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Tore he old hull down to the “studs”. Dusek Models sent me a new laser cut panel and replacement wood to start over. Shipping actually cost more than the wood. I’d do things differently now but I didn’t want complicated so I paid for convenience. Here’s the blank canvas in my homemade keel vice. I installed the lifting frame and propeller. using as my guide the Bowcock book, which bases its measurements and drawings on original builders blueprints as well as two models that are also based on those blueprints, one is on display in an art gallery in the town the Alabama was built (Laird Model), the other is on display at the Mariner’s Museum at Newport News (Bolloch Model). I’ll take the prop out to sand down the aft section around the stern cabin.
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Re-starting this Mamoli CSS Alabama that I got as a Christmas present in 2009 when I didn’t know squazine about how to build. Then I got some practicums and built their kits and decided to strip my Alabama down to the bulkheads and start over. Duczec Models sent me replacement wood and I finally got done with my previous ship. Now I’m ready to build this one. A friend from the Model Shipwrights of Ohio loaned me his CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate Raider (Bowcock) to guide me along. Let’s see how this turns out. I’ll be adding some pics next.
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She’s finished. Thank God for Christmas vacation time! Logged hours: 678h over a 4 year period. The rigging took the lion share of the time overall. What a project. I’m sticking to single masted jobs for a while. Sheesh. Next up is the case. I’m going acrylic. I made my one and only glass one last year and said no more.
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More eye candy. Foremast buntlines. and more of the weird knots in the middle of the line. like the tack knot. I seized the top line and grabbed the knotted end of the lower line. more progress pics
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The topsail cluelines (or clewlines?). Last year I bought Syren’s Rope Rocket Ropewalk and man, does it make nice rope. I bought some high end embroidery thread in tan and black and my lines don’t kink like the kit rope does. The foremast tacks are done also. There’s a cool but fiddly knot sequence to make the tacks that join the sheet block and clue line block with a tack block. See pic from “Rigging Period Model Ship” The tack block is tied down through a block on the boomkin and back thru to the knightshead. I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Looks good. Glad to hear you are recovering from Covid. I’ve been staring at a mass and tangle of lines for so long that those masts look all bare! We’ve all been there!
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Lots done since last post. Finally finished the fore, main, and mizzen mast lifts. Just need to trim tag ends off once the glue dries. Overall I’m happy how they turned out. Took nearly 15 hrs to do. This hobby is certainly not for someone looking for instant gratification… I tied them to their prescribed belay point and affixed rope hanks and coils as I felt were appropriate. The coils may be incorrect but I’m happy with it. It looks “ship-ish”, besides, the directions said to tie to the rail, and I didn’t know what to do with the rope end. It looked kind of awkward hanging there. I have one more set of lifts to do (spritsail yardarms) and then the clewlines and buntlines. Then I’m done.
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Took advantage of the day off to do something I should’ve done a while ago and that is to fix the rope coils astride my guns. The pic shows before and after. I did these coils a few years ago and was never happy with them. This weekend I was looking thru the modelshipworld.com site and came across jigs for rope coils and $3 at the Dollar Store later I have rope coils. I pulled off the old ratty coils and started replacing with clean neat ones. Very happy with the results.
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Here’s another detail Amati really didn’t cover well, the ships boat. I did this some time ago but forgot to post. I had to do some digging on what they looked like but eventually I put on the ship’s boat, at least one of the one it came with. I bought the oars aftermarket. The planks are walnut. I’m pleased how it turned out.
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Foremast yards have their tyes. Now adding tyes to main yards. These are the main jeers and main topsail yard tyes. Looks just like the foremast ones. Next will be the main topgallant tye and halliard. Still not done tho. Mizzen and bowsprit and also all my lifts. Still a bunch to do.
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Finally done with the stays and backstays. Yards are next. I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Was starting the foremast backstays, which are just smaller versions of the shroud deadeyes. Using the same (2 x diameter) + radius relation between top and bottom, I decided to use another wire criss-cross jig so that all of the distances were more or less equal. The two crossed wire was so fiddly that I soldered the wires at the intersection. Now it’s easy to insert. before soldering I used a small nail to hold the tops of the deadeye in place, then bent the wires to go into the two lower holes. a little flux, and some solder… Hopefully that’ll work.
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