Mirabell61

Thank you very much Mark,
I`m pleased you like the case...
 
Nils

Hi Jeff, Denis and Gerhard,
 
thanks so much for your kind words and compliments, very much appreciated...
 
Nils

Thank you very much for your nice words, Patrick, Piet and Carl,
and thanks to all the "Likes" for looking in and pressing the button...
 
Patrick,
I had no doubts with the strength of the top lid glass....
This was the seventh  casing I`ve made in this way so far...
 
Piet,
I`m also looking forward to the "closing of the tomb", when all is in...
 
Carl,
nice compliment, thanks again...
 
Nils

excellent looking fishing gear Denis,
the trawler is getting better with every update....
 
Nils

thanks Pat,  Lawrence,  and Nils for the kind comment....and to all who hit the like button    it's a small step......I hope to add more to this saga soon  

excellent looking fishing gear Denis,
the trawler is getting better with every update....
 
Nils

Nice looking model Don
 
Nils

This is not really a build log as I have my Xebec completed waiting for its display case. These pics are pretty much the completed model !

Just fantastic work on the ship and now the case, Nils. 

to muse,  or not to muse..........awwww..heck with it.......let's muse     I mentioned in a few of my logs,  stuff that I had been play'in with.....put it down,  and now can't seem to find.   I had made a couple extra conveyors,  an engine block destined to become a Hemi engine,  a pair of wings {I still won't say what they are for}....and the roof to this blasted model!   I looked everywhere for them....I have a special plastic bag that I keep all these partially assembled parts in....nope!   the bottom compartment of my junk bin.....nada!   in any of the project boxes I may have opened  in the recent past, not a chance.   I decided to take Patrick'e suggestion he mentioned earlier......I haven't done a progress report on the Boulogne Etaples and her offspring in quite a while.......a year,  I suppose.  some have seen it already......thank you very much for look'in in.......other who haven't,  but wish to,  it's in the Boulogne build log.   I could have put it in the Holiday Harbor log,  but since I missed Mother's day,  I figured it fitting to post it with the Mother ship {if I'm not careful, the mother ship will come for me too}.   assembling all the ships for the shoot.......I found all my parts!......nestled on one of the decks of the covered hulls......which one eludes me {immaterial}....the fact remains that I am reunited with my trove!

now that the mystery is solved....I can put them somewhere else....and create another mystery!       not pictured here though......is the roof I made for the Syborn..........that's because,  I broke it!         since I made the second one,  I used that one instead......I broke the original one while fitting the brow.    the brow was made with some flexible cast off wood from the junk bin.   the sides are merely short pieces of planking.


I wasn't sure how low the brow should be.   I may lessen it......it's in the planing phase still  


 
from here.......my musings took me elsewhere.   I decided to visit 'ole Thermie.

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

today I devoted a bit of time on the trawler.   the port side net is on finally........you may have seen a trace of the net on my desk,  in viewing the progress on the Thermopylae.   as mentioned,  I did start cutting the parts for the vents.  I was going to use the horn type vents,  but they didn't look right on her.   these are the bits I have to piece together.

the net and the buoy beads were on my desk,  cluttering things up.   taking the trawl rig down from my crane lamp,  I began to put it together.

gluing the beads on the line is time consuming........do a few......wait for them to dry........do a few.   either that,  or they move around on me,  and I have to keep fixing them.   it was assembled onto the boom and rigged.  the process is finished.


next will be the vents,  and then onto the stern     

I spent a little time with this build today.......I think everyone is waiting to see this.   I installed the starboard side net.  it involved fastening the net to one of the trawl rigs,  as the first step,  using metal rings to do so.   a length of hemp rope was seized to one side of the rig,  and about 26 colored beads were strung on.   I ended up choosing the yellow and white ones.

at the other end of the net,  a ring was fastened there too.   a shackle was threaded on some rigging rope,  and fastened to the net via the ring.

it's a bit blurry,  but you can see that the sides were crimped together before it was seized.  all of the beads {buoys} were spaced and cemented in place on the rope.when lifted,  the buoys hang natural.

{I laid it out to show}     the assembly was then fastened using the shackle that I had previously threaded on the net rigging.   the rigging rope that is on the other end of the net,  was threaded through the block {double block}  and tied off to the shroud spreader and given a rope coil.


I made up a bunch of these curly looking things........these need to be trimmed and shaped,  and used to fasten the bottom lip of the net to the buoy string.  the upper lip of the net is fastened to the center chain supports of the rig itself.


the port side net is on the desk.......it will get the same treatment and installed on the ship.   thanks for looking in  

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

Thank you very much Denis and Patrick,
 
these little wooden corners will fit into the inside groove of the bonets bottom rails. The brass sleeves center on the cylindric portion of the screw members sticking upward on the base plate
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

Hi Jeff, Denis and Gerhard,
 
thanks so much for your kind words and compliments, very much appreciated...
 
Nils

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

Hi Jeff, Denis and Gerhard,
 
thanks so much for your kind words and compliments, very much appreciated...
 
Nils

Thanks very much MD1400cs, and Dan,
 
the case is done, except for the four bottom metal corners, I should have bought 8 instead of 4, ordered 4 more
Every time a case is complete, I `m glad there was no broken glass during process....
On the KWdG there is still some rigging to be done, I`ll forward a set of final Photos, when all is complete..
 
Nils
 

Baseplate with 6 positioning pins and removeable bottom rail of the glas bonnet
 

corner pin
 

mid-length pin, the width of the ships own stand base fits well in between those lugs
 

pins, (screws) clipped off at the rear side
 

frame, glass and metal corners....
 

 
 

have to mount the four bottom metal corners securely, before the bonnet can be taken off in one part
 

 
 
 
 

Jason,
beautiful work on the head rails (your post #376) and the ornamentation astern  ...
 
Nils

Jason,
beautiful work on the head rails (your post #376) and the ornamentation astern  ...
 
Nils

Hi Jeff, Denis and Gerhard,
 
thanks so much for your kind words and compliments, very much appreciated...
 
Nils