BANYAN

Neither is smoking (exhaust fumes), drinking, and ultimately: living But I have managed to stick'em on the plastic instead of meself I'm not into juwelry, or piercings for that matter

Thanks Ken. Tomorrow I've some more fiddly diddly photographs
 
The only thing missing is the smoke after firing Pat
 
Thanks Mark. Though I haven't yet tasted it, i.e. the sweet metal ... (other name for brass? )
 
Thanks 'arry
I'm waiting in anticipation on your first PE build!!
 
The only thing I've been doing is sticking PE to plastic or other PE parts. It seems endless ... though I have to admit that it does make a whole lot of difference. I am also quite happy I bought both Fly Hawk and Pontos detail up sets ... more pictures soon ...
 
Cheers

The display case for the Samuel D. was delivered today and the model fits in the case very nicely. The last touch to add will be a brass name plate and then the model can go to its new home.
 
Russ

Druxey,Yes a good Idea I shall certainly give this some attention. three of the boats had no thwarts in them (no doubt swept up in the debris of the event)
a couple of the boats on the starboard side have one or two thwarts missing with most showing some level of random curvature. only one of the port side boats had all the thwarts intact. 

 

 
Michael

I'm looking John, I'm looking.
well I made an interesting discovery and I am not quite sure how I missed it but this one will be tricky.
 
So easy to spot now but was more difficult earlier
 

 
The davits that sustained the most damage were in line with the aft funnel and got pretty twisted up. I noticed that the arms were stamped out of sheet so Bassett Lowke must have either jobbed out the stamping or made enough of these to have their own small punch press or fly press. 
 

 

 
I am going to be using one of the good davits as a pattern and will fabricate one out of some brass and paint it to look like the rest.
 
Michael

Thanks for all the positive comments.
I am beginning to sort out the lifeboats now that a few distractions are completed and mailed. I decided to set them up in some small rectangles of homasote so that each will be able to be handled as an independent model so that I can fix the davits and lines while off the ship model.
 
 
The small bits of card are some test pieces of card painted for replacing the missing seats in some of the lifeboats. I had thought of using some strips of Evergreen initially but they would not be as the original which are card. The interesting thing is some of the loose pieces when flipped over one can see that the model makers back in the day that this model was made must have simply cut up some packaging.
 

 
Quite a few of the lifeboat seats have sagged into a curve some quite a lot, the painted card in also quite brittle, when i attempted to flatten one of the loose seats the paint fractured. Hmmm now the dilemma is do I replace all the curved seats.
 

 
some of the davits are seriously bent, and will need some delicate straightening.
 
 
Something I noticed while writing this post was a pleasant surprise, Judy had called me from the library and asked me about the weather it is snowing so I clicked on the weather tab without changing tabs and lost the post which was almost ready to submit. I was annoyed at myself and used the back button to see if it was still there and it appeared to be gone, I told myself off.
I went to rewrite the post and it all came back with a comment that it was restored!
So thank you for that Admin, I have lost a few in the past, this is a nice feature.
 
Michael

Congratulations Druxey; I am sure the new owner will enjoy displaying that little beauty.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Congratulations Druxey; I am sure the new owner will enjoy displaying that little beauty.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Looking good Carl, a lot of good detail that will make these guns look great in-situ.
 
cheers
 
Pat

We all tend to forget, our models are viewed by human eyes, usually from a distance of two or three feet Greg.  
Only an accomplished modeler has a keen eye to understand and appreciate the kind of details we continuously bust our tails to achieve.
 
What's the first question people (non-modelers) usually ask about our models?
"How many hours did it take you to build that ship?"
For that very reason, I am logging every hour I work on this model..... 352 hours as of this posting.
 
 

Looking good Carl, a lot of good detail that will make these guns look great in-situ.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Congratulations Druxey; I am sure the new owner will enjoy displaying that little beauty.
 
cheers
 
Pat

oops   Glad you were able to extract and repair it John - Don't you just hate those moments?
 
That is a really nice looking model, will she be going home with you or remain at the museum?
 
cheers
 
Pat

Well folks, apart from continuing to research I have been making some small progress on the model also.  The research is important as the results will determine the location of the fittings that I need to add to the bulwarks before doing any doing deck furniture etc, as it will be too difficult to do so later.  It is vital that I can determine the location and orientation of as many of the rigging fittings, pinrails, backstay straps, eyebolts etc before progressing too much further; otherwise, it will be a matter of redoing the work yet again.  Some rework has already proven to be the case (unavoidable) as we have no plans, and information on ships of this type is very scarce - so we were forced to make some assumptions which have since proven wrong
 
As you can see from the following photographs, I have started opening the ports; and, unfortunately I have also had to remove and redo about 95% of the roughtree timbers (risers).  I have completed that and I am now in the process of fitting the waterways.  Again there was not much information, and while the Contract had specifications for many of the ship's timbers/scantlings; all it said for the waterway was "to be shaped and fitted as shown on the plan" - not very helpful
 
Looking at the profile of contemporary vessels of this type, shows a very substantial  waterway with a profile as shown in the first drawing.  To obtain this shape I found it easiest to make it in two pieces which were then laminated, and then shaped at the rear with a slight profile to butt up against the bulwark planks which tumble out from the ship's side - see diagram 2.  The following photo (not very good) of the HMS Warrior forecastle shows this profile fairly clearly - I found this on the internet unsourced but I believe it is from the book "HMS Warrior, Frigate by Wynford Davies and Geoff Dennison.  Sorry about the in-your-face sizes of the drawings - I will need to to resize these first in the future.
 
 
 

 
The following photos show the waterway strips in their various stages of assembly and in being dry fitted.  I soaked the individual planks and used a bending jig to get the curved profile of each layer by stacking them in the jig, before gluing and profiling the outboard side.  The 45 degree profile was obtained by passing the plank though my mill fitted with a 45 degree cutter (in the upside down router style ). I then  glued the upper plank to the lower plank following the edge of the profile on the lower plank. This has worked out a lot better than I hoped but did take quite a few trials to get the right wood and mill speed combinations.  I have fitted a high-speed pulley upgrade to my Sherline mill to start approaching router like speeds - just have to remember this before attacking some metals (that need the slower speeds ).
 
   
 
cheers
 
Pat

Sorry there has not been an update for a little while, I am back at the PC drawing up the plans, and continuing the research.
 
I am going to have to ensure a quality build noting the experience and abilities of the build followers
 
cheers
 
Pat

Very many thanks E&T.  Thanks for looking in and the compliments; as this is a club build (5 builders) I will pass them onto the respective builders of those parts; I can only claim a small contribution to the hull and the doing the channels though.
 
regards
 
Pat

Thanks Russ, yes she was a truly beautiful vessel with a 'royal yacht' fit-out internally and cutting-edge (for then) equipment - at one point, Lang and the build over-seer [Lockyer], bemoaned the fact they could not get even more ventilation into the crew spaces .  Lang, who designed her on the proviso he had a free-hand did the design for no cost to the Government.  I think he was trying to prove a point to the Admiralty at the time of how to achieve the most efficient hull form for a vessel of this type.  Although like the Arrow/Vigilance class, she had a slimmer profile for speed, and shallower draft to allow her to work in shallow waters but maintained great blue-water sea-keeping performance.

Thanks for all the likes and comments folks, much appreciated:
 
- thanks Albert
 
- Mark, a bit of a pity but this is the second ship we have done in the Colonial Navy series which is being displayed in the HMAS Castlemaine Museum ship.   They are both the same scale, and the other was painted so to be consistent ...
 
cheers
 
Pat

Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments folks; I am very happy to see the interest in this vessel.
 
cheers
 
Pat

The current level of completion has seen the figurehead and channels added.  The decorations have been largely completed and the figurehead was built up and refined by club member Geoff Martin (who also designed and built the bulwarks jig, and completed most of the hull construction) -  this figurehead is only just over 18 mm total.  Another member (Geoff Peters completed the copper plates and I have added the channels and about to embark on adding the remain deck and hull fittings.
 
I have also opened the holes for the Tube Scuttles which were a combination airing port and light port designed by Oliver Lang.
 
This brings us up to date with her current status.
 
cheers
 
Pat
 
 
 
     

Congratulations Druxey; I am sure the new owner will enjoy displaying that little beauty.
 
cheers
 
Pat

I am delighted to announce that the model has been sold and is in transit to her new home in Texas!

Managed to complete the re-planking of the forward gun deck this morning.  

 
In this next photo I noticed some slight sanding swirl marks that came out after staining.
The camera is our most reliable critic.
 

 
I can now go back to working on the gun deck bulwarks.  

Looking good Carl, a lot of good detail that will make these guns look great in-situ.
 
cheers
 
Pat

Nearly there!  Had a good day for work at the museum last Monday (been away since then so unable to post) and have now come close to having the 'Pritt' completed.  Just have to do the sidelights, which I had hoped to have complete for next Monday, but things aren't looking good at the moment.
 
My first job last week was to trim off the fag ends from the ratline lashings.  As I started trimming I thought to myself, "Better be careful here, or you'll cut the topmast shroud".  Next snip and I cut the topmast shroud!   It was an interesting exercise to extract the cut shroud from the masthead and splice a new one in place again, but it was soon done.
 
Here's a photo of the dreaded cut shroud plus some photos of the model as it looks at the moment.
 
John