GrandpaPhil

Congratulations!  Well done!

The first set of mouldings are on:

The quarterdeck and poop deck bulwarks are now yellow ochre.  The landings are back in place, with the step down.

I have the first piece for the inner bulwarks mouldings cut and painted.

The forward and waist bulwarks are now black.

The poop and quarterdeck bulwarks will soon be yellow ochre (Ceramcoat Antique Gold).

The gun carriages should also be ochre, but it is too late to fix that (meaning that I am not willing to rip them out and redo them).  It means that they will stand out well, lol.

Oh, well. This entire project is a learning experience.  Moving on, lol.

Thank you very much!

After examining some pictures of the inner bulwarks of the Victory while trying to determine paint schemes for rigging fittings with carvings on the quarterdeck, I realized that I painted the entire inner bulwarks incorrectly, so I am going to adjust them and add the mouldings to the inner bulwarks on the quarterdeck.

Congratulations!  Well done!

Congratulations! Well done!

And, they are in place:

Thanks, Edward!  Thank you all for the likes!

I made the last two shot garlands.  You cannot really see the rest in place, so I didn’t take pictures.

I decided to use some of my leftover walnut planking, to match the rest of the deck, for the landings on the ladders which connect the poop deck to the quarterdeck.

I only have a few (relatively) more deck and hull fittings to make.

One completed railing:

One fife rail, four railing stanchions and the rails:

Thank you, Richard!  Thank you all very much for the likes!

I’m making progress:

The foremast bitts are done and installed:

The stern bitts are painted and the mainmast bitts are installed, but the fife rail still needs finished.  Due to the variance between Mantua’s kit and the AOTS plans, I needed them in place to measure off the location of the belaying pins (made from sewing pins).

Congratulations!  Nicely done!

Well done!

Well done!

Congratulations! Nicely done!

The bottom of the topmast sits on the crosstrees or mast top.  The top is secured by the mast cap.  Here is mine from the Prince de Neufchatel:

It is from before I painted the masts so you can see how they go together.

Welcome!

Welcome!

The blue and white with the gold fleur de lis was difficult to paint when I built the Heller version.  I am still going to try it when I build my replacement for it in a couple of years.

Are you planning on painting the hull?

Welcome!

Thank you very much! 

I bought the scalpel on EBay for $8.  It came with 100 blades.  

I personally like them better because they are much sharper than x-acto blades and cheaper.  The only downside is that they cannot take side pressure or the blade will break where it snaps onto the handle.

Bitts with a fife rail:

Thank you very much!  Thank you all for all the likes!

Everything made last night is now painted:

The mast coats for the fore and main mast are made, painted and installed:

The stern bitts are made and installed, but not yet painted:

The forward foremast bitts and fife rail is made.  The pieces of sewing pins are my belaying pins.  Even at 1/72 scale, they are close enough to being in scale that they look like belaying pins.  At 1/98 scale, they look perfect (to me at least).