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Beautiful planking Augie! Everything looks crisp and clean.

Thank-you to both Michaels! It feels great to finally have a little time to spend in the shipyard!

Thank-you to both Michaels! It feels great to finally have a little time to spend in the shipyard!

Looking great Piet - although I think I'm cross-eyed now from just viewing the photos of the tiny parts.

Beautiful planking Augie! Everything looks crisp and clean.

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Looking great Piet - although I think I'm cross-eyed now from just viewing the photos of the tiny parts.

Beautiful planking Augie! Everything looks crisp and clean.

Thank-you to both Michaels! It feels great to finally have a little time to spend in the shipyard!

Hello al y'all and thanks again for the likes.  Hey Carl, by the time I spend buying all the lumber and hardware to make my own like that I'll be out about the same amount of bucks as buying one from Dremmel   but not half the fun.
 
Just a minor update, although it required many hours of diligent woek.  Been working on the gudgeons and pintles for the gunport doors.  Making slow progress because they are so tiny.  As mentioned some time ago, I am using 1/2 mm brass tubing for the hinge pins and that's a royal pain in the neck.  
I have to use the second additional magnifying glass in the optiviser which gets in the way sometimes.  In any case, I managed to solder all the small 1/2 mm pieces of tubing to the gudgeon strips and filed them to "close enough for government work" condition.  To get the small pin bushings square to the gudgeon strips was a nightmare.  Did not succeed with all of them but once they are cemented to the doors it won't be too visible.  
 
Next i ran into a snag with the hinge pins.  i thought i had enough brass wire that'll fit but nooooo, it was just a smidge too thick.  So i took my little file and stroked some brass away, finishing with sandpaper.  It worked!  
 
Next came making the pintles.  I used the 1/2 mm brass tubing for the mounting bolts that go into the hull instead of the 1/2 mm brass rod.  I filed a small flat spot to one end of a 15 mm length to hold a 2 mm piece of 1/2 mm brass tube.  Of the 16 I needed I think I must have made at least 6 more because every time I picked one up with my tweezers it "twanked" away into never-never land.  No use crawling around the floor or the workbench searching for them, they are just too tiny.
 
By my way of thinking the brass tubing for the pintle bolts seems sturdier then the rods.  We'll see when it comes time to install them to the ship.
 
I only managed in making one pintle assembly and pinned it to one of the gudgeons, works great.
 
Here are a few pics.
 

If you squint real good you can see the pintle bolt with the cross tube on the end.
 

Here I have placed the pintle on top of a #11 blade to show how tiny they are.  Hurray for optivisers!
 

Here i have temporarily pinned a gudgeon to the pintle.  Next comes the "how to make the hinge bolts from my modified brass wire."
 
Cheers,

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Just a quick update this time around.
 
The planking of the foredeck has been completed.  The waterways, margin planks and planking are Swiss Pear supplied by Jeff.  Only the port side has been planked to allow viewing the gundeck below.  I used my usual hooked scarph joints where the planking meets the margins:
 

 

 
Next up will be to treenail this deck (drill and fill) and apply the finish before we proceed with additional foredeck details.

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Thank-you everyone for your wonderful comments and support!
 
George: Glad others don't seem to see what I see!
 
Mark: You're absolutely right about being critical of my own work - I think we all "suffer" from that malady!
 
Jparsley:    You had me going for a minute!
 
Augie: Embellishment? No, really I'm telling the truth - I did the work.  Seriously though, thank-you! 
 
Patrick: One word or two, it doesn't matter - I'm flattered either way!
 
Piet: Yes, I know the routine all too well! I'll look at the rails for another day or two and then make a decision.

Grant: Thank-you! Hopefully more updates to follow soon.

S.Coleman: Thank-you very much!

Thank-you everyone for your wonderful comments and support!
 
George: Glad others don't seem to see what I see!
 
Mark: You're absolutely right about being critical of my own work - I think we all "suffer" from that malady!
 
Jparsley:    You had me going for a minute!
 
Augie: Embellishment? No, really I'm telling the truth - I did the work.  Seriously though, thank-you! 
 
Patrick: One word or two, it doesn't matter - I'm flattered either way!
 
Piet: Yes, I know the routine all too well! I'll look at the rails for another day or two and then make a decision.

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Thank-you everyone for your wonderful comments and support!
 
George: Glad others don't seem to see what I see!
 
Mark: You're absolutely right about being critical of my own work - I think we all "suffer" from that malady!
 
Jparsley:    You had me going for a minute!
 
Augie: Embellishment? No, really I'm telling the truth - I did the work.  Seriously though, thank-you! 
 
Patrick: One word or two, it doesn't matter - I'm flattered either way!
 
Piet: Yes, I know the routine all too well! I'll look at the rails for another day or two and then make a decision.

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Here are a few shots of the lanterns and other areas fore and aft, showing the fiber optics and yellow LEDs.
For now I have the wires attached to a 9 volt battery, but will be installing a proper switch box later.
 

 

 

 

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.
 

 

 

Thank-you Frank! 
 
Well, I have another update. I've been working on the rudder with its pintles and gudgeons. 
I used copper plate and cut it into strips which I formed on a 'dummy' rudder. Soldering was tricky for me at this scale, but I managed. I still have to fine tune and add faux bolts.
 

 

 
I've also made and added the midship set of spiral stairs with railings, and belaying pins are in place here as well. There is one more set of spiral stairs fore, yet to be made.
 

 

 
Last, but not least, I made the beakhead rails and supports. I'm not totally happy with them and some adjustments may follow.....or a total redo, I just haven't decided yet.