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Overworked724

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  1. Overworked724
    Trimmed off the excess wales hanging off the stern. Added the stern trim which evens out the slight overhang left over. Actually looks fairly good. Used a 1mm square basswood length, painted then cut to fit. Nothing to stop me from adding the transom except the bloody rudder. 😑 Sigh. Will take it up with ship club on Wednesday. On on a side note...I hate the paint job I did on the transom. every time I make progress I feel like I make more mistakes. Ugh. I can understand now that a ship that looks perfect to an outsider is a graveyard of errors to its builder that only the builder can see. 🤔 Moving on.....
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    Wales on...but a heart attack narrowly averted due to the intervention of Chivas Regal. I mean...come on! Isn't there an easier way to put on wales? I preshaped (via plank bender) and prepainted. But this was still a difficult task. I only have two hands, and each wale was like getting control of a pissed off 2 year old!!! Result was ok, but needed to double up wood glue with some spots of slow CA (Zap a Gap). I hate using that stuff, but saw no alternative. Next time, I'm predrilling some holes and using nails. Will paint the edges and leave the front unpainted until it's on the ship. Then will use wood filler/paint after the wales are on and set. 🙄 Moving on... Thank God!
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    Thank you, CA! My journey has been frought with errors. There will be more before it's over! But the deck planking did turn out decently, much to my surprise!!! Update: Wales are ready...but too terrified to put them on tonight for fear of screwing up. Instead I finished the traveler rod and block on the transom. Moving on...tomorrow... after a beer!👍🏽
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    Well...TGIF! Finally decided to bear down and attack the ladder. The thing is tiny and scratch building it (even with the help of the small ladder schematic in Chuck's practicum) is difficult. I tried a few techniques to get a straight ladder and let's just say I was demoralized by the results. Also considered (and tried) using heavy paper. No dice. Finally jumped on line a saw a YouTube video of a lady making a dollhouse ladder using toothpicks and a drill. Easy enough! I just scaled down and used two pins (clipped with wire cutters) to make the tiny frame... Then added the steps. WaaaaLaaaa!!! Not perfect. But also not awful. Will NOT be trying to improve on this result. Moving on....
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    Hi Elijah! Yes. Those are pinheads from some very small pins (my wife is a crafty seamstresses). I used my micro drill bits...forgot the drill bit size...and enlarged the block holes. Then I drilled into the sides of the block some small holes for the pins. Cut the pins to fit...then a dab of CA glue on the tip and inserted into the block. Pretty easy to describe. Hard to do. (Hint. Get a magnifying glass!)
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    Ok. Moving on. The rudder. Made it too short so the rudder arm was never going to look right once attached. Frankly, it probably would have been scratching the deck once attached. Not exactly historically accurate. So...rebuild the rudder!? Nope. I like the idea of adapting so decided to extend it since WOOD IS FORGIVING so they say. While looking for a good source of wood, my wife suggested a fireplace matchstick. WaaaaLaaa! Also shown is the block of the traveler arm. This little sucker was a real pain to build. I made two. One you see in the pics below...the other is somewhere in the ductwork of our house...as the first attempt popped out of the tweezers and into the heating vent. 😔 Sigh.
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    Hi Lou... Chuck's practicum is probably the most thorough teacher/guide for the Sultana. However, you may find yourself, like me, deviating according to your tastes. I underestimated how much actual 'scratch building' there is in the kit...but it is quite the fun project. Most importantly, it gives you some training wheels as you learn the process...so it's a perfect starter kit from that perspective. Any future kits (and my next one is purring on idle in the shipyard....waiting to be unpacked) will go much smoother due to the learning on this one!! Just a note...the food poisoning was from raw oysters at a restaurant! The Admiral (my wife) ate the same ones (but not as many) and only I was affected. Not exactly fair - but now I can boast that I barely survived (not too far from the truth) and that she surely would have died if she'd contracted the same bacterial infection!! In other words, I took one for the team!! (Funny how guilt trips will work on husbands but not on wives...unfair that...) Best Patrick
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    Took a small sabbatical to deal with visitors from Japan, summer fun, and food poisoning...the latter was not fun. Back at it now. Finished the trim on the transom and made the block for the traveler rod. Need to attach to transom but terrified I'll drill too far and pierce the transom by mistake when making the mounting holes. (Nail biting tense) Also made an executive decision on the gudgeons and pintles. Making them out of copper is beyond my skill at present. So decided to use paper and metal pins. Trial attempts look pretty decent...will mount them on the rudder get them painted. Will send a photo once mounted. Note - always an error in the mix. I just realized I made the bloody rudder too short. ROFL!!! Improvision will win out I'm sure...
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    A few spots need a paint touch up. Nothing major. Lesson learned after my first attempt at making the coamings/gratings. Make the coamings around the gratings! I made the coamings first. Which meant I had to fiddle with the gratings to get them to fit. What the heck was I thinking!!! ???🙄 Moving on on ... to the wales.
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    Proof is literally in the 'pudding'. Turned out better than I expected. Have a few spots/errors to touch up but not a bad result. 👍🏽
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    The moment I've been postponing...trying to finish the volutes! 😜 Since I plan to paint the cap rail after finishing the volutes, I taped off the ship prior to filling the volute gaps with wood filler. Hope these pics help help anyone planning to take up the Sultana. I used Elmers wood filler and diluted with tap water (a little bit at a time) until it was the consistency of Jello pudding (my favorite). Used a small spatula to fill gaps...as it dries, it will depress a bit due to water evaporation...but it dries pretty fast so simply repeated (about 3-4 times) with additional filler as needed. Used a very fine sanding stick (foam padded nail polishing stick you can buy at the cosmetic section in Walgreens!) to sand and level out the filling in rails. Looks can can be deceiving. To my finger, the rails feel smooth so will move on with painting (gasp!!) the cap rails black. Moving on....
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    Sigh. Well...got a bit more done. The volutes are on! 😎 Not perfect, or especially pretty...but better than a sharp stick in the eye (as mom used to say...she was a charmer). ...also got the ring bolts (used thin wire...easy) on the cross planks which cover the loading hatch. (Sorry...I know these aren't the correct nautical terms but I'm tired!) see below...moving on!
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    Looking good, Mike! Your perseverance and steady progress is really inspiring. Can't wait to see her fully rigged!
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    Hi Ron - I've been follow Chuck's great practicum (and deviating in many cases - mostly due to mistakes I make!) in large part. The gratings/coamings look a LOT better than the cheap metal fittings that are provided in the kit. I can see myself fiddling with the quarter badges and figurehead as well. As far as the volutes - yess - I used sculpy. A lot of trial and error...see one of my earlier posts for preparing the volutes. They are tiny...but making the little things are not the challenge - it's getting them to stay on! Since they are very tiny - making the thin tube of sculpy (rubbing progressively smaller snakes of sculpy between your palms) is easy...then simply use a couple of toothpicks to gently roll up one end...then bake per directions. Taadaaa....tiny volutes that look great - until you try to get them on the bloody ship! I've found a couple of things which make this a bit more difficult. First, they don't sit flush, and have gaps between the wooden bulkhead and the cap rail once fit into position. So...when I go to even out the cap rail by filling in the gap between two corresponding volutes with wood filler....I can see the stuff oozing out when I don't wish it to ooze. So, the glue I am using is carpenter's wood glue. It sets up faster than white elmers (PVA) - but still gives you time to move the little things around and position them correctly...a couple min later they are set and you can move on. Another nice thing - the carpenters wood glue is think...son I filled in the gap between two corresponding volutes and let is dry....it creates a litte pocket which should hold the wood filler quite nicely when I go to fill in the gaps and even the cap rail. At least - that is my hope! Sculpy is actually pretty neat stuff...I would never have tried it had it not been for Chuck's write up! One thing more - I have found that the Sultana, as a first wooden ship build, is a great learning experience. Chucks practicum takes it to a new level, and requires more time - but time well spent if you don't rush. Moving on!!
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    Well...grating and coamings done. The gratings were a pain, but not as much as the volutes!!! But I got 2 more on. Will focus on Sunday to get them done... moving on.....
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    Making the grating housings (or whatever you call them). These little bits of wood are SMALL!!!! I had been mulling over how to make a clean right angle between the pieces without going crazy. During my my recent trip to Japan, a convenient trip to BIC Camera yielded an unexpected prize. "Micro Lego Blocks" set. TaaDaaaaa!!!! My frame for gluing my little grating frames. 😜 Also....why paint the grating 'holes' (i.e. Wood) black when a permanent marker can do the same job with less mess. 😊 Gratingsto to be completed soon. Volutes in progress. Moving on.
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    Ok. Going to throw this out there. If you don't have a club, use a forum. Invaluable having more experienced folk chiming in on a problem. So...."What was my problem?" You may ask. In a word...'waterways'. I am following, Chuck Passaro's awesome practicum (thank you, Chuck!) which shows the inclusion of waterways along the seam between the bulkhead and the deck. Scuppers (fake) are drilled into them to complete the illiusion. But!!!! My bulkheads obviously don't have the same clearance. True, I could fashion some semblance of waterways but they would not look clean...and frankly, they would detract from the look of the face plates and inner bulkheads in my opinion. So, I floated my problem at my club mates and all said the same thing..."It's your ship!" So...I decide to err on the side of historical innacuracy and leave out the waterways. So let it be written...so let it be DONE! So says pharoah. 😜 One to the the next thing.
  18. Overworked724
    Thank you, Russ. Not bad for a first attempt! I almost want to stop now before I REALLY screw something up. 😁
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    Hi Elijah I have tons of photos from the Rope exhibition in Tokyo. However, I have so many, I am afraid I can't post them all without using up my site memory limit! However, you can view the exibit at the link below (I believe they posted pictures already): https://theropetokyo-en.jimdo.com/ Thanks also for your compliment on my finished deck. My clubmate, Alan, recommended I use tung oil - and it is amazing stuff. Easy to apply, safe (no solvents), but takes a little while to dry. Wipes on with cloth or brush. If you look at the first picture above, my bottle of tung oil is in the background. Bought it off amazon!
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    Haha. Just noticed I drafted it did not submit my post prior to vacation. Am now back and the Rope exhibition in Tokyo was phenomenal! also...I finished the deck. Now to attack the volutes. Then I can paint and move on the transom, whales, and rudder. Will amuse myself by prepping the gratings at the same time. 😎
  21. Overworked724
    Almost done with deck. Forecastle, main and quarter deck done. Definitely turned out better than I expected. Planking near the bulkhead was a challenge as the taper was a bit difficult to gauge...ended up eyeballing/sanding a lot. Off to Japan now for 2.5 weeks. Hope I have a job when I return! Until then, the poop deck will be sitting first on the shipyard TODO list. ⛵️😌
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    Almost done with deck. Forecastle, main and quarter deck done. Definitely turned out better than I expected. Planking near the bulkhead was a challenge as the taper was a bit difficult to gauge...ended up eyeballing/sanding a lot. Off to Japan now for 2.5 weeks. Hope I have a job when I return! Until then, the poop deck will be sitting first on the shipyard TODO list. ⛵️😌
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    Smart thing...thinking ahead is hard, but the club mates gave me excellent ideas. Although i am planking my decks, I still will have an option to mount her upside down (to work on keel/transom/rudder) since I put the mounting screw holes dead center of where the deck gratings will be. Moving along....
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    Hi Kurt We leave for Japan next Wednesday so will miss the MMS meeting. Looking forward to visiting the Rope's exhibit in Tokyo's Ginza district next week. Will take many pictures! Hope to get the deck finished before I leave. The volutes are a bit of a pain...needed to work on something I could get visual progress in!! Pat
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    Well...work delay. Back in the saddle. Tired and a bit stressed, but nothing a few hours in Ship room can't cure. Put on fcsl deck. Moving on...

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