st george

Methinks that's a line from Moby Dick, right – or is it that film with Nicole Kidman?
 
I think though, it might take us 'OTHERS' a little while to realise it's a joke, when we're discussing a (supposedly) serious subject. 

September 21
 
1742
HMS Tilbury (60), Cptn. Digby Dent (2), burnt by accident off Hispaniola.
1759
Adam Duncan promoted commander into HMS Royal Exchange
1779
HMS Suffolk (74) and squadron took Fortunle, Blanche and Elise.
1782
HMS Centaur (74) foundered in severe gale off Newfoundland banks.
1809
HMS Raisonnable (64), Cptn. Josias Rowley,  and consorts took St. Paul, Bourbon.
1811
HMS Naiad (38), Cptn. Philip Carteret, with HMS Redpole (10), Colin M'Donald, HMS Rinaldo (10), James Anderson, HMS Castilian (18), David Braimer, and HMS Viper (4), Lt. Edward A. D'Arcy, again attacked off Boulogne but the enemy fled as before, leaving one praam Ville de Lyon (12), M. Barbaudin, taken by Naiad.
1813
HMS Goshawk Sloop (16), Hon. William John Napier, wrecked to the eastward of the Mole Head, Barcelona.
1858
Sloop Niagara departs Charleston, SC, for Liberia with African slaves rescued from slave ship.
 
 
 
st geoges contribution is
 
1923 - Asiatic Fleet completes mission of aiding earthquake victims in Japan.
1944 - Aircraft from 12 carriers commence 2-day attack against Japanese ships and airfields on Luzon, Philippine Islands.
1954 - 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned under Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson
1984 - Mid East Force begins escort of U.S. flagged vessels in Persian Gulf.

Congrats Chris She looks great. I'd  like to see her in a box on my door step now.

OK, finished!
 
Well, almost - still needs a figurehead and carronades, but apart from that, it is done - now I have months of PC based work to look forward to.
 
Sorry about the quality of the pics (and background) - we can now renovate the room with nice oak flooring and putting some colour on the walls (and changing those awful curtains..), now that I have just vacated the space.
 
Will be taking it at the end of October - have to admit that it doesn't seem that big now, after having it around for so long - almost become part of the furniture.
 








 
Need to find a nice sturdy base to attach it to..

i have a plan to help him, i am going to get him to send mine, so it does not matter if it gets damaged in transit, meanwhile - i will surprise the wife by completing my build over night, and give it to her as a surprise

Thanks John and Ben, but "you ain't seen nuthin' yet " .
 
Cowl Baffle
 
There is a wire reinforcing ring around the rim of the cowl. This was silver soldered on and cleaned up.
 
A baffle is attached to the opening of the cowl to regulate air flow to the stove's firebox.
 
I cut a disc of 0.3mm sheet, drilled two 0.7mm holes through it and silver soldered the two sliding pins. I filed the protruding ends down to simulate a peened over end.
 

 
Next I fabricated two sleeves for the slides to travel in from 0.75mm ID tubing and a 0.5mm pin to locate them correctly. These were CA glued into the cowl - too much heat would have been needed to solder them in and I risked destroying my previous work.
 

 

 
Finally two wire handles were drilled into the cowl and CA'd in. The whole assembly was blackened in stages and polished.
 

 

 
  Danny

Galley Cowl
 
Time for some more brass work. The Galley Cowl is 15" in diameter, which scales down to 8mm. The top piece is fitted at a slight angle upwards, about 95 degrees at the join.
 
I turned the outside diameter first from a piece of 10mm stock - the closest I had. Then I drilled the centre out to 7.5mm - in several steps starting with a 3mm pilot hole :
 

 
I made the piece about 5mm longer than needed to allow for a bit of final trimming. I cut the pipe using a fine hacksaw in a mitre box, and finessed the angle to 47.5 degrees on both pieces using my disc sander. I used a piece of scrap to hold the smaller piece - saves burning or sanding down fingers   :
 

 

 
The finished article after silver soldering ready for some small details. The assembly will be blackened when it's complete :
 

 

 
  Danny

Latest as of today - pics not very good, but anticipate another 2 weeks' work..
 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Kevin. Hope you had a great day.

And here's the corrected table.
 
I think it's interesting how consistent the widths are from Frame A aft.
 
You can see my progress on the two garboard strakes here.  The starboard one took me two building sessions to complete.  The port one?  I worked on it while the kids were running around.  Took maybe an hour, total.  Seems like that happens a lot.  The first time you work through a problem like this, it takes forever and the results are just okay.  The second time, it goes a lot faster and the results are better.  The moral of the story?  Like the Nike ads used to say:  Just Do It.
 
 
Dan
 
 

In a burst of activity over the last few days, I completed all of the remaining work on the cross section. This included making and installing the gangway brackets, the gangways, the cap rails, the ladders, bits of deck planking for the gangway ladder landings, the skid beams and the tiny slivers of the quarter deck rail.
 
Because of my fear and loathing of working with metal, I made the brackets from wood, with the exception of the skid beam crutches, which are brass. The gangways were done with holly, with boxwood trim. The skid beams are boxwood, as are the ladders. The cap rails were made from laminations of ebony, sanded to create a molded outer edge.
 
The fussiest part of this work was mounting the brackets so that they aligned properly and were level for the installation of the gangway. It required a lot of time and even more bad language.
 
Later today, I will post photos of the fully completed model and my thoughts about the project.
 
Bob

Good luck Kevin. I hope it goes well mate.

Happy Birthday Mobbsie, hope you have a great day.
 
Your Aggie is looking neat and I too like the colours you are using.

Trouble is, I'm doing the boring stuff now, so nothing really changes that much. (I am not really one for showing every single insignificant stage, trenail by trenail...) I have just finished rigging the lower and upper shrouds (including the shroud cleats), added the footropes to the yards, and the next job is the dreaded ratlines. I think it's pointless taking pics of the yards, as once you've seen one set, you've really seen them all. I guess the next change will be once the yards are fixed in place, which will be in about a week's time. All of the parts are now assembled and in place, so only rigging left to do.
 
As for the paints, I think I have already stated what I used (and why) already in this thread - the Vallejo paints come into their own when painting the dark wood coloured parts, which seem to give a very good scale appearance, rather than simply staining the parts, which tends to accentuate the way over scale wood grain.
 
I have just taken a set of pictures (while it's still nice outside) - this is where I am up to. (still waiting for figurehead, though..)
 

The guns have now been mounted and rigged. The blocks are from Chuck (my last scratch build "cheat"). They are very nice. The rigging was straightforward and presented no problems.
 
Into the home stretch. It's on to the gangways and their supports and then the ladders.
 
Bob

Happy Birthday Nigel

I decided to try a new approach to plank bending for this ship consisting of a combination of several articles I read. To start, I purchased a 12” Flexible Curve from Amazon.com. (The blue thing in the front of the photo below.) I bent it along the forward bulkheads of the ship to determine the precise curve needed for the planks. It holds its shape, and I transferred the curve to a half inch thick block of wood, cutting it out with a portable jig saw. This is my bending jig.

I use an old coffee pot to heat up water, stick a couple of planks in a container, pour the hot water in and wait a half hour. Then I press a wet plank into the jig and use a woman’s hair curler, set at the highest temperature, to dry out the plank, pressing it into the jig as I go along. So far it’s working very well.
 


In spite of the perfect bend you still need to use a lot of clamps to hold things together while the glue dries.
 

Greetings (again).  Returning to MSW after a bit of off time (eg I just completed my 5th sprint triathlon).  I have not been idle and have lately been kicking it into high gear with my version of the HMS Druid.  Believe it or not, started in 2003 (two kids and a couple of homes ago) but looking to finish in the first quarter, 2014.  I have loved every minute I have spent - probably a little over 300 hours so far.
 
I just finished with the bow assembly (sans the eking rail which will wait until the cathead is affixed).  Previous to that was the stern caprail.  I believe I am on the downhill of this build.  Next up is finishing the rudder metal work and then working up from the berthdeck finishing all the details.
 
Additionally I have made progress on my Lady Anne and finished the DaVinci wing (currently on display at the Michigan Aviation Academy), but that will be a subject for another day.
 
Mark

Hello folks,
 
Here are a few pictures that I have photographed today. The weather was perfect for photography. There currently I carve the adornments of the starboard side. And then I look forward to the figure head.
 
@ Sailor: thank you!
@ Dafi: I rush, I rush :-)
 
Regards Kay

Half of the main deck guns are now fitted and the ones that can be seen are fully rigged, I used my normal method for making the rope coils, and lightly rubbed the completed gun on sand paper to give a slight flat on the bottom of the wheels to give a larger gluing area, then fix them with a generous amount of thick cyno, the last thing you want is to later  knock one loose when the top deck is on.
 
Guns being made up

carriges, barrels and wheels

Rigged ready to fit

Being fitted

Next stage

Next stage

Starting second side

First side done



 
 
 
 
 
 

Deck FittingsAt the same time as making up the main deck guns and rigging them I also started making some of the deck fittings, hatches, bits, ladders and the stove the photos below show the progress.
 
The first hatch

 
The first hatch finished

 
Hatches and ladders

 
Hatches test fitted


 
Stove added

 
The fittings and the guns


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And even more.

And more !

1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1778 - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits.
1790 - Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world.
1865 - Return of Naval Academy to Annapolis after 4 years at Newport, RI.
1942 - Battle of Savo Island begins; First of many sea battles near Guadalcanal.
 

Hiya!
 
I was waiting for the new parts I changed, but now I have added them. I have completed the hull but, frustratingly, I am still waiting for the figurehead, which will hamper rigging the underside of the bowsprit.
 
While I waited, I made up all of the yards, so now masts and yards are all 'blocked up'. Today, I stepped the masts and bowsprit into their permanent positions, after I finally completed the poop screen bulkheads, and the poop itself.
 
Here is why I waited for the new poop screen bulkhead parts - the one on the left is new and follows what's on the actual Victory now, and the one on the right is the old version, as seen in the John McKay books:
 

 
I added the escutcheons for the new doors, as I noticed them on the original Victory when studying the pictures I had taken, and the hinges as they actually appear for the side bulkheads - they were/are left in brass. 
 
And soon to be hidden..


 
Poop almost complete:

 
The photo etched assemblies for the flag lockers seemed to work quite well - and plenty of space above for the small cleats (The ones in the kit will be slightly larger than the ones shown and will be photo etched - I erred too much on the side of caution when drawing them and are just a tad small - but perfectly useable. One thing I don't like is using 'one size fits all' fittings, so cleats come in a few shapes and sizes with the smaller ones being photo etched and the larger ones laser cut.
 
And with a couple of bits added to the poop, the whole hull is now complete:

 
I was waiting for my anchor designs, too, which I have now made up - they are quite large...:

 
And that's it - masts stepped and boarding pikes added to the fore and main and I now have the boring task of shrouds and ratlines to look forward to, which I'll start very soon...
 
I don't really take a great many pics at the rigging stage, as I still think that good line drawings are better for the modeller to follow..
 
Cheers,
 
Chris