
GrandpaPhil
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Thank you all for the likes and just for stopping by! The deadeyes, with chainplates, are installed: I have never seen internal chainplates before. I made and installed more of those posts that go around the hull. They still need painted. I have just been scratch building them. It is easier to scratch build them, than to use the kit version. Plus, they look better. I started making the first round of boat davits. One got a little roughed up. I used that card modeling technique where you use CA on the cut sides to stiffen up the part. It works pretty well. That’s how that piece got roughed up. At 1/200 scale, these would have been unusable if I hadn’t stiffened them up.
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The deadeyes are hard on the fingers. I got ten done in the first wave: The studding sail booms are on: Making progress!
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Prototype chainplate with deadeye: I need 48 of them. The channels are inside the bulwarks so the deadeyes need installed before the rest of posts go on the outside of the bulwarks so I can still get to them.
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Studding sail boom mounts are being installed: Studding sail booms are made and ready for installation:
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I think they would be the 224mm rifled muzzle loaders, although the Magentas only carried two of them. They are definitely muzzle loaders. The cannons are supposed to have cascabels, but the scale was too small for me to make them. Breach loaders are flat on the back of the guns. I think that they would go up in the forecastle where there are armored doors in the bow, as bow chasers. On the plans you can see the fields of fire for the guns.
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All four gun carriages: And guns: Installed, along with the spare masts: That’s about it for the deck fittings. That’s a very momentous moment for a model ship.
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Solferino has four anchors installed. She now has standing rigging, shrouds for the bow sprit, and, stays for the stack: Here are side on and overhead views: Next up will be the last four guns with carriages!
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The stack has stays: One side has anchors: The second side has an anchor, but I am letting it dry for a minute before proceeding. It should be noted, there will be more rigging involved with the anchors, where they are lashed to the side of the ship, but I am not quite there yet.
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4 anchors: I made the hoop on the end of the anchors out of wire to facilitate rigging. These are not the best I’ve ever made, but they are not the worst either. This is the first time I’ve built a ship with multiple sets of anchors like this. So, this will be a learning experience. They need to dry completely, then I’ll seal them prior to installation.
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Today is anchor day: I’ll do all catch up edge painting and touch up painting when I paint the anchors. I’ll try to get them rigged and installed today too. I might rig the stack stays too, today.
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I’ve been working on hull fittings and prepping the ship for rigging. In order to prepare the ship for rigging, I had to figure out what rigging would be real and what rigging would be for show. I like real ratlines, so I anchored mounting points below the channels to secure the deadeyes to. I put eyebolts where the stays for the bowsprit will tie off to. I put eyebolts for the stack stays. I put eyebolts for the gaff lifts and the mizzen boom traveler. I put eyebolts for sheets and braces to tie off to. I used all 100 of those eyebolts. I just bought two more model ships, and I figure I should finish the four I have going before I start another one, lol.
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Admiral Claus bought me the Victory Rigging Fitting Set. I also bought everything for a complete set of silk span sails. Needless to say, once I clear Solferino off my shipyard desk, I am making a finishing run on Victory. Quick side note: me and hammock cranes have never gotten along, but winter is coming along and I’m going to need something to do, and Victory is getting finished.
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I just bought myself Victory Models Granado plan set and Amati’s Sovereign of the Seas (SOTS) plan set. The Granado plans are to go with my AOTS of the same and the SOTS plans are to go with my John McKay book on the SOTS. I will have fun with those.
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MONTAÑES by Amalio
GrandpaPhil replied to Amalio's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Amazing work, Amalio!
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