Haliburton

Just finished work on the four 380 m/m guns of the Tirpitz. I also made one 20 m/m AA gun to place it on one of the 380 m/m gun turrets. You wouldn't believe it, but this 20 m/m AA gun exists of 25 PE part's which are folded and glued together.
 
The basic ingredients for the four 380 m/m guns.
 

 
Some turrets showed some scratches on their surface. Nothing serious, just a little bit filling and the job is done.
 

 

 

 
Next, replace the plastic gun barrels with new brass ones.
 

 

 

 

 
On top of one of the turrets comes a 20 m/m AA Gun. Two choices, plastic or .......pe..........which exist out of 25 pieces.....
I decided to take the plunge, this is the result.
 

 

 
For comparison, a toothpick and my finger, just to show how small these suckers are...
 

 
And the whole bunch together.
 

 
Regards
 
Danny

It has been a while, but I have been busy.
 
I have almost completed the hull assembly for my version of Alert, I am now waiting for the castings to come back to me (cannon barrels, small winch drum, anchors etc.). I have made quite a few changes to the designs whilst building this.
 
Apart from the deadeyes, all the fittings are bespoke, which means that for once, the drum winch doesn't look out of place (or out of period..). The belaying pins are quite small on this model (following Goodwin's AotS book Alert, so I did those in PE. I have tried to make it as detailed as I can, while still being quite easy to fit together.
 
Am glad I chose Tanganika wood for the second planking (although would love cherry), as it gives the hull a 'warmer' look. I wanted to use this wood for the prototype of Pegasus, as I knew it would suite the overall look of the model much better, but unfortunately, someone else started the hull on that one..
 
Was apprehensive about putting these pics on here, as it's my first model I have done outside an external company, to eventually put on the market, and it's quite scary (buy also a little exciting..)

Thanks. 
 
Using 1/700 destroyer bollards I’ve rigged the first half of the brailing davits. I also added 6 German coaling winches to the deck. Starboard side done 

Small update. I have done hawse plates for my Sherbourne. I added them for two reasons, i wanted to have it since i think it looks nice and I needed to cover some damages I done :). They can not be seen on the drawings for Sherbourne so i tataly made them up bymyself.

 
I wasn't sure if i like the look of them. Think they are little bit big so I started to thinking of take them of and reshape them but that wasn't a good idea...............
 

 
So I decided to keep them as they are . 
The drawings (as I have seen in Gregor and Tonys buildlogs) so are there two hawse holes on each side so I decided to do that. Then I did the holes for tree nails. I just made up some pattern that I liked.
 

 
The hawse holes are 2.5 mm in diameter and the tree nails are done by 0.8mm drill. Some trre nails were done and glued in.
 

 
Sanded them down and I am quite happy with the result. I think they don't look to big now. I think everything will blend in nice when the oil is added and the havse plates will just add to the "buisinees" in the front. Actually they look little oversized on the photos but that is the mobile camera that "create" that. They look better in reallife.
 

 
I can't make up my mind on what to do with the two foremost gunports. I don't just want them emty so either have closed gunportlids or add two extra guns here. According to wikipedia so was Sherbourne build as a 10 gun Cutter (the kit instructions says  8 but there are 10 gunports..) so maybe it is not wrong to put "full" arnament even if she never seems to have it. 
 

FINALLY!!!!I never thought this time would come! The tree nailing is finished. Sherbourne is a hedgehog.  
And then all is sanded down and dissapear for now....
 

It looks little weired in the sharp light for the photo all the dust is reflecting the light. I think it will look quite good when the final oil layer will be applied. But now I can start to build again:) 
 
 
 

Hi again.
It is almost one year ago since i did some update here. To be honest so did I lose the mojo when I started to do the tree nailing. And then came spring and I started to build a new garage to our house so i forgot Sherbourne. I started to modeling again this autumn but it was most plastic 1/48 aircrafts (here is a link to my latest build if someone is interested. It turn out really good i think  https://photos.app.goo.gl/K8Xd3N8ZvhoA7NxdA ).
But my mojo for Sherbourne just came back so i have continued the build! As you can see on the photo below so have I continued with the tree nailing. One thing that make it much easier sine last year is that I increased the hole diameter from 0.5 to 0.6 mm. This make the production of the tree nails so much easier because they don't split so often. The foto below show how I am doing the tree nailing. Also one one  plank has been replased as you can see in the upper part of the photo.
 
 Now have i drilled all the holes and I have a big blister on my finger..... Sherbourne is not so seaworthy at the moment
 

This is all from me for now. I felt it was a good thing to start the build log again.
 
Best regards
Jörgen

Good Morning All
I took a detour from working on the hull and have been spending the last month or so working on the seven boats. I have to say that they have driven me completely crazy. (Admittedly, it's an easy drive!)
 
I don't recall which build log I saw it in, but there was a suggestion to glue up the boats, except for the bottom, then cut them in half lengthwise in order to make it easier to shape the interiors. I tried this and it works really well. After the interiors are shaped, just glue them back together and add the bottoms



 
The plans show plenty of detail. On the one hand, the more the better, but on the other hand, if it can't be done half decently, better to leave it out. This took a bit of experimenting. It's a balancing act. For example,  I simply couldn't manage to make the knees for the thwarts well enough, so I decided to let them go.
 
It was a bit difficult to decipher what some of the detail shown in the plans was. I found it helpful to refer to download the instructions for the MS 1:16 whaleboat as well as John Fleming's build log for that model.
 
Most of the finishing is wood, but I used styrene for the ribs, because 1/32 x 1/32 wood seemed just a bit over scale. Also I used card stock for the thwarts and lion's tongue.



 
Working on the exteriors  of the hulls is where it turned into a "Groundhog Day" type of experience for me and I thought I would never get out of the loop. It was a month long process of painting one component, waiting for it to dry, then painting the adjacent component, not being satisfied with the result, waiting for it to dry, repainting the first component, being reasonable satisfied, waiting for it to dry, touching the paint with glue on my finger, swearing, trying to scrap the glue off, ruining the paint job completely, swearing, using stripper to remove all the paint, then repeat and repeat and repeat.
 


 
In the end I managed to get an acceptable result by cutting a piece of card stock to the size and shape of the coloured stripe along the hull and gluing it on. It gave a crisp edge along which to change paint colour.
 
Thankfully, they are all now finished (apart from adding the rudders) and I can set them aside and return to the relative sanity of hull details.
 
David
 

Restarting the build after taking some time to build th3 America 1851

Thanks everyone!   To the guys from down under, I just spend 3 great weeks in your country back in Oct/Nov and had a great time.   Not sure if I want your +40c but my -40c is the other end of the scale.
 
To my fellow Canadians, I know you feel the pain 🙂
 
Look forward to seeing everyone's builds and conversations.
 
Cheers and thanks for the welcome.

Welcome Scott from another Scott.   Way down here in southern Ontario we only got 5cm of snow but made up for it in freezing rain.  This is a great group of supportive folks - definitely lots of inspiration.  

Welcome Scott from another Scott.   Way down here in southern Ontario we only got 5cm of snow but made up for it in freezing rain.  This is a great group of supportive folks - definitely lots of inspiration.  

Getting ready for paint finally, using kneaded rubber eraser for my holder. It's much stiffer that plastic or polymer clay, and leaves no residue on your glue sticks or fingers.

I improved the pump parts, especially the handles that were too heavy, they've been thinned out and made a bit longer. Also drilled out the top pieces to take the circular bushing that goes around the main pump rod..bar... whatever.

I also added this boomsprit reinforcement that's on trial, this part of the rig has always looked flimsy to me and if I were the captain I'd like a more positive groove for the boom to sit in.

After painting all the red and black. Using some annoying polymer clay because I couldn't find another kneaded rubber eraser, need to order more.

Finally able to start gluing up sub-assemblies. The non-painted wood parts got a coat of Minwax golden oak.

Boomsprit support and anchor windlass in place, with pawl engaged.

Grates, bitts, windlass, and companion installed, pumps being assembled.

Was very careful to ensure perfectly straight alignment for the boomsprit.

 
 
 
 

Hi all! Just introducing myself. 
 
Im James from Nottingham in the UK, I’m a Councillor and Military and Maritime historian. I have been building models since I was a child and it’s always been an escape hobby along with sailing and boating. Mostly I build model kits rather than scratch built but that’s mainly due to time. 
 
Thanks to @Old Collingwoodfor the introduction to the site! 

Next are the trestles for the ship’s boats which go amidships. Skylights and cable reels. There are 4 sets of bollards which are not supplied by Infini and it is expected to use the kit ones on the plastic deck but there are very recessed into the deck once the wooden one is added. As such I used 1/700 battleship bollards which are the exact size. 
 
Next will I’ll be the ship’s boats. 

Forcastle area, there are so many little bits to add it has to be done piecemeal or I get lost. I still have a lot to add to this and weatherthere are about 60 coal scuttles added, and a few skylights. 

I just returned from the Mystic Seaport Museum and they’ve got a great Franklin Expedition exhibit that’s full of artifacts and this nice model.

The rear or main mast section

As I mentioned in an earlier post,  I have used some of my post build time to create a Photo Album of my build utilising some of the many photo's taken over the course of the build.
The album is large format (28 x 21cm) and runs to 120 pages.
The book has now arrived and I thought you may like to see how it worked out.
The book was designed and created from software downloaded from Vistaprint.  who then produced the Album.
Here's are a few pages to give you a glimpse of how it looks.







In reality the photo's are far better than may appear on this post, and it's nice to have a record outside of a computer to look back on a build.
 
Regards,
 
B.E.
 
 

The casing of Pegasus took place yesterday, one of the most stressful operations since constructing the Headworks.
Slipping the cover over Pegasus with only a few mm clearance each side of the Main Studding Booms ends and Jib boom was scary to say the least.
 
Still all done now, and here she is in her designated place.





 
Moving on now, to what not quite decided.
 
B.E.
 

For those who may be vaguely curious about the face behind the model, here's yours truly posing with Pegasus before she is cased.

 
B.E.
 

Main superstructures are now painted, a quick dryfit. I can now start hand painting and weathering then rigging. 
 
The guns are done just need weathering. 

Hello everyone.
 
My name is Phillip and I have been building models most of my life.  Mostly I built plastic scale models but I also did model railways and even built rc planes when I was younger.  After a significant time away from models because of my career and kids, I am happy to say that I am finally going to have a go at building a wooden ship (something that I dreamt about for a long time).  After a lot of reading and research online I finally decided on Caldercraft's HMS Supply as my first kit.  It did say online that it is a beginner's kit, but it does look very daunting. I hope that my previous skills and patients will help me through the build along with all of the great build logs on this site. 
Now even though there are a good dozen build logs already for this kit, I was thinking of starting my own so that I could get advice easily when (not if) I come into difficulties, so hopefully you will see that soon.
 
Phil

Greetings Marcus,
I am taking a break from working on my Confederacy (wood) and getting back into plastic which has changed tremendously since my last projects. You will or have found out that this site is a great source of information and, I find, inspiration.
If I can share a couple of thoughts with you that I found helpful. Be patient. Plastic can suck you into wanting to see the end product. If you go fast you miss the small details that the experienced builders attend to as habit. Detail and everything aligned are some of the marks of the more experienced builders. Take each structure as a separate model.
I am building the 1/350 USS Alaska CB-1 by Hobby Boss. A great kit IMHO. Mike Ashey (www.mikeashey.com) has a very comprehensive book on building and detailing the Alaska. It would be a good, inexpensive investment for building any plastic ship model.
It gets you looking for the little things that can easily be missed and he shares the techniques that work for him.  Check it out.
Set a realistic goal for your projects and, most importantly, enjoy.
Cheers, Harley

Various deck bits. I made two pin rails with 5 holes each per Rick, so hopefully will have enough belaying points. For the catheads, the mortise needed was narrower even than Mikhail's narrowest tool so I made an xacto blade into a chisel on the disk sander. In one of the pics you can see the falconet mounts are all filled in, the eyebolts blackened and installed for the guns, lower cathead parts and the bow knee are done. Just have to do the windlass and knees for the stern and the deck furniture will all be done.
 
I haven't glued in most of them for the simple reason that I don't have to yet, I will finalize all the parts first.
 
I think I've changed my mind and am probably going to paint the furniture red, it doesn't make much sense to have the bulwarks and pin rails and catheads all painted with the rest of the furniture stained- I should either have everything bare wood (too late) or correctly painted.
 
 

Hull weathering done up to the point where I have to add the decks