mrshanks

Good question Roger, but I have no idea what the answer is.  Even contemporary drawings of the actual event show a square stern, not just drawings of this type of craft.
 

 
I'm not personally ready to try to design and scratch build a square stern onto the model, so mine will be built as the kit depicts it, even though that's apparently a fairly large inaccuracy.
 

I picked up a Picket boat on sale at Model Expo.  Delivered Friday.  I'm making mental notes for when I start.  I' do the pear planking also Brian.

So when this project got set to the side some time ago, there was really only one piece of planking that still needed to be done - the cockpit bench seating which comes in two pieces.
 
For some reason today I decided to finish this rather than work on my new little side project or other stuff I need to get done around here.  To begin I added a brace in the form of a piece of basswood planking and joined the two sides together so that I could plank it as a single piece.  Then I just started working on it and here's the pattern I ended up using.
 

 
I should take another picture, managed to get this out of focus a bit.  The thin strip around the inside edge was added to cover up the transition from basswood to the pear planking from the edge, I sanded it round, which doesn't really show up in the picture.
 
So here are most of the planked pieces at this point.
 

 
Next step is to find the instructions and figure out where I was on the assembly and see what comes next I suppose.  It should prove interesting as I progress to see how difficult I've made this kit for myself by increasing the thickness of so many parts with 1/32 planking.

I completed and installed the rails, the catheads, the timberheads, the quarterdeck ladders and the timbers that define the gun ports.  The only major parts left on the hull (except for cleats, eyebolts etc.) are the channels, the swivel gun mounts and the quarterdeck and poopdeck railings.  The masts are done.  Once the spars are made it's on to rigging.

small update :
 
installed the bridge front, the wheelhouse-roof platform and its railing, as well a the access ladders thereto. the further bridge front bulwarks and the wing cabinets are under contruction.
 
Nils
 

passengers on the promenade deck...
 

 
 

There is no surplus space on the midships line
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

0,3 mm thick brass sheet will be shaped to the wing cabinets of the bridge

Small update...
 
am just making the front panel of the bridge after the card template and filed out the 5 square windows for  celluloid glassing. There was the question as how to do the glassing from the rear side CA would "frost" the celluoid and PVA would be too smeary during mounting. I came up with a solution that requires minimum space and can take up a stipe of celluloid shifted in horizontaly and directly on the rear panel surface, by soldering 6 mini-braces that leave a space of 0,5 mm to the panel surface
 
Nils
 

 
 

You could try going to a place that sells trophies, not sure how small they can go but might be worth a try.
 
And Mike you are spoilt ..................I love it!!!

Any name is a fine name.  I'm sure you could get someone to laser cut the letters, but I have no leads for you, sorry.

Looks great Dave, real nice job on the taffrail. Clio sounds like a good name for her

I'm working on a small 'get back into the shop' project right now, but holding off on posting it for a bit since then I would have 3 partial build logs instead of just two.  Once I have something interesting to show I'll start a log which should be fairly short as I think I can finish this in a couple of months if I can find some reasonable chunks of time to work on it.
 
So no, I'm not dead.

Any progress, Brian?

Elijah- Thanks for stopping in, I'm looking forward to your next build log
 
Pierre - The rope for the handles is from Syren(.63 mm) and the the rope tying the lids together is just normal polyester sewing thread that I put a serving on
 
Ian- Hi! Thanks for the compliment and I hope things are going well for you
 
Bob - Thanks, I appreciate you dropping by
 
Dave - I was thinking of your builds when I finally cut up my rosewood board. I bought this board almost forty years ago and have never cut into it
 
E.J. - Hey how are things? Thanks for that, I may just go to my little cabinet and have a refreshment 

I love the companion way (well, everything really!).  The model's stand is also outstanding.  Great work, Don.

Your boat is looking very nice! The rope work looks very realistic. 

Good morning all, Thanks to all those who have stopped by, left likes and/or comments.
 Just a small update. Some progress such as nailing the main rail(with .4 nylon fishing line) was a bit of a waste of time. I was so happy with the results on the companion way I thought I would do more of it not realising it would be lost in the dark grain of the walnut. Although it may look like what a house fly may have left behind the nails can be seen(if you really look close) on some of the close ups. Breast hooks, knightheads and the aft rail were also completed, I replaced the kit supplied walnut with rosewood for these. Another detail that is hard to notice is the rope used to tie the hatch lids together. I finally put my Syren serving machine together and decided to serve some line for the first time and give it a try. The line served is just normal sewing thread and I used the same thread for the serving, the final rope measures approximately .5 mm and again you have to look real close. 
 

An eye was seized in one end of rope then the other end pulled through and tied off with a couple of half hitches 
 
Take Care and Thanks for stopping in.

Started back on this project. I'm currently sanding the inboard surfaces of the frames before gluing them to the keel.  There isn't much room to sand inside the model once the frames are glued in place.
 
I own a oscillating spindle sander, but I found the revolving speed was sanding too aggressively.  I have a rheostat, but it didn't work on the spindle sander.  Fortunately, my full size drill press has an induction motor which allowed the rheostat to control the speed of the revolution.  I slowed it down and got a speed where I could control  how much stock I was removing more  easily.  No pictures here...kind of boring work.

I've gotten some details such as cap rail, fenders and side steps installed and painted the remainder of the hull. Starting to look like a ship...
 
 

Great build, and beautiful stand.

Good Morning All, Thanks to everyone for stopping in, for your likes and comments. This a new one for me, two updates in a week, but without my vehicle(another story) shipyard time has increased. I have completed the back rails which I will show in my next post as they aren't attached yet and will complete the breast hooks today as Mike is on edge waiting to see them. For now I have nailed the companion way and made some cleats from rosewood.
 

Here I am showing how I mask it to try and get a relatively straight line.
 

Here are a couple of shots showing holes drilled and nails in place. I used .4 mm nylon fishing line. First side I cut these off using flush cutters then sanded smooth, this side I used a sharp blade to cut off then sanded. The blade worked much better and very little sanding was required, just enough to remove excess glue. Should be noted the companion way had several coats of poly on it to prevent any stains from the ca glue.
 

 Here are the results, I think the .4 mm fishing line is the right scale and looks good. With a little more practice I may do a deck someday. I also found some light brown .3 mm fishing line that I may do a test section on my Pegasus with. 
 

Here I'm just showing the steps of making cleats. As you can see they are fairly large about 10 mm so they were fairly easy to make, that's one of the beauties of working at this scale.  The first one is after rough shaping on the Byrnes disc sander and the middle one is after some fine tuning with riffler file the cleat on the right is the kit supplied one. I would not normally spend twenty minutes making a cleat but I only need two so I thought what the heck. As you can see I have two extra ones that I am willing to offer to members here before I list them on ebay 
 

Here I'm rough shaping it on the disc sander.The thing off to the right in the picture is a crepe block used to clean the sanding disc, this helps prolong the life of your disc or belt if you have a thickness sander. You can get these at Lee Valley they are cheap and last forever.
 Thanks once more for stopping in and have a good one.
 

Hhahahahahaha Mike, You got me laughing on that one. I may need to have a cocktail(drink) to calm down. Good news about the shop, now to get it set up and back to some hobbies!

'She is looking sweet indeed. 

That looks really sweet Don!
ian

Well it's been a month and I don't have much to show for it. Thanks to all for stopping in, for your likes and great comments. I bought an android box for my TV and have been wasting too much time watching that, great device but be careful!!. Here are some pictures of what little I have accomplished:
These are the completed demizanas and their rack
 

 
This is a before and after shot of the pedestals for the new stand I built. These are some sort of pistons that my favourite son-in-law(my only one) gave to me. I just turned them on the lathe to clean them up and size them, nothing to technical here.
 

Milling the slot for the keel, this is a piece of rosewood
 

This is all the pieces, the base is cherry. I drilled out the brass pedestals and epoxied some 1/8" brass pins in
 

And here it is assembled with four coats of poly. The brass pedestals were given two coats of spray lacquer 
 

These two pictures are showing the railing installed and the demizanas/rack installed
 

Here is a shot of one of the supporting posts down in the hold, complete with dust. lol
 

And this is how she looks this morning
 
Next up are some breast plates(I think that's what they are called) at the bow and stern then a top rail at the stern. Sorry no bow shots, there is some re-contruction going on that I am really not too proud of
Thanks for stopping in and enjoy your day

Thanks, guys!
 
Ken:  The sailor is 44mm tall, which is 5'6" in scale height...typical height for a man in the mid to late 18th century.
 
Clare hess chose to stain his masts black between the doublings.  I think it looks good and I've added a photo of the result.  But I also like the look of pear and maple, without any black stain, as my masts appear now.  I've not yet cut the topmasts to length nor made the fids.  what do you all think?  Black stain or natural wood?
 

Very good progress. The masts look great. Nice work.
 
Russ