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Hannah is ready for masts: To the end of making masts, I made 22 cleats for the masts, booms, and gaffs. I may need more. I also made a bunch of eyebolts.
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Thank you for all the likes and for stopping by. I need to start off by saying that this forum is great inspiration to me. Whenever I get stuck or don’t want to make something correctly, looking at what some of you are building puts me right back on track. Tonight, I had another case of this. The bitt that the bowspirt sits against on the front of Hannah is represented as a rectangular block on the plan. In pictures in the rest of the book, of the model in the Navy Museum, you can see that is shaped like a normal bitt. Tonight I tore it off the model and fixed it. Once I repaint it, I will reinstall it and finish sealing Hannah. At that point, she will be ready for masts. I have the main mast and main top mast already carved out. I have the foremast cut to length, I just need to carve it to shape. I have been making cleats, too. I also need to make some shroud cleats. All of these are being made from craft sticks (popsicle sticks).
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The anchors are rigged and the hull is almost ready for masts. The rigging fittings still need finalized and I need to final touchup the paint on the hull and deck/fittings and then seal all of my work.
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Congratulations! Beautifully done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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The anchors are finished: While installing, I realized that I need some cleats to tie them off to, and I need some cleats to tie off to on both masts, so I am going to be making a bunch of cleats.
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It’s that time of the model where we make the mast and work on finalizing the hull and any remaining fittings. Quick note to all, bamboo kitchen skewers work beautifully for making masts and yards. It is a hard wood, and has been carving better than the dowel rods I had been using.
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Merry Christmas and all the best to you and yours as well!
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I have built one of the Dragon Arleigh Burkes. I enjoyed it and it came out well.
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Very cool build!
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Very cool!
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The anchors are cut out and assembled. They just need painted and the banding installed on the wood part of the anchor.
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Important note for those carving their own cannons and lesson learned for me. Ensure that the cascabel is sufficiently defined to wrap a breaching rope around it if you are making cannons that do not have the eyebolt in the breech. In other news, 4 lb cannons are tiny and small enough at 1/72 scale that I don’t have blocks small enough to rig the guns without the blocks interfering with one another, so I will be doing a simplified version of the rigging like I did for the carronades on my Prince de Neufchatel.
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The carriage guns are mostly complete. They still need final painted. The deadeyes and chain plates are on. This means that with the exception of some minor painting and possibly a couple of cleats, the hull itself is done. The anchors are ready for assembly as well. Once all of this is done, it will be time to build all of the masts, make some sails and rig the model, not necessarily in that order.
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The Cutter is coming along nicely!
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The four carriage guns are base coated and assembled. The Main Mast is mostly roughed out now too. The guns still need iron banding and eyebolts.
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Dave, The Bluenose is looking good!
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USS Delaware 1817 by threebs
GrandpaPhil replied to threebs's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1801 - 1850
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Denis, My props were 1 1/2” across. They were RC props that I found at a hobby shop. They were in the same direction. I used dowel rods for the prop shafts.
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Touch ups are done: The carriage guns progress: The wheels are being made from a bamboo kitchen skewer.
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