Blue Ensign

Very nice work Ray and excellent photos. Look forward to seeing the centre-line fittings in place.

B.E.

Fine piece of detailing work Ian

B.E.

Tedium has it's rewards Bob, the gun rigging looks spot on.

B.E

Hi John, good job on your first layer planking once cleaned up it should provide a good base for when you come to apply the top layer. Well worth re cutting the rabbet along the stem when you come the second layer, helps to secure the planks around the bow and present a neat finish against the stem.

Cheers,

B.E.

Very impressive Grant, she looks wonderful, and what a fine series of photo's, you must be feeling well satisfied.

Looking forward to seeing the  final touches.

B.E.

What a fine build Hans, I think your son will treasure this hand crafted model built by his father, I know I would.

Regards,

B.E.

Those channel support brackets are excellent Nils and look so right on  your Pegasus.

B.E.

Beautiful work on your cutter Ron, I think I'm going to have to up my game to match the fineness of detail you have achieved.

B.E.

Love that last series of photo's Matti, the colour toning is wonderful, great work.

B.E.

A fine bit of shipwrighting going on there Nigel, what a beauty your Mordaunt is going to be.

B.E.

Hi Einstein,

The inside bulwarks at Upper deck and Quarterdeck levels are painted yellow ochre.

The inside bulwarks at Lower deck and Middle deck level are painted white (to represent a whitewashed finish)

Cheers,

B.E.

Look forward to seeing this build evolve Frank.

She looks more schooner than cutter to my eye and a book you may find of interest is The Global Schooner (Origins, Develoment, Design, and Construction 1695 - 1845) by Karl Heinz Marquardt.

A nice book in its own right but one section includes American Revenue cutter (schooners) of the early 19th century,  and there is also useful information about masting and rigging sizes.

Cheers,

B.E.

A fine looking Pegasus Nils, fits perfectly with your chosen scheme. Love the interior pics.

B.E.

Your capstan looks great! Very nicely done! You are setting the bar pretty high for every following Essex builder! 

 

Thomas

I think Bob is setting the bar pretty high for all of us builders, Essex or not.

Fine work Bob.

B.E.

Beautiful work on the rudder Augie, nice and tight against the stern post, and the blackened iron work looks great against the natural hull.

Fine work.

B.E.

Love the look you are creating with your Pegasus Nils, full of detail with the cut away decks, nice work.

B.E.

Thank you Holty I'm pleased you like it, Pickle is a sweet little kit, well worth the building of in my opinion.

The brass plaque is part of the kit, it says:-

HM SCHOONER PICKLE

CARRYING COLLINGWOOD'S

DISPATCHES AND NEWS OF

NELSON FROM TRAFALGAR.

Cheers,

B.E.

Nice work Eamonn, I do love these small vessels and you're making a fine job of yours, well done

B.E.

What a wonderful box of delights mobbsie, those Proxxon machines are very addictive and I think you may well have set me off again.

Aaprt from the wood lathe I don't have any of the others in your box and it would be interesting to hear over time your impressions as you use them.

Think I'll just go and have another look at that planer/thicknesser again.....

B.E.

Looking great Jason, - regarding the Stay tension it looks fine to me on those photos, actually I prefer a hint of  slack on the Mainstays,I think it imparts a sense of heaviness to them, provided a nice even curve is obtained which usually happens if the line has been stretched.

B.E.

Very nice work Bob, well done.

B.E.

At the scale you're working Michael,  I would try micro drilling thro' the axle close by the wheel and perhaps use some blackened wire or the stem off a small eyebolt  flattened slightly at the one end to represent the pins.

B.E.

Yes I used the original extensions and cut out the centres and fined them down as far as I thought safe so that they didn't show too much with the view thro' the stern galley windows.

With Frame 13 I made a new one out of spare mdf, I didn't want to risk the original in case the modification didn't work. It would have been much easier if I had had the scroll saw at the time.

Cheers,

B.E.

Very nice work Timmo she is looking excellent, love the finish you are achieving.

B.E.

Nice bit of infill work with the balsa Martin, so well worth the effort when it comes to planking.

If you do intend to open up the Great Cabin those stern extensions No 23 will have to go and be replaced with finer open framed versions to allow the view and light thro' the stern and the Quarter light window.

B.E.