Ian_Grant

Oh, now I see! Maybe..........Ough shows a boom mounted on the side of the aft structure which is perhaps for this. It's mounted at rail level with no on-deck support easily spotted but maybe this is that boom........Too many booms, I'm getting a headache.........🤪 Will make for lots of interesting detail though.

Good guess, but the long boom on the main mast seen in the rendering going off photo to the left is a large crane to handle the well deck boats. There are two smaller cranes for the forward boats.

Thank you Dr PR!! That seems likely given it's circa WWI. I have noticed that the "boom" seems to be simply clipped to the top of the blast shield without any rigging at its tip. Now that I have a story in case anyone asks, I will install a pair or two. Thanks again, and best regards! Ian

Keith, thanks but afraid not. The torpedo nets were massive - they were rolled up and lashed down on shelves running most of the length of the ship outside the main deck railings. In the 3D rendering image above, the net is the long black thing. There were "brailing davits" spaced at short intervals along the sides too, probably about 80 of them in all; I had already sort of decided to omit them since I already have to make about the same number of stanchions. 🙄 I have some brailed cord to dye black to represent the nets.

The searchlight towers were added after 1916 and are shown dotted in this Norman Ough drawing which shows an earlier appearance. I believe the dotted lines you mention run to the edge of the platform and just happen to be behind the tip of the spar. I do not know if the cask is really wood; I've only ever seen it in the 3D rendering, which is from the "HMS Lion" entry at navalencyclopedia.com.

Does anyone here recognize the purpose of this spar, and apparently associated large wood cask, circled in the pic: The 3D rendering (which I already know has errors in it; it's not infallible) shows a pair like this, port and starboard, and a similar pair at the forward superstructure. My Ough drawing shows the following: yes there is a spar, albeit stowed at a different position, but no cask. He doesn't seem to show any at the forward superstructure Also, I'm puzzled by how the free ends are being held in position. If anyone can shed light on this for me I'd be grateful. Thanks!

Johnny's idea is brilliant! My only other suggestion might be to do a bottle scene without a ship at all, just a sperm whale and a giant squid battling it out in the depths.

That parral is microscopic! How many pieces did you lose on the floor? 😉

It's common to buy small beads, maybe 15/0 ?? at your scale, with which to make parrals. It's easy to thread through them but slightly more difficult to make the little ribs between the beads.

Looks great! Did you have these decals custom-made?

Nice work. Those lower yard trusses are detailed - are they a kit part or did you fabricate them?

Glen, you keep raising the bar with each build!! This is truly amazing, and I really like the wavy flow of the bottle itself, too. Very, very well done!

Looks ah-ma-zing John!

When I left home after university to start work in another town, I came back at Christmas to find that all my plastic model airplanes and ships had disappeared except my Revell 1/100 Cutty Sark and Constitution. Thankfully, they kept all my wood RC boats which I am now in the process of refurbishing/rebuilding, one by one. I tell myself I won't trash my kids' stuff but the basement is getting pretty crowded with furniture for future homes, etc. 🤔

Great job! And you're moving at breakneck speed too.....😏👍 🤙

Thought I needed to post a "proof of life" message, so here we are. Worked on the rest of the ship's boats; ten of them in two stacks of three and two stacks of two. It took me days and days to find suitable printable hulls, break off the print supports under seats etc, and paint them. They printed with very nice floor boards etc but many of them were ripped up in the process of removing the supports. Fortunately you can't see inside the lower boats in the stacks. For the stacks of two, I needed a hull with two pointy ends for the upper boats; I used a "Titanic Lifeboat" file for the them because they printed cleanly. For the stacks of three, I inverted the 16ft dinghies on top because the tiny interior details were too delicate to clean up neatly. These dinghies are 1.1" long. Also added the admiral's barge (albeit as a whaler because that printed better) all painted up fancy. Don't know if they kept it fancy in wartime but anyway.............. Boats in the aft well deck. Still need to rig the outer railing on the shelter deck. Barge has red/gold trim. Rigging on the aft superstructure. Boats at the forward superstructure. Tiny dinghies are painted red on bottom. Fore and main funnel bracing wires complete on the starboard side; not started on port side. Boat cranes not fixed in position yet. You can just see a couple of the Carley rafts I drew and printed. By the way, why were bracing wires needed for funnels on these ships but not on later ships? Welding instead of riveting? View of forward superstructure. Next up? Let's see.....foremast stays and many signal halyards; radio "aerials"; two tiny sounding machines and booms for the fwd shelter deck; two hotchkiss guns aft; main deck railings (🤔); brailed torpedo net and booms. Also I need to investigate the app for programming the sound effects board. No rush now as the RC club sailing season has pretty much ended unless we get another warm Wednesday. I want to finish this and complete my "Preussen" model this winter.

John, You're doing great work creating these wheel parts. Since they will all be painted bright orange anyway, if you know anyone with a laser cutter or 3d printer they could be done to perfection in seconds/minutes. May be heresy, I know, but it would give you more time to devote to the cabins etc. and complete the beautiful model earlier. 🤙

Yes, they were one of my favourite species during our Galapagos tour. We were walking on the designated path on an island where they breed and females were sitting on eggs on the ground everywhere, even sometimes in the middle of the path where we had to tiptoe around them. Plus they were busy doing their mating ritual which involves showing off their blue feet.

...even as far away as the Galapagos...........

She looks fabulous, Glen!

Good first build; you're a braver man than me. I've never tried planking a hull. Just a note about the blocks in your mast picture: it looks like the two upper blocks are the wrong way round. By this I mean the single holes should be at the other end. Imagine that the rope passing through has to go around the disc-shaped sheave (a pulley) within the block; whichever direction the rope comes from it must enter the block at the furthest end in order to use the pulley. Enjoy your rigging! Ian

As I recall, flemish horses were present on any yard carrying a sail which had reef bands. A crew member had to be at the very very end of the yardarm to haul the end of the reef band taut and attach to a fixture at yardarm end. I believe this was called "passing the ear-ring". The regular footrope is too near the yard (in the sense of height to the yard from the rope) for this seaman to safely stand. The Flemish horse droops lower to provide this. I haven't looked to add to this response, but there are pictures of seamen even sitting astride the yardarm end to haul the band taught. That's what I recall anyway; I should consult Harland.

That's ok, we'll wait (sound of chair scraping). (sound of feet tapping). "Umm, are you back yet?" (sound of feet tapping).

Nice hull Bill! Also - I hereby induct you as an honorary electronics engineer! Your iron ring is on its way (well, not really since it's a Canadian thing!).

Hi Glen - another awesome build! Just got back from vacation and saw this thanks to your mention of me. 😏 Probably moot now, but when I read about your new idea of lit flames I thought of this build I had admired before: