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Rick01 reacted to Cabbie in Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates
Thanks Chris Helps a lot Time for COFFEE!!!!!!
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Rick01 got a reaction from Canute in Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates
Not Startrack by any chance? Around our way they throw the parcels into corners that you can't easily access!
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Rick01 got a reaction from chris watton in Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates
Not Startrack by any chance? Around our way they throw the parcels into corners that you can't easily access!
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Rick01 got a reaction from mtaylor in Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates
Not Startrack by any chance? Around our way they throw the parcels into corners that you can't easily access!
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Rick01 got a reaction from Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
Not from what I've been able to see. It appears to be a complete hoop bolted to the stem with the bowsprit put through it.
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Rick01 got a reaction from Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
There's a little gizmo called (I think) a spectacle. Basically an iron hoop going round the bowsprit and bolted to the prow. You can just make it out on this contemporary model https://modelshipworld.com/gallery/image/10960-p1000982s/
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Rick01 reacted to Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by Cabbie - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48
Thank goodness that part of the ship is done.
Stem, Keel and stern post planked or re-planked too much breath holding and
nearly collapsing. Still needs a good clean but that is not going to happen yet.
I will make a rudder out of solid timber.
Some work to do on the transom, do the wales, upper wales trim strip and sort out where the channels sit,
in line with the trim strip or just below. i am leaning towards doing them in line with the trim strip.
Hooroo Chris
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Rick01 reacted to Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by Cabbie - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48
Yeah probably Rick But I don't mind having a go this way
Learning new skills as i go, trying something I might have thought,
would have been too hard.
And I quite like doing it by hand as much as possible
make enough noise and dust at work
Thanks Chris
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Rick01 got a reaction from oneslim in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by Cabbie - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48
Should have done what I did. Threw my hands up in disgust over the use of ply, dug around in the workshop found a couple of nice off-cuts and crafted a nice solid stem, false keel and stern post. I did have two or three goes at it but I'm much happier with the result.
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Rick01 reacted to JamesBhm in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
No building accomplished this weekend, but the latest "research" involved an evening sail on a replica of a late 1800s gaff rigged oyster schooner on the Gulf of Mexico. Got some nice pics of rigging and got to watch hoisting/furling of the sails, which was helpful to visualize. Not exactly the same period/origin as the Mermaid, but I think some aspects of gaff rigging are pretty universal. Rick and Chris...check out the horse/traveller. It was the first thing I noticed.
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Rick01 reacted to Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by Cabbie - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48
A Monday night update, just more planking done, but getting close
to finishing the hull. Then I will do the top wale trim strip, anchor stock planking on
the wales. And then re-do the keel and stern post and plank the stem, and add the bulwark capping and paint
it and the wales black. Hooroo Chris
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Rick01 got a reaction from paulsutcliffe in HMS Sirius 1797 by paulsutcliffe - 1:48 - POF from NMM plans
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Rick01 got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Lady Nelson by vossiewulf - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64
Having been bossed by 12 cats over my adult lifetime there's one thing I have learnt and that's the fact that you just have to go with the flow with these guys.They all seem to have their own ideas of fun, all with one common theme "pay attention to me NOW" 😉 Luckily my workshop is not in the house and they are banned from it for their own safety - but really I can't imagine life without one or two hanging about to boss me around.
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Rick01 got a reaction from Keith Black in HMS Sirius 1797 by paulsutcliffe - 1:48 - POF from NMM plans
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Rick01 reacted to Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
Morning James
Found this on the net this morning, a little bit earlier than the mermaid.
But your transom with a name on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hired_armed_cutter_Telemachus
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Rick01 reacted to Thunder in Lady Nelson by vossiewulf - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64
Have you not watched 101 Dalmatians? I thought they were plain but slightly pink.
Love them, don't see these types of breed much any more only mongrels with poo in the name somewhere!
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Rick01 got a reaction from src in Lady Nelson by vossiewulf - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64
Looks really good Jay - nice solution to your problem and the cup burr has worked well.
I've actually only had one 4 week period in my life without cats (with my surname it's not really surprising) and that was when we migrated to Aus. by ship. My latest addition is someone else's reject rescued from the local pound, his only problem is that he talks constantly if I'm not around so I'm in immediate trouble after spending any time in the workshop 1/ with my wife because of Benny; and 2/ With Benny for not being where he could find me! He's learnt pretty quickly where he shouldn't go but that doesn't stop the occasional foray just to show who's boss. 🙂
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Rick01 got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Meteor 1851 by Jim Lad - Scale 1:96 - Immigrant Ship
I know we've slightly high-jacked this thread but I just had to add this to clarify Drop Bears https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
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Rick01 reacted to JamesBhm in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
I think I got myself in a bit over my head with this modified transom. I don’t think I went about it the most efficient way, but patience (and re-bending the same pieces repeatedly) may have paid off. I made a cap and side trim for the transom using 1/32” walnut sheet stock. I had to spile the pieces (first time for everything). The walnut bent reasonable well after a few minutes in boiling water. I made some bending forms with thick balsa. The fit of the pieces wasn’t exactly perfect, but what I lack in joinery skills I make up for in color matching wood filler! Bending & attaching it in three pieces was definitely easier, and the little gaps are where the davits will go so they shouldn't be an issue. Then...I made one deviation from what I think is historically correct by adding the bracket pieces (would those technically be knees in that position?). I can’t make out what is in the transom area in King’s cross section…looks like maybe a cabinet or locker type of thing? I know I can’t build that but the transom area was feeling a bit naked. I've seen things like that in other cutter models (current and contemporary), so I put them in for added visual interest (plus for woodworking practice). Just some carved, sanded, and stained basswood. I'm worn out, but glad to put the stress of this transom behind me!
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Rick01 got a reaction from vossiewulf in Lady Nelson by vossiewulf - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64
Looks really good Jay - nice solution to your problem and the cup burr has worked well.
I've actually only had one 4 week period in my life without cats (with my surname it's not really surprising) and that was when we migrated to Aus. by ship. My latest addition is someone else's reject rescued from the local pound, his only problem is that he talks constantly if I'm not around so I'm in immediate trouble after spending any time in the workshop 1/ with my wife because of Benny; and 2/ With Benny for not being where he could find me! He's learnt pretty quickly where he shouldn't go but that doesn't stop the occasional foray just to show who's boss. 🙂
Rick
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Rick01 got a reaction from vossiewulf in Lady Nelson by vossiewulf - Amati/Victory Models - 1:64
Having been bossed by 12 cats over my adult lifetime there's one thing I have learnt and that's the fact that you just have to go with the flow with these guys.They all seem to have their own ideas of fun, all with one common theme "pay attention to me NOW" 😉 Luckily my workshop is not in the house and they are banned from it for their own safety - but really I can't imagine life without one or two hanging about to boss me around.
Rick
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Rick01 got a reaction from Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by Cabbie - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48
Shouldn't be a problem - you can display it one side one week, t'other side the next week. 😉 If you copper it will you also "weather" the copper plates? I feel that shiny copper plating may look a little odd .
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Rick01 reacted to JamesBhm in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
Fernando - Interesting idea. I had toyed with the idea of painting the cap rail on the bulwarks black just for some interesting visual contrast and to break up the "mathcy-matchy" effect of all the finished wood. I've seen one version of the model like that. If I have trouble capping the transom and need to break out the wood filler, I may have no choice for the transom and might do the cap rail as well.
Rick - Definitely a concern. Luckily, I just recently went on a buying spree and stocked up on some strip and sheet stock for my possible attempt at building whaleboats (and to play with). I've got walnut, beech, cherry, mahogany, and limewood. Limewood wasn't bad to work with at all when I built the jollyboat - especially with a little boiling water.
Chris - Thanks for the compliment (Google came through for me) and the addition to my vocabulary! It pairs nicely with the geography lessons reading King's journal.
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Rick01 reacted to Cabbie in HM Cutter Mermaid 1817 by JamesBhm - Modellers Shipyard - Scale 1:48 - first build
It will be ok James is very good with the research.😀
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