Ryland Craze

Glenn,
 
I have attached a 7-10-7 Template PDF that may be of some help for you.
7-10-7.pdf
 
Also, check out this post.  I found it very helpful.  Dunbrody explains in detail how he makes masts out of square stock.
 
 

Hobbymill will mill to spec and you can give him the measurements in inches.  No need to mess around with conversions.  Stick with the measurements on the plans.

Thank you Keith for sharing your situation and your faith.  Susan and I will keep you and Maggie in our prayers. Your situation hits too close to home for most of us old guys. We will pray for comfort for both you in this latest transition in life. We all know these transitions are inevitable, it doesn’t make it any easier. We can always lean into our faith for strength.
 
You have a great work of art in her already. The Tennessee can wait and so can we. 
 
May God bless you both.
 
your friend 🙏
John

Main Mast Shrouds…






Onwards…
Cheers 🍻
 

Since the lower deck will be practically invisible, the main parameter in its implementation is speed. Therefore, I made all the filling, as we say: “dendrophycal” method (excuse the expression) “from **** and sticks.”

That is, I used all the leftover materials, scraps and uncalibrated blanks. I did this so that there was more space for experiments with coating with oil and bitumen. I'm thinking of covering the hull with Rustins Tung oil, but with the deck either the same or Danish Rustins oil. I'll see how it all turns out under the bitumen.

So, I installed walls and imitation doors on fragments of the deck. I repeat! The location of the walls, the height of the deck itself and other elements may have errors (they will still not be visible). And there were no central walls near the mast at all (I installed them as a visor from the lighting that I am planning).
 

I made primitive stencils to create the outline of the doors, and scratched them with a needle.
 
                       
Oil coating is next... uh...

Mini update. This is the rudder so far, minus a little PE.
 
The rudder comprises a sandwich assembly....a pear core with engraved external faces. Assembly of these is as obvious as it gets.


 
The assembly is then sanded and evened up. After this, black card is applied to the straps at the top of the rudder.

 
Plating this rudder is easy. Instead of using individual plates, parts are supplied to do it all in one. Note there is a tapered edge piece too, if you do indeed choose to taper your rudder. For the prototype though, no taper is applied, so regular plates are used, slightly pared down to 5mm width.

 
 
The rudder is first painted black and then the faces are applied. To do this, I use Gorilla Epoxy. This gives me plenty of time to manoeuvre the copper so I have it properly aligned. I used a 1kg weight to with each face supplied, left until the parts are thoroughly set. The edge plates are then added. For the inner edge, I used a length of copper tape which I formed around the various curves. You can use the plates, but this is me just saving some time.

 
I can now add the copper rudder straps. These are PE parts and simply glue into the engraved positions on the copper faces. 


 
 
More when I can show you something...

Suffice to say there is PLENTY of information on rigging this ship, and without a doubt MORE than supplied with any other contemporary manufacturer. 
 
This is a discussion for another topic though, and not a build log  

...'taint a a hobby if you hurry!
 
And in other news, here's a cabinet that's supplied for the cabin. I didn't use it due to space restraints, but you might be able to house it. Now....back on topic.
 

Great work Greg! 

Superb work, Greg!

Just wow.  Each one so cool and unique, but the collection itself is mind blowing.  Well done and cool journey!  Who says you can't travel back in time?

You've a great collection of related models - all done with nice detail at the same scale !

A few days ago I went through the digitised holdings of plans at the Technical University Berlin and their have been quite a few weird looking thingies in the 19th century, such as all shapes of (bucket, suction, hopper) dredgers, (steam) pile-drivers etc. also on German waters. Sternwheelers though were absent, they were not common in Europe, where mainly side-wheelers were used.
These could make interesting subjects, like your nice little fleet.

Thank you, Phil.
 
 Thank you, Bob. 
 
 Thank you, James.
 
 Thank you, Eric. The image of an ugly duck stuck in your feed made me laugh. The diorama is a dream that will take me at least two years before I'd be able to start that project if life goes smoothly but life's not going too smoothly right this sec. More on that later.  

That is so absolutely fantastic seeing them all together like that. When do you start on the full harbor diorama? Gonna be weird not having a Keith Black ugly duckling in my feed...

Fantastic seeing them all together, well done. 

Great looking Fleet,  
 
Bob  M.

Congratulations!  Very nicely done!

Thank you to all you folks for the likes and for the congratulations on completing Billy. Your support is very special to me and very much appreciated. 
 
 
 Das Fleet.
 
 Completion order is right left, right left starting at the back.  I must say, this year and a half working boat journey was a kick in the pants!
 

 

 

 

 

 
 Thank you to all who followed along on these journeys.
 
  Keith
 

My prayers and best wishes to you, Keith!

I sincerely hope and pray that she gets better soon and that all ends up well!

Well, I hope you don't loose your stamina and your wife and yourself will get out of this. Yes, downsizing when you have to go into a retirement home is a major cut in one's life, I have seen that happening a few years ago with my mother and in the wake of it we had to give up the family home with also most of our tangible childhood memories ... I wish both of you good luck and hope that you have help from your family!

The Tennessee is back on the front row, for the moment and I may as well get into this now.

 
 Long drawn out build logs also become life logs, some folks share, some folks don't. I share my life with you because all of you are a very real part of my life. The Tennessee build log has seen my stroke, the death of our beloved long time cat, Maggie's stroke, and the death of my son. I don't wanna say that my  life log has been all tragedy because it hasn't, there's been a ton of joy also. Joy in life, joy in discovering things about the Tennessee, joy in finding things for the Tennessee, and joy in working on the Tennessee....but.
 
 I have bursitis in both shoulders and elbows. For the past five weeks my left shoulder has been giving me absolute he double hockey sticks. I've had burning pain running down my left arm and at times it's made my fingers go numb. It just about made me give up but I was finally able to get a prescription of steroids that's helping that situation. 
 
 The more serious situation is two weeks ago this coming Wednesday Maggie went from being able to get up and shuffle about on her own too in a matter of hours asking for help standing up and help walking to the bathroom. I got her to the bathroom doorway and she collapsed in my arms. I laid her down on the floor as gently as I could and called 911. She was in the hospital for a week and they have/had no clue as to why. She did have a super low heart rate at one point of 39, they adjusted her heart medication and that helped improve her heart rate. 
 
 So the hospital discharged her to a rehab center to see if she could get her strength back up where she can get about on her own. If she can't walk on her on she can't come home because I don't have the strength to lift her, those days have long passed. So she goes into rehab to get better, peachy, right? Two days into rehab and her roommate comes down with Covid and Maggie who didn't get a Covid shot this year is stuck in there with her in a shared bathroom setting. If God could keep Daniel safe in the midst of lions, I firmly believe He can keep Maggie safe in the midst of Covid. 
 
 If she's unable to regain the strength to get about on her own I need to get her into assisted living. And if she goes into assisted living I'm going right along with her because my life isn't worth living without her which means we gotta sell this house and downsize big time. Our house is four bedrooms, two baths, TV room/den, living room, dinning room, kitchen, basement, three season porch, and garage. And every room is full of antique furniture, pottery and glassware collections, clock collection, lamp collection, quilt collection, spinning wheel collection, yada yada yada collection. We'll have to downsize form 2,500 sq ft to 450 to 550 sq ft. Which of the wooden children do you choose?  
 
 Right this minute my head is spinning bout clean off. We'll get through this because life goes on but, don't expect great leaps and bounds progress on the Tennessee. I'm pumping bilge water as fast as I can. 
 
  Keith
 

I am looking forward to you getting back to the ship.  Can't wait to see it finished.  
 
 

Working on adding the bolts.
 
I think I need to trim down the 40lb line on the sides of the capstans.  They look a little long right now but not 100% sure.
 
A decided to add the bolts to the top of the capstans as well.  I'm using 25lb line for these as the holes looked smaller than the included 40lb line.  Top capstan is done, need to add the 16 bolts around the ring on top of the bottom capstan still.
 
Dry fit of all parts, not glued together yet.
 

 
At scale, those side bolts are sticking out between 3/4 and 1 inch.  Does that sound about right?  Or should they be closer to 1/2 to 3/4 inch?
 
And a close up of the top capstan.  One mistake on cutting one bolt too close.  Afraid I'll cause more damage attempting to correct so that's the way it will stay.
 

 
Steve