Jump to content

Bill97

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,555

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Bill97

  1. Bill97
    Ok so I started looking at the decorations that go on the sides of the stern. Not sure if I maybe did not curve the wale up high enough. The wreath decoration seems way too short to cover the area needed. I decided to making a resin cast if the wreath to make it longer. I then painted both the casts and the sculptures gold and guided them with gold leaf. Once dry I will attach to the stern.
  2. Bill97
    Marc I echo exactly what Chapman said. I looked back to see when you started this masterpiece. This has been a large part of your current life. Incredible job.
  3. Bill97
    Thanks Phil. So if that is the case with a support under the capstan, OcCre is not completely accurate in the model design. I can fix that. The skylight, companion way, and capstan are made from laser cut pieces from the kit so their height is predetermined. The second picture above in my comment is actually from the instructions, not my model (not my fingers 😊) . As you said that will raise it to a logical level. Thanks.
  4. Bill97
    Steve I expect your idea may be more correct. May give some thought to changing mine OcCre provides a metal bell tower of sorts. It is to be painted a wood color. I decided to cover it with wood veneer and stain it instead.
  5. Bill97
    Hi Marc. Hope all has been going well with you. Thanks for your confirmation about the color of the strakes. That was my exact thought about the capstan. As I mentioned I referred to Marquardt’s AOTS and his explanation. I have scrolled through pages of pictures of the replica in Sydney but have not been able to find one showing this section of the deck.
  6. Bill97
    Ok gentlemen here is a curiosity. The Endeavour has the single capstan positioned between the skylight and the companionway. In Marquardt’s Anatomy of the Ship he addresses it saying “The capstan was not moved during the refit, and the newly-fitted companionway afore it and the skylight aft of it interfered with the easy operation, as the men on the bars had to step aside when the bars passed the obstacles.” It seems as if this would have been very inconvenient and inefficient. Of course I will build my Endeavour accordingly and accurately but it seems very odd the Endeavour would have been refitted this way.
  7. Bill97
    Thanks Veszett. That has been a struggle deciding on what stain colors I want to use. I am trying to avoid paint when possible. There are a few places where it can’t be helped but otherwise I am using various stains. It will be just a couple colors once I move up into the masts and yards.
  8. Bill97
    Been a couple weeks since my last update. Was away from the ship yard on a little family vacation. Back to work on deck pieces. Built CPT Cook’s skylight and the two hatch “houses” (I guess). Not sure of their nautical name.
  9. Bill97
    My friend it is such a pleasure and inspiration to ch close in on your build! Any time I feel just a little bit unduly proud of my ship building accomplishments I take a quick glance at your SR build. The unbelievable amount of research and patience you have employed in your build quickly reminds me I am but an amateur in comparison to the likes of you and Henry. Well done my friend.
  10. Bill97
    Maggs I don’t know if you are still out there some 8 years later. If so I want to tell you just how beautiful your Endeauvor is. I have your build bookmarked as my go to for pictorial advice and inspiration. I am building the the OcCre model as well (Bill or Bill97 on MSW) and am at the point of making all the deck decorations. I am seriously thinking of saving all your photos to an easy access file for easy reference. Again beautiful job.
  11. Bill97
    I have been not completely satisfied with the upper haul staining I did. I did not feel the grain in the planking showed as much as I had hoped. Finally I bit the bullet and decided to sand it down and redo it. After much work I got all stripped. I then stained the upper section again. It will still receive a satin clear top coat and I will genes to touch up the black on the wales. But I am much more pleased. I also added pins to the bottom of all the pieces I have made that will line the rails. The pin will hopefully reinforce the strength of the glue attachment.
  12. Bill97
    Carved and shaped and stained all the wooden Sampson post and rail columns. Different when one decides to build a wooden model vs a plastic is that there are very few molded or preshaped pieces. Most everything, except for very specific pieces, are left to the builder to carve and shape.
  13. Bill97
    My Endeavour can now be steered with the addition of the rudder. Also added the hawse holes at the bow for the future anchor ropes. Since it has caused several questions, and I have no definitive answer, I decided to paint the rubbing strakes black instead of leaving them the natural wood they were. Slowly but surely I am completing the bow.
  14. Bill97
    Question for you guys that are more nautical than me. The rubbing strakes at the side of the bow. The replica of the Endeavor in Australia shows the strakes as a natural color. The model photo and other builds show them black. A number of people viewing the progress of my model have asked what color I planned to paint the stakes. They assumed since the strakes were a lighter color wood I just had not painted them. I explain that the replica shows them a lighter wood. What is correct? I have made a great deal of progress since my last update. Stern is complete. I added plastic windows behind the metal frames and drapes. No doubt CPT Cook at times wished for less sun light in the cabin. I made fold down shutters I have yet to decide if I am going to attach them or not. You may notice a little discoloration in the palladium part of the far port window. If you are like me you are sometimes your own worst enemy. I had the stern pretty much finished perfectly. But of course, as I am guilty of doing, I thought one little touch up would make it even better. I decided I needed to touch up a couple spots inside the window frames. And of course I got a small bit of gold paint on the top of the window plastic on that window 😫. My only recourse was to clean it up best I could. I think a bit got behind the plastic. As I said, sometimes my perfection is my enemy.
  15. Bill97
    It has been about a week or so since my last update. Some nice progress since then. Completed the planking and painting. Then I repurposed the base I previously made for my Soleil Royal. Had to change out the center cradle since the Endeauvor has a much more flat bottom. I discovered one glitch, I guess, since I cannot see where I made a mistake fitting the decks. The upper deck does not meet flush with the stern plate. I assumed there was going to be a filler piece here but the instructions do not show such. Instruction picture show the inside of the stern flush to the end of the upper deck. Hope my upper deck is not off a bit in lining up the mast holes.
  16. Bill97
    Continuing along with my OcCre Endeavour build. Finished the second planking and working on the rubbing strakes. The 3 different stain colors will be touched up, the strakes painted black, and a semi gloss clear top coat of varnish will be added later.
  17. Bill97
    Thanks Ian. It has actually been quite enjoyable employing my years of woodworking experience. There have truly been some challenges so far but I hope I have overcome them successfully. Now once I get into making everything that goes on the deck, and above the deck, we will see if I still feel the same!
  18. Bill97
    Starting the addition of the blue stained planking that finishes the planking up to the top of the wales. Anxious to see how it will look once I add the semigloss topcoat which will further enhance the three colors.
  19. Bill97
    Coming along great Jake. I do remember that extensive masking so well!
  20. Bill97
    Thanks S.Coleman. I appreciate your comment. What will really be interesting is adding the timbers that I have stained blue. They will finish up to the top of the wales. How is the bow shaped on your model? Thanks again for following. Bill
  21. Bill97
    Yes it is. Exactly like veneer. The ends can be a little brittle so I soak them in water before doing any bending. Similar to how I did the wood for the first planking b
  22. Bill97
    It has been a little over a week since my last update. I am continuing the second planking which is just a slow price of putting a jig-saw puzzle together and making the pieces at the same time. I decided to add the sections of the keel that goes down the front of the bow and behind the rudder early so that I could but the planking right up to those pieces. Instead of cutting and trimming the planking pieces later when I installed the keel sections as OcCre suggests.
  23. Bill97
    Where I struggled when soldering my links was trying to trying to solder the the wire loop end to end. Eventually I had to overlap the wires just a bit then solder.
  24. Bill97
    Marc I think they are looking fine. When I built my Victory I ordered Daniel’s (Dafi’s) chains. For my SR I decided to attempt to make my own as you are. I experienced the exact issues with finding the best spot to solder and when to attempt the crimp. It is frustrating. I think a fault I have in modeling that you don’t have, and I compliment you, is after a number of tries at perfection I give up and use my best attempt. Especially if it is an item I expect will not be that visible to others. Like chains under the channels. You however my friend, and again I compliment you, are an absolute perfectionist. You work truly shows it.
  25. Bill97
    It is really looking good Jake. Your client will be very pleased. That is an interesting subject I have thought about. My ship room is becoming overcrowded. Many times people who have viewed my ships have said “you should sell these”. I would have no idea what I would charge. Two of mine, the Heller HMS Victory and Le Soleil Royal, each took well over a year to build. How in the world do you put a price to that. And I would think it would be after it is completed that a client would offer to purchase it. Can’t imagine a client asking me to build a ship for them that may take a year or more to get. I have offered my Mayflower to my grandson’s school library. They study the subject in their history classes and he told me it would be cool to look at it in the library and brag to his classmates that his grandfather made it😊.

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...