cobra1951

Those little doors are amazing

Nice Mike

Maybe matte or satin also, they look very shiny

Lovely little cutter hanging there

Looking good Elijah . Is that a nude stowaway on deck ?

Try cutting a length a bit longer than needed and turn it so that the heavy end is at the chuck end once done cut off the extra bit that was in the chuck

Nice to see another build of this fine kit

Good luck with yours I shall follow along

Hi Bryan thanks for the nod

You seem to have come to the same conclusion as me about this. The difference being I cannot get up the inclination to start it, not finish it as in your case. In fact that I am very tempted to throw it on gumtree which is a pity because as you say the concept is very good and the finished kit looks great but the only finished one I have seen is by the maker who will not have had the problems they have created for the modeller at home. Such a shame really

Good luck with your section deck

Yes Jax is good but not as easy for me to get hold of here.

Thanks Mike

Nah! Be grumpy leave the boat and hide the kids :)

You're rigging looks extremely well done to me so far

That's a lot of ship for just over 2 weeks 

1/54...this will be BIG...nice!

 

Robin

Thanks Robin

                      Not too big 815mm long, nowhere near as big as the Caldercraft Victory

I too get the stray dog hairs on my work. Found one glued to a port lid the other night. Must have gotten right in there when I was installing and I overlooked it. I don't mind those as much as when I see one of mine and I start feeling feeling for that receding hairline that runs in my family. 

 

As too the hatch covers, I would think that they would be rather heavy duty in order to both stay as water tight as possible and not to easily come unseated in rough seas. I could easily see two people having to lift them up and out of the way. Large rings would be a benefit here so that a sailor could get both hands into the ring to lift it.

 

Either way, hatch looks great!

Thanks EJ

                       Too big, or not i'm happy with them :)

Nice planking Bob!coming along nicely.

Thanks Zoltan

Hi Rob

               I could easily make them out of walnut but i don't want to be replacing all the wood in the kit (been there and done that) some times you replace it and the stuff that arrives in the post needs replacing too and you can easily double the price of the kit that way.

Occre kits are pretty cheap compared to others so i don't mind too much making bits from Lime and then painting them Walnut colour

The Occre Endeavour is cheaper than the other Endeavours but it is larger and has the sails included so a bit of painting is ok

Outstanding Frank

Love those little boats fitted on the deck. Are you sure this is plastic

The coverings I know from the barges on the IJssel and the Rhine. However, those don't have the rings, and look way lighter than the impression I get here. I know contemporary materials are lighter, and we can do much more with the power tools available to us, but it struck me to see it this heavy

The crew could probably have lifted them without rings as they are only planks over the hatchway to cover it. How accurate it is i do not know but i am just building it as the manual states with hardly any modifications. Historical accuracy is not that important to me

Not sure on those hatch covers, prefer the grating type, but it looks effective against the weather.

 

Nice work Bob..

 

frank 

Thanks Frank

Nice touch, the dog's rope or is it one of the cat's tails ... a bit early to get that out of the red baize bag ...

 

I've always wondered, the planks on that main hatch cover must have been like beams if you need eyebolts like that on them to lift them ... what's the 1:1 size of them?

Probably the iron on those Hatch Boards is over scale, also every hatch board I have seen had the lifting rings recessed when not in use. Hatch Boards were used to seal up an opening in the deck from the elements and were usually covered with a water proofed hatch cover made of canvas. There should be provisions for a ring or Battens and wedges around these types of hatches, unless it is a fish hold and water getting in did not mater. Grates were used for ventilation and warships using black powder needed a lot of ventilation, merchant ships wanted water tight spaces below decks to protect their cargo, hence the differences in covers.

jud 

Thanks for the comments guys

I agree they are oversize, but i don't really care i am building it OOB just for the fun of it. :)

Many thanks for all the comments and likes they are very much appreciated :)

Small update

I have fitted the end deck finishing planks and the framing around the rudder hatch

Note the free dog hair supplied with the main hatch cover

With my AL San Francisco cross section kit, I tried to blacken the brass (supposedly) cannon with Birchwood Casey's Perma Blue and didn't work.

However, it succeeded with the steel cannonballs.

Brass is very difficult to blacken properly compared to other metals, and the Birchwood Casey stuff is mainly designed for blackening metal gun parts.

Others however have had great success with it

That hatch is excellent. I may have to give that blackening agent a try.

Thanks EJ

The Krick stuff works best if the solution is 50/50 agent to water and it is warm. I put whatever i am blackening in a plastic container and put just enough in to cover it then i float the container in a bowl etc filled with boiling water and keep topping the boiling water up periodically until the desired colour is acheived

Thank you Sirius

You are very welcome to follow along

All I can say it is an interesting and very effective way of caulking and it also gives the planking a used and aged effect. I may try this myself sometime. Excellent idea

Thanks Elijah

I use Krick brass blackener on my brass work.

I tried Birchwood Casey blackener but with no success. Having said that it may well have been the nasty brass I tried it on as some are better quality.