Ainars Apalais

Amazing work!!!
Even the every smallest detail looks perfect.

I am like always excited about Your work.

Absolutely amazing.  

View from the stern corners.

All looks very nice, Mark. Good process thinking on your run of moldings as well. Hdd you considered painting friezes on paper off-model and gluing them on in sections? Many contemporary models were painted this way. It obviates the need for awkward masking or working against gravity. And, if you mess up a piece, it's easily replaced. The friezework on Comet was done this way:
 

I finished the remaining yards.

Thanks for all the likes everybody!
 
Here is the stern mock-up including my stern light design and the lower counter, really starting to come together now!
 

Good Day, I am calling this build finished. Thanks to everyone’s comments and likes! Special thanks to David of course for envisioning this project and for his help in working through it. Here are my final photos:










Ian

Well it turns out the massive main hatch wasn't big enough. I made a measurement booboo which meant that the hatch was 1 cm too narrow. So...I had to rip everything out and redo most of the supporting structures.
 

After I made the repairs I started on the main hatch coamings and ledges. They were assembled by forming the same 90" radius for the longitudinals and the 26" radius for the ledges (concave and convex) and milling half lap joints. A strip was laminated onto the logitudinals to form an inside rabbet while the rabbet was milled into the ledges before they were bent. The strip on the longitudinals was extended to overlap the gap on the ledges. 
 

 
 
The cross pieces (battens) were tricky to make and I will redo them at some point in the future. The end stops are very difficult for someone of my limited chiseling skills. They too must be bent to match their respective orientations.



Mast parteners were straightforward and dropped about 2mm below the carlings and the underside rounded up to fit the respective curves. The mast is raked 2 degrees so I was as precise as I could be in positioning it (although it is not glued in place yet). The companion coaming abuts the forward end of the parteners and will be later fitted with a ladder.
 
 
Cheers,
 
Ian

Greetings everyone from Cornwall - and I hope you all had a very happy Christmas.
 
We hear on the news that half of New York State is under 10' of snow with many houses without power. If you are affected  then I hope things are not too bad and that better times are not far away.
 
I've been plodding on quietly with Cheerful. For anyone yet to build her and thinking of a next project I can highly recommend this lovely little craft beautifully put together by Chuck/Syren. Incidentally I purchased the boxwood from Hobbymill EU: they provide the complete wood package ready cut; and lovely stuff it is. Highly recommended.
 
Here are some pictures of the present state of play.
 
I re-cut the bollards with my new mill. Much better than my earlier freehand versions.
 


A bit of a shame to paint the mast  but I went with the convention/realism in the end.
 


Mast and spar making. My first go. I followed the regular instructions: 7/10/7, planing down to an octogan and then turning in the chuck of a drill. All came out acceptably well.
 


 


I decided to turn another mast coat. I cut the other one in two and used it for that bit 5' or so up the mast. I have no idea what it is called. 
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Here are the channels filed down from brass sheet. As ever making one is not too difficult. Making  eight reasonably the same is trickier. I made a not quite but nearly jig to help and they are OK
 

 


 


There seem to be a lot of small jobs to do but I hope to start the guns and rigging soon.
 
Happy New Year All
Fred
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thank you Gentlmen for your very kind words which I warmly appreciate.
 
I'm nearly done with the woodwork and metal work: soon I can turn to the rigging.
 
The carronade carriages are assembled, painted and ready to rig. I tried painting the brass barrels, blackening them and blackening and lightly buffing them with wire wool and decided I preferred the blackened and buffed look. 
 
The backstays are done and ready to fit.
 
The elm tree pumps are likewise done and ready to pin and glue to the deck. I can see I made a small error. The outlet pipe and pump handle should be a little closer together: say seperated by one face of the octagon rather than three. It means a small compromise. If I angle the handle out as shown on the plan the outlet would discharge onto the grating. In the result I have to position the pumps further apart than they should be. Its only a small thing and I'm not going to lose any sleep over it . It does show, though, that you have to study the plans like a hawk.
 
Here are some pictures.
 





 

I hope my next post will feature lots of rope. I'm really looking forward to the rigging.
 
I wish you all a happy and peaceful New Year.
 
Fred 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thank you Hubac's Historian. Hello everyone. I tried on careatid figurines on the model. The final installation will be after installing windows.
 

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Hi, another pictures:
 
 

I have made protective grilles for the skylights.
For now I just made a fitting before blackening. Or maybe it's better not to blacken ?

And my rendition of the 1814 Independence is complete!  I wish I was better at photography and knew how to take better pictures thru glass like this, but these shots will have to do.
 
Huge, massive thanks to @Keith Black, @mtaylor, @Landlubber Mike, @BANYAN, @gjdale, @GrandpaPhil, @Ian_Grant, @John Fox III, @ccoyle, @Joe100, @Snug Harbor Johnny, @Roger Pellett, @CiscoH, @michael mott, @SUBaron, @AJohnson, @bdgiantman2, @Prowler901 for following the whole build or peeking in along the way.  Your encouragement, ideas, and suggestions made the final result so much better than I could have have possibly done on my own.      

Thanks, guys!!
 
FINALLY FINISHED!!! I rigged the guns and placed some equipment at each battle station to complete the model. I'll post a few more shots, including the model in it's case, tomorrow.

Good evening all! Another small test project, which building process I forgot to record.. It is in fact my first small scale scratchbuilt square rigged ship. Mostly an exercise on the rigging method at such a size, on a generic and rather simple base and hull, representing a 19th century greek merchant brig, circa 1/350, waterline. A single-post thread, with the end result straight away. If mods think there is no much point  please delete. 

I attached some spacers temporarily inside these frames with CA glue before I sand these.

I've managed to get some more done.  I've now completed the 4 forward rising frames but not without a problem.  I found an error in the frame that I made above so it had to be made again.  No big deal as I would rather it be right to save problems later.

Hi All
 
I think it's safe to say that these three pieces have been very difficult for me to get right.  I eventually made 4 deck clamps before being happy enough to fit them to the model.  The combination of difficult bends that have to be recessed for the breast hook which all have to be sat on the correct line inside the hull.............wow!
 
Anyway I've now got it done but not without a little damage.  The port side deck clamp glued in fine but the starboard side cracked; I didn't even notice it until the next morning when I removed all of the clamps.  It was one of those times when I just though - well its not very pretty but I do know that its in exactly the correct position.  So I opened the crack up a bit and fitted a sliver of wood in just so that it looked a bit better.  I'll put this one down as a ships repair 🤣
 
I've also had a go at making my first every hooked scarf joint and I think its going to be fine with a little adjustment.  So the next steps are to make the 6 remaining pieces of the deck clamp which are all joined with hooked scarf joints.
 
I must be honest I'm really pleased with the result mainly because structurally I know that its correct.
 
Mark