J11

Here's some help. 

Here's a plan, hopefully it will help.

Excellent research producing a exquisite representation of a historical ship style brought into the 21st century. 

Fantastic craftmanship Keith!

Magnificent detailed construction work! 

@woodrat outstanding work! Definitely a museum piece! 

11 hours ago, Keith Black said:

 That's great news, Jonathan. I look forward to seeing your progress. 

Keith, good to be back. She's going to need a bunch of cleaning and some repair, but she's definitely salvable. Being mothballed for four years has it's draw backs. Working on new model table and shelves for the our new home, I'm hoping to have finished soon.

Off to a nice start, she's looking good.

Yep know what you mean, my cuss jar is full too. 

Awesome accomplishment!! An honor to enjoy your blog watching the restoration of a historical piece which now will live another 100 years and hopefully more.

Congrats and well done sir! 

Beautifully done, look forward to more updates. She's a monster for planking .... impressive!

Looking great .... 

She's a real beauty!! Coming along very nicely.

I thought I was looking at a real ship ...... 

Magnificent representation of a era period Galleon!  

Thanks for posting and presenting her.

Wonderful colors and high quality craftsmanship!! 

Congrats!!

Your work is inspiring!  Recently I have been given this kit and will use your blog heavily in it's future construction. Enjoying your updates! 

WOW! I am in awe ......

Ohh nice tool!!! Love the fine details your putting into her! 

14 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

 Jonathan, she's looking so nice. Just last night I was wondering about a update from you on your Alabama build. Steady on, you've rounded third and are almost home.  

Thanks Keith, been slow I know; but have had to really be careful rigging as not to completely destroy her in installations. Rascal is so damn fragile!!

Masterful work!!

On 3/18/2021 at 6:15 AM, Gahm said:

Beautiful rigging job! She looks great!

 

Thomas

Thanks @Gahm, slow but steady.

Here's updated images and the booms are coming out! Still have a couple of more lines to install on the fore mast upper spars which will be done hopefully

today and can start making the custom size boom sails for each spar size to attach on the main mast booms. 

I won't present the construction details for the boom sails as it's the same procedure earlier in this blog when I built all the the other sails but will update when I have one section of booms completed. So figure a couple of weeks per side with sails made and rigged, this way I'll complete as I go and won't backtrack into the other booms.

Amazing as I have bought more Syren blocks to finish her out, somewhere around 225 blocks installed when she's totally completed. I think ..... lost count...... 

Thanks again for stopping by and will have more updates in a couple of weeks. She has taken a tremendous amount of time installing the rigging as not to damage her anymore during installation. As you can see it has paid off and I am working at the same pace for the boom sails installation, so bear with me as this will also be slow because of the internal rigging placements and other lines to work around.

I did have a couple masts break on me again as I was gently tightening some rigging and a couple spar broke also, but the damage was repairable with added glue then sanding down for detailing processes. Touch up paint is also a item which will be done in the final touch's. 

The main bottom boom spars had to be moved also back about a inch as the sails and boom were going to have major conflicts with the back launch boats. They are glued, sanded and painted, complete. Ready for the boom sails and rigging. the Revell model doesn't match exactly up with B Jackets model prints was the reason for the discrepancy in placement and repair.

Thanks for all the likes and appreciation!

J11

She's coming along nicely!! 

On 3/14/2021 at 12:18 PM, Hubac's Historian said:

The rig looks really crisp, J11!

Thanks HH, been cleaning on her every day to keep dust bunnies at bay as I rig her. With it being so fragile I have to work gently and tug just enough to tighten them down without breaking any mast parts. As I work on her I have had to add more blocks for rigging and tying then in the proper place is very time consuming. As I said before I feel I'll have eighty to eighty-five percent of BL Jackets rigging plans completed, which considering some of the problems I ran into isn't to shabby for a realistic looking model.

I'll have a couple more images of ongoing work soon, thanks for all the likes and appreciation.

Outstanding progress, she's a beauty!

Here's some updated images from the progress during the past month. Very slow in install so not to snap any parts off, and pleased with the results. I'll have more images in a few more days and progress shows up in multiple work images completed. My extra long tweezers work very well and have been a big help in holding line and blocks for rigging threw. All the lines are tight and mounted just not coil installs on all of them yet.

The sails will be billowed some to show wind detail along with a better natural look besides being so static looking.

Thanks for stopping by and will update soon again.