Beakerboy123
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All of the mast rigging and yards are ready. I’ve stepped the masts and am working on the channels. Also started the eight gun ports. Finally started looking like a ship. Each of the blue tapes is labeled to show what side and what number line goes to their corresponding deadeye in the channel.
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All of the topmast and topgallant shrouds are complete. I’ll get pictures later today. Working now on the getting the lower shrouds tied. I’ve got a few more items to tie on before I attach the masts to the ship. I’m definitely loads better at seizing lines. I could do it in my sleep. I feel like I’ve been staring at masts for months. I am sure others have experienced this but I find that summertime is always difficult for boat building for me because there’s ALWAYS something that needs doing around the house and outside. Now the garden is finally shut down, grass is not being mowed every week, and I can get back into the workshop on weekends. So hopefully things will start to move. I’ve got a general question for members that I’ll post off of this thread.
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Moving along with the masts, yards, and bowsprit. Just finishing attaching the blocks to the masts and bowsprit. I believe the yardarms are next.
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The wooldings are on the main and foremast. Once I got the technique right they went on easily. Nice and tight. I gave it a wash of dilute white glue, but after it dried, I decided to give it a wipe of CA glue. Now they’re REALLY on there. I’ll trim once everything cures.
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My staycation over Christmas turned into quarantine for an additional 10 days because a family member got the Ronas and my work said for me to keep away. Non-serious (thankfully), and she’s doing just fine, and it hasn’t spread, but it gave me ample extra time to construct the masts and bowsprit. This them primed in my paint booth. Next will be yardarms. I’m a fan of priming. It’s an extra step, but it helps the next layer really stick well rather than soak into the wood.
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I'm preparing for my long staycation that will hopefully include some sufficient ship building time on the masts. So finishing up the odds and end of the deck, the swivel guns, the gingerbread and touching up some areas with paint. For the inhaul ringbolt behind the guns I had some very small dull metal washers that I decided to use. I really don't like using the brass rings the kit supplies - ditto with the eyelets. I'll do a search on this forum, but would anyone that happens to be reading this have a good jig design to make their own eyebolts? I made one using a block of wood and two small pins just the right distance apart. I bent a piece of annealed wire of near about the right gauge around them and made passable eyelets. But if there's a better way to do it, this is the place to ask.
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For a good rivet effect you can use what's called a pounce wheel, which is used in the leather industry to put dimple designs into the leather. It looks like a cowboy spur. Micro-Mark sells them at difference scales to give the effect of rivets. Link: https://www.micromark.com/3-piece-Pounce-Wheel-Set The pain is keeping the line straight and not bending your copper. Other model sites sell the individual copper plates if you can find the right scale. What you did works for you, more power to you.
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@Moonbug, where exactly does that little cupola go on the aft deck? Could you show it in place? I’m on the last bits of the deck railings on my Pegasus and if I like it I may copy off of your design.
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@CoscoH, yeah, I have an old build log that is being shut down soon, so I wanted to load that content before it’s permanently deleted and I lose it all. To accent the plank seams I used the side of a Sharpie marker along all of the edges. Works like a charm.
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I’m coming at this build log late. I’ve progressed a lot since these were taken, but I’m not done yet. Rather than recap in detail, I would like to post these pics of Pegasus at various spots that take me up to where I am now and I’ll pick up the build log there. Bulkheads on. Planking the gun deck. Gun deck completed. Starting the details. Pumps. Put rust detail around them. First layer of planking. Port side first layer done. First layer sanded. Second layer done and in homemade clamp. Putting gun port planks on. Gingerbread. Started to paint. Stern gallery attached. Copper plate on. Another view of copper. Gun jig I made. Gun tackle in. More deck furniture. Ship’s bell. Railing before Railing after painting and polywipe. Gold gingerbread on stern. Gingerbread on stbd stern window. This catches me up to my build. I am building a stand at the moment. Once it is complete, I will continue with the log. Jason
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