Papa

She is coming together. I had to remove the pipes in order to mount the engine and then thin down some of the pipes and the frame to get them to fit. A few hours of test fitting and some super glue and you wouldn’t know I cheated 

Next stage of the Chevy build. The blue is actually white  🤷‍♂️

I think it is finished 

22 minutes ago, AJohnson said:

Very good, let us see “Toot” when all done, looking very Regal as he is!

Thank you. I will be pleased to post the finished work.  By the Toot (Tootsie) is a “lady”. 

The Admiral and I are in Florida 1000 miles from my ship models.  When I am not reading or drinking wine I am trying to learn how to paint with acrylics. Here is a work in progress our “grand dog” Toot, a French Bulldog.  

On 3/27/2023 at 11:59 AM, Egilman said:

'll bet it didn't feel anything like "Tiptoeing thru the Tulips" {chuckle}

Actually it didn’t hurt much; it just wouldn’t stop bleeding.  The stitches stopped the bleeding but eventually the flap of skin they stitched back just fell off. The slicers have a special holder for the vegetables so you don’t get hurt. I thought i was too clever for that! Slice, slice, slice, ouch!

Preparing vegetables is dangerous business. I needed 2 stitches after using a mandoline slicer

Another welcome from a fellow Virginian (but still a Yankee at heart.)

I once worked for retired admiral Luke Capone at Booz Allen.  He was a submarine driver I believe.  Any of you navy/boomer folks know of him? He passed away in 2005.

I haven't looked at this thread for a couple years. 😐

To open the link above one needs to sign up for the Telegraph.  I guess the paper needs to make a living.

Fascinating story about the Mary Celeste; we may never know what happened.

Finished engine.  I am going to drill holes in the ends of the exhaust pipes or paint them black to simulate holes.

By the way. The bent tweezers seen on the work table I have had for over 50 years.  Good tools last forever. I purchased them from James Bliss Co in Boston.   Bliss was mainly an outfitter for real boats but they did deal in Model Shipways “Yellow Box” kits, hobby tools, and some other ship kits whose brand I no longer remember.   I purchased Young America, Newsboy, and the Essex there.   Sorry to say the Young America and Newsboy were badly damaged after several house moves and are no longer around. By the 1970s Bliss moved outside the city and eventually closed up I think.  

4 hours ago, toms10 said:

Your Morgan is coming along nicely. 

Thank you.   I now have the topgallant yard in and braced.  

i am learning the hard way that I should have left all the whaleboat davits and paraphernalia until after the masts and yards were rigged.

In the early 1960's I had a 52 Plymouth sedan that my parents purchased from an uncle. It looked a lot like the Chevy. I seem to remember that they only paid $25 for it but that seems ridiculous now.  I had to cover the holes in the floor with plywood. Anyway, it lasted until I finished college and it even made a round trip from Massachusetts to Washington, DC where i had a 3 month summer job with the DoD.  I purchased the Chevy kit planning on making a custom car version. Eventually I realized that such a job was way beyond my skill set. So it's "out of the box"  Dragster version.

Papa

Taking a break from rigging the C.W. Morgan with this car kit I’ve had in my stash for a while. The dragster engine is almost complete. 

Lower main topsail yard is in place.  Good grief it is so difficult to belay the lines in the stern!  Ratlines, davits, sheds, boats are all in the way

I really need to be better organized.  After waiting a couple weeks for replacement line i discover that i had a new spool of exactly the size i needed in my box of rigging. Actually 1 of 2 boxes.  I kinda forgot that i had 2 boxes of line; one was not enough for all the stuff left over from 50 years of modeling. 😬😖🤪

I realized that one needs the mizzen crossjack yard in order to rig the main yard braces. I ran out of the size line i was using for the braces after the starboard side was in.  So things are a bit lopsided until the line arrives. 

Fixed up the broken davits, reset the upper topsail and finally rigged all the fore mast yards

I ran out of small rocks for painting so I am back to the Morgan.  In trying to rig the top gallant sail I manage to break two davits and knocked the upper top sail off the mast!!😬. So some patching up is in the schedule.   I did manage to get the ship name on the stern without breaking anything.  Laser printed white font on black background. 

Gorgeous boat. Fantastic paint work. 

Ron

11 hours ago, gjdale said:

 

Thanks Ron. No, I have never done a FSM kit. I'm not actually a railroad guy - I'm just doing this kit 'cause it looked really cool!

 

I can certainly recommend the Sierra West kits. They are top notch quality and the instructions are first class. They are also well supported with their own forum and the kit designer/producer provides first class after-sales support and will look in on any build logs on that site to offer encouragement/advice along the way. He has also recently introduced 3-D printing to replace some of the castings in his kits.

 

And yes, every single one of his kits would make an excellent stand-alone diorama as well as being part of a railroad layout.

It sure is a cool building!   I no longer have trains.  I finally realized that it was building models that i liked not running a railroad.  😀

Have you ever done a kit from Fine Scale Miniatures? I wonder how you would compare them?  They have similar craftsman kits, but have closed up shop now.   This one seems more detailed and the instructions that you show look more extensive. I built several FSM kits when I had some HO trains and enjoyed the construction more than running the trains.  I am sorely tempted to purchase a kit from Sierra West and just do a diorama as you are doing.

Ron Gove

51 minutes ago, king derelict said:

That's beautiful

Alan

Thank you

One more painted rock. I think another week or so and I’ll be ready to go back to my ship model.