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clearway
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thanks for looking in everyone, back to the davits/ skid beams. Glued blocks to the davit posts which will be shaped to form the knees for the skid beams. Also cut the skids to length and shaped the ends, The beams arn't glued in place yet, but couldn't help putting some of the ships boats in place and getting a feel for how she looks with them😁 i now need to try and work out how the ice bridge supports will be placed! Keith
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start a swear jar for every time you knock the hammock cranes😁 joking aside though looking good. Keith
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sometimes it can be a shock to see how long a build has actually taken (16 years for my billings cutty sark!!!!!) She is a beautiful ship though. Keith
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The steering continues with the ropes added (surprise surprise ignore occre's instructions)! Matthew Betts plans and the ones from the earlier antarctic expedition just show single ropes leading to the tiller where as occre show a block and tackle rigged! Also sprayed the anchors with humbrol matt 33 and gave them a coat of matt varnish. Looking at this i realise i should have moved the wooden bollard on the bulwarks even further back😬🤪. will have to think/ research the boat skid beams before starting the think about rigging mizzen mast (o.m.g. can't believe i have reached this stage after a few months)!!! take care all Keith
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it's a tricksy one Daniel! As you are going with the painted look i would say paint them (sand back between coats to reduce wood grain effect being too harsh). However at the end of the day you are the shipwright so just go with what you feel is right😉. Keith
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looking good (as an aside i am from the town that built the sailing ship dunboyne, now a museum ship called the auf chapman in stockholm). Showing Cumbrias norse roots we still say "as fra Whitehaven"😉 Keith
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Thanks for looking in everyone, today glued the rings in place for the blocks to guide steering ropes along with adding strops to 3mm blocks and hooking them in pace (eyes and strops made from annealed iron wire. Also finally got the ships wheels glued into place. take care all Keith
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i would use some ply left over from the frames and build replacement quarter galleries to be honest as they should both match. Keith
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sounds similar to the way i did it, i used peco track fixing pins though as they have smaller heads and are already blackened. I also drilled extra holes in the ironwork for the rudder so the longer ones had 5 pins in total. Keith
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preventer stays were back ups in case the stays were parted in battle- Matthew also mentions she was merchant rigged, so i will double up the fore and main stays like in lees book but leave the mizzen stay single- still thinking about the stays on the top masts on the fore and main though. Keith
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I am thinking the rigging will be a lot akin to lees book as well Keith, though i doubt preventer stays would have been rigged. I am going to leave the stuns'l booms off as a lot of images i have seen from later days don't have them (personal preference really though at the end). I was looking at this pic of HMS Trincomalee from around the same period and the masts look a lot like i depicted mine so a lil relief there😁. take care all Keith
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Thanks Keith , still not sure i have got the mast bands and hoops right but the revised way i used does it for me (yet once more butterflies ensue in anticipation of matthews book)! Keith
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i got the revised edition from 1984 which had more details added (not sure if further revisions were made in the third edition though). Keith
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Thanks for comments and likes / taking a look everyone. the paunch is the long strip of timber running down fore side of masts to hold the yards away from the mast Emmet. Tackled the spider band on the mizzen mast today using a card band and brass eyes from the kit for holding the belaying pins. Wasn't sure whether to add 6 pins or 8 pins and decided to go with 8. Take care all. Keith
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try abes books- they are an onlone company who broker for various bookshops around the world- picked my lees masting and rigging up on there for around £25 (though wasn't mint cover- was faded by sunlight but i can live with that)! Keith
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Ty geowolf she is definitely looking a bit different from the occre instructions! Keith
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Decided i will leave bands and masts as they now look so added the rubbing paunches on fore and main masts (none fitted to mizzen). Also added chocks of wood to the davit posts where they meet the capping rails which will be carved to shape to form support knees (think they were to provide strength and resist snapping). take care all and have fun Keith
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you are welcome Emmet, you will find it really useful with your Victory build. Keith
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you can use stealers to get the planks running better again Emmet. Keith
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Thanks for looking in all, after a couple of days looking at the masts and the input of keith s i decided to go with the alternating bands and hoops on the fore and main masts as per lees book and reduced the hoops holding the mizzen cheeks to three. I was in two minds when just fitting hoops all the way up the cheeks so luckily only glued them at the join on rear of the mast🙂. I think i will now leave them at the way they look now though still not sure about adding bands to the bowsprit. still can't believe how far along i have gotten with this build due to lockdown! take care all. Keith
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Hello Keith, i was in two minds myself regarding the ironwork on the masts. The book seems to concentrate on ships of the line. if wanting to put bands/ hoops around the mast and the cheeks then follow occres idea of groupings of two around mast and cheeks then fill in the gaps with banding just around the mast if that makes sense and still not sure whether to fit bands around the bowsprit🤔. The fore and main will also need a rubbing paunch installed on the forward side Keith
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Yes Daniel the ropes will run through the sheaves and be belayed on cleats/ belaying pins (if you study Matthews plans you will see the cleats on the bulwarks), i have yet to drill through mine. Don't follow the occre rigging sequence as a lot is wrong!!! Keith
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the ones towards midships are sheaves for the sheets on the fore and main courses, the rear most set will most likely be for the mainbraces. Keith
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Hi emmet, i picked up my copy of lees masting for about £25 stirling (try abe's books online, they are a broker for various bookshops) , but to be honest there are loads of various books on the subject. Check local second hand book sellers for books on model shipbuilding as well. There are also two books by harold underhill "plank on frame models volumes 1 & 2" which cover a lot of later style building/ rigging techniques. Back in the shipyard and had a bit of a quandry regarding mast bands on the mizzen, Lees states that no models in the N.R.M. have them, but he states fit them anyways!? I decided that seeing as the mizzen is fairly narrow i would just fit bands to hold the cheeks in place and actually followed occres instructions! I also filed the grooves in the tops of the davit posts for the skid beams and drilled/ cut the sheaves at top of post. take care all. Keith
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