Glen McGuire
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Thanks, Keith. I will definitely do a test smash with the smoke in place to see if I if it looks like it will survive. That would certainly be my preference but I don't have high confidence in it working. We will see! Thanks again for the gray yarn suggestion. Definitely more realistic and pretty easy to work with. Unfortunately, I've got other problems to deal with too. I cut one of the guy wires while clipping the ends of the ratlines so I gotta redo that. Ugh. When I lay down the foremast, the mast top hits the whale boats instead of fitting between them. So I gotta remove the whale boats and narrow them quite a bit. Ugh. The mizzen mast pull thread is hitting the bottom of the fore sail so I gotta pull that sail off and shorten it. Ugh. It's rework time in the central Texas shipyard. -
With @Keith Black and my son conspiring to make this build even harder for me by not only requiring smoke but also making it the right color, I took some time to work on that again while the ratline glue was drying. 😵 Keith – I think your idea of using gray yarn worked out well! Let me know what you think. I don’t think the smoke will survive the being smashed down for bottle insertion, so I’m gonna have to figure out how to put it in place after everything else is set up inside the bottle.
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Hey Mark, your work looks great. And don't be too hard on yourself about those super up-close pictures. Even Tom Brady's wife has a ton of flaws if the magnifying glass is big enough!
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Joe - Thank you for the tip on the Deluxe Material plastic putty. I will explore that. And thank you even more for the additional information on Shackleton, including Churchill's opinion of his endeavors. That is entertaining! I'm still a beginner at this ship building hobby but the deeper I get into it, the more I appreciate that it's not just about building a ship. Each ship has a history. I'm beginning to understand that this hobby is just as much about learning the history of the ship and maybe feeling like you have become just a small part of that history.
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@Keith Black – By the way, Keith, your suggestion about those tiny beads came in handy when I was trying to figure out how to handle the smokestack guy wires/pull threads. I ended up using the beads to anchor the rearward guy wires and to provide routing for the forward pull threads. From my pictures of the Aurora, I cannot tell how the real guy wires were actually secured to the ship, but when I installed the beads and painted them black, they look kind of like large bollards. So I think the look is ok. And they work perfectly! Also, MUCH respect to your wife for being able to work with those infuriating little beads. They are tiny, hard, slick, and just maddening. My floor is littered with who knows how many of those horrid things that dropped from my tweezers. And I cannot find any of them. But I somehow got 4 in place on my ship (3 circled in the pic below), so I ‘m happy!
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The posts above are yet another example of why MSW is such a great forum. There are so many fascinating people that frequent this site. Update on the build - progress is slow but steady. Since the last post I added all the stays as well as the jib sail and flying jib. I also added the guy wires for the smokestack. I used the thin fly-tying thread for the guy wires. The rearward 2 threads are stays. The forward 2 will be used as pull-threads for raising the smokestack after the ship is inside the bottle.
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Hey Joe, thank you so much for the additional info and posting these pictures. How incredible and fascinating. I understand that the leaders of those big expeditions spent 1/2 their time trying to secure funding for the enterprise, but this offers some rare insight into some of the actual details that most of us would never come to realize. Yes, please alert us when you finalize a museum or museums where your artifacts will be on display. Also, I just put 2 and 2 together. When I saw the logo on your post, I thought I recognized it from somewhere. I did some digging around and realized I had stumbled across your website of miniature ship models when I was first looking around trying to find images and information about the SY Aurora. You do some really incredible work! In fact, after I saw your model of the Endurance, I decided that I wanted to try and have a similar setting by displaying my Aurora inside the bottle surrounded by broken pack ice. I'm still not sure how I'm going to pull that off, but I don't have to worry about that for a while! For anyone else following along, I highly recommend checking out https://www.josephlavender.com/.
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Whoa! That is amazing! Do you any pictures of your artifacts posted anywhere? I would LOVE to see some of them. And can you tell me what museums will be displaying some of your collection?
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Mike, can you describe this technique in more detail of or point me to where I can see more info on it?
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What an interesting project. Very nice work so far, Mike.
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I agree with Gary. Love the preventer chain. Nice touch and really fine work overall, Keith.
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I’ve got a million little brass nails left over from the Mamoli Alabama kit. I never used any for that build. In fact, I'm not sure what they were supposed to be used for. So if anyone can enlighten me on their real use, please do. Regardless, I like them for the shroud channels with this ship in bottle application. For the Morgan, I just used them as is. This time I decided to square off the edges and grind off some of the rounded top for a little bit better look. They will be painted black later. The last thing accomplished was attaching the foremast sails and stepping it into the deck.
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I put the hand rails on hold so I could get some other things done while I figure out what to do there. However, I did go ahead and drill holes for the hand rail stanchions in the bulwark rail. 42 holes drilled in rail that’s 1mm wide certainly tested my patience and concentration. After that, I made the 6 sails using off-white muslin for the fabric. I used silk thread for the panel seams and button thread for the bolt ropes securing them to the muslin with fabric glue.
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Wow. What an absolutely beautiful piece of work. Congratulations on a job well done, Grant.
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I can definitely understand that and I think I could find many uses for them with these SIBs. Thanks for the link. I'm going to keep an eye on them and order some when they are back in stock. I also like your idea of using gray yarn for the smoke. I think it will work well and my son will be happy! Yes, Mike! Probably way too much for me. The bottle opening is only 11/16" which is about 1/8" smaller than the Hannah opening. Yikes! And trying to get rails on the stern, yeah, definitely out of my league! I'm gonna have to make it work before insertion. Y'all have definitely given me some things to consider and some different ideas to play around with for the railings. Very much appreciated.
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Keith and Mike, thank you very much for your thoughts and ideas. Keith - my beads look to be the same size as the ones in your picture, so I'm good there. Your etched eyelets look like they might be good for the posts that hold up the railing. How sturdy are they? Unfortunately, I would need 40-50 of them. Mike - you make a good point about the rail surviving the insertion process. The rails on your 1/350 and 1/700 ships look perfect, but given my fiasco on the Morgan when I snapped the foremast, I would probably choose something that is sturdier but out of scale rather than risk another break inside the bottle. I also tried stripping some RJ45 networking cable to get to the small strands of copper wire. The strands are about the same size as my fly-fishing thread so they are very thin and a pretty good scale. But they are so flimsy, it’s impossible to get them to hold a straight line like I would need for the rail. I also tried stripping twisty ties to get at the wire but had the same problem. So back to Mike’s point, I may have to balance scale vs durability.
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Well, Ian, if I was really good at this stuff I'd be tying knots instead of wimping out and gluing them on! 😵
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Agreed, Keith. And it will look even meatier when painted white. That is an interesting idea. I actually bought the smallest beads I could find when I was building the Morgan thinking I could use them for deadeyes (didn't work out though). I'm going to play around with them and see how it looks.
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You know, Keith, I was wondering about that. Thanks for the correction! Now I gotta find some gray cotton somewhere or figure out how to make white cotton gray. Hmmmm again.
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I finished the weekend by playing around with how to satisfy my son’s demand that smoke must be shown rising from the smokestack. I took a small piece of music wire and painted it white. Then I pulled some cotton fragments off of a q-tip, glued it to the wire, and stuck the wire inside the smokestack. It’s just for practice now, but if it can survive the bottle squeeze, it just might look ok. Or maybe I can somehow drop it in the smokestack after the ship is inside the bottle. Hmmmm. TBD.
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Next was putting the white line across the hull. Thread and CA glue a little at a time.
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I’m getting a little out of order here but I keep thinking about how I’m going to do the rails that go around the ship and on top of the chart room. I think the rails are a distinctive feature and I want to do a decent job on them. My soldering iron broke, so while waiting for a new one to arrive (does anyone ever go to the store anymore?) I tried something a bit different. I’ve got a bunch of leftover .5mm ball bearings that I used for cannonballs on the Hannah. So I wondered how they would look as posts for the rail. I did a little test run on the railing around the chart room just gluing them to the thin music wire. What do you think?
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Next were the foremast yards. Pretty basic stuff here. I used 3 toothpicks and put them on the drill-lathe to taper them down to size.
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