Bill97
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Fore topgallant mast repair completed. I ended up adding a small strip of brass to each side of the break for additional strength. My hope is once I add the yard and parral it will not be noticeable.
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Thanks Daniel. I could not find where the extra four were supposed to go. I have them on the yards that Heller provided the stun’sails for. Going to live with that.
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Thanks Ian. I think I will probably not go there. Just the stuns on the lower yards.
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Thanks Ian. Heller did not include parts for the topgallant yards. Did you fabricate and add them or just not have them?
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This question is for Daniel, or anyone that has used his etched plate 4. Included on the plate are 12 stun sail fittings. I only find use for 8. Two on the foremast yard and two on fore top mast yard. Two on the main yard and two on the main top mast yard. I don’t think they go on the topgallant yards or any of the mizzenmast yards, do they?
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Fixed! I had previously drilled a small hole through the mast to accept the pin I put in the yard. That proved to be a weak spot when I accidentally hit it reaching for something behind the ship. I was able to untangle the lines and clamp the two mast sections. May have to wait to glue and fix it until I am ready to permanently add the yard. If I glue it now I will close up the hole I drilled. Will see how this goes.
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Disaster today! The Victory took an enemy round to the fore topgallant mast. Repairs under way if crew can get lines untangled!
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Stumbled on something very interesting today online. Found this rigging chart for the Caldercraft 1805 HMS Victory. Looking at Caldercraft builds here on MSW has me of the opinion the Caldercraft HMS Victory is a high quality model. I find it interesting the block layout and number of blocks on the Caldercraft yards are different from what appears on Plan 7 of Longridge’s book. I have to say if the Caldercraft plan is close to accurate it would be easier to follow.
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Yeah Kevin I think from our previous conversations I know which direction you would lean 😊. Not a bad direction. Check mark in that column by your name.
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Ok gentlemen back home from the sea and peaked in the ship yard. Here is the blocks I have to work with. In the photos the dark printed block is the 4mm provided by Heller. The smallest block (part p) that came with the kit. The grey blue is the 4mm Kevin gave me. Again thank you Kevin! The wood block is the slightly larger, 4.5mm maybe, that I ordered. The wood block is the one under discussion that I have attached to the foremast yards. It is definitely more bulky than the slimmer shaped printed blocks although virtually the same length. What to do? Do I leave them as is or replace them with either the Heller or Kevin block. I have hundreds of 4mm blocks and don’t want to spend more money unnecessarily for blocks so minutely smaller I doubt anyone would really notice. As I mentioned above I made the mistake, which I won’t do again, of combining wood blocks and printed blocks in the same model.
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Last day at sea then back to the ship yard 🙁. Wonder how many nights Admiral Nelson went to bed with this view out his quarter’s window?
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Wonder if the sand color primer could make a difference? I have a grey primer and a white primer. Even though I cover both with the same color I can tell the difference of the primer coat I used.
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Kevin this is the Vallejo primer I use before the Old and New Wood color set. I don’t know if the primer I use aids in the grey starting point.
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It is interesting the difference the application of the colors can make. I definitely start out with a uniform darker gray base after the application of the gray primer and gray base coat from the color kit.
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Kevin I used a Vallejo product named Old and New Wood. Look back to comment #5 in my CS build and you can see a picture of the package. I first sprayed the deck sections with a Vallejo gray acrylic primer and then just followed the directions that come with the package. There is a base color for either old or new wood followed by highlight colors applied randomly to various deck boards. I further applied more of the darker highlights to what wood have been high traffic areas. One additional step I did was to use a very fine pigment pen to draw all the lines between boards before the highlight colors. If I remember correctly, it seems like when I was finished I covered it all with a thinned white wash to blend it all and soften the appearance. That is pretty much the process I have followed since. You can probably notice my CS deck resembles my Victory deck. Hope this helps my friend.
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Thanks Veszett. The age difference energy level is amazing. They don’t stop. Took them kayaking on an inter waterway and thought I was going to have to tie a rope to theirs so they could pull me along! Wow!
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Thanks Daniel. The Heller blocks are black. Kevin’s are a light blue maybe, and the wood blocks are a natural wood color. Maybe if I switch to the correct size printed blocks, painted a satisfying color, I can get by carefully hitting a drop or two of the same color on the wood blocks I have installed other places that are permanent now. The camouflage of the matching colors should make the wood still in the rigging less noticeable. I used the wood blocks for the backstay applications that required blocks instead of deadeyes on the channels. My deadeyes are wood and I have the blocks matching almost perfectly. I also have all my stays and backstays correctly tightened to where my mast are perfectly vertical. Those I am just going to live with as well as a number of blocks in the bowsprit area.
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Oh no guys, you can’t see them but in the photo I am holding a printed block and a wood block. I brought them with me to study the pros and cons of each 😊. So there is still ship building involved. Grandsons digging in the sand and demanding my engineering skills interrupted my deliberation. I retired in 2010 after my youngest graduated from college. Just passed my 12 year anniversary this past March. Turn 70 this August. Worked all the years my 3 kids were growing up and, as I am sure most of you identify with, missed a lot of their events. When the grandkids started coming I decided I was not going to miss their growing up. Even though there was an income adjustment, as there is for everyone, I decided to take the leap. All my retired friends told me “once you make the decision don’t second guess and don’t look back”. I have never regretted my decision. Had I continued working until today I would have a much larger savings account but no way I would have the countless memories I have been able to share with the 7 grand kids that call me Papaw! I so highly recommend when you personally and financially can.
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Contemplating the space time continuum and the size of my blocks 🤔. Which is easier to decipher? Maybe a little kayaking with playful dolphins later today will open my eyes to the meaning of life😀
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A mistake I guess I made was mixing wood blocks and printed blocks. A lesson I learned for when I build my Soleli Royal. I started out early using the Heller provided blocks. As you all know rigging them versus the wood blocks are a little more difficult because of the absence of the groove around the exterior. I decided to order wooden blocks because I really like the look of the wood and they are easier to rig. As a cost savings I decided to use the wood blocks in the more visible applications and the painted printed blocks (Heller and Kevin) in places not as visible but still functional for the rigging. Thought no one would really notice or question the combination. Now that I am pass the point of no return (not going back and removing a bunch of previously installed blocks of either type in order to be uniform) I must decide which type to use going forward. Obviously the printed blocks are more to scale. Will practice painting the printed ones to see if I can get a good wood look.
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Ian I even showed her the picture you posted of your’s on the table. I may convince her. If I get my blocks straight that is. 😊
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Funny story Kevin. I have recently been tossing hints at my wife that I would love to build a table to set my Victory case on in the living room. After the amount of time I have spent on it and my pride in it, I want to show it off. Not just be in my ship room. She gives me unconvinced looks.
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