ScottRC

Progress...

First coat of paint…

Cheers 🍻 

That little Red Jcket is looking extremely well.  Nice attention to detail and good wood working quality/skills.
 
I'm enjoying your build log.
 
Rob

Channels…

Drilling for the Masts and Bow Sprit… No glue at this time. 

Ready to seal and paint the hull and bulwarks. 
 
Cheers 🍻 
 

Lower Deadeyes…

…and so it begins, the “smallest” deadeyes. 

Pin Rails are going to be so much fun. 😜

Bulwarks and Rails continued…


Placing Bulwark Stanchions…

Placing the Monkey Rail…

Removed the kit supplied taffrail…

Building up Taffrail with strip wood 1/64 x 1/32. 

Taffrail base completed… 

Monkey Rails completed…

Placing water ways… 

Monkey Rail, Main Rail and Sheer completed. 
 
Onwards… 🍻
 

Bulwarks, Rails, etc…

 Cheers 🍻 

Here they are with a bit of shading. Not sure if you can see the difference between these and the way they were in the earlier post, but to me they look more realistic.

And I had neglected to post photos of the hatch covers up to now, so here they are. A pair for the stairs up from the owners' cabin
 

And covers for the cargo hatches - one in place, the others not yet added (so I can see the mast steps to locate the masts when the time comes).

I've weathered the hatch covers and added a bit of "rust" to the hinges, so she looks like a ship that's see a bit of use.
 
Currently I'm trying to chase up some  'acrylic matt medium' on Druxey's advice to glue the reinforcing strips to the silkspan sails. But I'm in a bit of a quandary as to the difference between  'acrylic matt medium' and  'acrylic matt pouring medium' (considerably cheaper, but perhaps not right for the job).
 
Steven

Thank you, Scott, for nice words. As I wrote earlier, in early stage of build I have big mistake which can not be resolved, and which I noticed after mounting 4000 foil strips as mynz metal under water line, except to start model from begining. Deck and deck rails are not paralell ... deck fence has different random height ... 
So, then I decide to overdetail Her to turn off attention of anybody who will se Her.
And that is simply - that.
Beside that, making this little beasts is chalenge! And fun.
All the best.
Nenad

Hi Nenad,
I am back for a short visit here on MSW and am so glad to see your back on your scratch build.  Your metal work is coming along fine. She looks so good with all her furniture on the deck and now her masts are going up.  
 
Regards,
Scott

Details

Painting

Almost ready for cleaning and white paint

VID_20240324_142002.mp4  

All of them
 

Cap Band,, step by step
Remarks
Strip of Cu foil on start is spiral, with ends INSIDE
Dont forget to apply thiny foil of soldering on surface of strip.
1. Cut a strip of copper foil of the required width, long enough to wrap twice around the mast. Sand well
2. Bend the tape around both masts in a spiral, so that the ends of the tape are on the inside
3. remove from the mold, adjust to the correct dimensions and tighten so that it does not unroll, then solder the assemblies. Apply a thin layer of solder paste to the surface of the ring to strengthen it
4. Solder the foil over as a cover
5. Remove excess material
6. Drill the holes for the hooks

Progressing
All three nests got plankung with light weathering, so, they are done! Exept painting in one of next stage..

When you have not enough hands ...
Second mast almost done

More mast details

All three nests - metal works done.
Holder for yard on fore lower mast done. This was tricky. Made from Cu foil 0.3mm which is harden wirh thin layer of soldering on surface.

Old saying: "when the hill won't come to man, then man will come to the hill"
So, if soldering do not work , super-glue will work

Sometimes you, just, don't think (and we know that thinking is too difficult and the devil's work!)
The mast nests on my model have a lower metal structure over which planking is laid.
Pictures 1 and 2 show what this is all about.
Come on...
I struggled to do the lower structure, after 2 hours of drilling and milling finally satisfied, all that was left was to adjust the hole for the mast, when ... hell!
It can not get in!
The genius forgot that because of the earlier story about the hooks, he made the masts thicker by about 1mm, which required me to make the nest a little bigger.
So ... let's start from the beginning.

Rings with rings and pins at the bottom of fore mast. Little pins are unusuable on this scale, and it overlays my skill, so I made two rings with rings, a bit larger and simplydied. It would not be visible when ropes come over one day

One step forward.
Connection by barbeque sticks. Strong and elastic.
Not glued jet, first to finish masts.
 

Thanks for the welcome and the great advice.
Really appreciate it.
This is my work space and where I'm at today. Long ways to go!

This project is going to be a little different from the other IJN ships I've build in that there is a combination of wood and linoleum decks, and multiple decks (and canopies) at that.  The other ships I've built I was pretty much able to completely assemble the ship, paint the deck, mask it, and then paint the hull and above deck items in one pass.  This is going to be trickier and will require painting and assembly in stages I think.
 
To start, I glued the hull halves together.  The bottom was very thin, almost to the point of the hull being too flexible for my liking.  So, I ended up gluing a strip of plastic card underneath which made the hull more stable and helpfully raised the ship a little given that I'll put it in water diorama.  I had pre-drilled some holes in the bottom of the kit hull so that when I glued the new bottom onto it, I could flow Tamiya extra thin cement into the holes and help secure the new bottom all along the base of the hull.  Worked pretty well.
 


Next I taped the hull plating lines, in preparation for spraying Mr. Surfacer 500 to help give definition to the plating runs:


Next I worked on the small deck at the bow.  The kit is correct in that the deck, from what I can tell from grainy black and white pictures, was wood.  The Five Star set includes a PE deck that represents a metal deck which is probably incorrect.  Since I am planning on using stick on wood decks to have some consistency throughout the ship, I decided to make my own deck out of plastic card with the cutouts for the winch, anchor chain holes, and pole for the elevated bow platform.  Seemed to work out ok.  I'll add the bollards, vents, etc. after.
 



Thanks for looking in!