MEDDO

Welcome back to the forum.  This is very nice to see. We don’t get too many Spanish ships so it will be great to follow along

Congratulations on a very nice model

Welcome!  Please ask lots of questions. Please start a build log so people can follow along with your work. No matter what kind of problem you have I’m sure someone around here can help you get around it. This is a great supportive site especially for new builders 

Name plate looks great

7 hours ago, 6ohiocav said:

Hey Mike, (Meddo)

The boats are indeed stuck to the ship. But I must say, I built them exactly to plans, and the lowering lines are hooked to rings secured to the bottom of the keel. When I rigged them to the davits, I thought I would just let them hang. Except that they kept rolling over to the side. So that begs a question - unless kept totally balance from port to starboard, how in the heck did the crew lower these guys with tipping them over?

 

That’s a good question. I’ve always seen the ring bolts secure it to the keel. When you do that the majority of the weight of the boat is above that pivot point making it very easy for it to tip over. I guess one way to do avoid that would be to secure the ring bolts higher in the boat like on the top of the thwarts or at the very stern or the top of the stern post. Although certainly the thwarts would not be strong enough to carry the weight of the boat. I assumed they just use guidelines to make sure it didn’t tip over when lowering. Maybe the keels were heavy enough to balance the rest of the boat and keep it upright....

4 hours ago, dvm27 said:

David has devoted a lot of real estate to Speedwell's carving in Volume Two!

Looking forward to vol 2

Welcome to the site and welcome to this wonderful hobby.

22 minutes ago, BobG said:

Looking great, Michael! I put 15-20 coats of Red Vallejo Acrylic Model Paint on my Medway Longboat. Red is rather transparent and it takes a lot of thin coats to get a really nice depth of color like you're beginning to see.

I think I am 9 or 10ish or so now.  As Chuck has said he take a very light touch of sandpaper then puts another 10ish coats on.  Will probably be that many more for me.  Will see....

1 hour ago, rlb said:

Michael,

 

Photos can be inaccurate, but that color seems to be developing very well, and I applaud your patience in having to be careful with so many coats!

 

Ron

Thanks.  It turns out the brush I am using is big enough/right shape that with the right pressure I can pull in one stroke the color from the bow all the way back almost to the step in one go.  Only little tiny bobbles that resulted in paint on the top of the moulding which are easily scraped off.  

Starting to get there I think.  So far about 9ish coats of very thin paint.  Seems like the last 2-3 really start to bring out the color.

Am waiting to paint the top of the caprail until the inner planking is in so I can make sure the gap is nice and clean and if needed the filler <gasp> can be blended in

(picture looks weird at the bottom moulding irl looks nice and straight)

14 hours ago, 6ohiocav said:

Hope the ship doesn't get in trouble because the crew will have a hard time launching these boats.

Imagine their faces when they slip the tackle lines and the boat is just stuck to the side of the ship...hovering........

the hook looks nice.  

the easiest way to get better picture for me is to back the camera up until the thing you are taking the picture of is clear and in focus.  make sure the resolution is max (certain phones will decrease resolution to save space) after you take the picture you can then crop and magnify the picture.  super easy.  I always try to get too close and that makes the picture too blurry

actual knowledgable people may be able to tell you how to do it for real.

Looking nice, getting line to run smoothly and look natural is always difficult for me

Looks great Bob

Can't wait to see the pictures of your PoB II.  Speaking of pictures, the first time I saw a chest ct of it I was like 'yikes' even I can dx that 😳.... Stay safe

Just a little check in to see how your are doing.  Wondering if you have had any extra time to work on this beauty.  

This is a very nice kit and it looks like you are off to a great start.  Will be following along to see your progress.  Nice work on that punch

5 hours ago, AON said:

some people were just born lucky - 1804

Poseidon said "Nope, not this one"

Outstanding review.  Thanks for posting

great perseverance 

Looking great!  I really thought I was going to be finished with buying new kits but this one is so nice and different I might need to re-evaluate that plan.

This really came out well.  I really love the PoB II.  I am from Baltimore and remember when she was being built.  My father also has pictures of me in the shipyard when the Pride (original) was being built.  I also have this kit on the shelf and will eventually get to it.

I am pretty sure the April Meeting is not going to happen either. So far I have used google meet, Microsoft meeting, zoom, go to meeting,  discord and FaceTime for virtual meetings. All have their good point and bad.  will definitely reach out to @Feathermerchant to see if he is interested in setting some thing up

Wonderful results and a great final presentation.  It’s been a pleasure to follow along and see how this kit can be improved on.

I just kind of figured that those windows were all blacked out mostly because glass was pretty expensive back then and basically all it would be doing is putting a window behind you when you were using the toilet it’s not like you were looking out at a nice view behind you while taking care of business.  Maybe in very large for second or third rates it would be different. I don’t know I’ve never seen a definitive reason either