GrandpaPhil
-
Posts
5,557 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Events
Everything posted by GrandpaPhil
-
Congratulations! Well done!
-
Thank you very much for the comments and all the likes! The belfry is carved and assembled. The bell is sitting next to it. It still needs painted.
-
One ship’s bell:
-
The railings around the sides of the gangway are up: Now, on to the belfry!
-
Quick note, this is a combination of a kit and the AOTS, coupled with my relative inexperience, so the spacing of deck fittings isn’t going to be perfect.
-
Next up on the agenda is the ship’s bell with accompanying belfry:
-
Thank you very much for all the comments and the likes! The ladders are painted and installed: 30 posts for the rails have been made (including 4 extras): The trim around the top of the opening to the Upper Gundeck has been cut, but not painted yet: Stay healthy and stay safe!
-
The ladders are assembled. One is slightly whopper jawed because I didn’t check the alignment quite as well as I could have when gluing the second side on. Thankfully, these will be hard to see around the ship’s boats.
-
Welcome!
-
Welcome!
-
Four ladders, some assembly required:
-
The split beams are now installed. They require a bit of touch ups, but they are installed and the Upper Gundeck is now closed up.
-
I have all six of them:
-
The prototype beam:
-
Thank you all! One set of split beams, some shaping required: I wish you all health and safety!
-
I put up the hand ropes around the ladders heading down into the hull.
-
Thank you very much, Mark and Richard! Thank you everyone for all the likes! Except for some touch up paint work, some hand rails and a final highlight coat, the Upper Gundeck is mostly done and ready to be closed in (I know that I need to make four ladders, too, but I’ll make those when I make the railings that go around the split beams). Speaking of split beams, those will be made from single pieces of 1/8” basswood. I’ll carve the line for the joints into the beams. Everyone stay healthy!
-
And then there were ten:
-
I have six now: The test fit of the bitts is successful:
-
Prototype pillar:
-
I made the bitts that sit on the Upper Gundeck. I cleaned up the paint on the Victory as a whole and glued down the shot garlands and the framing around the open hatches by the main mast. I have ten pillars which will hold up the cross-spars of the spar deck, some shaping required.
-
Welcome!
-
Richard, Very nicely done on the deck furniture!
Our Emblem ®
