Ian B

I too had my very first flight in a Chipmunk, The Air Experience flight at Filton Bristol back in 1975-- definitely going to get this kit--not sure it will be a good as build as your excellent one..

really loving this unusual subject matter build---@GrandpaPhil your doing her great justice --I'd so like to make it in wood....

Thank you very much!
 
The plans can be found linked from Wikipedia in .tif format.
 
The jpegs that I converted for them are over in my Magenta build log.

The Orel kit is easily convertible and rescaled (which is basically what I’m doing with it) for a scratch build.
 
It’s less than $40, too, from Amazon or Ebay.

I might (read probably will) buy a second kit to rescale and make templates for the fittings from.

really loving this unusual subject matter build---@GrandpaPhil your doing her great justice --I'd so like to make it in wood....

really loving this unusual subject matter build---@GrandpaPhil your doing her great justice --I'd so like to make it in wood....

Happy new year, everybody! Thanks as always for following along. After a lovely holiday season, I'm back at work on my Endurance. I've finished up all of the ratlines on the main and mizzen lower shrouds. All that remains in terms of rigging are the ratlines on the main and mizzen upper shrouds. I've also been working on the davits for the quarterdeck lifeboats. The challenge this week has been figuring out how to attach them to the hull. As I have observed before, there are four attachment points on each davit, so I needed to figure out how to 1) fashion the posts and brackets, 2) fashion cleats, and 3) line everything up correctly on the hull.
 
For the posts and brackets, I used some 18-gauge brass wire. After a bit of experimentation, I ended up using a jig...though that may be too generous of a term here. Since the davits are made of 1mm brass wire, I drilled a 1mm hole in a spare piece of wood, then inserted a spare piece of 1mm brass wire. It's nothing fancy and certainly isn't pretty, but it got the job done. I began by double-wrapping the 18-gauge wire around the jig, trimming the short end off and using needle nose pliers to tighten the wrap as much as I could.
 
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After sliding the wire off the jig, I double-checked the shaping.
 
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Next, I arranged four of these wire pieces on each davit. I carefully positioned the top and bottom ones 34.5mm apart and secured them in place with a dot of CA glue. The middle two were not glued into position. I left the posts long for now—I eventually needed to trim the top one, but the lower three all can go deep into the hull for a more secure fit.
 

 
Next up was the cleat. I decided to make these out of two straight pieces of 18-gauge wire. The shorter piece is glued directly onto the davit, while the longer piece is glued onto the shorter piece. A bit of a blurry photo here, but you can see the two starboard-side davits resting in clamps and pointing opposite directions. The posts look pretty wild because the middle ones are just falling haphazardly. I still need to trim the ends of the cleat on one of these, since they're a bit too long.
 

 
My final challenge was working out where to drill the eight post holes on the starboard side. First, I measured the distance between the shelves for the deadeyes—a 111-mm gap. Then the distance between the blocks in the lifeboat that will hang on this side—a 70-mm gap. Armed with this information, I trimmed two strips of painter's tape to 20mm wide and 50mm long (the width being more important than the length!) After aligning these on the hull, I could use the edge of the tape strips as guides for drilling.
 

 
The top three holes were easy to position, so I did those first. Then, I dry-fit the davit by inserting only the middle two posts into their holes. Since the top and bottom were glued onto the davit and I was still working out the position of the bottom hole, I just turned those to the side. Once I aligned the top post with its hole, the position of the bottom hole was easy to locate. (Though I messed up on this one the first time due to a dumb mistake; you can just make out the extra hole at the bottom of the first photo below.) Once the last hole was drilled it was time to dry-fit the davits.
 
      
 
Given that this is more complicated than anything I've crafted on my previous models, I'm pretty pleased with how these davits have turned out! They certainly aren't perfect, but I've made some big steps with my metalworking skills and the ones on the port side should look even better. 
 
Next steps: Finish the ratlines on the main and mizzen upper shrouds; finish the port-side davits for the quarterdeck lifeboats; start working out the details for the midship lifeboat davits and cradles.

Hello all
Another update time 😉
As all the jobs go ahead, I was getting closer to the rigging stage. Seeing some great builds out there I become really unhappy about the quality of the ropes supplied in the kit so decision was made to make my own. The more research I did the more overwhelmed I got. What thread should I use, cotton or synthetic, what type… The brand is Gutermann of course as it’s great quality. I needed two colours – black for standing rigging and natural for running rigging.
Next problem was a size of the ropes. The instructions were inaccurate, so I have found rigging instructions for JoTiKa kit and recalculated the rope sizes to match 1/84 scale.
The next stage was testing and making a spreadsheet for quantities of strands in the ropes to get right dimensions.
For Tera180 thread I’ve got as follows. First number is 1/72scale, the second is 1/84 and at the end number of threads and cores. This will also depend on the amount of tension on rope walk when you twist them together. The same thread was used for rope serving.
2.5mm – 2.14mm – 3x20
1.8mm – 1.54mm – 3x16
1.3mm – 1.1mm – 3x10
1.0mm – 0.86mm – 3x8
0.75mm – 0.64mm – 3x6
0.5mm – 0.43mm – 3x4
0.25mm – 0.2mm – 3x2
0.1mm – 0.09 – 3x1
 
Lastly I had to construct my own rope walk so I had a dig in my son’s Lego box and got it done 😉 I used small drill to run the gears of course  
 
Final ropes for my build

My setup allowed me to twist about 4m of rope in one go so it didn’t take me that long. To give you a perspective I got about 2000m of thread, and I used 90% already for the shrouds and some stays…

Outstanding!

Just bought the hardback copy--£4.99 including postage(Amazon UK)--- bargain 
 
 
I still cant believe how over looked this ship is with the kit companies-- wood or plastic...

I have a picture somewhere of being very young and my parents showing me her being towed up the river to the dock on her pontoon. A rusty hulk  

Thanks, I shall hunt the book down

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

good morning everyone
 
sorry about the confusion last night wrt to shelter/tween decks
 
i have  resolved my bulkhead issue, i used part of the midships section, which was beyond repair, and now in the process of joining them  together
to do that i cut back the bottom plates to gain access to the double floor frames, it now looks like the 3 part build will be a trwo part one, the front end
as new and this end will be end of life at the breakers
 
from the midships section i removed about 10 frames up to the forward cargo hold

 
cut back the bottom plates to gain entry to the frames
 
 
 
 

Nice, but, I think I would have left it partially attached the main piece of wood so as to have a handle while carving the piece. Then cut it from the stock and finish it.

Nice work on capturing the angle. The open doors will be interesting to see.  Your Cheerful is really coming together, I enjoy seeing the effect of the different wood. 

Thanks so much for the likes my friends.
The main lower yard has now been mounted and I've begun the running rigging lines. The jeers, sling and truss pendant have been completed.

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

Figure 205: Gauges painted and glued on their place. 

 
Figure 206: Corridor wall installed.
 

 
That's all for today!
Thanks for watching!