IgorSky

Now I was able to start assembling the model in a bottle. First, I installed and glued the engine room.

Then I set the upper part of the body in its place, added a little glue and tightly pressed her to the bottom part of the hull.

And then, finally, came the long-awaited moment

I also lifted up the boats and drawed rigging scheme

I also made one additional tool to work with standing rigging

As you remember, I set on the deck several lifting eyes for fixing the rigging. Lifting eyes have a hole diameter of 0.2-0.3 mm. Since I'm going to put the mast in the bottle separatly from the hull, it will be quite a difficult task to stretch the thread through the lifting eyes. So I decided to insert the temporary loops from threads into them. 

Another small but important detail - the name of the ship.

Then I made the flag at the stern.

Meanwhile, I continued the preparatory works.
So, I added some quantity of the gel to increase the size of the waves.

I also made this tool for drawing of foam

Hi Carl and Patrick!
Carl, I think you will not will want to play chess with me, because I am a bad player
Many thanks, Patrick! Yes, I will remember

Hi, Peter!
Well done! Amazing work as always!

Beat Regards!
Igor.

Thank you, Bob and Lawrence!
Yes, it was fun to try to make these chessboards. I used two different techniques to do this.
Now I need to try to make sets of chess pieces.

Best Regards!
Igor.

But just look at all the other SIB's you've done in between.

 

Bob

Yes, Bob! Sometimes it need to me for a little distraction

Thank you, Nils!

I also with anxiously and look forward this moment

Amazing carving, Angarfather!

Wow..... Absolutely WOW.....

 

No way this can go trough a bottle's neck....   But I will follow You to watch it happening.

Many thanks, Kees!

I still hope that I will can shove it in the bottle

Best Regards!

Igor.

"Work went very slowly", he says.  From hull to finished ship, that's all.  well done.

 Bob

Hi, Bob!

But I have started this project 1.5 year ago

Hi Igor 

Oh my word!  I'd forgotten just how 'teeny tiny' your little beauty is.  The last photo says it ALL!!!! 

Cheers 

Patrick

A-ha-ha, Patrick!

"LENA" is one of the biggest of my SIBs, which I built

Hey Igor 

At last!  I've been waiting patiently and now, with these updates, I'm not disappointed! 

Definitely your best model yet. I'm really loving all the fine details that you're adding. 

Beautiful stuff! 

Cheers 

Patrick

Hi, Patrick!

I am glad to hear you again!

Many thanks!

I would say that this model is a good school for me. I was able to check out a lot of my ideas, technical solutions and technologies. Of course, I could not avoid some mistakes, but I hope that the experience of this project will allow me to avoid them in the future.

So, we go ahead

I then installed the davits complete with the lifeboats and began compiling the assembly diagrams and marking of the ends of the rigging

Installation of the foremast has not created any problems

And, finally, I was able to proceed with the final assembly at the stand.

Assembling was carried out in the same order in which it will be made later in the bottle.

At this stage I revealed some mistakes that are likely to affect the assembly in the bottle, but ... something to alter it's too late Although, of course, I will try to fix some of them. For example, I'm going again attach ladder to the bridge and I will to lift up the lifeboats.

So, first I installed the rear mast, the engine room and the bridge.

Very nice work, Igor. Since I started working with PE at 1/350 I now know what you are going through with for example the railing. You are even having more chance to damage items on your build as mine is at a far larger scale. Well done my friend!!

Hi, Carl!

Many thanks!

The handrails in front part of the hull were broken off several times in the process of the work, because I glued them too early

Then I laid anchor chains from the deck hawse through the windlass to the steam winch. They especially will not noticeable, but let them be

I also added the waves in remote places of the bottle, to which had not got around and added a little "waviness" in the field of foam crests.

Then finally were glued on the bridge the steering wheel, binnacle and negotiation pipes

Next, I set in place, the steam winch and windlass

Then came the turn of the installation of anchors