Ian B

7 minutes ago, Charter33 said:

Just like you and Andrew, I too suffer from 'safe place' syndrome, but with one unmentioned addition.... once the work is done and lost item has been replaced, the missing part turns up! 🤣

Had that! 🤪

8 hours ago, Charter33 said:

Hi Ian,

The chain provided by Caldercraft for my HMS Victory, which is also 1/72nd scale, has 19 links per inch/25 mm, with each link 2mm long (as close as my old eyes can tell!)

Hope this helps.

Graham. 

Thanks, I will go with that 😃😃

2 hours ago, allanyed said:

This is a great subject..... what size are chain rudder pendants on various size ships?   They were to prevent loss of the rudder if it became unshipped and needed to be sized to hold onto the rudder and hardware.  I would not rely on Caldercraft having the right size without doing some research. 19 links per inch seems to be almost double the size that could be used.   

 

Assume an oak rudder on a 74 gun ship weighs about 7000 pounds.   3/8" chain can hold about 7000 pounds so with two chains, one port, one starboard attached to the spectacle plate, it can hold double that amount.  3/8" chain links are about 2" long.  At scale these would be .028" long or about 35 links per inch.   I cannot find any specifications so far, so hopefully a member will have sizes from contemporary based sources.  (Walther railroad supplies has chain up to 40 per inch.)

 

Allan

Good mathematical way to approach the question...

OK-confession - so I lost the chain that goes across the rudder on my HMS Vanguard 1/72 whilst moving it to a 'safe' place when the builders arrived-- It came loose so I put it somewhere safe -- so safe i cant find it!!!! 

What is the link size do I need to order?  Any suggestions?

On 11/1/2023 at 5:16 PM, henly said:

I know im late to this party, but here goes, In approx 2019 I was doing a central heating job and I saw that the chap had a plank on frame hull, I ask him about it and he said he had bought the complete Hatchet battleship Bismarck magazine series, I ask how he was doing as I was a keen modeler myself and he said he had developed parkinsons and he could not manage it any more, so I proposed buying it off him, he said that he would be happy to give it too me to finish, well of course I jumped at the chance, so he gave it to me, here due to life, moving, renovating etc November 2023, I have finally got around to getting it out, he had the unfinished bits and parts in two binders and the mags in two further binders, so far it has taken me a week to wade through the first mag binder to check what parts had been fitted and what was to do and have come across some discrepancies and some plans and drawings missing, I phoned Hackets and they no longer do the static models and only do the motorised version, Ive seen references in this thread to the fact that it is a an Amati model which it is according to the plans, do you still have the plans and drawings? if so would it be possible to buy them from you?

regards

John.

Hi John

You can have mine, I should be finished in the new year and I'll send them on..see my log.

Cheers Ian 

Spend hours and hours and hours doing it and it looks like almost no progress in the pictures 🤪

The cranes are just placed in position

Dry fitting the aircraft catapult 

Slowly slowly.making progress.u to the stage of making the main mast 

Superb work, I ordered a lot of Veteran flak guns, and now looking at your build I will get the bridge equipment too..

Thanks for taking the time to document it all for us 😁

Great topic,great workmanship 👍

The deck level structure has its PE  and a quick spray of grey so I can see any imperfections easier. The second and third level has 90% PE complete. The sections are not attached to the hull. I wont do that until they have had a final coat of grey ---and the dreaded black and white stripes applied.  After all this work and yet not one single gun however small has yet to be done.

Wood you believe it 😂

The rear wooden structure is ready for serious PE work

A mile stone. Book one consisting off 114  pages with 620 instruction blocks completed..roll on book two

Now the first true assembly -- let the gluing and stacking begin!!!  😲

from a box to a hanger with lots of PE and just a tickle of plastic

Really enjoying this part of the build doing the PE now that I have started to gain some experience is very rewarding.

3 hours ago, NavyShooter said:

You should have seen me going at her with the chisel to get the old Skegs off....that was scary.

 

It is, however, necessary. 

 

The old skegs were unsupported at the ends, the props unbalanced, and the shafts were not sealed.  

 

I could have tried adding A-frames, but that would not have been correct for scale, and would still not have rectified the not-sealed shafts that leaked.

 

NS
 

What a fab ship , can't wait to see those props turning 😎

ooooooooooooooooo doing that would frighten me to death 😱

1 hour ago, yvesvidal said:

That is looking really sharp. My favourite camo scheme, for sure.

 

Yves

Thanks, Its so striking--just has to be done-- 

Sprayed the Funnels stripes and started to add the details... Or as my wife said' oh that's nice you painted the chimney '  😁

15 hours ago, James H said:

I'm currently on holiday, about 3 miles from where HMS Terror was built.

Great place Topsham-- super big Antiques place in the harbour. Worth visiting.

Another view

Just now, yvesvidal said:

I love that you try the black and white stripes camouflage. It is very well done.

 

Yves

Thanks Yves

A bit of a pain but I think will really stand out once completed, this is my first 'non wooden' Napoleonic ship I have attempted. I saw a few being done on here and just goat the bug  LOl .

I spray the stipes and then do the P.E parts which are easy to hand paint in.. It would be a nightmare to mask off even with a small amount of detail in place,

Next is to stripe the funnel-- then detail it...

Hi Harry

been slowly making progress... Work and Family holidays getting in the way LOL

Everything is just placed together so some bits may look wonky LOL 

first upper deck stripe done. I wont fix the funnel cap until after its its stripes -Thought Id better the ground work adding the stripes in before it gets too cluttered with PE to mask nicely.