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While working the masts/sails, it dawned on me what the best thing about these junk ships is - no ratlines!!! 😍 Anyway, it was a long but successful process Friday night and Saturday installing the 6 hinged masts with sails. I started with the ship resting in the middle bulb. Here was the process for each mast/sail: 1. Scrunch the sail up the mast, insert into the small bulb, and push it off to the side oriented where I could easily grab the mast with long tweezers. 1. Mix some 30 minute epoxy and start a timer (it's really only about 20 minutes before it becomes too gummy to work with). 2. Dab a bit of epoxy into the targeted mast hole. 3. Grab the mast with tweezers and work it a bit to get it hinged at a good angle for inserting into the mast hole. 4. Make a bunch of stabbing attempts until I finally hit the hole (trying to ignore the ticking timer). 5. Using another way-back tool, straighten the mast upright and maneuver it around until the whole thing looks like it rests at a 90 degree angle bow to stern and port to starboard. 6. Let it sit for 2-3 hours, then rinse and repeat. During the whole process I was really worried about the mast hinges. They were getting a lot of work as I was repeatedly having to push the sail up and down to make room for each successive mast/sail. But they held up quite well. I was terrified that one would stress and break which would have been a catastrophe. After all the masts/sails were firmly in place, I slid the ship into the back bulb, pushed it to the side as far as possible (maybe 1/2"), dabbed some epoxy on the water, and slid it back over the epoxy to lock the ship into its final resting place. Once that round of epoxy was dry, I carefully raised the folded part of each mast/sail till it was upright and straight. Then I dabbed a touch of epoxy onto the hinge to lock it and moved on to the next one. Distorted pictures follow...
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You and me both! I am not a patient person so this is testing my limits!! If I can get the next 6 hinged masts in place and raised on the treasure ship I'm home free. The 2 smaller ships will be relatively easy.
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Game time!! Unlike my previous builds where getting the ship in the bottle was the moment of truth, this time that will be the easy part. The real challenge is assembling things inside the bottle. It’s going to be a slow process as I’m using 30-minute epoxy for each step (hopefully that’s sufficient time). So there will be long waits for the epoxy to set between each step. Here’s the starting point – with waves and whitecaps added to the water. I left a smooth channel down the middle so I can slide the ships as needed during the assembly process. When I get the furthest left ship glued in place, I’ll add some texture in the narrow water before I put the middle ship in place. Here’s the tool I made to push the 2 halves of the hull together and hold them in place till the epoxy dries. I got the 2 halves of the hull inside and glued together. No turning back now as the boat is not coming back out of the bottle!! After the hull epoxy set, I needed a way to hold the hull steady while I inserted the masts and added fittings to the deck. So here’s the tool I came up with. It’s a brass rod with two prongs that fit inside two mast holes on the forecastle. Secured of course with duct tape. For placement of epoxy to exact spots on the deck as well as inside the mast holes, I use a long, thin metal rod with the end filed to a point. The 2nd pic shows placement of two small shelters on the rear corners of the quarter deck. The 1st pic below shows successful installation of the first mast and sail in the rearmost hole on the quarterdeck. The 2nd pic shows successful installation of the other two quarterdeck masts/sails as well as the longhorn corrals and corn field. Next up is the real test - adding the hinged masts...
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WOW! That is amazing stuff. Her work requires real artistic talent which automatically disqualifies me. For the most amazing miniaturist I've ever seen, check out my addition to MTaylor's post on Impressive Miniatures: https://modelshipworld.com/topic/32342-impressive-miniatures/#comment-929824
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Speaking of impressive miniatures, have you seen this? It's the most amazing miniature art I've ever run across. The Mount Rushmore carving is inside the eye of a needle. The BMX rider carving is on the tip of a dog's hair. The skateboarder is on an eyelash. Yes, an eyelash!! https://www.willardwiganmbe.com/
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Thanks for checking in, Mike! Yes, the pressure and suspense is mounting as I impatiently wait for the texture I added to the water to dry. I know you understand what it's all about!!! 😬 Regarding the Dimple products, looks like my local stores hear carry them so I will check them out.
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I echo what Tom, Brian, and Mark say above. Your additional progress on the Tennessee is fantastic, but the best part is seeing you back and working on it.
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HAHAHA!! Keith, I'm pretty sure there is professional help available for people with minds like yours!!!
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Thanks, Grant! I checked out your diorama beginnings. What a cool project you have chosen. I'm on board to watch that one come to life.
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Here's closeups of each ship. In case things go south, at least I will have record of what they were supposed to look like! 😃
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Well heck. I thought I was done with the ships, but when I posted the picture of the Model Shipways bow I noticed there were 2 hanging anchors that I never noticed before. So it was back to work to make a couple of small anchors and complete the treasure ship. Also, since I really liked how the fingernail decals turned out on the treasure ship, I went back and added some ornamentation to the first 2 ships. And with that, the ship construction is complete! I am going to go add a little bit of texture to the water inside the bottle. Once it dries then it's go time! Anxious moments await!!! The last picture is a bit of a preview.
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I believe Mark is correct referring to the modeler as he. Based on the interview in the link below, Ebroin Song is a Korean sculptor/modeler. I watched his video on the battle of Midway-Akagi on Fire diorama and agree with everyone that his work is truly astounding! https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/interview-with-ebroin.241649/
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Back to the ship project! The last thing I wanted to try and do for the treasure ship was come up with some representation of the elaborate, metallic Chinese artwork that the Model Shipyard model has on the bow, stern, and forward sides (see first 2 pics below). Obviously trying to paint something like that was entirely out of the question. So the first thing I did was try and find small designs from the labels of Chinese food and beverages. Fail. Then I saw a young lady with small, intricate designs on her fingernails. I asked her how she did that and she said “nail stamping”. So I youtubed it, bought a cheap stamping kit, and tried it out. I was able to get the design to transfer but could not get it applied straight or even. I made a freakin’ mess. So another fail. But then I found some tiny fingernail stickers/decals which sounded much easier. So I got a set with Chinese designs and the third time was the charm. I think the end result came out pretty good! It's just about time to see if we can put this whole thing together!!
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I've got the same setup on 3 sides. Unfortunately the fence on the fourth side is 5 strands of rusty barbed wire that is probably 50 years old. Whoever put up that fence used a lot of trees as posts and now those trees are 2 feet in diameter with the wires running thru the middle of their trunks. I patched the weakest spots so it should be good to hold my cows in place. Now if a large bull was determined to come visit, that would be another story!
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Excellent presentation, Alva!! Beautiful job with the tight tolerances, the rigging, the background, the water, EVERYTHING!!! Enjoy your vacation!!!
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Funny you should ask those 2 questions, Keith. So here's the quick story on the longhorns: Being a University of Texas grad, I had this lifelong dream of owning my own small herd of longhorns. About 2 years ago, I bought 3 young longhorn heifers. I finally had my longhorn herd and was thrilled at fulfilling a lifelong dream. I was good with 3 and had no plans to increase the herd size. Seven months later, to my utter (or udder) shock, one of my heifers (Allison) had a calf. Unbeknownst to me and probably the seller (otherwise he would have charged more), she was pregnant when I bought her. OK. Now I had 4 longhorns. Not what I planned but it was pretty cool having a new calf to raise from birth. Eight months later, Dimples did not respect my fence as you said, and escaped into the neighbor's pasture where there was a nice herd of charolois cattle with a sizeable bull. Apparently she had a one night stand because 9 months later, out popped Shiloh. So he is actually half longhorn and half charolois. Fortunately, horns are a dominant trait and his are starting to pop out nicely. So the answers to your questions are no and no!! And the answer to what might be your next question is yes, I spent a lot of time fixing the fence!! Nobody has escaped in well over a year.
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Dimples whiskey? I had not heard of that so I had to look it up. Very cool looking bottle! Maybe part of a future project!!
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With the sails complete, time to circle back to the corrals and their animals. Based on Keith Black's suggestion about including my new calf Shiloh, I decided to go one step further and populate the ship with my entire small herd of longhorns. The first picture shows all of them about 6 months ago. From left to right, their names are Sweet Eileen, Rosanna, Shiloh, Allison, and Dimples. Allison is Rosanna's mom and Dimples is Shiloh's mom. Shiloh is the only male and is named after a nearby settlement from the 1800s. I will bestow Honorary Texan status on anyone that can figure out where the other 4 names came from (without googling)! Here's what I was able to do trying to make tiny versions of my longhorn family - same order left to right as in the above picture. They are made from tiny balls of clay with very fine wire for the horns. Since this is such a tough crowd at MSW, I know someone is going to ask where their legs are! 😃 Let's just say it's cud chewing time so they are all relaxed, lying on the ground, with legs folded underneath, enjoying their earlier meal for a second time!
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