Mirabell61

excellent work Siggi !!

Nils

many thanks for sharing this set of photos Jim...

Nils

6 hours ago, iMustBeCrazy said:

  Moved from another thread:

Oh, where to start without hijacking the thread too much.

 

I think 1823, Vigilant was the lead ship in 1821 (I think).

 

Yes, I have the plans and book but I think it's not quite right.

 

Try ZAZ6430 (Lapwing see ZAZ6425-6431)

 

And for Diligence note the companionway 'deckhouse' on ZAZ6347.

 

 

 

Nice work Craig,

wish you much fun and success with the further buid.....

Nils

Siggi,

Wow, absolutely phantastic figures, I love them  

Nils

many thanks for your kind words Gabe,

I`m very happy to have this rare old steamer in my collection now.

Nils

59 minutes ago, GrandpaPhil said:

Beautiful collection and beautiful work!

many thanks Grandpa Phil,

Much appreciated

Nils

many thanks JPAM,

I`m very pleased that you like it. The credit also goes to the late former builder of the model. My input was to bring the old lady to life again 

Nils

Thank you very much Denis,

after adding the steam whisle today, the restoration is now complete, and I shall add the Hjejlen to the Gallery.

Nils

Wow, what a beautiful model Alex !

Nils

Thank you very much Christian,

yes, it was my aim to model different types of ships and scales. The Zeesboot in scale 1:24 is momentarily my current work in progress still waiting for deck-planking, rigging and sails

Nils

Many thanks for your word captain !

much appreciated

Nils

Thanks for your kind comment Yves,

much appreciated

Nils

Progress status....

after achieving a tall and narrow  white book shelf yesterday on Ebay, I removed the books from the lower portion on of the  "Eagle of Algier`s" sideboard.

The "Hjejlen" now fits into the free space compartment with it`s glass case, as if it were made for this.

I have now 7 glass cased models in my working office, the 8th one "Gorch Fock" 3 mast barque and in lack of space, had to move upstairs to it`s new mooring place for display....

Nils

A lovely build Tim,

your Bounty model will surely be a great eyecatcher here on the sight......

Nils

great figures Greg,

bringing nice "atmosphere " into the diorama  

Nils

Very nice looking build Kevin,

also the boats are kooking lovely.....

Nils

good evening B.E.

youve been doing an excellent job on your cutter Alert, very nice details and a nice clean rigging....

Nils 

restoration progress....

Ships boat under davits, with oars and grapnel anchor...

Nils

2 oars and grapnel

1 hour ago, G.L. said:

Thanks for your kind words, Mark.

A boat's grapnel is often used in small boats to go at anchor for a short while. But in most cases it are grapnels with folding arms which can be stowed away easily on board. My choice for that sort of anchor is inspired by the fact that I am not such an experienced metal worker and I found a very easy build description for it in the book 'To Build a Whaleboat' by Erik A.R. Roonnberg.

thanks for showing this make of a grapnel anchor Geert, very inspiring !

Nils

Congrats to CAF Model team,

that first 3D seaman at the wheel looks great !!!

Nils

Thank you very much Denis,

and also thanks to all the "likes"

I`m enjoying the restoration, which is now nearly completed, and I am wishing those fellow members who are also holding an old "Hjejlen" Billing boats kit , encoraging them to push out a build log..... if possible

Nils

Yeah Yves,

The bench-legs  should have been shortened, now its too late, would be a too great surgery. Earlier one of the benches came loose and dropped onto the carpet, no problem with that, but I did`nt pick it up immediately, and you can guess what hapened, I forgot that it was still laying on the carpet and under a nasty cracking noise, that was it....... It took me some hours to mend that bench, so I`ll leave my fingers off it in the future.  

The ships boat is in a scale that suits the figures in a better way.  It takes some painting and rigging under the davits by means of double sheave block tackles. Together with the 2 liferafts the capacity will be adequate

Nils

this is the 14 mm dowel I made the connection pedestal / baseplate from, it works well

the ships boat is a 123 mm long Kutter from Aeronaut in scale 1:50 together with 2 oars

Hi Yves,

thanks for your comment, I´ve been expecting a comment on the seated people zise. Usualy Preiser is my first choise, here unfortunately neigther 1:48 nor 1:50 scaled seated figures were not offered or not on stock. I can live with the substituted figures  I finaly chose in scale 1:43 resp. 1:45, and was after receipt disappointed that even these were a bit too small in comparism to 1:50 regular Preiser ones. (if they had been available )

Nils

Progress on Restoration report :

- all passengers seated, crew on their positions

- Bulleyes sdewise in front section

- roof in front well area has additional stabilizing posts

- Bulleyes at sides of boiler room

- Rigging of stern white-light lantern

- Base-plate, steam ironed- down the self adhesive veneer, in order to flatten out the gentle bulbs that came there over the years

_ fitted the removeable pedestals with dowels to the baseplate ( the model can be taken off the baseplate easily)

- alternative figurehead

still missing:

steam horn, 1 larger lifeboat, 2 life-raft containers to go next to the lifeboat on port side

Nils

stern lantern

note: passengers sitting back to back on the long benches

additional bulleyes in the boiler room sides

bulleyes in the front side portions

passengers sitting in the beroofed front well area, additional posts for the roof stability

alternatve figurehead for the bowpost (Golden Plover, instead of lost Hjejlen figure )

On 2/21/2020 at 10:05 PM, Javier Baron said:

Thank you for your comments.

I have already painted the hull 

excellent build Javier !!

I love these small workboats

Nils