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Hi All,

 
Progressing slow but sure here. As you can see all the gun carriages
have been assembled and I’m adding the eye bolts. Then I have to
sand the trucks and put them on.
 

 
Also the carronades and cannon barrels have the first couple coats of paint.
 

 
You also see the pile of rings and eye bolts I’ve made for the carriages.

 

 


 
Now that all the festivities are over I hope to have everything assembled by the weekend.
 

Just an update, nothing to report.  Very slow going removing the forest from the hull as I don't want to break anything or pop off any planks.  Still fiddling with the Deathstar but I think that problem is nearing the end.  And life just keeps getting in the way, lately.   
 
Thanks for the likes, the comments, and the interest in this build.  

lots of masking to set up the aircraft identification markings with a combination of airbrush and freehand, as the wood decking was hard to mask and some bleeding occured, lol this will not be re done again

Another update on the 'Pritt" - I forgot to take the camera with me the previous week when I went to the museum!
 
She still staggers slowly towards completion.  I didn't get much done last Monday as a Public Holiday combined with a cool, overcast day (non beach weather) meant huge crowds at the museum.
 
All of the rope coils are now in place.  On the photos of the ship they are sometimes seen lashed up in the rigging, but I thought the deck position was a bit tidier for model presentation.  The ratlines are iron bars lashed across the shrouds, so these will take a bit of time to do - much easier simply tying thin cord across the shrouds.  The mizzen only has the three shown in the photos on each side where the lifebuoys are lashed up - I suspect that they were originally there to lash up the diving outriggers in their stowed position when she was a pearl sheller. The main has ratlines most of the way up, so there's quite a bit of work there.
 
The next update will be at the end of January as I have other commitments on Mondays over the next couple of weeks that will keep me away from the museum.
 
Here are some photos of her as she was on Monday afternoon, including a direct overhead shot just for fun.
 
John
 

Happy new year everyone
 
decided to get one outstanding project done, far to many projects, all to big with no where to put them, lol sometimes it seams simpler to buy another than find out where to restart on a ongoing build, bought new needles for the airgun, and it has solved most of my problems, apart from using Lifecolor paints

Al
 
Unfortunately I cant add to an order already submitted.  Its protection for you and your CC's are deleted immediately after the order is finalized.
 
This is how the traveler ring looks after rigging it.  The jibsail and foresail rigging is now completed.  All that remains to rig are the two yards....once I make them.   That will complete the rigging and then its the final stretch with a few additional details....anchors....flag....boarding ropes......and she is officially done. 
 

 

Indeed, welcome back. Hopefully we kept things tidy enough while you were out (Mark brought his shop vac in to clean just last year...).

Welcome back Adam. Great to see you found your way home.

Great to see you back Remco. You have inspired more modellers than you might imagine, especially with your tag line. I look forward to seeing more updates from you through 2017.

Great to see you back Remco. You have inspired more modellers than you might imagine, especially with your tag line. I look forward to seeing more updates from you through 2017.

Great to see you back Remco. You have inspired more modellers than you might imagine, especially with your tag line. I look forward to seeing more updates from you through 2017.

Welcome back Adam. Great to see you found your way home.

Hi John,
 
Thank you for your very kind words Best wishes for 2017 to you and everybody else on MSW.
 
I have some good news for you as I will start updating my build log very soon. I'll tell a secret, I really hate doing hull planking especially on the inside with thicker planking. This kept me from progressing my build and found other means to spend my spare time for the past year. Last week I was reinspired after making a 1:5 hall table study model for a next project in my house. So I started to pick up modeling again over the past few days and decided to do some cheating to make my life a little easier. The spriketting will be done laminated style for ease of application. I'm pleased with the first results and will start posting some pictures the coming days.
 
Sorry for keeping everybody waiting this long.
 
Remco

Glad to hear the soldering worked for you Slog - should save some frustration with trying to glue them. Your work to date is looking great.

Glad to hear the soldering worked for you Slog - should save some frustration with trying to glue them. Your work to date is looking great.

Build Day: 3
1:30 hours today, 7 hours in total.
 
After a break of trips, holidays and Christmas, I continued today with planking.
 
Glued 3rd row of planking strips in both sides. These are a bit critical ones since they are actually almost the first ones to get the support from the bulkheads. The 2 rows of strips above are mostly glued only to the keel and are barely touching the bulkheads, which will be removed later. That's why these 3rd row planks have also the task to support the two strips above them as well. For that reason, after gluing them I stopped to ensure I wait until they are fully dried and settled.
 

 
Thanks for watching.

Glad to hear the soldering worked for you Slog - should save some frustration with trying to glue them. Your work to date is looking great.

Now you can't ask for a better reference photo than that Stuart! Looks like you were right all along!!!

Ah........ Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? And always 20/20 vision! Though I'm not sure just how difficult that might have proved with all those curves. Never mind though Stuart, I'm sure that with the skill you've applied to date, it will look stunning regardless.

It is hard to believe that it has been over a month since my last update.  Work on the quarter deck beams has been progressing very slowly but I hope to have them completed within the week.   The pictures were taken before any finish sanding.
 

 

 

 

 
 

Just stunning Nils! What a lovely model you are producing here. Every update shows your care and attention to detail.

The Pontos ones are mini kits in themselves,with etch and brass rod, not easy to put together, but neither is it impossible. Comes together beautifully, and I have left the lid off for the moment for ease of painting. It just requires soft hands.
 
Next will be the crane, sans the Arial which was taken off before the final mission. 

Hello Grant..
The piano is actually a baby grand piano that Came along with my marriage to Charlene.  However, she doesn't play the piano and ironically, I do.  Or let's say, "I did!"
At one time I could really do justice to the keyboard, even played in a dance band way back then.  Mostly pop and jazz.  I have been very lucky with respect to music as i was given a gift of being able to play by ear.  As hard as I tried as a youngster, I could hardly read music so I memorized everything, even when playing at dances, etc. I even played the organ a couple of times in one of the local churches.
Now the piano is mostly a nice piece of furniture that may even end up supporting a ship model.  Who knows?
Thanks for your visit; it was nice of you to take the time to do so.
Happy New Year,
 
Jerry

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 192 – More on Tops
 
The holiday season is a time for reflection and I have been thinking about the work ahead on YA in the New Year and beyond.  One of the approaching tasks is to finish the dust case that was started in an earlier post.  This project always gets me thinking about the size of the model.  The first photo, showing the drawing of the enormous fore yard attached to the mast, is not nearly as scary as it is in real life, but gives some appreciation of the final model size.
 

 
The yard is 82' long (~14" actual), just 7' shorter than the entire lower mast from step to cap – and without studding sail booms.  Even with all my familiarity with the drafting, it was somewhat shocking. 
 
The height of the model is another issue.  The next picture was taken using a Christmas gift – a new tripod that can crank up to 7' in height.
 

 
This will be needed for the rigging photos.  A leg of the old tripod may be seen in the picture.  So much for reflections on model size.
 
Some questions arose on the fabrication of the tops after the last post.  The steps are many, so I will refrain from describing everything here, except to answer some questions.  In the first picture the distance between index holes is being measured so the crosstree can be drilled to match the index holes on the drawing.
 

 
The aft tree has already been drilled and pinned in place on the drawing.  With the crosstrees in place the trestletrees were marked and the mortises cut, one at a time.  In the next picture the forward tree has been removed to check the first mortises.
 

 
After the structure was assembled, the bending pattern used for the rim, was used to mark the inner line of the rim on the structure.
 

 
In the next picture the half-laps on the cross and trestle trees have been cut, the structure has been located using pins, the rim has been pinned in place, and a chisel is being used to mark the lines of the mortises to be cut in the rim.
 

 
After fitting the joints, the rim was glued to the trees and all the excess ends were trimmed back.  The iron rim plates were then attached as described earlier.
 
There was a question on the slotting of the rim to fit the deadeye straps.  The next picture shows this being done using a jewelers saw.
 

 
The holes are too small to be filed.  The saw works well.  It does take some contortions to fit the saw to the threaded blade and to reverse it so the cut is always downward on the plate.  This keeps it from peeling off.
 
There is a cap over the forward part of the rim, covering the plank ends and also the joint at the forward end of the trestletrees.  This was cut from a single piece of wood and is shown in the next picture being finish sanded.
 

 
In this picture some planking has been installed.  These were installed over the lubbers hole to ensure a straight line once the lubber hole sections were cut out.  The next picture shows the three tops planked.
 

 
The holes in the fairlead planks were drilled using the x-y table on the mill to set the spacing.   I spent quite a lot of time this week making sure there were sufficient holes in each top.  This required reviewing the entire running rigging list of roughly 400 lines.  Each hole is allocated to a specific line – generally buntlines, leech lines, clue lines, upper sail sheets and some jib lines.  Six yards on each mast add up.  The line numbers for the mizzen top may be seen in the lower right of the photo.  As a result of the review, I added holes at the forward end of each top.  The fore and main tops now have 40 holes each and the mizzen 34.  There are just a few spare open holes, none in the mizzen top.  I mention this because rigging design and checking is consuming a lot of my time, so the modeling progress these days is slow.
 
The drawing in the last picture shows additional features added to the cap, in this case the mizzen cap.  Drawing discrepancies in the pictures, actually revisions were mentioned earlier.  Note that blocks are shown on the cap.  These are shackled to the cross iron on the cap, so to avoid having to strap the blocks later to the soldered shackles on the installed cap, this will be done before fitting the iron to the cap – a complication in using soldered shackles that requires more rigging checks early in the work – in this case checks of the entire standing and running list.  All of this is a great mental exercise.
 
Happy New Year everyone.
 
Ed
 

Glad to hear the soldering worked for you Slog - should save some frustration with trying to glue them. Your work to date is looking great.