Dan Vadas

February 17, 2013

Hi Remco,

Good to see you back at it .

I don't dare to make an estimate of how many bolts will be used in this ship.

Only about 2000 :huh: .

:champagne: Danny

February 17, 2013

Good on you Ed - great to see you rebuilding your Log.

It's lucky you saved all of it in "Word" format - Copy/Paste will work easily. I've been sent 99.5% of my "HMS Vulture" Build Log by another member (thanks Midnight ) but it's in PDF format and needs to be converted into something I can Copy/Paste - a lengthy process that isn't working all that well yet. But I'll get it sorted soon.

It's also good to see that you aren't replying to other posters in the actual Posts that deal with your Build, but using a separate post - a lesson I will be taking on board. It will be much easier to compile the Log when it's finished.

Cheers, Danny

gaoxiaoming · February 17, 2013

Research and Materials

This model is built using the four volume set of "The Fully Framed Model, HMN Swan Class Sloops 1767-1780" (hereby referred to as TFFM) written by David Antscherl and Greg Herbert (available from Seawatch Books) :

Further information was gleaned from copies of the original plans from the Royal Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Formerly known as The National Maritime Museum, I refer to it as the "NMM" in this Build Log.

Admiralty Models supplied a set of Plans of the Main Deck, Side Elevation and Deck Beam Profiles printed on Mylar. Also a CD of all the profiles of the Frames. I printed these out on A4 size sticky-backed Label Paper.

NOTE that the Mylar plans from Admiralty Models are based on HMS Kingfisher, an early "Swan" Class ship. There are several differences in ships that followed later, hence the need for the NMM original plans for the particular ship you are building.

Timber for the model was purchased from HobbyMill. This was pre-thicknessed to the various sizes need for each set of parts :

The timber used : Steamed Swiss Pear (two shades) for the majority of the Hull Framing and Deck Framing

Castello Boxwood for Planking

Ebony for the Wales and Detail parts

Holly for very light colored parts and the Cutter Planking

The above came from HobbyMill, I received the ones below from other modellers.

Australian Cherry Ballart for the Bitts and other Deck Fittings

English Box for Small Detail Fittings and Carvings

Also from HobbyMill came a complete Masting Package :

Finally, I bought a Cutter Timbering Set and the Photoetch Set from Admiralty Models :

avsjerome2003 · February 16, 2013

HMS Vulture - some History of the ship

HMS Vulture was a 16 gun sloop of the Swan class, launched on 18 March 1776. She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War before being sold for disposal in 1802. The Vulture is perhaps best known for being the warship to which Benedict Arnold fled on the Hudson River in 1780 after unsuccessfully trying to betray the Continental Army's fortress at West Point, New York to the British.

HMS Vulture had several areas of difference to previous ships of the class - she may have been used as an "experimental platform" for a few innovations. Whether these changes were later implemented on other ships is unknown.

Length of Upper Deck : 96’7”

Breadth : 26’ 4”

Depth of Hold : 12’ 10”

Burthen : 300 Tons

Armament : 16 x 6 Pound Guns , 16 x ½ Pound Swivel Guns

There were 24 ships of the Swan Class built between 1767 and 1780. Here is the complete list :

Swan (1767) Kingfisher (1770) Cygnet (1776) Atalanta (1775) Pegasus (1776) Fly (1776) Swift (1777)

Dispatch (1777) Fortune (1777) Hound (1776) Hornet (1776) Vulture (1776) Spy (1776) Cormorant (1776)

Zebra (1777) Chameleon (1777) Fairy (1778) Nymph (1778) Savage (1778) Fury (1779) Delight (1778)

Thorn (1779) Bonetta (1779) Shark (1779) Alligator (1780)

Some of these ships are being built by other members on MSW. Here are the Links to them :

HMS Kingfisher : Remco Erik Bob Jeff

HMS Atalanta : Toni

HMS Pegasus : Ray Andy flyer Bummer! Maurice Aldo Spyglass Caroline daveor Nils

HMS Fly : Christian Chris DiKri Vitus Adeline

More Build Logs will be added to this list as they are submitted.

ltx0508 · February 16, 2013

HMS Vulture Build Log Resurrection

Following the Crash of MSW in February 2013 I’ve attempted to re-create as much of my former Build log as I can. The following is a very truncated version of the original. It doesn’t contain any of the comments posted by others, as they were unrecoverable. My apologies for that.

I've also left out the MISTAKES I made during the construction in the "Resurrection" section. Some of them can be found in this Topic : How I Fix Boo-Boos and Oopsies

The original Build Log was started on June 11 2011. Actual work on the model commenced on Wednesday August 17 2011.

The Build Log was terminated on February 14 2013 (the day the Server crashed), and Re-building it started the day MSW came back on-line.

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Following is an Index to "Points of Interest". you can Click on the Links to jump straight to the First Post that starts a particular Section.

Links to other Sites in the following pages, e.g. Tool Suppliers, look like this : Sherline . You can jump straight to their Webpage by Clicking on them. Note : I have no affiliation with any of the Suppliers I have posted Links to - just a happy customer.

To return to the Index Click on the "HMS Vulture" Link in the Signature in one of my Posts, or use the "Back" Arrow of your Browser. There are no Signatures under my posts in the Reconstruction phase to save page room.

The Index will be updated as work progresses.

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Index to Points of Interest

Page 1

HMS Vulture - some History of the ship + Links to Build Logs of other Swan Class Ships on MSW

Research and Materials + Links to Suppliers

How the Model will be built

Tools
Preparations

Clamps and Planking Pins

Laying the Keel

Lower Apron

Stem and Fore Deadwood