Fernando E
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Fernando E reacted to Mike Hunt in Perseverance 1807 by Mike Hunt - Modellers Shipyard - 1:48 scale - Colonial Brig - first build
06/09/21 Painted mast caps again
08/09/21 Varnished masts
19/09/21 Cut and shaped all yards and stunsail booms
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Masts varnished
Yards cut and shaped
Not a lot of progress since my last installment as I took a week off to travel north to visit WA's wildflowers. Tis the season to be sure and I thought I would beat those pesky kids on skewell holidays in a week or so.
Anyway, finally finished the masts and varnished them with a satin varnish that I favour. Masts just sitting loosely in their respective locations. Overall I am not happy with them in terms of symmetry but keep reminding myself this is a steep learning curve. That excuse is starting to sound like a cop out.
I cut all the yards to length as well as the stunsail booms and shaped them all using my little Proxon mini lathe. I didn't use the chisels just various grades of sand paper so truth be told I could just as easily used a power drill.
Next week should see me start assembling the yards and fitting the blocks and rigging to same.
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Fernando E reacted to Sjors in HMS Victory by Sjors - Caldercraft - 1:72
The bulwarks are on it.
Next step all 60 sils for the lowest gunports so a next update will take a while.
Sjors
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Fernando E reacted to Penfold in HMS Beagle by Penfold - OcCre - 1/60
I then set about planking the deck. Fairly standard stuff.
Do make sure you get the deck the right way up as it’s not symmetrical in terms of the holes in it where fittings will go.
I would also say to take care when cutting out the notches after planking the deck. Only some of the notches need clearing.
I went with a bit more of a random pattern to the planking (as per the instructions) rather than the rather boring regular pattern on the videos. I might have overdone the pencil marks for the plank ends and pins, but I’ll go with it.
When it came to glueing then deck to the hull I found that it had warped slightly after the planks were glued, so I had to take care and employ a bit of CA glue to ensure that everything was stuck down where it needed to be. I didn’t want to come back later and find that the wood glue had dried and fixed the deck in the wrong place.
Pretty pleased with how it’s going at the moment. The instructions are clear and the videos on YouTube help as well. The laser cut pieces seem really well designed and fit together very well.
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Fernando E reacted to ccoyle in WARATAH 1902 by ccoyle - FINISHED - HMV - 1/250 - CARD - Steam Tug
Now finished with Step 6, lockers and gallows.
The particular gallows (correct term?) shown below was a bit of a challenge. Again, the kit includes printed posts and crossbeam, but I replaced these with wood.
The two bowed pieces are from the laser-cut detail set. The set included a hook as well, but it was tiny and kind of clunky looking. No matter -- my stupid tweezers tips slipped and flung the tiny part into another dimension. I tried cutting out the printed hook, which was a fruitless endeavor. The solution? A tiny strip of curled paper soaked in thin CA. Hard to see it in this photo. Heck, hard to see it period.
And because David likes something in the photo for scale, here's a pic featuring one of my digits. No, I did not used forced perspective -- my finger was actually that close and the model really is that tiny. 😉
Next up: THE WINCH! 😮
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Fernando E reacted to ccoyle in WARATAH 1902 by ccoyle - FINISHED - HMV - 1/250 - CARD - Steam Tug
With this update, I'm now finished through Step 5 of the construction process. The forward companionway and the locker aft of it were easy enough. The superstructure was more challenging. It consists of of two sections, which I prefer rather than having the whole thing as one piece. The forward half had joiners to bridge the gap between the port and starboard walls. But once I got both halves finished and placed them on the deck for a test fit, I discovered that the walls of the forward half were about 1mm too long on each side. So, I had to remove the joiners, trim off the excess length, and re-do the folds -- nothing too difficult, but it took a little time to do carefully and make sure everything fit correctly. I then glued the two sections of wall to the deck, added a replacement joiner to the forward section, and also added some thick cardboard to the insides of the walls to make them straighter and more rigid.
Next up will be the various life jacket lockers. Incredibly, they actually have the words "life jackets" printed on them, which -- at this scale -- can only be read under high magnification; at normal viewing distances, they just look like a smudge. 😜
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Fernando E reacted to ccoyle in WARATAH 1902 by ccoyle - FINISHED - HMV - 1/250 - CARD - Steam Tug
Not much to show for today. The big headache at this point was creating the eight mooring posts. These were originally to be made of card, obviously, but they are so tiny that folding them properly was a real pain, and I didn't like the results. So I decided to replace the paper parts with wood square stock. The kit includes microscopic angle braces for the posts, but I have omitted them, because they are just way too tiny to work with. I also did the little deck at the stern, the rub rails, and the aft companionway.
Now it's on to the main superstructure.
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Fernando E got a reaction from DaveBaxt in HM Bark Endeavour 1758-61 by DaveBaxt - Caldercraft - 1:64
Hi Dave, coming along nicely.
Cheers........ Fernando
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Fernando E reacted to DaveBaxt in HM Bark Endeavour 1758-61 by DaveBaxt - Caldercraft - 1:64
Completed the second planking from the wales to the keel ,working with 1mm x 4mm Walnut. It didn,t work out as well as my last ship the Bounty which was also in Walnut but only 0.5 mm thick and easier to work with I think. I had to use a few steelers to fill in the gaps at the deadwood area .A lot of work still to do to with sanding and filler to get it presentable . Fortunately this area is painted. Hopefully I make a better job of the rest of the planking up to the Bulwarks.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Is there anyway to get photographs in portrait orientation to stay in portrait when they upload to the build log?
Covid lockdown number 5 ended two weeks ago. Lockdown number 6 just started, what a shambles but I guess it may save help some lives.
My first attempt at shrouds on the topmast. Reminds me of my old school reports - "could do better"....
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Rigging !!! 3mm deadeyes !!!, shrouds !!!, ratlines !!! Covid lockdown number 5 !!! If I wasn't so bloody stubborn I would have given up. Well I read up as much as I could and battled on. My first experience with deadeyes on the bowsprit....
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Yards done. Anyone have any ideas about the treatment of the yards? I am inclined to stain them with walnut stain then finish with clear matt varnish but would welcome suggestions about the yards and Masts.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
This is the current state of my build, now it's time to finish the yards.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Made and assembled the masts, crosstrees and trestletrees etc. Really enjoyed this part of the build. Wondered why the woolding to the foremast was rope and the mainmast was iron but did it as per the instructions? The masts are not actually diverging, it looks like this in the photo due to parallax error. Tried rotating the first two photos every which way before loading but they always came out landscape!
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Not really happy with the tall stern windows and would welcome comments from other members.
Also undecided how to finish the masts - whether to stain and varnish or just varnish. Undecided also whether to paint the yards, crosstrees and trestletrees areas black as per Nelsons Navy colours.
I stained the main wale with dark walnut stain and am happy with the result but I like the look of the natural wood on the rest of the hull and was not planning to paint it, just clear varnish it. Again would welcome opinions on this.
Bowsprit fitted after considerable puzzling over the drawings but think I got it about right.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Had many goes at fixing the deadeyes and strops to the straps. Tried copying the methods used by other builders without much success but one method described by "riverboat" in his build of "Supply", where he used solder gave me a clue. In the end I soldered them together but in a different way to riverboat. The first attempt resulted in a lumpy mess but fortunately solder is easy to melt off and redo. After a while they looked OK and after painting them with black metalwork paint I was reasonably happy with the result.
I wanted to put on stern windows but looking at other builds was not sure they looked right, most looked cramped into the available space with the top corners cut off. Designed my own but still not entirely happy - may yet pull them off and redesign them.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Deck planking completed, bulwark capping rails done. Deck fittings and chain plates completed.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Thanks Mike - but I know where the flaws are!
Thanks also to all the people that reacted to my build log - Dfell, PRS, RichardG, CiscoH, BenD, ccoyle, Bruce d. Thanks in particular to Dfell - I have been frequently using your super build of HM Brig Supply to assist with my build.
Planking fitted to the inside of the bulwarks and started the deck planking .....
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Keel on and and 2nd planking closed up. Replaced a couple of the earlier planks that looked a bit rough.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Getting closer to the keel, so had to measure carefully and apply the correct taper to the planks at the bow and add in some stealers to the stern. Trying to avoid having to insert any odd bits to make the planks line up and finish properly next to the keel.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Found a much better way of bending the walnut strips, quite by accident. One strip was particularly difficult and had virtually dried out before I got the right curve. In desperation I made a cup of coffee and, without thinking too much about it, re-bent the strip around the coffee cup. Amazing - the curve turned out just right! After that I bent the rest of the planks, still dry, around the hot coffee cup and found for me that was the best way and didn't need to wait for each plank to dry. The cup had straight conical sides and by moving the strip up or down and holding it there for a short time, could get more or less curve as needed.
I have realised that some of my photos are probably breaking the rules by being too many pixels. Sorry moderators. I have now reduced the size to what I hope is acceptable.,
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Careful sanding after the first planking made the whole hull look much better.
The thinner walnut strip - 1mm x 4mm - for the second planking was much easier to bend after a short time in hot water. Started to really enjoy the second planking and made slow and steady progress. Used PVA glue for everything so far and by allowing the planks to dry out before placing the next row, managed to minimise shrinkage. Quite pleased with this as I really wanted to avoid using any filler.
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
The keel had a slight bow in it - hence the balsa blocks between the bulkheads to straighten it up. Thanks to other Supply builders logs for this idea.
The first planking was a real problem. The limewood broke at the slightest bend so I went online and bought a planking tool but couldn't get on with it and threw it into the bottom of the toolbox. Applying a hot iron was little better. I found a piece of plastic plumbing pipe a bit longer than the planks, stopped up one end and stood it up in a bucket of pebbles, poured in near boiling water and capped it with a mineral water cap. After a few minutes in the hot water the planks bent much easier provided I bent them slowly didn't try to rush it. The only problem I found with this was that the planks shrunk a bit when they dried out.
Richard
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Fernando E reacted to Acker in HM Brig Supply by Acker - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
I needed to keep my mind occupied during the long covid lockdown in the Melbourne area from June to October 2020 so I thought model ship building would be good. I built a few balsawood and tissue paper model aircraft when I was a kid (a long time ago) but nothing since so thought a kit would be best and looked for one suitable for a novice.
The Jotika website stated "The kit of H.M. Brig Supply has been designed with the Novice builder in mind" so this looked OK. I also like the history of the Supply, linking Britain with Australia, as I also migrated from Britain to Australia later in life. Knowing what I now know, having progressed well into the build and struggled numerous times, I would not describe the Supply as suitable for a novice and thank goodness I didn't start with a more advanced kit.
I ordered from Cornwall Model Boats and the kit took about 3 weeks to arrive, which considering the logistics during covid was pretty good, and started in late July 2020. I hesitated to start a build log as I was not sure if I could complete the build but as it progressed and each difficulty overcome, step by step, I slowly became more confident of finishing the job. I also realised after completing the hull that I would need some help when it came to the rigging.
Anyway here goes with some photos of the early stages.
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Fernando E reacted to MrBlueJacket in New Lobster trap kit design by BlueJacket Shipcrafters
To go along with the traps, I made a lobster holding box and populated it.
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Fernando E reacted to MrBlueJacket in New Lobster trap kit design by BlueJacket Shipcrafters
And here are all 3 finished traps.
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