BANYAN

That is a particularly nice painting Jim; you have a great ability to convey the atmosphere of the scenes you portray!
 
cheers
 
Pat

Looks good in the photo Charlie; but the real test is whether you like it   As to the tarp, that is one option I think, not sure if they may have used a lead 'flashing' in a grating.  Only problem is that the heat from the "charlie noble' (funnel) may have ignited a tarp covering that was so cl;ose?
 
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Pat

That is a particularly nice painting Jim; you have a great ability to convey the atmosphere of the scenes you portray!
 
cheers
 
Pat

This painting is based on the wreck of the 'Peter Iredale'. She was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. It was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel. Wreckage is still visible, making it a popular tourist attraction.
jim

Amazing detail Ed, and again very useful to me.  That is a great way to mass produce these parts. I cannot wait for you to publish the third volume
 
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Pat

Amazing detail Ed, and again very useful to me.  That is a great way to mass produce these parts. I cannot wait for you to publish the third volume
 
cheers
 
Pat

Another rusty hardworking heroine of WW2.
Here's another Canuck, HMCS Eyebright, post war, converted to a Dutch Whalecatcher.
W/C 11 X 9 inches. Jim   

Wow.  I am overwhelmed by the very generous comments on the last post - but a little disoriented in thinking about the possibility that Druxey would consider "fudging" something.  That does not compute.
 
As with many tasks on the model, this one had its fits and starts - mostly on the question of how to make all of them efficiently.  Once over that hurdle and with some help from CAD, it was downhill.  Deciding not to solder was a key decision and really simplified the work - and... thank you, Sherline.  I don't know what we would do without those calibration wheels.
 
There are no dumb questions Harvey, only dumb answers.  I took the design of the sheet blocks from a detail on one of the drawings in Underhill, Masting and Rigging of the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier - a truly wonderful resource.  I did not think too much about the four pins, but I believe that the central pin is important structurally, to maintain spacing, and to allow sheaves or the top pin to be removed without the whole assembly coming apart.  There was probably a spacer boss on the center pin.  
 
Again, thank you all for following and for the flattering comments.
 
Ed

One Canopy frame to go....
Quick overhead shot of the developing spar deck.  Once the last canopy frame is completed, I plan to begin developing the three masts, seen dry fitted here.
 
 

Amazing detail Ed, and again very useful to me.  That is a great way to mass produce these parts. I cannot wait for you to publish the third volume
 
cheers
 
Pat

Amazing detail Ed, and again very useful to me.  That is a great way to mass produce these parts. I cannot wait for you to publish the third volume
 
cheers
 
Pat

Your hands are probably working autonomously by now with muscle memory well and truly established  - had enough yet?
 
They look great Dave, some lovely detail on your model.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Hi Zach. They didn't have much time for 'house keeping', especially the small escort vessels.
Heres a busy merchant ship quite rusty as well. Passing Schooners fishing the Grand Banks.
jim

Thank you very much for your complement. In return here is one to honour the part played by Belgian Seamen
unofficially allowed to wear two Ensigns!.
Jim
Godetia was one of two Flower Class Corvettes manned by the Belgian Navy. 'Buttercup' was the other. Here Godietia is picking up survivors from 'Port Auckland' and the French ship 'Zouave' sunk in convoy SC-122, 17th March 1943 by U 305
Jim  

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 251 – Sheet Blocks
 
Each square yard, except for the skysail yards at the tops of the masts, will be fitted with an iron sheet block suspended from an eyebolt below its center.  These "cloverleaf" type blocks contain two sheaves, one for each of the two chain sheets for the sail directly above.  The sheets pass through sheaves in the yardarms, or cheek blocks on the larger yards, through fairleads under the yard, then to the sheet blocks.  The blocks direct the sheets downward to tackles that are belayed on deck in most cases.  The first picture shows the seven fabricated, 21" sheet blocks with eyebolts attached.
 

 
Two of these have been blackened.  This size will be used on lower, lower topsail, and upper topsail yards on the fore and main masts and on the crojack yard on the mizzen.  The remaining yards will be fitted with smaller, 15" blocks of this type.
 
To make these efficiently, some "mass production" was used.  In the first step, holes for all the plate casings were drilled as shown in the next picture, through two long strips of .010" brass, ¾" at 1:72 scale.
 

 
The holes were drilled using the mill as a drill press, with holes spaced using the calibration wheels, in a prescribed sequence using calculated spacings.  The resulting strips, for both block sizes are shown in the next picture.
 

 
Part of the drilling guide sheet may be seen in the picture.  It shows each movement in a numbered sequence, with penciled spacings calculated from the full size dimensions.  The punch marks on the strips were added for matching. 
 
In the next picture two dressmaker pins have been inserted through the holes on the vertical centerline of two matching plates. 
 

 
The rough shape of the block was cut through both plates using scissors.  The two pins are close fitting, and in the picture below are clamped in a vise where the triangle shapes are being sized with a file.
 

 
There is a thin, drilled wood shim under the two plates for clearance above the vise.  In the next picture the triangular shape has been filed, the plates separated, and the pins have been replaced with lengths of drawn copper wire.
 

 
One of these wires has been threaded through a turned sheave.  In the next picture, with both sheaves fitted, the lower ends of the pin wires are clamped in the vise.
 

 
In this picture the upper wire ends have been clipped off just above the top plate and then peened to form rivet heads.  The assembly was then turned over and placed on an anvil.  The long bolt ends were then clipped and peened.  In the next picture the central pin has been peened on both sides in the same way and the top pin has been inserted through a spun eyebolt.
 

 
As before, the lower ends of the pin wires are clamped in the vise for peening the first side.  The block was then flipped over to clip and peen the other ends, completing the assembly.  The lower block in the picture below shows this stage.
 
 
 
Each side of the triangle was then filed concave, shaped to match the pattern and polished. The fourteen smaller sheet blocks will be made later.
 
Ed

Great techniques Ed.  You have accomplished quite some detail with the parcelling and serving at such a scale - the result is excellent.
 
cheers
 
Pat 

Very nice metal work Ed; thanks for the piccy and discussion re 'peening', which will be very useful.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Thanks, it appears I put too much trust in the first converter Google suggested.  You are right - worth considerable consideration me theinks 
 
cheers
 
Pat

Thanks, it appears I put too much trust in the first converter Google suggested.  You are right - worth considerable consideration me theinks 
 
cheers
 
Pat

Pat
 
I suggest you double check the exchange rate.
 
If I looked up the exchange rate correctly, 1AUD = 84.83 JPY so the 3700 would be more like about AUD 44

Your hands are probably working autonomously by now with muscle memory well and truly established  - had enough yet?
 
They look great Dave, some lovely detail on your model.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Here are a couple of 'Still Life' paintings with a Maritime slant.
The Nelsonian one was inspired by the titles of the  British TV program 'SHARP'.  
The other RN/FAA Compass is real, I scratch built the cannon and the Pilot is a 'Historex' kit of an RAF pilot painted up as FAA.
and Ofcourse one of my old collars

Dan, Thanks.  It is a bit awkward and maybe a bit exagerated.  See the original drawing  https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/13002-anchor-hoy-by-maurys-pof-harbor-craft-c-1825-148/
There is an off-set in  the rudder post.  It is a plug-stock rudder designed to minimize the amount of water that can get through.  See earlier comments on the rudder:

https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/13002-anchor-hoy-by-maurys-pof-harbor-craft-c-1825-148/&page=11&tab=comments#comment-491561
It actually does swing a fair amount without binding.  One of the many issues with working from original drawings rather than actual plans.
Maury

The topsail yard has been hung and all lines belayed.
 
I need to make several rope coils and check all lines to ensure
they are still snug then its on the the anchors!
 
 

 

 

Thanks Chuck. Yes almost there. Should have her done by Thanksgiving. I hope! 
 
As far as a clean bench goes you should see everything I pushed onto the floor so I could take the picture.