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19 hours ago, The Lazy Saint said:

Hi mugje,

Great looking carronades, l am looking forward to seeing them rigged and in place.

I have enjoyed looking through your build log, l have to say, your wood working skills are very good indeed. Well done, keep up the great work.

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint. 

 

Thank you so much! That's so nice to hear!

Did a bit of wheatering on the carronades, but difficult to see on the picture

Thanks Rob and Lazy Saint. The full tackle as in with model in the manual looks appealing to me so I try to go for that. But I find it very weird that they don't include how to lay a knot.

Maybe they asume that you just use "house and garden" knots? (it's a dutch expression haha) But what would somebody do without the internet!

hmm....this is kind of difficult. I'm at the part of rigging the carronades, but the manual leaves a lot of holes in the explanation how to do this. They say to secure the 0.1 line to the blocks, but

don't explaining how? What kind of knots do I use? I have never tied something like this😅

12 minutes ago, robdurant said:

Pickle was my first wooden model too. Keep up the great work.

 

Rob

Your hm Pickle looks great Rob! Did you use the Mantua figures on your ship?

Ah tnx Rob!

Great to hear the compliments! And tnx for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense. Yes i understand they need to make compromises with the kits to make it

affordable. I would like to see in the future that you can buy upgrades for a kit, just like they did with the hms Fly from Victory models. Then you can decide for yourself how much compromises

you want to make :D...but maybe that's one step away of scratch building the pieces by yourself.

It's needing some paintwork when it's finished but it looks already good now. It's really small! Almost to small for my trembling fingers haha.

And i find it a bit weird that Caldercraft didn't use solid pieces of walnut, but a kind of plywood idea with two small layers of walnut and something cheaper in between.

A bit of a compromise.

Working on the carronades

Then installing...

then I painted the etched brass eyelets and cleats with first a metal primer and then 'mat metal black' from Admiralty paints.

It's really small haha! I have to get used to it...to handle such small items

The hull is ready so i can start with the inner bulwark fittings. First i will fresh up the cleats, they are pretty rough casts.

Great build! You are doing a amazing job on the Sherbourne, very inspiring!

I enjoy the build a lot! In the past i was a person that gave up on things pretty fast because i encountered to many problems, but this hobby

is teaching me patience and selfesteem. Wonderful! 🎇

I'm so happy that i rediscovered the hobby again. I think that i wasn't ready for it a few years ago. Now it's time to move on with it, and to enjoy 

the process it's given me.

Little personal sidenote

I used some steel wol and sandpaper to rough the paint a bit up. I don't like the clean look of a freshly painted ship.

It's needs to be a bit old and scruffy ;). The pictures don't capture it just right. In real life it looks much better.

I need to borrow the camera of a friend of mine so i can photograph the details better.

Finished al the painting of the hull! That's a nice milestone for now

Especially the bottom of the yellow strip was difficult for me. I didn't get it perfect in my eyes with just the hand.

So i used masking tape and that made a lot of difference. Now it's okay to me.

The flashy spots on the copper plates are from the dremel. I have to clean the plates once more so everything can age simultaneously.

The copper plates still need some work...there are some spots of glue residue. It's not the most fun work, so i do it in little steps

started painting

with the Dremel just flatted the pins. I filled the dents...that came along with my Dremel work with some wood filler

filled the gap between the capping rails with a piece of scrapwood, and cleant it up afterwards.

Ah tnx! It's a lot clearer now! That with the elastic bands does sound a lot easier now. I just misunderstood it wrong in the first place. Well, that's useful in a lot of ways indeed. Thanks for al the help👍

That lego seems also very handy, so i need some of that  

Thank you a lot! I will look for finer pins. These ones have a thickness of 0.7 mm

Getting more and more respect for the people who make the ships 'naturel' regarding the colors! I can correct a lot of mistakes with some filler and paint, so that's handy for now😂

Needs some filling here

Okay...tested the method with the elastic bands, but couldn't get it just right. But the scrap pieces did help! I used the scrap pieces with clamps against the bulwarks, so it was easier to align the capping rails. But still used pins to nail the rails at the bulwarks. This worked pretty okay. Still needs lot's of touching up afterwards 😁😉

I found that the montage of the capping rails one of the most difficult parts of the build was for now, but really satisfying when it's done 😊👍