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  1. drobinson02199
    Cornish Pirate: I think that's how I did it. Don't have any view on the thread. Regards, David
  2. drobinson02199
    Pictures below of the lifeboats and the anchor. The hull is now complete (with the exception of the lifeboat parrels, which the manual says leave until later). So it's on to the masts now. Regards, David
  3. drobinson02199
    Re my comments above about drilling holes under the channels for the deadeyes, I used the right size (short) drill on an angle and then angled in the bottom of the chain plate. Worked OK, but some distortion of the rods that I couldn't fix. I did that on the side that won't be visible. Then I just bit the bullet and used a 1/16 inch drill straight down, which gave a hole a bit too large, but since I was reinforcing these by bending the other wire under the channel, worked fine. A picture of that below. Regards, David
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    I've now pretty much finished all the deck structures and fittings. Pictures here of all that. Some comments on sequence. I'm not exactly sure why, but I chose to go ahead and do the stern deadeyes early, which was a relief when I installed the curved stern railing. I'm not sure I'd have been able to avoid mangling it if I'd done them in the manual sequence, which is during the rigging stage. Speaking of those, the manual and drawings show a way to create the chain plate from wire, and then fix it to the deck below the deadeyes, which is conceptually fine for those in the middle of the hull if you have a 3 inch long .75mm drill bit -- mine are shorter, and I'm not sure they exist. I may still do it by drilling on an angle. It still looks like a flimsy fixing for the tension on the deadeyes, so I'm going to reinforce them to the bottom of the channel. But there's no clear way shown to attach the ones on the stern that you see here -- so I improvised by creating a sort of wire "plug" on the deadeye and gluing that into the hole. I'll do the ones on either side of the hull next, as I won't want to try to maneuver those into place with masts and yards up (which is the way the manual would have you do it). The other improvisation is the small front railing between the ladders. I lost one of the stanchions on the floor somewhere, and of course Mantua provides no spares. So I had to fashion the two rear stanchions out of wire. Before I get to the rigging, I need to build the lifeboats and mount them, which is the next step. Regards, David
  5. drobinson02199
    I finished and mounted the rudder, and applied the bow and stern decorations. Pictures below. The drawing shows the white rubbing strakes running straight to the figurehead at the bow, and the brass decorations on that same line without the bend you see here. While the rubbing strakes would "frame" the top decoration, I'm not sure what the bottom of the lower one would look like. In any event, as I mentioned above, I had missed that in the drawings and terminated the strakes at the end of the hull. So I extended them and applied the decorations as you see here. Also as noted in my earlier post, the space between the strakes at the stern was not wide enough for the stern decorations, so I had to file them down to fit. That seems to have worked out OK. Regards, David
  6. drobinson02199
    The white rubbing strakes are now on. The manual wants pins to hold the curve, but I steamed the curve into the strips, then painted them, and then used CA glue. I think I may have ended the strakes too soon at the bow, and if so, I'll fix that later. I KNOW I have an issue at the stern where the width between the strakes isn't quite large enough for the brass figures that go in there, but I ran out of stern to fix the lower strake to, so I'll fix that as well by cutting down the brass to fit. I need to touch all of this up now with black and white paint. Regards, David
  7. drobinson02199
    Back from vacation, and found the extra copper plates waiting for me. Took me a while amidst post-vacation catch up tasks to finish off the coppering of the hull. That brought me to finishing off the keel, bow and stern. I had planned to use copper tape for that, and as things turned out, it worked really well. I've attached pictures showing pre-taping rough sections, and then the finished product. Found there was a learning curve in handling the tape to minimize crinkles, but they show up no matter what you do, so I'm glad I used the plates for most of the hull, and equally glad I used tape to finish off the edges. Now I can go back and pick up the sequence items I skipped waiting for the extra plates to arrive. Regards, David
  8. drobinson02199
    Now some deck detail at the bow. This will be my last progress post for a few weeks. Off for a vacation with my wife. The copper plates are now in shipping to me, so when I get back I'll be able to finish the coppering. Regards, David
  9. drobinson02199
    More deck detail at the stern. I need to find something to "decorate" that blank white wall above the railing. Regards, David
  10. drobinson02199
    Antony: I just caught up to this wonderful build. The quality and ingenuity of your work on these scratch built models continues to amaze me. This is quite a step up from the Turtle Ship! Regards, David
  11. drobinson02199
    Here's the stern deckhouse. I like the look of this model with the brass/paint/wood combination. Regards, David
  12. drobinson02199
    The deck moldings and the channels are now on the ship, and they make it look much more finished. I'm having to work out of sequence waiting for the hull plates to arrive, but fortunately there are deck structures I can do. Regards, David
  13. drobinson02199
    Your strips look terrific. As I noted in an earlier post, I couldn't get a good result using a pounce wheel -- but I am going to use strips to edge the bow, stern and keel. Regards, David
  14. drobinson02199
    A bit more -- there is nice molding to dress the area where the planked deck meets the bulkhead. See before & after pics. [and again, pictures in reverse order] Regards, David
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    While I'm waiting for the rest of the copper plates to arrive from Ages of Sail, I'm doing what I can to move forward. Here are the planked decks. I can do the next steps involving more deck finishing, but don't want to do the port covers or the white hull strips until I finish the coppering, because they will mar/bend when I lay the ship on its side. Regards, David
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    [EDIT NOTE: As sometimes happens on this site, the pictures came out in reverse order from what I intended] I'm stuck at the moment because there aren't enough copper plates in the kit to finish the job -- by about 400. Ages of Sail is sending me more, but in the meantime I'm working around it to the extent I can, which is limited. I've mentioned above that I used a different approach to copper each side of the hull. On the first side I started at the keel, then worked up a bit, then went to the waterline, worked down, and then fitted the two together. You can see that in the picture below. On the second side (the one I plan to display), I started at the waterline and am working down (you can see where I ran out of plates). As the picture shows, it's a much better looking pattern up close. From 3 feet or more away, the first side looks fine, but the display side looks much better. Regards, David
  17. drobinson02199
    I haven't posted in a while because I've been coppering, coppering, coppering . . . One side now done -- picture attached. I started on the side I don't plan to display so I could learn from it. Results are fine, but on the other side I think I'll start at the waterline and bring it down to the keel, where the final fitting of odd pieces and shapes will be easier. On this side, I did it where the bottom and top layers met, and it was a LOT of cutting, filing, and fitting. I'm a bit concerned about my supply of copper plates, but we'll see how that goes. May have to call Ages of Sail for a "make good". Regards, David
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    Yes -- as soon as I bring this section over to the bow, I'm going to start on the waterline and work down. Regards, David
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    Initial work on coppering. Regards, David
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    HOF: Thanks -- the YouTube videos were really helpful. He's using very thin plates -- mine are the thicker kit plates so I don't have the same flexibility he does. Two big things I took out of the videos: The idea of end-capping the cutwater, stern and keel. It's given me a new thought on how to do that on my model. I'm reflecting on his approach of doing the waterline with a row of plates and then using cut plates in the middle to finish off. I was going to trim plates to fit at the waterline. On reflection, I think his way will work better and so that's what I'll do. I'm using medium glue all the way, and it's working pretty well. I'll post a shot when I get a bit further along. Regards, David
  21. drobinson02199
    Hof: 2,500 plates? I'll be finishing the coppering with a glass of egg nog. 😛 Regards, David
  22. drobinson02199
    Here's why I abandoned the tape. I made up a strip of the copper tape and put it above a row of the real plates that I have started at the keel. It's really hard to get good shots of this because of the way the tape and plates reflect light, but you can see it in these two pics. The pounce wheel does a fair job of making rivet marks at top and bottom, but the divider rivets just don't look right -- AND, the tape is really shiny compared to the copper plates. Regards, David
  23. drobinson02199
    Change in direction. I tried my first piece of copper tape, and it just doesn't look right compared to the copper plates supplied with the kit. The impressions made by the pounce wheel are uneven, and the tape is too shiny. So it's on to individual plates, and I'll probably be at that for a while. Regards, David
  24. drobinson02199
    Have now painted the upper part of the hull black. I brushed on the paint vs. spraying. If I spray, I get spray mist all over my workroom (even with major plastic dropcloths) and have to be super careful not to track it into the house. Just a mess. I have a small exhaust fan mounted high, and maybe I'll get motivated and buy some flexible ducting to bring the exhaust down to the spray area I use. But I used a foam brush here and it worked fine. Time to start coppering. I'm going to see if I can make copper tape work. Stay tuned. Regards, David
  25. drobinson02199
    So here's my plan for painting. I don't want to paint the lower part of the hull, because I've read that paint can be a poor surface for coppering. So as shown in the pics below, I have put pins in the hull just about 1mm below the waterline. I'll leave them in and paint down to them only. Then when I copper the hull, I'll come up to them and use the holes as a guide for the last copper row, which will cover the holes. Anyhow, that's the idea and we'll see how it works. Regards, David

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