clearway
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No problem about delay in answering Greg- on week two of a bout of Covid myself along with rest of family Can't beat pestilence at Xmas! Keith -
Merry Christmas Daniel, nice work - there are a couple of theories regarding the metal brackets, one being rests for the wooden davits when lowered as they used slings to tether the boats to stop them swinging but it seems to work as keith s shows them -we really really need parks canada to release some useful photos of the wreck!
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Love these vanguard fishing smacks- speaking from practical experience as the son of a fisherman you certainly feel at one with the water in a force 6 gale in a 50foot wooden fishing vessel (unlike submariners who hide underneath the waves😁). Keith
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No Problem Dave- it is classed as "for the expert" by billings so they assume you will know a lot of the basics already- really really must fire my Vicky up again. Keith
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Merry Xmas John- as we say in Cumbria ev a gud yan marra😁. If you check very last post in my log you might want recreate the anchor release on the catheads before much more goes on there (unlike muppet here)! Keith
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Coming along nicely Daniel- i am still debating as to have all the davits rigged with boats ready to be lowered or the whaleboats stored on the portside deck near the stern and the boats stowed with slings on the rear moat davits? Keith
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havn't looked in for a while Phil- wow really moving along. Interested in how they stored the lifeboats on the davits as i am thinking of using a similar technique when doing my HMS Terror's boats. Keith
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Looking at the ice floe base you made - that does look the part😁. I saw your post on daniels log regards sails- i am currently doind Hellers pourquoi pas in 1/100 scale as well as Endurance and Terror and am going to try using model aircraft tissue from deluxe materials though will be a while till i get to that stage, but might try it on Endurance's sails as well. Keith
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Gets interesting trying to rig with all those lovely thread catching deck fittings! Why i left a few things loose till i finished tying off. Regards amount of lines - i missed off the buntlines and didn't have that many pins spare (they must have doubled up using one belaying pin for same set of buntlines). Keith
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havn't read about Charcot but have read Lansings book about Shackleton - them guys were made of something else! I would be seriosly tempted just to varnish the entire hull with no plating is it looks sooooooooo nice! Keith
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HMS Terror by Rking - OcCre - 1:75
clearway replied to Rking's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
craig comes to the rescue again 😉 Keith -
Welcome back from your awesome trip- in Cumbria we now have frosty clear weather after several weeks of on/ off rain/ wind/ sleet/ rain- you deffo picked wrong week to come to the lakes😄! Keith
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Thanks for the likes and looking in, not much happening in shipyard this week as i decided to get back to some 00 gauge wagon kits as a change of scene, however this evening i got the anchor release mechanisms in place (simplified as we are talking 1/75 scale here). They were shaped from some softened brass wire bent to shape, flattened and drilled. Still can't believe this will be third christmas since i started Terror! take care all Keith
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looking nice and busy on the workbench there😉. regards the bowsprit- do the jib boom as per the other examples you have seen on here, the flying jib is held in place on a bracket at the end of the jib boom with the heel or inner end lashed near the cap at the end of the bowsprit if that makes sense. Keith
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expletive , expletive , expletive awesome m8y- those lifeboat gantries really look the biz😉. Have you seen the cgi real time video of the sinking?- they did others for other ships including Titanic as well? Keith
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Thanks for looking in, for a change i was building some 1/76 rail wagon kits, but added some cleats onto the after bulwarks and made a couple of more ventilators on the island. The instructions are very vague with this kit (the person who sold the kit actually copied the zvezda instructions- must have lost originals). I was going to do a little more but our fur lined psychopath pinched my chair! Take care all Keith
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Thanks Hake- that is one picture that i had missed- had to make thechannels that wide to accomodate the thicker deadeyes (any narrower and they would have been impossible to rig). Keith
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HMS Terror by Rking - OcCre - 1:75
clearway replied to Rking's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
interesting question regards covers on ships boats. not too sure when covers as we know them became regular - they probably either bailed them dry or made an adhoc cover using old sails? keith -
Also would the steel plates have been larger? On any images i have seen you don't see pronounced nails on the hull below waterline so maybe plain copper strip painted red oxide? Keith
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Watching this with more and more interest as i have purchased billings Lilla Dan and will most likely be replacing the plastic mast caps and cross/trestle trees as per your build. Keith
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I use self adhesive copper "dolls house tape" which comes in various widths...... oh crap whatever North America gets weather wise it tends to come our way on the jet stream a week or so later- mind you got a baltic north easterly wind at the moment brrrrrrrrr. Keith
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It is a good read John with lots of nice details on the plans- regards the bowsprit, see mine but add a flying jib boom. I used brass thimbles from an old stash i had (think they were left over from a Mantua Victory i re-masted/ rigged for someone). Regards hearts for the forestays and topmast stays i used model shipways card ones, but i think vanguard models do them as well - think i used 4mm ones. Keith
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Thanks for looking in and the likes everyone- talk about difference in weather- last weekend southerly winds and temperatures reaching 20celcius, then torrential rain on and off for a few days and this weekend cold northerly winds with snow forecast on the Cumbrian fells! Back with Endurance and started on the chainplates/ deadeyes. Have added a channel for the foremast shrouds as it looks like from certain photos it looks likely though maybe not as wide, but no way were they above the capping rail. So far the chainplates for the shrouds have been drilled/ glued into the hull with the smaller ones for the back stays still to be glued in place. The chainplates are made from annealed iron wire looped and wrapped around the deadeye. Take care all Keith
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I think Chris Watton is really the devil sent here to tempt us -oh god they are exquisite but i already have to many kits to do! Keith
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