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  1. Ian_Grant
    Yes that's from my copy of Geoff Hunt's print "England Expects" with the main course clew hauled up a little to provide more air for the fore course. The bunt and leech lines would be loose.
  2. Ian_Grant
    Oh God the penguins have migrated to my build now... 😏
  3. Ian_Grant
    No, I don't have any figures. They just looked larger than I've seen on other models....
  4. Ian_Grant
    Eric, nice work. If I may say so, the fend-offs look a bit too massive in projection from the hull. Just say if you don't want more comments like this. 🫢
  5. Ian_Grant
    Bill; for some historical reason, clew lines on the lower sails (only) are called clew garnets. Ours not to reason why, and all that.
  6. Ian_Grant
    Looks great Michael! Following your build, I find ideas popping into my head for 3D printing; that bulkhead for instance, complete with decorations. I'm looking forward to seeing how you handle the deadeyes and chains. I remember looking at my kit and pondering how to use those tiny parts with actual thread shrouds. Best Regards, Ian
  7. Ian_Grant
    Work slowed over the Christmas holidays but I've begun painting some bits. Decorated outside walls of the steering platforms, one side of each main bulwark, and the ventilation panels. The blue panels are the outboard sides of the bulwark. With two primer coats and two colour coats it's a slow process. Made a moulding for the tower from evergreen; one strip and one half-round. Glued together "ram 2.0". It's nice and crisp compared to the ram 1.0 which was printed in one piece. Gluing on the after fixed deck. You can never have too many clamps. Marcus approves! Lastly, epoxy-resined the bottoms of the three lift-off deck pieces. Main one is staying clamped flat until I get to varnishing the upper surface. Next steps are painting the other sides of the two main bulwarks and gluing them to the main lift-off deck. Then I can varnish all the decks and finally work on the inner faces of the bow and stern bulwarks. Also need to paint the backers for the ventilation black before gluing on the white ventilation strips. If anyone is interested I am getting decorating inspiration from Flavio Terenzi's magnificent "La Nave Romana" quinquireme model, seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuYBk0znbB8&list=PLN8dHnRD0y61NWWulgdXo7fMLYSnjZ943&index=11
  8. Ian_Grant
    Very cool! Looking forward to seeing her sail. And happy new year!
  9. Ian_Grant
    Beautiful job! I like your soldered deadeye spacers. Happy New Year!
  10. Ian_Grant
    Thanks Pat, for all your comments and likes this year. So close to applying paint now ..... 🤞
  11. Ian_Grant
    One of the improvements you can make is to scrape off Heller's waterline marking and paint the "white stuff" much higher up, reaching or even partially overlapping the main wale. You've probably read about that....
  12. Ian_Grant
    Always happy to follow another SR build; the more tips I can collect before I pull mine from the stash, the better.
  13. Ian_Grant
    She's looking great, Bill. You'll be done by Christmas day! What's next in 2024?
  14. Ian_Grant
    More progress shots. Framing for the major part of the deck, and laser-cut pieces for the bulwark. Smaller panels will be on the inside; larger outside panels will have the shield motifs. The beams on the aft half are spaced to allow regularly spaced ventilation hatches. There will be two access ladders to below decks; one between the tower and the mast, the other at the back of the main deck section. Just finished cutting aft deck from template. It's not glued down since the aft access hatch isn't yet cut so it's bulging a bit. Thinking of adding a little brass tube before I do glue it, to lead wires (disguised as rope) from possible "flickering LED" lantern hanging from stern fantail decoration through the deck to where I can access them inside through the hatch. Could hide the tube using the commander's cabin. Scrap blocks are supporting the unglued bulwarks. Side view looking good........pardon the two-tone bulwark frames - cutter can only do 24" and I used long cherry and short maple cutoffs I had lying around. I threw on my alpha prototype ram. Haven't glued the new 4-piece print together yet. Assembled the laser-cut pieces of the archery tower. I etched "stonework" on the outside for painting effect. Will 3d-print a ladder for inside. A bow shot. The hull is painted with epoxy resin up to the 2nd trim. Eager to start painting! Found 3d-file for a Scorpion I like better than the first ballista. File set only cost me $3. It looks like this: As compared to the stage I had reached in TinkerCAD: Not sure how much time I will have for modelling over the Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas to all! Thanks for following.
  15. Ian_Grant
    You could check with: https://www.xometry.com/capabilities/sheet-cutting/laser-cutting/maryland/silver-spring/
  16. Ian_Grant
    Bill, don't know what Heller showed, but IMO the bowlines should be led to blocks further forward; don't forget they have to be pulling from ahead of whatever point the windward yardarm end reaches when close-hauled. See for example Longridge's drawing for victory Fig 182; fore topsail bowlines led out to bowsprit cap, fore topgallant bowlines out to flying jib boom. SR has of course no jib booms; you could lead topsail bowlines to blocks at the back edge of the sprit top, and topgallant bowlines to ??? maybe the cap? or the top of the sprit-topmast ??? Here's a pic I dug up on google. Bowlines can just be made out indeed heading for the area of the sprit topmast. Now comparing the photos, maybe all you need to do is move your bowline blocks a bit further down the stays. You might want to also let your spritsail sheets out a little. Free Mouse Pad - Join the NRG with Digital & Print Journals - see offer in NRG news below
  17. Ian_Grant
    Yes, 1121/1122 clew lines are definitely behind the sail. Leech lines run in front of the sail. Heller doesn't show where the course leech lines go; I would expect them to run through a block beneath the mast top and down to pin rails around the mast foot. Or does SR even have these? I say again that I'm not sure 1117/1118 are the reef tackles; it worries me that I see no labelled line running to the blocks e.g. e147 and e148 used to haul up the heads of the stu'nsls. I would have expected reef tackles to pass through a block near the mast thence down to pin rails near the mast. Then again I've made zero ships from this century.
  18. Ian_Grant
    Blue are your leech lines which gather in the leeches (sides) of the sails when furling. I'm having trouble deciding from the diagram what purple are. I think 1031 are the braces, in which case the purple seem to be the reef tackles hauling the leeches (edges) of the sail up via the blocks attached at the level of the reef band as discussed earlier; or possibly for the stuns'ls in which case I don't see where the reef tackle line goes. Hmmm. The two dotted lines ending at the foot of the mainsail are the bunt lines. The upper sails seem to have no bunt lines probably because they are reduced by lowering their yards, not by being pulled up like the mainsail. I'm surprised the topsail has no reef tackle shown. Leads me to wonder if only the course sails had reefs??? According to Anderson, reef tackle were used on lower sails as an alternative to bonnets from the 13th century to early in the 16th century when they disappeared; reefs appeared in topsails in roughly 1655; topsail reef tackles are first documented in 1675; Anderson would hesitate to show topsail reef tackles before 1670. I can't remember (again) which SR in which year consensus has placed the Heller model. Modeller's initiative on reefs I guess.
  19. Ian_Grant
    Mike, that would be incredible! All I am looking for is any other Klondike drawings they may have; front/rear elevation, midships cross section; deck details, anything really which would help build an accurate model. Thank you very much for taking an interest! Regards, Ian
  20. Ian_Grant
    Addendum: I've just emailed the Parks Canada SS Klondike historic site to ask after any other drawings they may have, which may have been judged not sales-worthy enough to print up for the general public. Fingers crossed! It seems the site may be temporarily closed at the minute. Don't know about the email address.
  21. Ian_Grant
    Our local RC model boat club had their annual auction for the December meeting. It was unbelievable - Spektrum transmitters going for $2, fast electric boats c/w water-cooled brushless motors going for $5........ one chap arrived with sheafs of boat plans, including for the Klondike! I bought that plan. It is a very nicely drawn glossy sheet with her LOA at about 3ft, depicting a detailed side elevation, and hull lines. Unfortunately there is no athwartships view so one can not tell how wide the wheelhouse, say, is compared to the lower hull. Nor are there any details of the paddlewheel etc. But we do have photographs. Drawing is published by Parks Canada and dates from 2001. Maybe PC has another drawing with front view??
  22. Ian_Grant
    Bill, the reef points are used to tie the sail to the yard when reducing sail. Crewmen standing on the foot rope bring the front and rear ends of the reef points up over the yard (after gathering the unwanted sail neatly) and tie them in a - wait for it - reef knot. To help the men pull the sail up with the wind blowing, there are also "reef tackles"; ropes which attach to the leech (side) of the sail at the end of the reef band (horizontal reinforcing strip sewn along where the reef points pierce the sail). Men hauling on these tackles pull the sail up to the yard to let the men on the yard gather it and tie it off. I do not know how multiple reef bands were handled; did the reef tackle just attach to the lowest band? ... did they take in a reef, tie off the reef points, then shift the tackle connection down to the nest lower band (implying they had to take in sail one reef at a time even when wanting to reduce sail drastically?). Might make sense since I expect they would want all the successive rows of reef points tied off. Which begs the question of how, when loosing sail, would the men on the foot rope know which knots in front of them were for which set of reefs? We need a greater mind than mine to answer this.
  23. Ian_Grant
    Bill, those are the bowlines, used to haul the windward side of the sail hard forward when sailing "close to" (as close as a square rigger can get) the wind. They can prevent the sail being taken aback and perhaps damaged if there's a gust from a little more upwind.
  24. Ian_Grant
    Ah, but remember that our -7C is only your 19.4F. 😏
  25. Ian_Grant
    This is another phenomenal build, Glen! Can't wait to see it bottled. We haven't had any days below -7C yet. We did have one big snowfall which allowed two or three glorious days of Nordic skiing in Gatineau Park but recent rain and melt has ruined it again. 😭

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