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  1. Thanks all for the compliments! Christmas baking continues - salty chocolate toffee, chocolate ginger cookies, and blood orange shortbreads. hamilton
  2. I almost forgot! I also wanted to share an early Christmas present I received.......this one looks like an incredible challenge! And I probably won't be getting to it right away, but I've had my eye on this one for a while and am happy to add it to the stack! hamilton
  3. Hello there I guess it's been another long delay in updating this log....over a month! But it's been a very busy time at work, as usual in the months of November and December. I've managed to carve out some time during the last weeks and made some progress on the Fair Rosamund. In fact, I've completed the deck fixtures, rigging elements on deck, rails and hull, and finished and rigged the bowsprit and jibboom - this is a large model!! But I find myself being more and more happy with it as it goes - I didn't have high hopes for it when I began, but she has really grown on me.... Anyway, here are some photos of the progress 1. The carronade 2. The pump 3. The tiller 4. The anchors 5. The cabin 6. Channels and chainplates 7. The bowsprit, jibboom and standing rigging And one last shot of the port side profile That's pretty much it. I'm going to take a break from the build over the holidays (my labours in the kitchen are just beginning - first up: frosted lemon wreaths and mince pies with brandy butter). Bye for now and thanks all for visiting! hamilton
  4. The sails look really great! Can't wait to see them on the model! hamilton
  5. Nice clean finish on the mast head, Simon - and great workmanship as well. hamilton
  6. I'm curious about this question, too. I see how doing the standing rigging before running rigging would be imperative on square rigged ships. But what about in the case of fore-and-aft sails (even on a brigantine)? Let me give my current example. I'm working on the OcCre Dos Amigos - a Baltimore Clipper. It occurred to me in projecting forward to adding the sails that I might do the rigging in the following order: 1. Stays 2. Attach & rig the fore-and-aft sails (main sail, foreward mainsail, foresail, jib and flying jib) 3. Shrouds & backstays 4. Attach and rig the square sails. Mostly, this strategy was suggested to me by the difficulty I've had in previous builds attaching the main sail and the foreward mainsail to mast hoops and trying to work around the shrouds. If the rule is to operate from centre line outward, then it would seem to make sense (and not break too much protocol) to rig things according to the above order...... I'm also not sure there's much call in modelling to follow the order of rigging on a real ship....after all, the consequences for breaking these rules are not as dire for the modeller. As long as the finished product is authentic, then the order of the rigging seems secondary (at least until you can't rig one line without rigging another....with all due respect to those who follow a different rule. Just my two cents - and I'd love to hear thoughts on the strategy above.... hamilton
  7. Hello all - another update - continuing on the deck features.... I've completed the foremast bitts and the main fife rail. The foremast bitt knees are supplied by OcCre as metal parts - the first step was to replace these with scratch built ones - I used 2mm x 4mm lime left over from another kit. Using the metal parts to get rough dimensions, I built them up, altering the shape to make the sweep of the knees less abrupt. The OcCre pictorial instructions are a little misleading as to the foremast bitts. In the images that show its finished form, there are no additional features shown, but scanning ahead to the pictures of the rigging, it's clear that there are two cleats on the outboard sides of each knee - I added these at this point. I used the OcCre supplied laser cut crosspiece and made the pillars from 3mm x 3mm lime - golden oak stain used over all. Also added some nails to simulate bolts. The fife rail was a bit disappointing....I had wanted to replace the OcCre supplied metal stanchions with wooden ones left over from my San Francisco build - their shape was identical (did these things not change in the time between the 16th and the 19th centuries?). Unfortunately the build calls for 3 stanchions and I only had two of the wooden ones and not much confidence that I could build one that looked as good as the ones I had thought to use....so in the end I used OcCre's metal ones - they stand out quite a bit.....but perhaps they'll blend in as the build goes on.... Anyway that's it - thanks for stopping by hamilton
  8. Thanks Mark and Mobbsie for the feedback....still uncertain about the fairleads - my plan is to leave them until I get a few more things done on deck and see how they look proportionately....after that, I may trim them. In the meantime, a bit of progress to report. I've completed the head rails, the catheads & braces, the bowsprit stop, mooring bitts, etc. The head rails were theoretically simple, but they came as laser cut plywood parts that were so thin and soft that it was very difficult (in fact impossible for me) to get them into the correct shape without really distorting them....In retrospect I should probably have scratch built these, though I'm not unhappy with the results. The rest has been pretty straightforward - I'm starting to really like this model as she comes together....it'll almost be a shame to give her away when I'm done.....oh well! Enjoy the photos hamilton
  9. Goo thing too! Welcome back Collingwood - looking forward to more updates here hamilton
  10. Nice work John - I opened up the gangway on my KC as well - I think it gives it an interesting look. hamilton
  11. I'm glad I read the first part of this log, Bob - if I didn't know the difficulties you encountered with the kit at the outset I would be inspired by this beautiful build to go out and buy one of these myself - but unlike you, I would likely give up before getting too far! Anyway, I'll continue to let your work inspire me in my much smaller and less daunting projects! Thanks for sharing hamilton
  12. Looking good John - I just hat my KC down off the shelf for a dust this afternoon and was recalling what a fun build it was! making all those deck houses was a blast - but don't rush to get there! hamilton
  13. Well I still haven't decided about the finishing on the coppered hull - I guess I'll have to make a decision soon, but for now I'll leave it as is. I've had precious little time for working on the model these days.....a very busy time at work and continuing on now till Christmas. I worked pretty much all weekend to get one night off (tonight) to work on the Fair Rosamund. Managed to install the rudder after much frustration....also put on the bow fairleads, which to my eye seem grossly out of scale now that they're on......For some reason as I was testing them they didn't seem too bad, but now that I look at them I'm not so sure.....you can decide for yourselves. I may try to whittle them down a bit once the glue cures..... Anyway, here are the photos - enjoy! hamilton
  14. Very cool looking model, Mike! Great work hamilton
  15. Been a while since I stopped by here - lots of beautiful work Augie! hamilton
  16. Looks great Simon - I built this same kit a while back an modified it somewhat - but it looks really nice the way you've approached it - well done! hamilton
  17. OK - a very brief update. I've started coppering the hull, using copper adhesive left over from the Kate Cory. Some of it had begun to tarnish and you'll see that in the photos. I want to try weathering it and I've been looking through other areas of MSW and started comparison shopping for techniques. I know I probably won't be using Alistair's! Though his results were great....I still have the port side to complete (and I'll definitely have to cannibalise my Syren copper tape in order to do this) so I have some time to consider finishing. I was looking at my Kate Cory the other day. I built it back in 2010 and the copper plating has aged very nicely in that time.... Question - if I put a coat of something on the plates to protect them I'm assuming this will slow or prevent the natural weathering process, right? Anyway...enough. Here are a couple of photos for you. Bye for now hamilton
  18. I do promise Mobbsie! And I have been lurking around in your aggy log - very near completion now and looking great - as is your Essex, Bob, where I've been lurking too... I've been so busy this last month that I've spent way too much time jealously watching others' builds progress and little time on my own or on contributing to this community.....sad! Hopefully there will be opportunity to change this....though if I keep saying yes to things and signing contracts, who knows? hamilton
  19. Not at all Alistair - I'm glad you pointed it out so I can be more careful in the future! Cheers hamilton
  20. By gum, you're right Alistair! I thought I could pass this error by, but I should know by now that there are far too many hawk-eyes on this forum! Unfortunately, this error is not to be corrected now.......they're fixed..... hamilton
  21. Thanks Mark & Gunther! Gunther - the finished model looks to be quite nice on the packaging, but I have to say that I'm not too impressed with the quality of this kit overall. The ply is particularly spongey and the wood stock is splintery and (some of it anyway) unattractive. I replaced all the thin stock supplied for both the second planking and the deck planking and completing the first planking with the kit-supplied 2mm thick wood strips was an exercise in saint-like patience. Of course, after all my blaspheming during the process I'm definitely no closer to sainthood.... I think if you are ready for some bashing this kit is a good one - but there are probably better ones out there in this same category (Baltimore Clipper). I wanted to build this one after heavily bashing Corel's Greyhound into a semblance of HMS Blandford, and thought I could build it right out of the box.....NOT SO!! Anyway, if you do choose it, I'll be happy to try and help if you ever run into any problems. Thanks again for stopping by hamilton
  22. Well it seems that my last post was in August and my last real update was back in July - 3 months ago!! Not good! I have plenty of excuses, but I won't bore you with them here. The build has progressed, of course. My last update showed the bulwark strips installed. Since then I've planked the inboard bulwarks, added the waterways and bulwark stanchions, finished the first planking, installed the keel, stem & sternpost, installed and finished the wales, completed the second planking (spiling more or less every plank, which partially explains the long silence), installed the bulwark and bow pin racks, put on a few bulwark cleats, done the transom outboard and made the hatches (last night and the night before). So now that the planking is done, I'm about to embark on another repetitive and tedious task - coppering the hull (following Meredith's lead). I have some left-over copper adhesive from my Kate Cory build long ago and this should be enough to do the job (I hope). I'll update again once I'm finished that, though I'm heading into a very busy time at work, so.....who knows when that will be! Enjoy the photos. hamilton
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