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Greetings, All gun ports are in; filled, sanded, and painted. Thus ends Chapter 4. Into chapter 5 The ship is all lined out. The wales stripes and moldings are on as well as the butt joint location lines. Now it’s time to mill some .045mm and 1/16th in. strips. I am going to use the India Ink as an ebonizer- 2 coats followed by a coat of wipe on poly before any trimming for painting with wood. I tried a Sharpie black but it left a purple hugh to the black. Not at all satisfactory.               I wish the red from the Sharpie had come out better. The only good thing is that only 1/32nd of an inch will show. I also used India Ink on the quarterdeck gun ports and the timber heads. Now for a complete hull coat with the Wipe on poly and on to the planking.   Now for some decisions regarding the dummy cannon:

Should I blacken them or leave them brass?

Should I mount them before I close up the lower hull? I want to use epoxy for this.

Looking at the top view of the cannon, note they sit a little proud of the hull. I get this affect by not seating the mounting pin all the way to the rear. I actually like this look.

 

I know, my ship, my rules. But, some input would be appreciated. Might save me from making a mistake that will show further down the road.

  Regards  

E J,
Just beautiful in every way.
 
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I built the Bluenose II and wanted a midnight blue color for the upper hull and a rust red for below the waterline. I couldn't find what I wanted in any brand of paint. I went to Lowes and looked at all their paint color chips and found the colors I wanted. I had them make me a trial jar of each color using eggshell acrylic base. I thinned this 20% with distilled water, Brushed on several coats, and finished with a satin Wipe-on-poly. Came out very nice. At $3.95 for an 8 oz. jar, you can't beat this.

Patrick,
Your model is coming along really well. The sculpy carvings are perfect. Keep up the great work.
 
 
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Patrick
Taking a break right now to do some serious work on my Panart 738 Victory. Then it off to rope making for the Endeavour and we will go back and forth between the two.

Greetings,
Time for another update. I started over last week after receiving the new framing from Mantua and have just about caught up to where I was before.

There are several pictures and I will have several photo posts along with this.

The ship is coming along rather nicely. A couple of millimeters off here and there to be adjusted later.
The first photo shows how much less the beam is on the model than the actual ship according to the AOS.

The blue bands that are holding the bow blocks together until the glue sets are the disposable tourniquets that the blood suckers err phlebotomists are using now. They work real well on any non parallel surface.

There are many recurring measurements on this ship that introduce a chance of small errors from repeating viewing. I remembered a method from my wood working days of cabinet and furniture making that helps. They are called story sticks. You put the distance on the stick one time and draw the line on the work piece. It's a lot easier that moving a ruler around each time and gives me more consistency.    The jars have all the pieces for the gun port frames that I made while I was waiting for the parts to arrive.   You can see two braces that I installed on the quarterdeck bullworks. I got tired of breaking these pieces off because there was no framing support. They are thin enough to disappear when the inside planking goes on.

Here come the photos           _______________
Michael Zemmel
Midlothian, VA
Completed: AVS, MS Benjamin W. Latham
Building: Corel HMB Endeavour, Panart HMS Victory,
"Buy all your toys before you retire"
ma.zemmel@gmail.com                
                                                 

Finally, the port side gun ports have all been installed, sanded and filled where needed. All that's left to do is the final sanding and adding the red and black color to the appropriate ports.   I am going to wait for the color until after the starboard gun ports are at the same place. Maybe I will only have to do the color one time this way. Ever the optomist .   Now for some decisions regarding the dummy cannon: Should I blacken them or leave them brass? Should I mount them before I close up the lower hull? I want to use epoxy for this. Looking at the top view of the cannon, note they sit a little proud of the hull. I get this affect by not seating the mounting pin all the way to the rear. I actually like this look.   I know, my ship, my rules. But, some input would be appreciated. Might save me from making a mistake that will show further down the road.   Regards to all  
I'm will try to re-post photos 7222--7227 as well as the current group.

Patrick,
Your model is coming along really well. The sculpy carvings are perfect. Keep up the great work.
 
 
Regards

Greetings again,
 
A lot of progress to report since the last post. I have finished the hull with the exception of the 3 large port covers (3 each P&S).
All of the deck furniture, pin rails, gangway stairs, rubbing boards, light and air port covers have all been installed. The paint has been tidied up. This appears to be an ongoing project. A coat of  Wipe on Poly applied to everything above the wales.
 
I am thinking about stringing all of the chain plate parts on a thin line and spray painting them with Model Master flat black aerosol. I don't know how this will work for the britainia metal. Any ideas would be welcome.
 
It was a very good week. I even figured out how to turn the pictures right side up- no more having to stand on your head.
 
Photos to follow
 
Looks like I have some more tidying up to do.
 
Regards

Finally, the port side gun ports have all been installed, sanded and filled where needed. All that's left to do is the final sanding and adding the red and black color to the appropriate ports.   I am going to wait for the color until after the starboard gun ports are at the same place. Maybe I will only have to do the color one time this way. Ever the optomist .   Now for some decisions regarding the dummy cannon: Should I blacken them or leave them brass? Should I mount them before I close up the lower hull? I want to use epoxy for this. Looking at the top view of the cannon, note they sit a little proud of the hull. I get this affect by not seating the mounting pin all the way to the rear. I actually like this look.   I know, my ship, my rules. But, some input would be appreciated. Might save me from making a mistake that will show further down the road.   Regards to all  
I'm will try to re-post photos 7222--7227 as well as the current group.

Finally, the port side gun ports have all been installed, sanded and filled where needed. All that's left to do is the final sanding and adding the red and black color to the appropriate ports.   I am going to wait for the color until after the starboard gun ports are at the same place. Maybe I will only have to do the color one time this way. Ever the optomist .   Now for some decisions regarding the dummy cannon: Should I blacken them or leave them brass? Should I mount them before I close up the lower hull? I want to use epoxy for this. Looking at the top view of the cannon, note they sit a little proud of the hull. I get this affect by not seating the mounting pin all the way to the rear. I actually like this look.   I know, my ship, my rules. But, some input would be appreciated. Might save me from making a mistake that will show further down the road.   Regards to all  
I'm will try to re-post photos 7222--7227 as well as the current group.

Take a look at my rope walk in the making rope forum.
 
I got real ambitious.
 
Regards

Great work Jesse. Your deck is becoming very active with all he detail.
 
Not being a lather, although I recently got a midi, somewhere I read that old hacksaw blades make good profiles for turning small parts. Do you know anything about this? Especially how to cut the profile.Thanks
 
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Great work Jesse. Your deck is becoming very active with all he detail.
 
Not being a lather, although I recently got a midi, somewhere I read that old hacksaw blades make good profiles for turning small parts. Do you know anything about this? Especially how to cut the profile.Thanks
 
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Great work Jesse. Your deck is becoming very active with all he detail.
 
Not being a lather, although I recently got a midi, somewhere I read that old hacksaw blades make good profiles for turning small parts. Do you know anything about this? Especially how to cut the profile.Thanks
 
Regards

E J
Coming along great. Keep going I love looking at your work., Inspirational
 
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Beautiful wok EJ.
 
 

E J
Coming along great. Keep going I love looking at your work., Inspirational
 
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Take a look at my rope walk in the making rope forum.
 
I got real ambitious.
 
Regards

E J
Coming along great. Keep going I love looking at your work., Inspirational
 
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E J
Coming along great. Keep going I love looking at your work., Inspirational
 
Regards

Your rigging is wonderfully neat and crisp. I wish I could come close to you results.
 
As a recommendation, I would rig all the lines that reside on the center line of the ship and move out from there that includes the lifts for the yards that belay on the foot of the masts.
Working over the shrouds is horrible, frustrating and exhausting..
 
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Very nicely done all the way through
 
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Here come some photos. There are a bunch. More to come I can ever find the middle gun deck photos Enjoy

Chapter 3 is done!!!!!!!
Main deck and quarter deck gun ports installed and sanded to 320. Camera showed some additional filler to be added.

Got a full eight hours in for the first time ever. It's amazing what you can accomplish in a full days work. I even skipped lunch. Very unlike me to miss a meal.

A question in my mind is whether or not to delay applying the red and black color to the gun port frames until middle and lower deck gun ports are installed to keep them from getting messed up with the continuous handling? Or, do it now?

Also do you wipe on poly before and after or after adding color, or both?

Also milled all the parts for the middle and lower deck gun ports as a diversion.

I made up several of the boxes for the middle and lower gun decks. I think I am correct when I say that the critical measurement is the opening length and width of the gun port which is 13/32 inch on the upper and quarter decks. This should carry over to the lower decks. I actually kept the die for the gun ports but the center piece is a 1/32 " to narrow. I want to see if this can be adjusted. More on this after the testing.