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Only just found this thread and i am finding it a very useful part of the forum for great ideas Thank you
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Painted up some crates and weathered them with a mid grey wash and hacked a few bits here and there to make them look old, then glued them to the rear cargo hold deck. Then i blackened some more eye bolts and fitted them around the crates. Next i took some rigging cord and lashed the crates down. I may not use the cargo nets because they hide a lot of detail and once the middle deck is on it will be dark in there, so i may just use them over some of the near side cargo.
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Still getting my cargo items together I was going to make some sacks from modelling clay as i could not find any decent ones in 1/48 scale. Then i struck on the idea of searching for O gauge sacks and suddenly i found lots of them. Although O gauge is not 1/48 scale it is 1/43 scale and that is near enough for me. These will be use to represent potato sacks etc These were for mail sacks but they will do fine for my flour sacks And as the crew have to eat at some point i got them some baskets of fruit and vegetables Waiting on some more wooden barrels and buckets now
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Hi Frank I could almost swear that is a Wooden model if i didn't know better, looks great mate
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I decided to order some different crates but these will be a while as they are coming from Canada. Not wanting to be bored, i painted up a few of the crates i already have just as a test and then made them into a stack as if they where in the hold and then made them look aged (bit like me lol). When i do the actual crates i wish to use i will fit eye bolts into the deck in the holds and then using some rigging cord i will lash the stack to the deck. Once i am satisfied with the placement of all the finished crates i end up with i will them place some cargo netting over the crate stack. In the next picture i have just placed the netting over the stack just for demo purposes, the final fitting will be a piece of netting cut to size then tied down to the same eye bolts that the crates are lashed down with. I am also going to try and see if bleaching the netting will get rid of the green colour and if it does i will then dye the netting to a more natural hemp colour. If not i will just have to put up with the green. Also once stretche the netting will have a thinner appearance than it does in the photo. Next project is an attempt to make some flour sacks and some potato sacks
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Hi LA I got mine from the eBay UK site but you can get them from the US eBay site i had a look on there and they have exactly the same ones. Go on eBay and use search term 1/48 scale crates and you will get loads of them. Be careful though some are crates plus tents. There are some better ones on there than the ones i got but they are not available here.
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Hi Captain I agree that the bales would have been tightly packed, so maybe the words "soft and lumpy" was the wrong term for me to use. The plan is to use the wadding but pack it as tightly as i can so that when it is roped up there will be a bit of give where the rope presses into the bale and not be solid like using the supplied wood would make them. Talking of the supplied wood i have now found it buried in among some of the other wood, but there are no plans to use it. I have dug out an old white t-shirt that has faded and i will be using that for the covering. They probably where not on the Bounty anyway unless they were to be used for trading, but they look good so i will use them.
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Hi Boyd, thanks for the reply. The wood is not too much of problem as i have loads of wood batons lying about that i use to make things like plank cutting jigs etc. It was the cloth that i was more interested in. Like you say the bails could have been cotton so my plan is to get some wadding that they use to stuff pillows etc or even cotton wool and wrap that in cloth, this would leave the bales soft and lumpy like real ones, I am thinking about using an old off white t-shirt to do it with, because the sail cloth has stitching in it. As for the sails themselves i am still in two minds whether to use some of them in the holds or to use them on the masts, the reason for this is i think a sailing ship model looks better just fully rigged without sails on. I must emphasize this is just my own opinion and no way takes away from the look others decide to go with.
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A quick question for other builders of this kit. with reference to picture 103 in the manual it shows parts and part numbers (472 and 473) to make up bales for the cargo, none of these parts are in my kit except for the rope, has anyone else got these parts IE. the basswood and the cloth in theirs or are you supposed to get your own.
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Thanks to the information supplied by others doing logs of the same model i knew i would have to file away some of crossbeam 49 to allow the bilge pump tubes to pass through the deck. Dry fitted the deck and marked out were the crossbeam needed trimming then removed deck and made the adjustment needed in the crossbeam Then dry fitted the deck again and test fitted the bilge pump tubes.
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There is a way you can make good rings with brass wire. First take something round which is the same diameter as the ring you want to make, a screwdriver for instance. Then wrap the wire around it in a spiral keeping it as tight as possible. Once done, slide the spiral off the object you chose to wrap the wire round and cut it in the place i have highlighted in the second picture, you can cut off as many as you need all the same size and perfectly round. Note in the pictures the spiral was not tight as it was only to be used for reference purposes.
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