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JSGerson got a reaction from mtbediz in USS Constitution by mtbediz - 1:76
Excellent workmanship. I would expect nothing less from you! Mine should look half as good as your by the time I get that point.
Jon
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JSGerson got a reaction from mtbediz in USS Constitution by Der Alte Rentner - Model Shipways - 1/76
Beautiful pieces or work!
What method did you use to add the brass caps on the posts?
Jon
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JSGerson got a reaction from Stevenleehills in USS Constitution by Der Alte Rentner - Model Shipways - 1/76
Drill a round hole in to vertical bitt no wider than the width of the horizontal post. Cut two pieces of square stock to the length that will exposed horizontally plus an addition length that will fit into the drilled hole. Round off one end of the horizontal post so it fits into the hole. Do the same for the other side. Thus you have a square peg in a round hole and it looks like it passes completely through.
Jon
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JSGerson got a reaction from woodartist in USS Constitution by Der Alte Rentner - Model Shipways - 1/76
Drill a round hole in to vertical bitt no wider than the width of the horizontal post. Cut two pieces of square stock to the length that will exposed horizontally plus an addition length that will fit into the drilled hole. Round off one end of the horizontal post so it fits into the hole. Do the same for the other side. Thus you have a square peg in a round hole and it looks like it passes completely through.
Jon
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JSGerson got a reaction from Stevenleehills in USS Constitution by Der Alte Rentner - Model Shipways - 1/76
I too plan on replacing the fife rails. The ones that come with the kit are fragile...very fragile. Look at them crossed eyes and they will break. Imagine inserting or tying off lines to the belay pins and the rails break after they been installed. Not a pretty sight. Using boxwood, NOT basswood, was the proper wood replacement choice. Don't forget to anchor the rail and bitt assemblies to the deck with pins. There will be some stress placed on them when the rigging is installed.
Jon
Jon
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JSGerson got a reaction from Unegawahya in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from GGibson in USS Constitution by Der Alte Rentner - Model Shipways - 1/76
I too plan on replacing the fife rails. The ones that come with the kit are fragile...very fragile. Look at them crossed eyes and they will break. Imagine inserting or tying off lines to the belay pins and the rails break after they been installed. Not a pretty sight. Using boxwood, NOT basswood, was the proper wood replacement choice. Don't forget to anchor the rail and bitt assemblies to the deck with pins. There will be some stress placed on them when the rigging is installed.
Jon
Jon
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JSGerson got a reaction from PaddyO in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Unegawahya in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Spar Deck Carronades
Now for the carronades. I wanted to fabricate the carronades like I did the gun deck, guns. However, as I have mentioned preciously, I purchased 3-D printed carronades because they matched quite closely the carronades depicted in Marquardt’s book. The amount of work it would have taken to separate the gun barrels and mounts from the trucks without damaging anything, just so I could make my own trucks resulting in no appreciable difference, did not seem worth the effort. So, I swallowed my pride and decided to the printed guns.
Removing the spruce trees from 22 guns was slow, delicate, and tedious, and unfortunately revealed one persistent defect. Several guns had one or more deformed eye bolts, required for rigging the guns. I have some ideas for a repair in the near future. In the meanwhile, painting the guns is next.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Unegawahya in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
You may (or not) have noticed that the stove stack is missing in some of the most recent images. This is because due to working on the spar deck, my hand has been constantly bumping into it. So, I took it off for safe keeping. On that same note, I decided to delay installing anything to the spar until all the carronades have been completely installed. However, one partial exception was the black “plate” that the captain’s skylight will sit on. This was “installed” simply by painting a black square in the proper location. I’ll embed the stanchion bases into the deck when the skylight is installed.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Geoff Matson in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Geoff Matson in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Spar Deck Carronades
Now for the carronades. I wanted to fabricate the carronades like I did the gun deck, guns. However, as I have mentioned preciously, I purchased 3-D printed carronades because they matched quite closely the carronades depicted in Marquardt’s book. The amount of work it would have taken to separate the gun barrels and mounts from the trucks without damaging anything, just so I could make my own trucks resulting in no appreciable difference, did not seem worth the effort. So, I swallowed my pride and decided to the printed guns.
Removing the spruce trees from 22 guns was slow, delicate, and tedious, and unfortunately revealed one persistent defect. Several guns had one or more deformed eye bolts, required for rigging the guns. I have some ideas for a repair in the near future. In the meanwhile, painting the guns is next.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Geoff Matson in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
You may (or not) have noticed that the stove stack is missing in some of the most recent images. This is because due to working on the spar deck, my hand has been constantly bumping into it. So, I took it off for safe keeping. On that same note, I decided to delay installing anything to the spar until all the carronades have been completely installed. However, one partial exception was the black “plate” that the captain’s skylight will sit on. This was “installed” simply by painting a black square in the proper location. I’ll embed the stanchion bases into the deck when the skylight is installed.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Stevenleehills in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Stevenleehills in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Spar Deck Carronades
Now for the carronades. I wanted to fabricate the carronades like I did the gun deck, guns. However, as I have mentioned preciously, I purchased 3-D printed carronades because they matched quite closely the carronades depicted in Marquardt’s book. The amount of work it would have taken to separate the gun barrels and mounts from the trucks without damaging anything, just so I could make my own trucks resulting in no appreciable difference, did not seem worth the effort. So, I swallowed my pride and decided to the printed guns.
Removing the spruce trees from 22 guns was slow, delicate, and tedious, and unfortunately revealed one persistent defect. Several guns had one or more deformed eye bolts, required for rigging the guns. I have some ideas for a repair in the near future. In the meanwhile, painting the guns is next.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Stevenleehills in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
You may (or not) have noticed that the stove stack is missing in some of the most recent images. This is because due to working on the spar deck, my hand has been constantly bumping into it. So, I took it off for safe keeping. On that same note, I decided to delay installing anything to the spar until all the carronades have been completely installed. However, one partial exception was the black “plate” that the captain’s skylight will sit on. This was “installed” simply by painting a black square in the proper location. I’ll embed the stanchion bases into the deck when the skylight is installed.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Nirvana in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Der Alte Rentner in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Nirvana in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
You may (or not) have noticed that the stove stack is missing in some of the most recent images. This is because due to working on the spar deck, my hand has been constantly bumping into it. So, I took it off for safe keeping. On that same note, I decided to delay installing anything to the spar until all the carronades have been completely installed. However, one partial exception was the black “plate” that the captain’s skylight will sit on. This was “installed” simply by painting a black square in the proper location. I’ll embed the stanchion bases into the deck when the skylight is installed.
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JSGerson got a reaction from usedtosail in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Nirvana in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Spar Deck Carronades
Now for the carronades. I wanted to fabricate the carronades like I did the gun deck, guns. However, as I have mentioned preciously, I purchased 3-D printed carronades because they matched quite closely the carronades depicted in Marquardt’s book. The amount of work it would have taken to separate the gun barrels and mounts from the trucks without damaging anything, just so I could make my own trucks resulting in no appreciable difference, did not seem worth the effort. So, I swallowed my pride and decided to the printed guns.
Removing the spruce trees from 22 guns was slow, delicate, and tedious, and unfortunately revealed one persistent defect. Several guns had one or more deformed eye bolts, required for rigging the guns. I have some ideas for a repair in the near future. In the meanwhile, painting the guns is next.
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JSGerson got a reaction from GGibson in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
Painting was also a tedious endeavor because I was painting a complete model…22 times. Painting individual parts before assembling is a lot easier. These were complete guns with attached trucks. First, I painted the trucks Model Expo acrylic orange/red. Then I painted the gun barrels, mounts, and small accoutrements on the trucks, Model Expo acrylic black. Getting all the nooks and crannies covered with paint was not simple as I kept missing spots and had to keep going back to cover those surfaces while trying not to touch previous painted areas…but I did. When I fixed those, I reintroduced additional painting errors…etc. Finally, all I had left was the screw mechanism for adjusting the barrel elevation which I painted Testors enamel steel, which I already had.
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JSGerson got a reaction from PaddyO in USS Constitution by JSGerson - Model Shipways Kit No. MS2040
You may (or not) have noticed that the stove stack is missing in some of the most recent images. This is because due to working on the spar deck, my hand has been constantly bumping into it. So, I took it off for safe keeping. On that same note, I decided to delay installing anything to the spar until all the carronades have been completely installed. However, one partial exception was the black “plate” that the captain’s skylight will sit on. This was “installed” simply by painting a black square in the proper location. I’ll embed the stanchion bases into the deck when the skylight is installed.
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JSGerson got a reaction from Mike Y in USS Constitution by The Bitter End - Model Shipways - 1:76
I just found your build log today. It looks like you are on an exciting, if not challenging endeavor. I have some additional US Navy plans of the stem that may (or not) help.
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JSGerson got a reaction from rturcic72 in USS Constitution by mtbediz - 1:76
Here are two sources of miniature rope I've used and recommend, I am sure there are others.
Ropes of Scale: https://ropesofscale.com/
Syren Ship Model Company: https://syrenshipmodelcompany.com/
Jon
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