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Afternoon gentlemen, been rigging away and at this scale we rigger's know it's a tad tedious. Here's a few update images on the Mizzen and main mast work, this is about ten hours so far and still not done. Slowly as I have said before, with so far only one mishap on the fore mast breaking a boom off while rigging. The boom mount is re-drilled and mounted back on the boom, waiting on a good dry for it, then I'll re-install after touch up paint dries. This shows our favorite trick: Hemostats This is a close up of the blocks, looks better than imaged though, very gentle slow work as not to break anything. Seems even if I look wrong at her she breaks. Then a couple more shots: I'll try to have some more images tomorrow, really appreciate all the likes!! Help's with this one as one step forward and three steps back as before. But she's coming along. Size of the rigging is a tad bigger than normal but still looks in scale. Tying them to the pins and deck is a experiment in terror with holding my breath. I'm hopeful their finished by tonight. I'll try to get some closeups of the ties and post the images.
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Search rigging Bounty ship model, then look at the images. You'll have a load of free images to learn from.
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Your creativity with added historical content is truly masterful! When the future archaeologist's find your model a hundred years from now they will think it's a lost artifact!! Congratulations for a superior representation on such a ancient ship!
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An excellent reference for ship building information is: Historic Ship Models by Wolfram zu Mondfeld. You can pick up used copies for cheap on ebay or amazon. Just have to hunt for them on ebay. Has great explanations and images to explain all the different parts of ship building and is written for the layman. If you can get a copy, you'll be glad you did. I had a bunch of questions for my build on the Alabama, this book helped in solving the problems and build styles. My used copy ran ten bucks with four bucks shipping so there's a way to get them without breaking the bank!
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Wow! Very unique ship build. Congrats!! Look forward to your future builds.
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@kirill4, like the progress. Looks good too. I like the rough rigging your doing which adds to the age look of it.
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@Guyuti, here's a couple better images of the table:
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Images of the work table cleaned off and of the progress on the ship. Tweezer tying is slow but has to be done considering all the obstacles I have to work around. I only have 1 mm pins to tie to so it has to be precise without breaking anything. I'll have some more images soon ..... working slowly away on her. As you can tell, now I have the room to move her around and install the boom sails. This also helps in not breaking anything as she rotates to be worked on.
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@Guyuti, here's an image of my chair workbench which is on rollers and works very well for my building purposes. I had a bad accident which many years ago damaged my lower back, so I have to sit in my lazy boy to work because hard chairs or stools just kill me with pain, so I designed this one and cost was about thirty bucks for materials. All the extra's was a bunch more money so I'm talking about just the table itself. Hope it helps. I'll post a complete image if you need it, it fits two inch's above my lazy boy for perfect working height. I'll try to get a better image in full if you need it.
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Looking for plans or possible models of Magellan's ships.
J11 replied to J11's topic in Nautical/Naval History
@Louie da fly, thanks. Nice info on the guns, thanks for posting that. I was very surprised to find as much as I did after really going after the information. Helped me in understanding more on the style of these ships and loved the pdf reports. Great stuff!! -
@Dart, is this your model?? It's a very nice representation of her, and appreciate the image as I thought I had all the quality representations of her on my file images. I didn't have this one and really appreciate the posting. if you have more images of this one please post them! I have been getting parts in as the mail has been slow because of covid. Been doing a little on her and will be doing more today and this week; so should have some images. My blocks arrived yesterday and starting to put them in, but it's slow work along with a appreciation to "Syren" for making some more for sale!! I was in a panic ... arrghh none available!! LOVE these blocks and will always spend the money to place these on my ships from now on. Funny as working on her I don't know why I didn't realize how light this model is after all the work which has gone into her. I'ts barely two pounds!! Kinda give's you the reason why she's so fragile. And yes she does float in the pool ..... . Holler again soon with pics.
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Gentlemen, thanks for all the concern and well thoughts for my family, Really appreciate it, very kind of you. As starting to rig away; I discovered I'm out of my favorite Syren blocks and have to order more. Looks like I'll need another 100 more in different sizes. So will be ordering this morning and get those a moving in the mail to me. I'll be prepping the lines as best as possible without driving myself crazy keeping all the loose lines ready to go for attachment to the missing blocks. I look at it as good experience for the Wasa coming up on my next build. Along with a couple of smaller projects I need to finish up. Using the Bluejacket prints for rigging doesn't quite match up to Revell's model layout. So I'm having to add many more tie in eyes along with some cleats which I have to order more also. Be tweezers work and hemostat work in place for most of them which will be slow. Very fortunately my sweetie got me a whole set of hemostats for Christmas, they have already proven their worth. I have also completed the work space clean up for swinging the model around as I work on her. Plus with the boom sails coming up she will be getting really wide once their installed. I have a couple more images soon posted, and thanks for all the likes and interest.
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Outstanding work!
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WOW!!
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Looking for plans or possible models of Magellan's ships.
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Hello everyone, during this season I didn't have any time to work on my ship build project, but was able to do more research on fifteenth and sixteenth century ships. I had come upon a wreck site info with detailed information, very interesting site found a few years ago. Thanks for the book link and info also! Links: http://patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/media/uploads/dans/TheOranjemundShipwreck.pdf https://nadl.tamu.edu/index.php/shipwrecks/iberian-shipwrecks/portuguese-india-route/bom-jesus-1533/ https://namibian-studies.com/index.php/JNS/article/view/123 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257154918_Loading_and_stability_of_a_late_16th_century_Portuguese_Indiaman https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225112563_Maritime_Archaeology_and_Trans-Oceanic_Trade_A_Case_Study_of_the_Oranjemund_Shipwreck_Cargo_Namibia -
I along with others have been busy with the Holidays and in hopes all had a wonderful season. This time around we had another seven family members get Covid, all but an older member have recovered and are back healthy again. The oldest member has been hit hard and were not sure he will pull threw. Wishing this blasted mess would leave our family alone, tired of all the wasted time spent with it and seeing it hurt families. If someone says that Covid is a lie and it doesn't exist. their lying I assure you. We have been threw the ringer with it. Please protect yourselves and your families. Here's a updated image of work space cleanup going on in prep for the boom sails to be installed by next week; hopefully. Man; never knew I had stock piled so much material and tools till I started cleanup and organizing the workspace. Even had to order a roving drawer unit to help easy access. The fore main mast boom sail mounts have broken and I am working to put new stronger mounts on. Still have rigging also to work on and will be completing some today and this week. As I have inventoried my model span material for the boom sails I do have just enough to finish them from my measurements, so I'll be building sails again also. Well that's the plan for the next couple of weeks with her and will post images of course. Thanks for the patience again, as we all know "Rome wasn't built in a day".
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Many thanks @Keith Black, and in hope's your family also had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!
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Appreciate the compliments @luponero, working to finish her out will be posting a update today.
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Rigging is going slow but I have chosen the flags for her and sizes to be custom made: By next week I hope to have some rigging images. With Christmas coming up might be a little slower as we all have things to do and take care of during the holiday season.
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Fantastic job with the barrels tie down. Looks very historical! An Excellent build to be proud of!
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@Gahm, I am pleasantly surprised how she's coming along with the sails as I was concerned it would be to much for detailing over kill. Thanks for the admiration. Many thanks for all the likes also gentlemen, really helps with all the problems I have had with her construction. Here's some of the historical flags I am considering for her final detailing work. Might load her up and have four total mounted, We'll see.
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Nice completion, look forward to the second planking.
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