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Heck of a find Dave! Ingenuity at it's best! 

Looking good Piet! 

What??? Who told you to put your model on hold? Seems a bit of a shame, really, but I'm sure it was well intentioned advice. I would've perservered and just kept going. It's amazing what you can learn as you go.
 
Anyhow, hopefully you'll be able to get back to it. We'll all be here to offer you help and support.
 
Have a great Xmas and New Year.
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Thanks everyone for visiting and your likes.  Kees and Pete thank you for very kind comments.
 
I completed the capstan backlash pawl assembly.  Mixed some Testors "rust" with black to get some sort of an iron look and painted the pawls with it.  It so happened that when I was browsing through a few books, looking for the galley chimney, I came across the drawings of the "William Rex."  According to these drawings and also photos of the interior of that model, the anchor capstan is exactly the same as what I have done.  I guess luck is not only with the irish but also with this dumb Dutchman 
 
I proceded to prep the starboard side for the repaint job.  I managed to slice two rather thin roles from that wide rol of Frog tape.  It clogged up my bandsaw though and had to spend half an hour cleaning all the gum of it 
 
For this particular masking job I could have used the regular blue tape.  I may just do that for the port side. The sticky stuff on the Frog tape makes it slide, it's difficult to tack it and then pull on it.  Oh well, everything that I wanted to protect from paint is now masked off and I started applying the red at the forward part of the ship - - railing stanchions only.  One more coat and that should be it, hopefully.  I can then remove the masking tape and hopefully the fresh paint on the railing caps didn't suffer.
 
When I started laying one coat of the green on the waist railing it dried up much darker then I wantd.  Sooooohh, I added a little white to it and a touch of red because it was not gray enough.  I think I now have the correct color match from the chart.  We'll see tomorrow.
 
On the pics below you can also see that I have painted all the railing caps.  Gwen thinks it looks very spiffy and I'm happy with it as well.  I would have rather used the cherry wood but alas I didn't think the light colored wood would be this distracting. 
 
Okay, here are the pics as she sits today.
 

 

 

 
Cheers,

Hi Piet and Michael
 
Many thanks for your comments and feedback. Greatly appreciated.
 
Michael-I'm not sure what you mean by a 'drape mould'. Are you able to give me some more info?
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Dave
 
Simply marvellous work! I love the castings and your ingenuity. Nice.
 
I reckon you've earnt a break now; thereby allowing you to concentrate on the cannons.
 
Have a great Xmas and 2016!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Looking mighty fine Piet - - mighty fine! 

Heck of a find Dave! Ingenuity at it's best! 

Looking just beautiful Mark.  Love the colors.  
 
Cheers, 

All left brain work Dave, let the mind wander off and reach for the stars with the decoration ideas.  Nice going my friend.
 
Cheers,

I agree on the wipe-on giving the planks a nice color contrast. Much better than the same color over-all. Nice work Mark! 

Heck of a find Dave! Ingenuity at it's best! 

Thanks so much Janet and Dave and the "likes".
 
Janet, I use Elmers Carpenters glue for all of my wood to wood joins.
 
Dave, you're very generous. Constraints or not, you did a great job on your Cheerful.
 
Bob

The mock-ups will indeed be very helpful to sort things out.  Now we can see how she'll look when done.  Great job!
 
Cheers,

Patrick the 3d mock up is certainly the way to sort out the different sections, I am sure that it will be amazing when you begin getting the shells done and get on with the interiors. Have you considered making a drape mould of each level then it becomes a reasonable task to mask out the windows paint it white peel the masking and then the interiors are free standing on the floors with the shells fitting over them.
 
Michael

Thanks Robert. Please pull up a chair.
Dave

Actually some time ago I started it, but was told to put on hold for a while because of lack of experience as that had been my first real try at a scale wooden model that was not a solid hull.
 
My idea is based off of the Grand Banks 49 Classic, then doubled her size. Would be in 1:48 scale, so would be large enough to see a lot of details inside. This is a plan completely from scratch that I drew up myself. Yes, I guess you can say I feeling bold and frisky   

Thanks and your proposed model sounds great! I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully you're going to start a build log so that we can all enjoy following your progress?

DITTO ON GRANT!!!! SWEET!
 
John

You're welcome, Patrick. I would suggest personally having a clear Polystyrene under each deck to hold it up completely level, and have pillars of some kind supporting the section furthest out from the hull. 
 
I am actually considering doing something similar to what you are planning to do for this model for a future project of mine, but mine would be a much larger scale and plan to not have any of the decking in place on this model but would have the planked superstructure and hull  to see how she would look like, but allow for interior looks as well.
 
Keep up your great work, you are doing a splendid job sir.

Amazing work. Definitely. Great job!
 - Robert

What a great idea and thanks for the suggestion. I'm not quite sure how that'd work in practice as it would mean that each deck would have to slide across on those 'hinges', but it's not impossible. I may just stick with making each deck lift off.
 
Whether I use your method or some other solution, I can't escape the fact that it's gonna be lots of fun trying to make it all come together.
 
Thanks and all the very best!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

I agree on the wipe-on giving the planks a nice color contrast. Much better than the same color over-all. Nice work Mark! 

Thank you guys for your comments and likes. Love hearing from all of you.

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.