Jack12477

Nice work.

Thanks for the video link. But I've had a lot of experience in my 1:35 scale plastic Tamiya armor models using tissue to simulate tarps, bed rolls and the like. It works great and looks good. You did a nice job with yours.

Looks great. The tarp on the little boat came out great - very realistic looking. Stacks look good also. Nice job.

With the Admiral's help I finally got the sails cut-out, trimmed, panel lines sewn in, and finally I myself hand sewed the bolt rope around the edges. The drawing called for thimbles seized to the bolt rope to carry the lashing that holds the main sail to the mast hoops <Photo 1 & 2 below> . Not having anything to create thimbles with I substituted 4 mm rings and sewed them to the sail, seizing the bolt rope at the same time. The plans also called for hanks to be attached to the lower stern end of the main sail to secure the reef tackle < photo 3 >. Since the hanks are 3 inches high (about 3/32 inch in 1:32 scale) I decided that the rings were a better choice. The main sail is shown in photo 4. The jib is finished except for sewing on the bolt rope, which is my next task. In between working on the sails, I added a few more parts to the boat. Secured the anchor chain and anchor, since the boat is in the yard I decided to display the anchor off-ship on the ground in front of the boat. Painted and added the navigational lights to the shrouds. I also added a ladder, paint bucket, and bosun's chair to allow the work crew access to the various areas of the boat for maintenance.

Patience, grasshopper, patience. All will be revealed in due course !

Thanks, Russ.

Thanks Denis ! But there is more to come ! Surprise !

Thanks Lawrence and Popeye. I'm still working out the details for the base but here's a photo of her temporary set onto the base.

Hello Ian and welcome to MSW. What part of "Upstate NY" are you in? I'm in the Hudson Valley.

I was surprised (pleasantly) that I was able to find them so easily available commercially. I thought I was going to have to send my Maryland granddaughter on a beach combing adventure. Since they moved to Maryland some 6 years ago my daughter and granddaughter regularly go to the MD beaches in search of sea glass which my daughter collects. As a result my granddaughter (now 11 years old) has amassed a sizable collection of shark's teeth and ray teeth (mostly fossilized) measuring from 1-2 mm up to about 1/2 inch (maybe even 1 inch). Her little eagle eyes can spot the teeth in the water at surf's edge easily, or she picks up a handful of sand and "sifts" thru it with her index finger and picks out the small teeth and shells. She has several jars filled with shark and ray teeth. So yes if you walk along the seashore (or any large bay like the Chesapeake) you can find them - might have to bring a small sifter/strainer but they are there. Thanks everyone for visiting, posting and the "Likes".

Thanks Steve.

Thanks John. I had not considered bringing it to New London; I didn't list any boats on my reservation, when I sent it in. But I guess maybe I should give it some thought.

Thanks, Russ.

Got a little bored with the model, still have to do the sails; so I decided to put it aside and take a stab at coming up with a display stand. Didn't want the typical brass pillar stand, so after mulling it over in my head I decided to pull a Popeye (Denis) taking some inspiration from his work and try a work yard motif with the boat displayed on cribbing. I had some Poplar 1/4 x 1/4 inch x 36 inch square dowels on hand; at 1:32 scale that works our to a little over 6" x 6" cribbing beam. Cut them into 6 ft and 8 ft scale lengths and started stacking them alternating them as I stacked. I just eyeballed the height off the ground by placing the model on the crib until I thought it looked about right. At first I tried just using two cribs but it wasn't too stable so I went with three cribs. As seen in photos below: Close up of the cribs stained with Min-Wax English Chestnut to give them a weathered look. After test fitting the model on the cribs I found I had to add some wedge timbers to the crib tops to keep the model from rocking side-to-side. That took a lot of trial and error fitting and shaving with a very sharp 1/4 inch wide chisel. After getting it to sit level and balanced. I had to develop a "work yard" appearance that looked like a seaport work yard, which meant sand, rip-rap rocks for the cribbing, gravel for the sand, and of course sea shells. Finding sea shells is not a problem, finding them small enough to look in scale is a chore and a half. Finally found a bag of micro miniature sea shells in Michaels of all places. My supplies: Rip-rap rocks Gravel and sand and sea shells After that it was a matter of laying out the sandy work yard on a piece of 1" x 12" x 24" Maple I picked up in Lowes and masking it off, cutting a rough outline for the sand yard, pre-painting it with Gesso tinted with a Sand colored acrylic paint, then sprinkling on the sand, some gravel, then using a tweezer selecting and placing the various sea shells, filling the cribs with rip-rap rock. There is still more to do on the base as well as the model so it has not been mounted yet. I'm still fiddling with the work yard, so stay tuned for further updates. The view so far, sans boat.

Pulling up a chair also, Dan

Thanks Denis. If you look back at post #134 the 4th and 5th photos show how they spread open to hook around and into the chain plate hooks. I didn't solder them because I need them free to rotate once the chain plates were installed against the side. But in hindsight I should have wrapped the indent (waist) with rope or wire to keep them closed.

Mark, Here's the definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_jack See the photo of the Skipjack Kathryn in Frank Mahuna's build log; they're the inverted triangle lines emanating from the mast downward under the boom and back up the opposite side of the sail - with branches off the main leg.

Finished installing all the blocks and other rigging prior to doing the sails. Still trying to visualize how the Lazy Jacks actually get installed, the blueprints show the running down the port side under the sail/boom/club foot then back up the starboard side to an attachment point. However, the exact attachment method is not clearly shown in the blueprints or described in the instruction manual. I know what they are and how they are used; but not how to correctly rig them on a model. So it's off to the "library" for some research. Next up is to trace out the sail pattern on paper, transfer it to the kit included sail cloth, and make the actual sails. <Still trying to get this DLSR camera to do things my way instead of the computer's way; sure miss the old relic 35 mm film camera(s) > Project pictures showing progress to date:

Oh shucks, I could have used that warped dowel that came in the kit after all instead of replacing it. The boom would have then had a "natural sag".

Joe, trust us. Your number is NOT visible to the rest of us.

I just tried it. Works great, Chuck. Thanks.

You're right ! We don't !

Thanks, Chuck, very helpful.

Thanks. I think I kept my old AL instructions and parts lists, I'll have to double check them, but I don't recall ever seeing a greyish wood in any of my kits.

Can't open the attached PDF file - get a message it is not available "to your account". Is this a protected file? What's the issue with mansonia? Health issue? or ??? I've built a lot of Artesania Latina kits over the years and never encountered any obvious issues with any wood they supplied. But then I'm not sure which kits contained mansonia and which did not.