Ian_Grant

I'm always amazed at the finished appearance of your card models. I should try one...........🤔

Michael, it's nearly beyond belief, at this scale. As always, amazed by your fine work (and your eyesight!).

Masked everything off and applied a darker grey. I'm a much happier camper now. Here the funnels, in various stages of priming/painting, are just sat on minus their lower flanges except the fore. They need more detailing (drilling for steam vent pipe supports) which is easier done off the ship. I had to print a new fore funnel after noticing that the cap did not quite click-in when I glued it and was thus a little bit crooked. Still need to put darker grey on the flag deck and bridge tower parts. The grey is actually slightly darker than it appears here.

Glen's video reminded me of this National Geographic footage from earlier on. Continuing the digression, but hey, it's my build log.

And now we take a brief break from the build for some humour. Today's topic, and I know this will be appreciated by Keith and Glen, is the penguins of the Heard and Mcdonald Islands. Here are a few pics.

Actually those were only funnel scraps. There is lots of other scrap, including on the floor of the model room. I wonder about their future; I'll toss them and they'll end up in a landfill. Am I generating future microplastic particles? Yes, still TinkerCAD. I think I will stick with it as I have no ambitions to loft a hull or something similar.

Making slow progress. Painted the red u/w hull and grey above; yet to add the wide black bootstripe. Kind of washed out in this pic. Note, I'm again having second thoughts about the grey colour thinking it is too pale. Need to decide before I assemble bridge structure which would be impossible to repaint afterwards. Speaking of the bridge structure: Lowest brown deck is the forward shelter deck. - Above that is the flag deck; navigating officer' cabin, flag lockers at back. I intend to terminate the signal halyards from aloft on the rail attached to them. Note the stanchions. - Next up is the sea cabin platform, with captain's and admiral's sea cabins and two twin 24" searchlights. - Above that is the chart house platform with (obviously) chart house and another pair of searchlights. = On top we have the compass platform, magnetic compass, gyro compass, chart table, range finder (all to be added). This is all just dry assembled with the foremast passing through holes in all the decks. Note also my 3D printer representation of "kapok" anti-splinter matting attached to the railings of the platforms. Boy the camera hides nothing; looks better to the eye. I've spent lots of time this week working on the funnels. Deceptively simple looking but I was many hours in CAD drawing the three individual sizes, two different-sized ovals and one round. Each funnel consists of seven pieces which "click lock" at positions hidden by the horizontal bands. Nothing is glued together yet. They're all hollow to give the possibility of running pipes up them from a "steam" generator. Boiler room ventilation hatches at base of main stack. Some of the engine room ventilation hatches at base of rear stack. Pieces require to build the forward, round, funnel. The second piece, the lower flange, was especially problematic to draw, with the continuously changing bevel radius in the forward half. I tried making it with various attempts at truncated, tilted cones but could never get it right. I ended up drawing a series of narrow wedges rotated in two degree increments which worked out in the end. Since then I've realized I could probably have done it by stretching a cone out to an elliptical base and adjusting base size, and height, to suit. Probably would work; never thought of it as I was trying to do it with tilted but circular cones.🙄 Previous versions of parts rejected at revisions of files.

Fantastic - immaculate - not a single glue mark!!!!

Great job on the pikes. I expect to see them on your upcoming SIB too, mind! 😁

Too bad you're on the opposite side of the world......I have two copies! I thought I'd lost the first, bought the second, then found the first months later. I suppose I should try to sell it on. It's a limited market.

Harry, do you have a copy of Underhill's "Masting and Rigging the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier"? A great reference for such ships. I bought it to help with rigging my Preussen.

Nice print!

Rigging looks daunting, but as you go through it in manageable pieces it all comes together in the end, so long as you have good instructions. 😏

She is is very shipshape and really looks the part of a naval vessel, Glen. Immaculate!

Well done, Bill. She looks wonderful! Looking forward to your AV build; seems quite a bit more complex than Endeavour....