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Evening all, Starting to fit sails to the model, having finished the Inner Jib Sail I decided that it would be best to fit that one first and work from closest to the mast outwards, as that would hopefully give me most working space. A little bit of a delicate balancing act, using varnish to stiffen the threads in order to "push" the sails into position to simulate them being blown by the wind - hence the various pens and so on propping the sails in position until the thread is stiff. Having felt my way into the process it is time to start on the Main sail! 😨
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Very tidy Glenn, have you settled on a paint scheme, or are you sticking to the Vanguard one?
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Good to hear you have had your surgery Andy and now hopefully you can be on the mend. 😀
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Congratulations Kevin, a beautiful little build!
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Yes good save, on the home run and looking good! 👍
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Evening all, thanks to @Old Collingwood @king derelict @Slowhand @DaveBaxt for your kinds words. Work continuing on the sails and finally finished one - the Outer Jib Sail. (pictures below) the inner Jib Sail not far behind. The start of these sails was a while back if your interested in how I made them (posts #113, #118-120ish.) Finishing touches were to glue on the bolt rope and attach the block and lines, then a final flat coat to seal everything together. Overall I'm satisfied with this first foray into sail making, hopefully the wrinkles and "roughness" and colour variations are sufficiently "scale". I'm toying with the idea of having a deliberate repair patch on the main sail, with some areas of stronger looking colours to denotes it is a more recent section of sail. I'll think on that while finish the boltropes/bocks and lines etc.
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Good to have you delurking Paul. Although too late for build logs, do you have pictures of those builds you mentioned, you could add to the gallery?
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That looks like a nice wood, are you going to treat it with anything like Danish oil or varnish, or is it painted outside?
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Sergal HMS Bounty.
AJohnson replied to mark j's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
Another suggestion is to do a “build log”. Or ask a kind Admin to move this thread and make into the build log section. Where you will get more “passers-by” to offer advice. -
Sergal HMS Bounty.
AJohnson replied to mark j's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
Hi Mark, I have just found this log after seeing your intro, I'm doing the Caldercraft Bounty (1/64) so I will follow along and try and help out where I can, I agree with others that for a first build Bounty is going to be quite the challenge at times, but I understand your reasons for doing so for your Father-in-law's memory. Thing is it's not a race and people; me included, often set a project aside and do something else for a bit and come back to them. As for initial comments the plans and framing look similar to my Bounty, so hopefully any queries you have should be of a nature I have come across. As @vossy has mentioned some balsa fillers for the first few and last few frames are needed for seating the planking on and fairing (sanding) the frames so the planking runs smooth across their edges is a task well worth taking your time over. Also before you get to planking make sure the keel and frames are all straight and true. Ply false keels can twist or bend a little, throwing out the alignment of the frames and deck etc. so making sure the frame underneath is correct is an important foundation, I had that problem with my Bounty. Good luck and enjoy! We'll be there - just shout out if you want, also whilst waiting for glue to dry and so on, searching through this huge site will pass many, many hours.... -
Welcome to MSW Mark I am also doing a Bounty at the moment (Caldercraft) - well I say "doing" but I have successfully avoided doing much at all on it recently, but I am determined to finish it this year! The link to my log below. There are a few other Bounty Builds also going on at the moment and I'm sure the builders would be happy to help, just depends which manufacturer your kit is. there are quiet a few out there.
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Hi Alan that process sounds like the age old skills used in “Dry-stone” walling that the Yorkshire Dales are renowned for. This is a really interesting project, I had no idea that these were out there to build. You will a Master Stone Mason by the time you get to block 8599! 🤣
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The hull is about 11 inches / 280mm long.
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Well this is something new to me, will watch with interest. I’m lucky that I live in a town with a Castle on a cliff, let me know if you need any field trips to photograph details! 🤣
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Hi Greg, that rigging is really good. Apologies if you have explained on other builds, but what do you use for the rigging threads?
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Fabulous looking build Jason!
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Thank you very much Will, have you been doing any building on your Syren since your great Erycina build?
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Ah Brian you are a builder after my own heart, I to struggle with shaking hands, failing eyesight and leaving broken brill bits embedded in my models! (Just done that with my Nisha, just don’t tell anyone!) 😆 However I think your latest update looks really good! 👏
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🐭 I’d never fall for that…. 🤔🤣
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Gulp! 😱 🌳 Good find Andy, it also still seemed to have an un-armoured windscreen…
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Wow Andy, bad luck! Hope you can be fixed up soon. 🤕 And I hope there isn't any "silvering" of the lining when you use your new decals! 😆
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Hi Richard, Many thanks for your kind words, I've spotted your "Flirt" build and will follow to see how your rigging gets on, lovely build so far. Think rigging is one of those daunting areas, that you just have push yourself into and it gets better with repetition. I think half our collective problems are that we can often have years between builds needing rigging and we forget how to do it! (Well I do anyway! 🤣) Yes Chris's figures are marvels of modern 3D printing, so much better than white metal casting, hopefully Chris will add more figures as and when his development schedule allows, is is already a fine selection.
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Hey Brian, that might not be the best way of learning from me! 😆 The number you have to do on your fine Granado means you will be a pro by the end.! 😉 I have trawled through and these are good discussions below, there is some discussion about pre-soaking in PVA and use of C-A, but I have not tried that. Also some use little timber clamps on the shrouds to keep things in shape, (see last link for that). If you look closely at my pictures (please don't for too long the naff rigging becomes glaring! 😁) but the one area I had issues with was keeping just enough tension in the ratline to avoid pulling together the shrouds, but not too much so as the ratline could kink up or sideways, a droop down a bit is fine, but as you will see if you look closely I have some 'gravity defying' ratlines! 🙄) The only glimmer of hope I can give is that you do get into a kind of "flow" doing the hitches if you can set aside a reasonable spell to do a few at once. (Guess it's a muscle memory kind of thing.) Looking forward to seeing the day you become a Ratline Ninja Brian! 😎
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@Craigie65 & @HardeeHarHar thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement! 😁 Update tonight, the standing rigging is done! Didn't take as long as I expected, though I always find rigging daunting and a bit fiddly with my fingers and thumbs! I can see the attraction of "Admiralty Models" with no mast and rigging 😂 but don't think I could personally be happy with stump masts on a model, just me, I know others like them and the larger models/scales mean it is the only option unless you live in a Mansion. Things to finish next are the sails, some of the tissue panels need some attention before I attached the threads/blocks and try to add to the model and bend into shape. Final additions to the model I will make are navigation light boards on the shrouds and the bow roller already mentioned, think these will be the final parts of the build before running rigging. Thanks gain all for following along and the likes/comments, much appreciated.
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