Piet

Good advice, thanks fellows.  Yep, I have been thinking about the sealing business too.  When washing off some of the glue I noticed a leak in several places. I have some fiber glass material left over from building the O19. Plenty of resin stuff.  You'd think that the Tite Bond glue would be enough but I'm not taking any chances.
 
Did some more work on the base this morning. I set the nails a little and filled the dimples with wood filler, had lunch and then sanded everything down - smooth.  I needed to go over it again adding some more putty. Tomorrow I'll finish the molding.
Then I'll do the "water proofing" of the inside of the base. After that's cured I'll measure what the volume is so I can buy that polymer stuff with the blue coloring.
Staining the molding will come whenever.
 
Cheers,
 

Catching up with you JesseLee, fantastic progress my friend. Ratlines are looking pretty good.
 
Cheers,

Good advice, thanks fellows.  Yep, I have been thinking about the sealing business too.  When washing off some of the glue I noticed a leak in several places. I have some fiber glass material left over from building the O19. Plenty of resin stuff.  You'd think that the Tite Bond glue would be enough but I'm not taking any chances.
 
Did some more work on the base this morning. I set the nails a little and filled the dimples with wood filler, had lunch and then sanded everything down - smooth.  I needed to go over it again adding some more putty. Tomorrow I'll finish the molding.
Then I'll do the "water proofing" of the inside of the base. After that's cured I'll measure what the volume is so I can buy that polymer stuff with the blue coloring.
Staining the molding will come whenever.
 
Cheers,
 

Great looking gun deck Mark. Sorry to hear about the minor tackle snafu. It's amazing though what a good night's sleep can do, clear the fog.
 
Cheers,

Love the outdoor shots Dave, she's looking awesome.
 
Cheers,

Great looking gun deck Mark. Sorry to hear about the minor tackle snafu. It's amazing though what a good night's sleep can do, clear the fog.
 
Cheers,

Good advice, thanks fellows.  Yep, I have been thinking about the sealing business too.  When washing off some of the glue I noticed a leak in several places. I have some fiber glass material left over from building the O19. Plenty of resin stuff.  You'd think that the Tite Bond glue would be enough but I'm not taking any chances.
 
Did some more work on the base this morning. I set the nails a little and filled the dimples with wood filler, had lunch and then sanded everything down - smooth.  I needed to go over it again adding some more putty. Tomorrow I'll finish the molding.
Then I'll do the "water proofing" of the inside of the base. After that's cured I'll measure what the volume is so I can buy that polymer stuff with the blue coloring.
Staining the molding will come whenever.
 
Cheers,
 

The length of the ship’s hull is 36-3/4” measured from the outer edge of the bow rail to the outer edge of the stern rail.
Thanks for the visit Steve
 

The main gangway boards installed.
Sea steps installed.
Bumpkins and davits installed.
Managed to get all of the channels cut and just finished installing the aft channels on both sides....

Thanks for all your patience and following along.  Many twists and turns on this journey and a few are self-inflicted.
 
Lou,
I experimented and used several jigs and all the results were, for lack of a better word..... meh.   
 
Tom,
I suspect you're right on the more practice.
 
 
After a good night's sleep... I reconsidered things.  New glasses weren't helping much and I probably focused too intently on the problem and used the wrong materials.  So, I'll revisit these little pests. Here's my thoughts:  The thread I chose was too thick which limited me on block size.  I need to use the smaller blocks due to the distance from the bulkhead hook to the gun carriage eyebolt.   I located my stash of fine linen thread that I wanted to use with the ropewalk and a test this morning shows it's doable with the smaller blocks (the 1/8" ones).  Vision goes bananas but not like it was so I'm stepping back from this for now.  Maybe in a week or two things will be a bit more stable.  So the gun rigging isn't dead yet... just on hold.
 
In the meantime, I'll sort out the deck furniture for the gun deck, make a rigging plan to sort out what I need to run to the gundeck before it's inaccessible, and maybe work on the exterior hull... eyebolts w/rings, channels and possibly the lower deadeyes and chains.  Almost forgot.. ship's boats need to there also.
 
So.. going to sit down with the plans and design and build her galley stoves.  Should be fun.
 
 

Mark, from experience, you will find those blocks that flew away when you are looking for something else on the floor.
 
Dealing with those small blocks is challenging. I used 3/32" blocks for the Connie guns and am using them now in the upper running rigging. I was loosing a lot at first (which I think I have found most of since then), but was able to get a pretty good process down to stropping them. I just takes lots of practice.

Hi Mark
Probably a pretty dumb suggestion as I have never in my life worked with tackle as small as this and therefore it is kind of like the student talking to the Sensei.
 
Would it be possible to pin the blocks to a flat surface like a bug collection with pins to hold them until you are able to secure the outer rope and hooks? Then you could hold them with a third hand type of tool by the secured lines and run the pulley ropes through them until they are fully rigged.
 
I am almost certain that there is something that probably prevents this method from working but I thought I would throw it out there anyway just in case.  

Thanks for the likes and comments.
 
Well, I finally hit the brick wall.  So rather than let it stop me, I'll go around it.
 
Attached photos show the blocks for the gun rigging.   Unfortunately, even at 5/32" they're still too big. I tried Chuck's 1/8" blocks but had to give that up after sending an even dozen flying across the room.  Too tiny to handle and to chase the holes for the .017" line.  A bit frustrating to say the least as I was enjoying doing the seizings for the lines. I'm going to look for some smaller line and hope I can use these small blocks for the 6 cannons up on the weather decks.   In the meantime, I'm telling myself that all that work would be hidden anyway under the decks and gangways.  I think the next model will have to be 1:48....
 
Anyway, here's the closeups of the cannon that tested with. 
 
Footnote1:  Somewhere around the shop are 7 or 8 of the 5/32" blocks which I'm sure I'll hear the vacuum suck up.
Footnote2:  The black hook in the first photo is one of Dafi's 2mm hooks.  Even the thin sowing thread looks huge when blown up.  
 
Time to go install deck furniture and build her galleys.
 

...and you can add my smile to the growing list of admirers, too, Mark!!!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

A feast for the eyes ... another smile on my face ...

Powering along now Mark; she looks great!
 
cheers
 
Pat

Hi Mark
 
At last you are really getting some shipyard time in, and the results are starting to show! Great progress and workmanship.
 
Lou

Thank you for the likes and the comments.
 
Meanwhile back in the shipyard, the guns are all installed and have their breeching ropes.  I put in temporarily two markers for the ends of the quarter and fore decks to check for tolerances and to think things through more on the rigging of the mainmast.  So far, so good.  There should be about 12 or 16 eyebolts with blocks for rigging behind the mainmast but that's not going to happen so I'll have to move those lines up to the quarterdeck.   Next up is making and installing the cannon traversing tackle which will be fun but also a pain as the parts are so tiny.   I'm using 5/16 inch Chuck Blocks for these.  I thought about using the 1/8" blocks but they're too tiny for these guns.  Oh well.. maybe for the 4 pounders topside and also for some of the rigging.
 
Here's the photos...
 

Good progress Mark,
fine work!

Outstanding model and excellent performance. My great admiration to your project.
Best regards

ratlines are coming along nicely....I too like the sag you have there   
 
I used to have a loom that came with a Heller kit........haven't a clue where it got off to.

How did you get that realistic sag in the ratlines and how did you get it to stay put?

She's looking great Jesse. 

Caught up with you Denis. Great progress and I hope you van figure out how to proceed with the spiral stairs, They give the boat a level of class. If not, that your regular stairs will also look awesome.
Keep plugg'n at them my friend.

With reference to Ken's remark: You could use a transparent acrylic kit to seal the edges ...