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Lovely progress Mike! 😁 Really getting me thinking about my "HMS Snake" in the stash, but I shouldn't start another before I finish my Bounty.... 🤭 -
Hello all, As a break from building my Bounty, I have completed a little project that I've had in mind to do for years. Have always wanted to build a model of a De Havilland Chipmunk T.10 trainer that I had my first flight in as an Air Cadet at the age of 14! This year's new 1/48 scale release by Airfix was the excuse I had been waiting for. A fairly straightforward build, only 'tricky' bit I found was the construction of the canopy, which came in several parts. The actual aircraft "WG407" is still in existence and I think airworthy, based in Cambridgeshire; now in private hands. My little certificate I got for completing my first flight also pictured, my flight took place at RAF Finningley (now Doncaster Airport) with No.9 Air Experience flight based there.
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Pin pusher. Help please
AJohnson replied to Steve G's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Snap! - I also just can't use pin pushers like the one shown at the top, the hole diameter seems too big and the pin either goes in at an angle or bends, or flies out, never to be seen again! 🛸 Or it could be I'm useless with some tools..... 🤣 -
Hi David, Diana, was always on my "wish list", but was always considering it a "retirement" project, but your wise words are a reminder we can't take the future for granted, so I am very much interested, a very generous offer. I will PM you, I live only an hour or so down the A1 from you. Wishing you all the very best for the future following your operation. Kind regards,
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HMS Bounty by Gct86 - Amati
AJohnson replied to Gct86's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1751 - 1800
Just come across this log and really happy to see another Bounty under construction. You are making great progress Gct86! 👍 I really like the copper weathering effect you have done, I tried similar on my Bounty using white vinegar and salt, but I see you have used a commercial product, what was it like to work with? -
Does anyone out there in MSW know the dimensions of the hammocks and what was the "standard" way of folding them? I assume the was a "proper" way they were stowed. Looking at the many examples on MSW, they appeared to be rolled length-ways and folded in half? Just thinking of maybe adding some to my Bounty, not that I know where they would have been stowed on a small vessel like Bounty. 🤔
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Well if those coils oversized, I did just the same with my CC Bounty and made them in exactly the same way as you. There maybe someone on MSW who knows what the rule for gun tackle rope lengths are, but I do not number among them! 🤔. In any case you are making great progress 👍, enjoying following along, will see how you get along with rigging, I am not far behind!
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The Binnacle is good isn't it 😁, I got one for my Bounty, very pleased with it.
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Well I didn't know about that! Every day is a school day, when did that practice of not applying names to the sterns of RN. ships end, does anyone know. Thanks for the insights.
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Also does CA go brittle over time, I am guilty also of using CA on rigging and wonder how long it might last. Have tried using fly tying varnish, but that has come undone on a few occasions? Is PVA the best way generally. 🤔
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Yes please Roger! 👍
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A few more pictures bringing up to date where I'm at now. Started with the smaller yards and Stunsail booms; some of the later were actually made with cocktail sticks as they were a near match scale-wise than the suggested dowel in the kit. One item I'm not sure of is part No.278 that Caldercraft call a "Bowsprit fairlead", a semi circular item that rigging passes through along the top of the bowsprit. McKay does not show one on his "AOTS" book, so for now have left it off, unless anyone know better on MSW?
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I've not seen the Amati rudder rig, so can't comment, but the Caldercraft kit seems to follow the McKay "Anatomy of the ship" book about the Bounty, extract in picture below. Thanks for looking in on my log.
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It's been a while since my last update, the Admiral has been keeping me busy over the Summer with various "projects" she wanted doing in the garden etc. But back to it now and have made a start on the masts and yards. I am using the "Anatomy of the Ship" book to try and make the masts and yards the correct dimensions (or as near as my skills will allow!) The kit agrees with the lengths generally but is always over scale for the diameters, having done a few of the smaller yards I can see why, they are quite thin and fragile.... A few pictures of the Bowsprit for now, will add more of the other masts when I have downloaded them.
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How you getting along Trond with your Bounty? Or like me have you been kept busy by the admiral and her summer garden / decorating projects! 🤨 😂 Getting back into the swing of things and started on the masts and yards on my Bounty, hope to do some build log updates soon. Hope to have your company with your build this winter.
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Looking very neat Mike, good tips on the shrouds and pre-seizing them. 👍
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Hi Dave, you are making cracking progress on the Endeavour after your Bounty. I've been kept busy over the summer by the Admiral, who wanted a Summer house building and some DIY/decorating doing! 🙄 Light at the end of the tunnel, just one more room to finish (my eldest gone to University last month), so apparently that "Has" to be done before he comes back at Christmas and makes a mess of it again! 🤣 Then I shall be back to my Bounty...
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Good luck with your Dad's birthday present build, I hope you do better than me for hitting the deadline! I set out to do the same, building HMS Orestes (Caldercraft HMS Mars) and sailed past his birthday by four years in the process 🤣 - He is happy with it now he finally has it - phew.
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Hi Gary, Did you progress this project? I ask because I also have the Caldercraft HMS Snake (my next build I think) and I am thinking along the line of building perhaps one of the other ships in the Snake/Cruizer class, rather than just out of the box so to speak.
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A few little updates, think I am about finished on the hull now, added the anchors, buoy rope just coiled for later attachment to the shrouds (and buoy when I make them.) Completed and mounted the rest of the swivel guns; I used eyelets to make the yokes and handles as I didn't like the look of the PE ones supplied with the kit. I have fixed the deadeyes in the channels; used epoxy glue to strengthen them so hopefully the PE straps won't come apart. I won't add the chains plates until I can rig the shrouds so I can get the "angle of dangle" of the chains correct - I think that's the correct term! Few other touches here and there to finish the hull fittings off, including a motley crew! - they will be positioned as the finishing touch when that happy day comes! Next up, masts and yards....
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Great work area - and so tidy! 😲 (👽 with envy!)
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Agreed! I think you will be able to build an excellent Endeavour 👍 Well done on your Bounty build! 👏
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These are not a patch on the artist ones above, but here are my 1/64 scale (25mm / 1 inch) Amati white metal figures I have just finished painting for my current "Bounty" build.
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Welcome back, I've been away for ten years and it wasn't held against me! 😆 Like you I would dearly have loved to see Caldercraft release their HMS Surprise (as a huge fan of the Patrick O'Brian novels), but it has been quiet on that front for far too long now. Hopefully Vanguard Models might do her one day? 🙏
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Flags supplied by Amati look to be too big
AJohnson replied to DaveBaxt's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Hi Dave, CC don't supply flags, so I got this BECC 75mm one for my Bounty from Cornwall MB.
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