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Thank you for the ideas on the lightning rods and nice comments.
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One item I'm struggling with is the balls at the top of the mast. As I'm working on it, the needs to be some hole in the top of the ball to support the lightning rod which I envision being a small brass rod. There also needs to be two small holes to act as the flag halyard. Using a Dremel drill press on basswood I end up either destroying the piece or making it grossly out of scale. How have others made these pieces? looking at the other builds these parts must be done much later in the build. I'd like to try while everything is still in hand on not on the ship, but could wait as well. thoughts? thank you
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Still working on various pieces of the masts. I've painted the lower masts as I believe these are completed. I've formed the masts, drilled holes and made a number of brass fittings. Still working on the upper cross trees. I've used the suggestion to glue some brass on the bottom of the pieces to add some strength. Shown below is my Makita "lathe". Spinning with sandpaper to take round out the square basswood and remove material.
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Where I am today after picking this up after a summer away. I believe the deck structures are complete. I have started the masts and I'm nearing completion of the lower sections of all three masts. I need to re-orient myself to where I am and what's next. hopefully my next post will be in a week or two and not months.
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Working on the deck structures my general take on the use of the cast items is that I will attempt to build one from scratch and if I like it better than the one provided I will use it. If not, just part of the learning curve.
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Well its been a very long time since I last posted, about 18 months if my quick look is correct. A lot of work has been done over that time and I documented it with a few pictures along the way. Clearly posting is not my long suit but I'm going to try to do better this winter. For now, I'm just going to dump the pictures in and if anyone has a question on how I did things, please respond and I'll do my best to remember how I did it. I don't believe I'm one of the more accomplished modelers here, but I did think it is important to let folks know that work was continuing and I'm enjoying it at the pace I'm going.
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Coppering is now completed and I've mounted the ship on a scrap piece of wood. I'll replace this with something nice before I get into masts etc. that will make it difficult to turn up side down later on. I haven't decided if I'm going to make some nice wood mounting board or just buy one. On to the next level of stanchions and planking.
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Over the past couple of days I've cut enough strips and applied them to cover the first belt between the keel and the goring line. As with the practice strips, any movement of the tape while working with it shows up on the final product. Peeling the backing off, if you don't keep the foil side straight, makes little marks across the foil. While I've become better and limiting this, some is inevitable and I've simply accepted that. The markings from the Pizza cutter look good, better in some places than others but so far I'm happy with the outcome. Most of these strips will be under the boat and not seen often so hopefully I will continue to get better at this.
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I primed and painted the hull, I believe I stopped at 4 coats of the black to get good coverage. I was looking for more of base to set the copper tape than necessarily a finish coat. As the paint was drying a I spent some time looking at the work of Keithbrad80 and GAK1965. (which I do a lot). I tested out the pizza cutter to make the joint marks as well as a pounce wheel to add additional details. Ultimately I dropped the pounce wheel and simply went with the lines to outline the individual copper sheets. This simplified the jig such that I only needed slots to make consistent strips.
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Two final pictures before the primer hits the planks. Then it will be paint, and coppering for a while.
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At this point I've completed planking the decks. The main deck has been sanded, stained and a coat of varnish applied. The poop and fore decks have been sanded but not finishing yet. I'm holding off until I work on the railing a bit. Once I see how that goes together, I'll think about finishing before / after adding those details. I am concerned about adding the rails before I flip the boat and finish the hull. I've been procrastinating on putting primer over the all the planking work as I really love the look of wood. The next build might be one with a wood finish.
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George, thank you for the suggestion on the tape. I've found the venture tape and plan to use it shortly. I went ahead and did the planking on the main deck and I'm now experimenting with stain and varnish. while this dries, I'm trying to look ahead at the work that needs to be done before I think about planking the upper deck up front. should have some pictures to show shortly.
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After about 3 1/2 months I've completed the hull planking. The deck is still to come. I'm thinking through some sequencing of when I want to paint. Generally I like to paint before I have the opportunity to slop paint on the next things. I'm thinking I will paint the inner hull and probably the outer hull before I put the main rail as that will be stained. Then I can copper the bottom and install the deck. Interested in other views. One big question for those that have coppered the hull. I don't see any guidance as to how to prepare the wood to best take the copper plates. Will they adhere best to natural wood, painted wood, or some sort of "pre-treatment". coppering looks like a lot of tedious work and I'd hate to have them fall off because I didn't prepare the hull properly. State of the mode can be seen in the pics below
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