Dilbert55

I did fix the last parts and  we had the first real nice temperature this week...
I did some maintenance on the milling to increase the spindle precision. One of the most interesting facts  is the difference between a press drill and a milling machine.
The spindle of a press drill has standard bearings.
The Bridgeport has  angular contact ball bearing with the main line at 40 degrees.
This is why the spindle can work in more directions than the press drill.

Thank you Mark and Mark.
 
 
Recently I tried 2 new micromotors from Foredom.
The main differences are the rpm and the torque. The portable is light, turns at 30000 rpm and has little torque. It is easy to stop it if you push too hard. The small ones (Foredom and Geswein)are execllent for carving.
The second one turns up to 50000 rpm, very useful for metal and has much more torque. I also have a flex shaft from Foredom but I did not use it for many years. In comparison, flexshaft are harder to handle and you do not have as much control like you have with micromotors.

Let me tell you few stories:
 
I told a  curator museum in Quebec province that I had models ships and he answered this:
Before making a decision about these models, I would need some historical and documentary information concerning their origin, the name of the model maker, the place where they are kept, in what context they were made, etc. Also, can I also know the nature of your intention concerning these objects, donation, sale, or other?   If I  answered  I give you these "objects".  he answered I take everything.
If I answered these "objects are for sale, he would not bother to answer.
 
So, he did not even bother to answer
 
 
Here is another one with a man who had a museum in Ontario, he came to see the model ships at home.
 
He has many ship models in his collection with mainly 2 sources: models made in l' île Maurice and models given by peoples. His sales key was something like: Do you want your artist work to survive?
 
To him I answered: If you buy at least one, I will give you as many models as you want.
How many model did he has now, from me?
 
Finally, a last one, one of my friend, also model maker gave in consignment model ship he made. He sold 3.
The buyer said that for the first models he cannot give you very much because your name has no value, but he will give you more when you will be well known.
He sold for him  a model for $75,000 US and how much did he gave to the builder?  1/3
Seeing that, I guess that the name of the man who sold the model ship for my friend has a lot of value!
 
You just need a 8 feet long wall at least.
 

This week progress, few photos. I will be working in the front of the model for the next months.
 
In various contents in the forum, that I looked these last weeks, I was surprised how many over engineer model ship building, making a simple job, taking 10 times  longer but not with results 10 time better.
 
 

There was 2 things to do before being able to work on the first deck. Cut the beams for the second deck because some parts will be adjusted in relation with  some deck beams. These are all done at the same time. It will save a lot of time this way. Just think how much time if  it was done only as needed; set the tools before and after 35 times. Also a greater uniformity is reached by doing all these by similar steps in the construction. Carlings between the deck beams needs also to be fit. On a photo, we can see a simple jig to test the height of installation for each one. Even though they are suppose to fit in notches, it is easy to  change the height, so the jig helps for the height regularity.

Second deck beams are needed to install few parts of the first deck. The rails which support the deck beams are installed parallel. Also, they follow the line of the gun deck openings. The front parts of these beams are not curved. At this thickness, it would need to be steamed  or laminated. The fastest  way is to cut the shape  from a whole plank. It takes a lot of wood but it is easy to sand at the good thickness. This way, no stress in the plank. Then, you installed the deck beams of the second deck.

As we can see on the drawing, # 14, there are spacers between deck beams to help to maintain the deck beams in place.
After the installation of the spacers, I did cut cardboard to cover the first deck, to begin after the construction of the deck beams of the second  deck.
On the third photo, we can see a long steel rod with a sharp point at one end to sting a wood part when I drop one on the bottom. Unfortunately, I cannot turn the mode l upside down every time I drop a part.
 

Finally, I glued the deck beams of the first deck.

while doing some cleaning; here is a build log in 3 pictures taken from old pictures: French 74 guns at 1/192 scale.

Thank you and some photos:

Have not built enough kits to generate any opinion to enter into the poll. Is there a way to see the results without voting?

Planking finished and sanding already had some rough passes. I think its time to build a supporting jig in order to keep the model safe from keeping as the build goes forward. 
 
 

Few planks remain and ofcourse the correction plank(I guess two of them will be needed-a longer and a short one )  to close the hull planking.. Stealers were also used 4 each side at the stern. According to my logbook  I just conclude 100 hours of work.
 
Now its party time 🥂my grand son is coming to Cyprus and am closing the shipyard down for the time he is staying with grandma and grandpa.  😊🐖🐄🐓🦆

The plus/minus finished length of an assembled Boeing 747 (early in production) was approx. 1 inch due to accumulated variances during joining of fuselage sections and sub-assemblies.

Glued  most parts except the rail where the deck beams will rest. These rails must be still removable to  be able to cut notches for  the deck beams from the first deck later.
Half frames rest on these rails and to glue the half  frames , a spacer is added under the rails  so that the half frame can be glued somewhere.
 
Also the setup to take photos is now completed with a new tv. This way, it is very easy to observe very closely construction details photos

FINISHED 
300 work hours
Oct. 2018-March 2019
 

There isnt much to see of the standing rigging.... but its a lot of work...
 

As standing rigging proceeds I took some time to finish the display nameplate.

Shrouds are almost done...

Shrouds time....

it seems... I am sailing!
 
So am about to finish rigging. The shrouds are still to be done, rigging them to the masts and some minor rigging work.
 
So I am guessing in a few day -another 10-12 hrs in total- and thats it.... it took me about 300 hrs and am working on her since last Octomber.

And the story goes....

Rigging looks easy... but it is not! 
 
Captain decided the square sails remain furled. 

Rigging goes very slow... its very hard.Though I spend hours on it there isnt much to see. It will come suddenly completion picture.
 
 

So chainplates supported as original vessel and not as woody-joe's instructions.
 
On the same time rigging goes on very slow due to the fact that its a kind  of rigging (modern kind) that am not familiar with.