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vossy got a reaction from yvesvidal in Mississippi 1870 by vossy - Sergal - 1:50 - Riverboat
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A dodgy update is better than none i guess?
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vossy got a reaction from yvesvidal in Mississippi 1870 by vossy - Sergal - 1:50 - Riverboat
finally got some crew onboard! the chief engineer checking up on the poor bloke who has to shovel you know what! sorry about the pic quality! really bad at this! level 2 structure planking continues at glacier movement pace!
chris
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vossy got a reaction from yvesvidal in Mississippi 1870 by vossy - Sergal - 1:50 - Riverboat
crawling along with all this planking of decks and cabin structures! finally have second deck glued down, but requires another coat of matt clear I reckon. second deck cabin structure is a slow process to plank. here it is just dry sitting on top of the deck itself. when completed and ready to mount, it will also be white, so any small gaps the camera shows up can be filled if necessary.
none of my passengers and crew have been glued into position as yet, and I am still procrastinating over the horse bay area detail. anyway, sorry, not much of an update, but it is a way to bump my log up from page 5 I guess
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Finished and added blocks to the main yard.
Because I need my workbench to make the yards, I have moved the ship across the room. I also need somewhere to store the yards as I build them -- so I will mount them on the masts as I go along. Pic of the first mounted yard is shown, along with some rigging detail.
The light is not very good in the part of the workroom where the ship now is, so I bought a LED headset light (shown). Wow, what a godsend. Puts a ton of light just where you are looking. Only $30 at Amazon. Wish I'd had it sooner.
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Built my first yard -- the lower main yard -- and thought I'd offer a few comments:
1) The plans show banding on the yards, but there is no indication there or in the manual what they are made of, so I used black thread.
2) For the life of me, I can't figure out the mast rings supplied with the kit. The inner diameters seem wrong, and the counts seem wrong. So I have abandoned them and made my own for the stunsail booms out of wire. It's all painted black at the end so it looks fine.
The finished yard (rigging blocks not yet installed) is shown below as well.
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to Sergey Karelia in OSEBERG ship by Shipphotographer.com - Ships of Pavel Nikitin (Ukraine) - Scale 1:25 (15/32" = 1') - Length: 865 mm ( 34 3/34 inch)
I built Oseberg a few years ago
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Finished the standing rigging on the jib. Now all of the standing rigging is done.
I haven't built any of the yards yet, so now it's on to shaping and sanding.
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Backstays now done on all masts. Jib standing rigging next.
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
A couple of "not in the plans" mods:
When I made the main topgallant mast, I messed up and created an area of the mast that was too narrow, and too weak. As I got into rigging the backstays, I saw that it might not hold the tension. So I added a small splint, which is virtually invisible at normal viewing distance, and that has strengthened the mast back to where it can handle rigging tension. I also added a backstay that isn't in the plans, running left to right from the top of the main mast down to the mizzen. The backstays that are in the plans run at too steep an angle to pull the topgallant mast back to straight, which is what was needed. Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Here is most of the forestay rigging done.
Last picture shows some lines I've temporarily rigged through the boomkins and up to the jib, to try to keep me from pranging anything else.
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Jib realigned using the jib stay!
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Well, it was bound to happen to me sooner or later -- a bad prang.
In this case, I was wearing a sweater while working around the bowsprit from the front. The tip of the bowsprit caught on my sweater without me knowing it, I moved, and SNAP.
I thought it would need a really stiff nail for repair, so I used a picture hanging nail, which is shown below. I THOUGHT I had it completely aligned when I dry-fitted the repair, but at the end of gluing it somehow had developed a slight downward cant -- which I'm going to have to live with since I'm not about to try to take it apart -- I really glued it on solidly.
I can think of worse disasters -- like dropping the whole model -- and all in all, this repaired fairly well given the total snapoff.
It took the jackstaff with it, and I'll probably add that back at the end of the build.
But there is that slight downward angle . . . Oh well.
Regards,
David
UPDATE: I was able to bend the sprit up some, and to a point where I can use the stays to finish the realignment. Final picture shows what it will look like when the stays are installed. I'm only putting a slight upward pressure on with my hand.
WHEW!
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
I've begun work on the forestays. Mizzen stays done; first main mast forestay installed. Closeup picture below of the heart blocks and lashings used to secure the main forestay.
Regards,
David
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vossy got a reaction from thibaultron in Age of youngest crew members?
Whilst watching a very old film set on an old ship there was a character played by a young boy who looked about 6 years old. He was a cabin boy in the film and told one of the passengers that he was 12.
My question is: How old were the the youngest legal members of ships in the 17th/18th century etc?
I'm sure that some put their age up to escape poverty and seek adventure, but what would have been the legal age to go to sea on vessels?
Thanks.
Chris.
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Bowsprit now permanently mounted and gammoning completed. The gammoning on this model is more than decorative -- it performs the same function as it would have done on the real ship: locking down the bowsprit tight.
Gammoning was tricky to thread behind the beak struts.
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Finished the foremast topmast shrouds and ratlines, and THAT'S IT for ratlines on this model!😃
I looked back to when I started the shrouds, and removing the 6 weeks I was away on vacation, I was dong shrouds and ratlines for 4 1/2 months. That's as long as some other models I've built took overall. Not sure what it is about this model that makes things go so slow -- maybe the size?
Regards,
David
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vossy reacted to Knocklouder in The Mayflower by Knocklouder- FINISHED - Amati - 1:60
Well my friends I am dropping the anchors on the Mayflower. I have received some books that showed me what I was looking for about rigging. Serving, seizing, puddening, oh my. I have never heard of puddening, please someone tell me the Mayflower did not have this lol. I know it up to me how far to take the details of my rigging. I ordered a Serving machine as , I had a hard time making my own. The machine is in Canada, tracking it now, be here on the 12th. So now I got to do some research lol, look for better pictures lol.
I can not tell you all how much fun I am having here on MSW. Light switches are coming on all over the place, and I feel I am not running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I am just not sure of how far to take my rigging. So I am putting it on the shelf . Not for long though. Just doing research lol
This will give me time to look at The NRG data base and the one here at MSW, all the information you need to build a Model thanks so much So I will see you all later , but don't be surprised if I start another build log, to keep my mined off of rigging lol
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vossy got a reaction from Canute in What About Pavel Niktin Models?
Hey Bill, well you could argue authenticity about a lot of models. My favourite vessel of all time is Santa Maria. Has been for 50 odd years since I was a kid.
But, there is no definitive pictorial evidence of what she ever really looked like. Same for Columbus for that matter.
Apart from maybe, Victory and a few other super well known and documented vessels, you will find different model companies produce differing designs of
the same vessel. Bounty etc.
I just think that the San Bartolme from Pavel Niktin looks outrageously good. Is is accurate? Maybe not, but was the Mona Lisa?
I still want it!
Chris
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vossy got a reaction from Canute in What About Pavel Niktin Models?
They look fantastic! I so want the San Bartolme. But be aware that postage (not his fault), may be extremely expensive. I know it is here to Australia.
From the super excellent unboxing of the San Bartolme on here the packaging and overall kit looks just so outstanding. I am currently following a
build of it on FB and so far all is going to plan. I obviously can't recommend them personally as I have never built one, but from what I have seen
online they get my vote for sure.
Chris
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vossy reacted to drobinson02199 in HMS Victory by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72
Finished the main mast topmast ratlines. Now on to the fore mast.
Regards,
David
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vossy got a reaction from Knocklouder in Mississippi 1870 by vossy - Sergal - 1:50 - Riverboat
A few high res pics my sister took when I had the boat around at her house. Much better than my efforts.
Chris
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vossy reacted to Baker in The Mayflower by Knocklouder- FINISHED - Amati - 1:60
Nice work and good that you are having fun with this model.
But .
These don't go over the mast top but under it.
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vossy reacted to Knocklouder in The Mayflower by Knocklouder- FINISHED - Amati - 1:60
The shrouds and deadeyes are done on the starboard side, now on to the portside. I will do the portside , then on to the Ratlines, my favorite part lol. Then the upper shrouds and rat lines. This will take awhile and my outside world is hampering my progress 😌. So it might be awhile before I get to post again lol, ok see you guys around. Thanks for everyone's help and time. I know my ships are not historical correct and I should do research on some stuff but my abilities to do that are lacking, but once I see how it is done or attempting to do then I understand. I have only been modeling for about two years, and have learnt to do so much. And there is a mountain of stuff to still learn. So a big thanks to everyone who help me along the way, and apologies for my typos and posting in the wrong place at times, I will get the hang of it lol
Ok going to put into practice some of the stuff I learnt Sea you sooner or later lol
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vossy got a reaction from scrubbyj427 in What About Pavel Niktin Models?
They look fantastic! I so want the San Bartolme. But be aware that postage (not his fault), may be extremely expensive. I know it is here to Australia.
From the super excellent unboxing of the San Bartolme on here the packaging and overall kit looks just so outstanding. I am currently following a
build of it on FB and so far all is going to plan. I obviously can't recommend them personally as I have never built one, but from what I have seen
online they get my vote for sure.
Chris
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vossy got a reaction from Montaigne in What About Pavel Niktin Models?
Hey Bill, well you could argue authenticity about a lot of models. My favourite vessel of all time is Santa Maria. Has been for 50 odd years since I was a kid.
But, there is no definitive pictorial evidence of what she ever really looked like. Same for Columbus for that matter.
Apart from maybe, Victory and a few other super well known and documented vessels, you will find different model companies produce differing designs of
the same vessel. Bounty etc.
I just think that the San Bartolme from Pavel Niktin looks outrageously good. Is is accurate? Maybe not, but was the Mona Lisa?
I still want it!
Chris
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