Papa

Hi Chris,

As a 100% Yankee, born and raised outside of Boston, i am curious as to where in Massachusetts you are located.  I hated the winters there so am now below the Mason-Dixon line 😁

9 hours ago, John Ruy said:

Looks good Ron. 👍 Good detail with the hinges and rope. 

Thanks.  Doing the hinge pins was tedious!

5 rudders made and one rigged on the whale boat

I now have 25 harpoons, 5 per boat. I still need to round the shafts and stain or paint them.  they are very fragile being only 1/32" sq stripwood.

A “few” harpoons and we’re ready to get some whales.

Great idea using different wood.

I was never happy with the white pinstripes i did.  I always seem to make a mess with masking, and the free hand was too messy.  Ugh.  I purchased a 1/16” chart tape from Model Expo a while ago and sat down today to finally put it on,   I think it is worlds better!

Thanks. The pictures and drawing help a lot.  

On 12/3/2021 at 7:52 PM, John Ruy said:

I mounted the boats on the davits ready to be launched.

Couple of questions:  1. how did you hang the rudders?.  I am trying to visualize how to mount them so they  would appear to be able to swing into place.

2. Do the davits interfere with rigging? I am concerned that if I attach the davits now, i will keep breaking them as I rig the ship.  I am thinking of putting the davits and hanging the boats as a  last step.

I just took a quick look.   I will go back and watch carefully.  I think there will be a huge amount of good stuff on this site   

Getting caught up on the whale boats.

Good idea using Model railroad window sets.  I used some in my City of Pekin canal barge. 

John, your work is outstanding as always.   

Thanks for posting the whale boat photos. They are very helpful.  

1 step forward 5 steps backwards😫.  this is what happens when one fails to make careful measurements.  Had to rip out the guts and start over. The stern is more or less correct.  Some more detail needs to be added.  Would the whale boats have been hung on the davits with the tiller and rudder in place?

Thanks all for the nice comments on the hedgehog.  

21 hours ago, reklein said:

The rock painting is very clever, but the idea of covering the base for your model with a chart is OUTSTANDING!.

At last !  Someone noticed.  It was an old whaling chart i found on-line.

15 hours ago, king derelict said:

That is beautiful. The eyes are three dimensional. Great work

Alan

Thanks.  It is all in the shading. I’ve always been fascinated by trompe l’oeil painting. I have a long way to go.

I think he is finished.  I have to stare at him a bit.  Wish i  could say the same about the whale boats on my Morgan.  I had to rip out some parts and re do them.  Some seats and floor boards were messed up.  

4 hours ago, Danstream said:

Waiting to see the hedgehog finished.

He is coming along slowly.  I decided to place him in some grass with a dandelion. 

47 minutes ago, el cid said:

Lol…that tarantula is sure to get attention.

When my granddaughter saw the picture she thought at first it was real!   
the spider is in our garden keeping the predators away 😂

1 hour ago, king derelict said:

The hedgehog is terrific

Alan

Thanks.  I hope i have the patience to finish him as well as he looks now

Since one can never have too many hobbies, i have taken up rock painting.  Here is a hedgehog starting to appear out of a rock.  Also a strawberry, dragon eye and big spider. 

On 11/9/2021 at 3:24 PM, Papa said:

I will look into this

I did get some Aleen’s tacky glue.   I like it.  

The hull skins at the stern have wedges cut out (kind of like darts in sewing) to shape the stern to the frames.  On my first attempt I tried to glue the skins on and close the wedges with the tabs at the same time.  Bad idea!  And the stern was grossly misshaped.  This time I glued the tabs and shaped the stern first. The stern is much better now, at least off the ship.  It was still a ridiculously complicated  job to get the skin attached smoothly.  The port side is in, but not as smooth as i’d like.  Not looking forward to the starboard side. 8 more hands would make it easier.  Maybe with a few dozen more paper ships i might get the hang of it.