Landlubber Mike

Looking great Nils!

Amazing work! 

Amazing work! 

Looks great!  Are you planning to print these parts?

Not sure how I missed this one - sweet project and subject!  Looking fantastic!
 
Hope everything is going better for you my friend!

I glued the masts on my Badger for this reason.  Easier to make sure the lines are taut if the mast is in a fixed position.

Looking great Nils!

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

Just asking as I ended up getting the third of the three kits recently.  I'll probably build the two alongside the kit Lou graciously gifted us in the near future.

Hey Craig, did you end up finishing this?

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

Just asking as I ended up getting the third of the three kits recently.  I'll probably build the two alongside the kit Lou graciously gifted us in the near future.

I glued the masts on my Badger for this reason.  Easier to make sure the lines are taut if the mast is in a fixed position.

Just asking as I ended up getting the third of the three kits recently.  I'll probably build the two alongside the kit Lou graciously gifted us in the near future.

Just asking as I ended up getting the third of the three kits recently.  I'll probably build the two alongside the kit Lou graciously gifted us in the near future.

Hey Craig, did you end up finishing this?

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

Another creative SIB build and display Glen!!  Amazing job!  Love the details, especially that little penguin!

The Ghost Ship Jenny is complete!  Before I get to the final update, I want to give sincere thanks to everyone that followed along on this short but entertaining journey:  @Keith Black, @Knocklouder, @Ian_Grant, @gsdpic, @gjdale, @Scottish Guy, @FriedClams, @Canute, @Javelin, @mtaylor, @GrandpaPhil, @Thukydides, @Bryan Woods, @JacquesCousteau, @John Fox III, @hollowneck, @Landlubber Mike, @ccoyle, @Coyote_6, @BLACK VIKING, @CiscoH, @Rik Thistle, @Ryland Craze, @Paul Le Wol, @Mike Y.  I can never thank y'all enough for your support, suggestions, critiques, and humor!
 
Now the final update.  To finish up the Jenny, I wanted to mount the bottle on something that would look a bit spooky, maybe a little eerie - something that would add to the mystique of a ghost ship.  A while back, I found this root ball from a fallen cedar tree that looked cool (actually a juniper tree, but we call them cedars in Austin).  I kept it knowing that I’d eventually find a use for it.  

The bottle and the root ball turned out to be a perfect match.  The root ball rests stable and level on its side, and the bottle fits right in between the “tines” of the roots.   The cedar wood is very hard, weather resistant, and lasts forever.  They are commonly used for barbed wire fence posts around here.  However, they will still flake off strands of thin bark so I decided to seal the surface, trying to keep as much of the natural color as possible.  I ended up doing a 50/50 mix of Minwax semi-gloss poly and thinner.  The mix kept the poly from darkening the wood too much and allowing the natural variations to show through.

Here’s the completed project.

 

Just asking as I ended up getting the third of the three kits recently.  I'll probably build the two alongside the kit Lou graciously gifted us in the near future.

Just asking as I ended up getting the third of the three kits recently.  I'll probably build the two alongside the kit Lou graciously gifted us in the near future.

Everything except for the decals.