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  1. Many thanks to all for the likes!

    It looks as though the latest pictures have got slightly out of sync, and that a piece of text I put in hasn't come out - only to the effect that I'd decided after all to put on the copper. 

    I don't recommend coppering an almost fully rigged model - keeping the masts &  spars out of harm's way while sticking small plates to the lower hull is a bit of a nightmare, and it's difficult to keep the hull still while doing so. Careening on a cushion seems the best way so far, though ideally maybe one could build a sort of frame on legs to hold the hull upside down securely, with masts pointing vertically downwards.  

    Anyway the moral of this tale is don't change your mind at the last  moment!

    I'm not too happy with the rather lumpy texture of the plating I've achieved so far, so more pics to follow soon. When I've completed this stage, I will be going back to my other build, the Amati Mercury kit - I'm a bit Pegasused-out at present!

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    On 2/22/2020 at 2:30 PM, tom kinglake said:

    Weeks have gone by since I posted anything about HMS Pegasus, so here are a few images to show progress to date.

    Still no mizzen topmast! This will be my next task now that most of the rigging of the main and foremast is done.  I deliberately left this for as long as possible, because of a near-disaster while building Granado eighteen months back: while doing something to the mainmast rigging, I managed to hook my sleeve on the mizzen topsail yard, and broke the topmast in half. I was very lucky to have a long clean split, about an inch long, running along the length of the mast, rather than a short snap across the diameter, so it glued back almost perfectly - and more importantly, all the shrouds and other rigging survived intact as well - but I vowed to do all I could to avoid a repeat of this in future!

    Plan B is to put Pegasus away for a while at this stage, in order to go back to my other build, the Russian brig Mercury.  IMG_20200222_112000572.thumb.jpg.115380103c99982a4fa33e733243d822.jpgIMG_20200222_110640317.thumb.jpg.75cc07555a937f285a8f400a16cfc037.jpgIMG_20200222_110942293.thumb.jpg.9d09a1bd1e160ba1bd3c7f132fd30ba1.jpgIMG_20200222_110602773.thumb.jpg.3a027fbd38f66bb92666cc7f7d4f0ad3.jpgIMG_20200222_110417711.thumb.jpg.112ea40b2aac011be19c3f42e8559b9c.jpg

     

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  3. Weeks have gone by since I posted anything about HMS Pegasus, so here are a few images to show progress to date.

    Still no mizzen topmast! This will be my next task now that most of the rigging of the main and foremast is done.  I deliberately left this for as long as possible, because of a near-disaster while building Granado eighteen months back: while doing something to the mainmast rigging, I managed to hook my sleeve on the mizzen topsail yard, and broke the topmast in half. I was very lucky to have a long clean split, about an inch long, running along the length of the mast, rather than a short snap across the diameter, so it glued back almost perfectly - and more importantly, all the shrouds and other rigging survived intact as well - but I vowed to do all I could to avoid a repeat of this in future!

    Plan B is to put Pegasus away for a while at this stage, in order to go back to my other build, the Russian brig Mercury.  IMG_20200222_112000572.thumb.jpg.115380103c99982a4fa33e733243d822.jpgIMG_20200222_110640317.thumb.jpg.75cc07555a937f285a8f400a16cfc037.jpgIMG_20200222_110942293.thumb.jpg.9d09a1bd1e160ba1bd3c7f132fd30ba1.jpgIMG_20200222_110602773.thumb.jpg.3a027fbd38f66bb92666cc7f7d4f0ad3.jpgIMG_20200222_110417711.thumb.jpg.112ea40b2aac011be19c3f42e8559b9c.jpg

     

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  4. Well, all I can say is that if it hadn't been for your videos I would probably have given up with Granado long before getting to the end of it, and so would never have progressed to do HMS Pegasus and the brig Mercury, or be writing this now! I too find ship modelling a totally absorbing and rewarding challenge in my retirement, and I have learned most of what I know about it from your work.  If you had been charging a fee for a training course I would have considered it money well spent.

    Best wishes,

    Tom.

  5. Hi Kevin,

    I watched every one of your videos (some of them several times over!) while I was building the Caldercraft Granado kit in Jan - July 2018, and found them all really helpful.  I should have posted to thank you for them long ago, but now I've started my own build logs and gallery on this site I felt I must drop you a line to do so.  Your comments and explanations saved me from many a potential disaster!!

    With best wishes,

    Tom.

  6. Thanks - when I started the build, I too planned to replace the walnut with a lighter coloured wood, as I had done previously with Granado (see the pictures I put in the Gallery) - for this, I used lime, coloured with a light oak wood stain, and a clear varnish on top. This worked quite well, as long as you like the rather 'weathered' look to the finish.

    But after some experiments with the walnut that came with the Pegasus kit, I decided to use it after all, though I did go through the entire batch to pick out the lightest shades first. It seems that walnut varies quite a lot from batch to batch. 

     

  7. 4 hours ago, Vane said:

    Thanks, let me know when u have put up some photos. It will be really interesting to see!

    I've just put a few photos of Granado into the gallery.  I've made a couple of small alterations since I took these in July 2018 (including tidying up the stray barrels!) and I'll post some updates when I can get some decent shots.

    Cheers,

    Tom.

     

  8. Hi Vane

    Your tanganyika planking looks excellent. Congratulations on your very neat oar ports, too!  When I made my Granado, I didn't realise that there were no cutouts for them in the gunport patterns until  too late!

    I didn't use the walnut for the upper hull of Granado, either - instead I used lime, coloured with a light oak stain, then a clear varnish over that. I wasn't completely satisfied with the result, although it seems an improvement on the walnut - not as good as yours though! (on the other hand, I did use the walnut supplied for the planking of Pegasus which I'm currently working on, and was pleased with its colour and texture).  I guess that walnut varies a lot from batch to batch.

    Best wishes,

    Tom.

  9. Thanks Vane and Mugje!

    I'll try to get a few shots of Granado into the gallery today.

    The wood used for Pegasus is just what comes with the kit, walnut for hull planking & masts & spars, Tanganyika for decks, etc.  I did use some dark stain (rather than black paint) to colour the yards though, and the studdingsail booms are birch dowel stained with a cherry red dye (for no particular reason other than that I like the colour contrast!)

    As for the coppering - I don't know what I shall do about it yet!!  At first, I decided that I didn't like the copper plates supplied, and anyway I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get a good enough finish if I used them - so I decided that instead I would go for a plain white below the waterline (as in the Amati HMS Fly, for example).  Then I decided that no, I would leave the lower hull in the natural wood.  Then I decided that I hadn't achieved a good enough finish to allow this. Then I decided to put on a coat of walnut brown paint instead. Whatever happens, the walnut brown will have to go! I'll probably end up using the copper plates after all.

  10. I started work on Pegasus in July 2018, but unfortunately didn't take any pictures of the early stages.  I had just completed the Caldercraft 'Granado' kit, and enjoyed building it so much that I decided to go for this one straight away (I wish I had taken some shots of Granado during the build now, but didn't - anyway I shall put something in the Gallery for the finished model soon).

    Granado only took me six months from start to finish, but I haven't been able to spend the same amount of time on Pegasus.  Still quite a way to go, but I hope that alternating work on my other current build, the Russian brig Mercury, with finishing off Pegasus will keep my enthusiasm up!

    The first two shots are the only images I have of the earlier stages.  The others were taken outdoors on a wet Welsh Christmas afternoon.

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  11. Hi all,

    I joined eighteen months ago but have never posted before on this forum, though in that time I've had a lot of enjoyment and inspiration from just browsing around various build logs.

    I've been interested in ships and ship models all my life, ever since my father gave me the Revell HMS Bounty kit for my tenth birthday in 1962 (he made it for me as well!), and although I went on to make lots of plastic  kits as a kid, it wasn't until the 70's that I thought i'd try my hand at a wooden model - the Billing Boats 'Lilla Dan', (which I did finish, and which still exists, but which I'm less than proud of!)

    A few years after this, another Billing kit, 'Toulonnaise', but this one I ultimately abandoned, despite quite a lot of sporadic work over a period of time.  

    Then, two years ago, and for no particular reason, I decided to buy myself the Caldercraft 'Granado' kit, and which I was very impressed with! I finished it in 6 months, and went straight into the Amati 'Pegasus' kit, which I wasn't able to work on quite so regularly but nonetheless is now on its home stretch (running rigging and some small jobs to complete).

    I've now become so hooked on ship modelling that I've just treated myself to another kit - this time the Amati 'Mercury' brig - and I intend to alternate between working on the new model, and finishing off the Pegasus when I feel like a break from hull planking!

    I started work on Mercury a couple of weeks ago and have just completed the first planking, so I think before I go any further, now is the time to try making a build log of it. When I've worked out how to post pictures of it, I'll make a start on the log.

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