! I am new to working with ships in this scale so your build is an inspiration and very informative. I have the same fibre glass hull and was wondering how to attach the deck? Does it just lay on top and the edges sanded to shape and what preparation did you do to the top edges of the hull in relation to allow the deck to lay flat. My hull is really uneven and I am not sure how far to sand down, or a safe way of getting the sides to match? Can you or anyone offer advice? Thank you in advance, this is my first attempt and I am building static. HMS Hermione is my subject.

 

Gareth

I've constructed a ladder inside the top of the hull. This will let me fix the deck flat and I was toying with the idea of using a router to trim the edges using a moulding bit to get the rounded edges.

I'll have to experiment on the styrene first to make sure it doesn't just melt it.

Gary.

Excellent info. I had a play about with this today using a free program called Inkscape. Did exactly what I wanted it to do and these are the resulting templates for the superstructure I scanned from HMS Andromeda as an experiment.

Scale is spot on, and from the files saved as SVG I can now make the model any size I want.

Gary.

This excellent bit of film shows just how manoeuvrable the leanders where. Watch till the end to see just how good the RN seamanship really is.

Something resembling what our American members would call a PIT manoeuvre lol.

My dad took part in these 'war' manoeuvres in about 1974 on board the Arethusa.

Gary.

Hi Bob. I've used my Ecraft die cutter for the masks. It's a brilliant tool. I used it to cut the octagon shapes for the bridge and the gun director platform too, directly onto the styrene. It's taken me a while to get to grips with the software ( which is a bit rubbish ). I have now however found a program called Inkscape. I'm now learning how to use this instead. It's a lot more comprehensive.

I'm using it more and more for complicated shapes as I get used to it. Cost me a bit over £100 second hand. It cuts wood, vinyl, plastic, cloth, card etc up to around 1mm thickness.

I'm even considering designing a build with it from scratch it's that good!

Gary.

First disaster of the build. The plywood deck disintegrated after I re painted this morning. It became very brittle and de-laminated. It's now in the bin and 2mm styrene has taken over.

I was doing a spot of research on another one of my dad's ships, HMS Cook which I remember him telling me ran aground and her captain court martialed. Look what I found.

My Dad!

I made up the deck and pennant masks yesterday, but overall I'm not happy with the paint job.

The primer isn't very good and it's turned out patchy.

I'm going to sand it off and start again. I may use a darker primer.

Mortar well and towed sonar array slipway now positioned.

The tuning unit that atatches to the RF cabling needed a mesh cage.

I managed this by stretching an old pair of my wifes (Kirsty) tights over a plastic lid, then spraying with primer.

And yes, I did ask first lol.

Once dried, they held their shape until I glued them around the unit and then trimmed off the excess.

Rear yard arms in progress