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  1. SawdustDave
    Thanks for your comments George, Mark, Piet, Patrick.... and for all the visits and likes. Feels great to see the SOS changing again after setting her aside for three months to build Dr. Pillsbury's ship. The upper deck guns.... Except for the eight waist cannons, all that firepower you see is pretty light weight at this point. Middle level gun deck....I still must fit 30 more heavy cannons (dummy guns) into the middle gun ports with raised lids w/ hinges and ropes. Lower Level gun deck.... The 26 lower level gun ports were armed with heavy cannons but will have closed lids. I haven't decided yet if the lids will have any sort of carvings. Trying to imagine the feeling of the Captain and crew of an unfriendly vessel seeing this monster turn broadside on them. Happy New Year All!
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    All deck guns fitted.... Six days of creating and rigging cannons finally on board. Still much to do but, for now, I'm ready to try to knock out a few new carvings. I'll come back to the cannons and add some of the gun crew tools (rams, mops, buckets, cannon shot, etc) Question.... Were "brass monkeys" used during this time period? Full view of all deck guns.... Qtr Deck.... Half Deck.... Waist Deck.... Forcastle .... dd Dummy guns below the forcastle.... Note the newest carving now fitted.... This last photo reminds me, I still have a major task of tree nailing the bamboo hull looming out there eventually. One project at a time huh. Happy New Year Mates!
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    Hopefully, these postings will encourage more modelers to try their hand at mini-carvings. Look forward to seeing your carvings mounted on the Red Dragon.
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    Fantastic dragons Nigel. Tedious work for sure, but rewarding in the end. Very similar technique I have been using on the SOS .... hope I was able to help. What is the material? Looks like a vinyl. Dave
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    True Ed, about there being more than one way to skin the proverbial cat.... But learning "your way", we can never go wrong. Happy New Year mate! Dave
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    Thanks for those very special comments Greg, Tom, Piet and Mark. Admeral's much better today. We had a very nice quiet peaceful Christmas Day. Managed to build a few cannons, but mostly just piddled around. Way too many sweets in the frig, so I got rid of them.... And they were delicious!
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    Demi-Culverin cannons.... After learning that almost all of the upper "weather deck" areas were actually armed with smaller demi-Culverin guns, I was celebrating the fact that the amount of truck rigging would be greatly reduced. A few days later, the realization that, except for the eight guns that will be used in the waist deck area, the time spent assembling the 24 larger 4-wheeled trucks was pretty much a waste of time. And.... It is now a matter of cutting out the truck parts for the 24 demi-Culverin guns that will be used. And.... The smaller demi cannons each must be mold-cast, cleaned up, and painted gold.... 24 needed (two at a time). At best, it turns out to be pretty much a wash. I would normally create a mold for the truck parts but cannot in this case because the trucks will not be painted. A laser cutter would be nice right now..... SANTA???
  8. SawdustDave
    We completely agree George.
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    Thanks Patrick.... Actually, we're both kinda relieved that we were not trying to drive the 1,000 mile two-day trip in the terrible weather that has dominated the entire travel rout the last two days. Re-scheduling our visit for sometime Feb or March. Cheers
  10. SawdustDave
    Merry Christmas Mates! Turns out, we had to completely cancel our holiday travel plans due to a nasty stomach virus the Admiral picked while out shopping. So here we are still in port for Christmas.... and, you guessed it.... hard at work in the shipyard. Mostly creating the mini-cannons, but I have broken away to begin a couple of new carvings. Cheers all
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    Thank you Patrick.... And same back atcha' mate.
  12. SawdustDave
    Thank you George, Janos and Patrick. Piet my friend. I know you.... and I know you are totally fearless.... and I also know, your skills are without limit. You will eat the carving challenge like it was a bowl of mom's chicken soup! Merry Christmas Mates!
  13. SawdustDave
    New Carving Update.... This one didn't take as long as I expected. Made a mold and cast the duplication.... then cleaned up the casting a little and painted both.
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    Thanks Mark.... "I never did understand why they guns pointed forward into their own ship, however... unless it was grapeshot if they boarded." I think you are exactly right about the primary purpose of those bulkhead guns. I imagine the scatter shot was quite deadly against intruding personnel.
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    UPDATE.... New carving A slight change in our holiday travel plans gives me an extra day in the shop, so I decided to knock out a new carving. Here's a beautiful seal for a European train company I ran across while browsing around looking for more interesting clip art. The lion figures and scroll work in the center just blew me away. I will attempt to carve as much detail as possible given the size of the panel it must fit into (1.5" wide X 3/4" high) Again, my favorite carving material is the faux wood vinyl window shade slats I have used for most all of my carvings. Clip art glued to the slat.... I have managed to carefully cut most of the outline shape with my fine pointed X-acto blade I showed earlier. The fine detailed "clean-out", seen on the left side lion, is being achieved with a Dremel with a flexible drive using a tiny bit given to me by my dentist. Once I finish the clean-out of the middle details, I will begin working on the relief details.... hopefully I can get it fairly close. This should keep me busy today and tomorrow.
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    UPDATE..... Cannon issue. A couple of days getting the four quarter deck cannons installed. The scale issue was a bit of a shock. Once again, the old plan sheets I am using show the same gun carriage rigged throughout all deck guns. Obviously, the size of the larger rig seen here does not work for the limited space of the quarter deck. A little research and online browsing, I ran across a Mantua plan sheet that clearly shows the use of much smaller demi-cannon used for the forecastle, quarter deck, and half deck. So I removed the big guns from the quarter deck and replaced them with these demi-Culverin's Note the difference in the shape of the carriages. Much better fit.... Issue solved! The best news is, all these little demi-cannons have none of the block and tackle rigging! I'll gladly take that with a big smile. Except for the forward ports located by the forcastle bulkhead, the larger cannons work just fine for the much larger waist deck. All of the really heavy "drakes" (42 pounders) were used on the lower deck. Then there were about 44 smaller (18 pounder) drakes mounted on the middle deck and, I assume the main waist area of the upper deck. The balance of the 90 guns, as launched in 1637, (quarter deck, half deck, forcastle deck, bow chasers and stern chasers) were made up of those much smaller demi-Culverins. These were mostly 9 pounders. Searching the term on the internet, illustrations portray most of these with larger spoke-wheels as seen on field artillery. I'm not going there. Do you blame me? This will be about it until after the holidays folks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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    WOW.... back at ya Tom. Had to re-visit this beautiful log for some fresh inspiration. Dave
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    Seems like I've used the same "Wow" to describe your work Tom.
  19. SawdustDave
    Thanks for dropping in Mark, Patrick, and Piet. Always appreciate your comments and interest. Just seems nice to be able to show some progress on this project again after three months of gathering dust. Still a very long way to go.
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    Thanks Robert. Please pull up a chair. Dave
  21. SawdustDave
    Thank you guys for your comments and likes. Love hearing from all of you.
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    Bob....Your work makes me want to do her again with no deadline or time constraints. Chuck's Cheerful is a beautiful model, and you are doing an outstanding job. I had to double check to make sure I had not pulled up his log by mistake.
  23. SawdustDave
    Progress Update.... So let's see how has all the new work is coming together aboard ship.... Compared to the port side, I'm pretty pleased with the subtle improvements incorporated into the starboard ornamentation. Note the fine scroll art from the Christmas bow.... makes a very nice enhancement huh? Here's how she looks now.... Note: I am going to take a break from the carvings and castings for a while in order to begin installing some of the twenty eight deck cannons that will require full rigging detail.... breaking that formidable task into several sessions, as well as the treenailing of the bamboo hull planks.
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    New scroll work technique..... I find myself ever looking for unique scroll work that will work with this model. Many of what I find just does not fit the scale. By pure accident, while casting more of the many little seahorse and dolphin figures, I noticed that the liquid plastic could be poured onto glass in very thin lines and creating very interesting random patterns. Although some of the patterns could be cut out and used, the scale was still too large for the places I want to use them. Then I found to be the perfect solution..... While putting up Christmas decorations with the admiral, I came across a tree ornament that really caught my eye. The second pic below shows the unique Christmas bow I discovered with very fine string patterns. On close examination, I found an unlimited source of fine random patterns that can be selectively cut out and applied to the SOS. Secondly.... Here's a deco wine bottle with a metal casting that caught my eye. After removing the two-piece casting, I created a mold from the center piece to produce the beautiful sculpting you see. I'm sure this will fit somewhere into the stern ornamentation, when I get to that point. The larger casting also has several great patterns I will play around with. Fun stuff huh?
  25. SawdustDave
    Ditto on the Happy Birthday wishes Frank. Hopeing for many more to come. Cheers Dave

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