Knocklouder

This is my little part of the world, my shipyard. Most of the thinking goes on in this chair, To the left of that is the work bench with the serving machine on it, ready To be put away till the next build. On the other side of the room is one of my display cases, I have another upstairs with 5 finished ships in it. and finally in this corner the paint booth. That's my shipyard Bob M.

Well the shipyard is under quarantine, seems I have come down with strep throat a cold, head ach running nose and eyes are watering so bad I can't see. The officer looked around and found a tangle mess. Kurt told him to cut me some slack. Yesterday we sorted out the lines and numbered them according. Then the sickness hit 🤮. So we are packed it in for awhile , take care my friends, off to bed . Rigging will continue, Bob M.

Good Luck on this build, I am in !! Bob M.

Finished seizing the shrouds to the masts,quite happy with the way thet turn out. Not a blob of rope like on my frist builds , or should I say a blob of CA. Lol. I even remembered the Burton pendent, but Hornblower was quick to point out that I fogot the two on the Mizzen mast. He says to tell @Keith Black that I have lost my mind.. Not only did I forget the pendents I also mounted the ship to a swivel base so I can spin it around eazlie, I can hear Keith now yelling NOOOO !!! Also Keith the Harriet Lane is a soiled hull. I have looked at several logs here for it and hope I can do as well , I know for sure I will have the time of my life being a river boat man again lol. Hornblower says my plan for keeping the shrouds in order has a flaw , if the colors clips fall off , and they did lol. Kurt says we will figure it out, so we got all 30 deadeyes blocks together and are off to make up 30 lanyards to tie them all on. Couple of weeks lol. The first Mate garden needs my attention, patotes to dig, tomatoes to make into soup and sauces, canning, got to help if I want to eat. Ha ha This one starting to be fun, looking ahead at making the yards , some neat stuff there I have never done. She going to look grand beside the Duchess of Kingston in one case beside me favorite chair lol. Thanks for helping an old man have so much fun. You guys are the best, thanks. Talk soon Knocklouder 😁 Kurt ⚒️

Thank you @Keith Black , I have to thank @Gabek for the figures, he made them for me and he even showed me how to paint figures. what a buddy to have. Speaking of buddys , remember when @Literalman posted three things to give away, one being a Harriet Lane, well I was lucky enough to snag it up. I told Stev before I will write his name on the bottom of the Harriet Lane , so he can always be part of the build, and I will rember his generosity for ever thanks Stev. I just got to finish rigging a few ship and I be on it lol. Bob M. P.S. By rigging, I have The Pegasus, an Astrolabe and two Bluenoses to rig. So it will be a couple of weeks.

I figured out most of the lines I needed to serve, and quickly served them up with my drill attachment. I need about 23 feet of .75mm. I also served 8 inches of a 1mm wire for the Futtock Shrouds. That's it all the sevring is done. The machine seems to be holding out , I won't be needing it anytime soon. My next build is a river boat so no need for it there. , I have one more in my stach , but I don't know about serving lines for that one we will see. Two eight foot .75mm , one more to go. Lol 😆. With the lines served time for some figure painting. After primer I looked on line for naval figures ,found lots but no idea of rank and who's who lol. So I painted them like this, took them over for a shot of clear coat and they all fell asleep in the box waiting to get to work. The guy with the horn must be Hornblower lol. He woke the officer's up and had a meeting with Kurt. Now that is all out of the way time to start working on the lower main mast shrouds, Thanks for looking in, ratlines are in the air. Knocklouder 😁 Kurt ⚒️

Great Balls of Fire 🔥. Lol it had to be said. Your going to light up MSW with this build , following along for morel support. Knocklouder 😁 Kurt ⚒️

Gunport lids are all painted and ready to install, later.lol. if it hangs off the ship I will surely knock it off, so I am just letting them dry then put them away. The tiniest eyebolt I have and then tied on with a .o1 mm rope. Good enough for me. I belive that was the last things I have to paint, not sure , but it is all rigging from here on . Oh yes I will repaint all swivel guns, as soon as I knock them all of, lol Half of them are in the tin now. The frist lid is glued in but the rest I will attempt latter. So with that , on to the shrouds, all the lines are served and ready to start cutting it up to see If I made enough, lower Mizzen are on and the main lower are cut , it going to be close , but it really doesn't matter because I have to set up the serving machine for the stays, main stay is 1.03 mm, I also need to make up some 1.0 mm and some more .75 mm. I don't serv any lines under .75 mm , it can be done just for me I cant see the difference, so its something I will just skip. I remember making .5 mm for my Duchess of the and the Astrolabe 1812. The .5 mm I get from Amati is just as good. So I am going to install the lower shrouds then it time to start making a list of lines I need and how much 🙃. I just read that my serving machine is Not intended to be motorized, lol to bad she's getting hooked up to the cordless drill 😅 🤣. I know where to by a new one, And I will if I have to, I like serving lines, to me it part of modeling, my models may not be the prettiest 😅 but I am just learning how. If I may say the Pegasus is turning out to be a fine ship, I am looking forward to trying new things that I see on the logs here on MSW. Thanks everyone for all your help. Knocklouder 😁

Awesome work, nicely done, Bob M.

Sorry to hear about your wife 😔, I will add you guys to the list of , Thoughts and prayers my friend. Bob M.

Two lids down, 10 to go. I got the parts together, had to blackin some, decided to blackin a few eyehooks for later. The smallest eyebolts will be for the gunport lids . The plan was to go sideways for the this lid, but I didn't like it, so I turned it. I think it looks the lesser of two evils lol. That was the starboard side, port side was a different story, lol Although it is mounted sideways, there was no moving the cannon so I left it open. I will add the little eyehooks and ropes later. I will make all the lids , but won't put them on till later in the build. ,this all has to dry, at least 4 hrs while the Banjo Bowl Game is on , lol. Five bucks says she off before I finish all the rest of the lids. lol. Later my friend's Bob M.

Just Gobsmacked awesome, definitely got me motivated 🙌. Bob M.

Great work , very nice . Looking at your figures they are fantastic, you have given me inspiration to go paint my crew of 14, for my Pegasus, right after I finish the gun port lids . Lol. Great work Steve , Bob M.

Nice work Daniel, and lots of it wow that must have taken a few days . Bob M.

Today more supplies arrived, a small tariff was applied what can you do. I needed eye hooks and ordered lots, and from different stores as well, in total, 416 eyehooks, now I can ride out any traiff . Rope, yes four more roles of black thread, I have no idea were all my thread goes lol. Rodney's Astrolabe took it all. Now that I have replaced my stock of thread, time to turn my attention to the gun port lids. Kit comes with 8 lids, enough photo etch to make 12 lids, my plan calls for 12, some open, some shut , two sideways lol. Can you belive all this fun. T hanks to @Blue Ensign and @Moonbug for posting your logs, all my idea come from looking at those two logs, everything you need to know about the Pegasus is in there just go to find it lol. The lids will take time to make, I have to come up with four sets of hinges and two sets of hinges that are for the sideways lid., but I have it all in Rodney's stach of trinkets. Many thanks for popping in , much appreciated the advice and likes. .News at 11 as they say. Knocklouder 😁

The masts are set, ready for shrouds. The Bowsprit mast is not glued, in fact it is in storage lol. For safe keeping. I only put it on for pictures lol. The plan showed a Mizzen belaying rack, I Went with cleats. @Blue Ensign idea, @Moonbug log I was not able to get a good look at what he did. So I looked at B.E . Log and got the idea for it. The plan Mizzen belaying rack made no scene to me, sideways pins. Oh well thanks to the logs here on MSW, I was able to move forward. Thanks for posting. I tied on the Mizzen lower shrouds, the jig works OK, they look even. Four on the port side upper deadeyes are upside down but only we will notice lol. I do let a lot slide, Of course that will not be the display side Moving on to the main mast lower shrouds. Grandsons birthday party is today so all work has come to an end, but tomorrow is always another day. Thanks again for everyone's help, I know I couldn't have done this with out your help, so happy to be a part of this hobby. Bob M. Main lower shrouds next. !!

DECK PLANKING_250903_180949.pdf Hello, this is what I use for my decks,I am not sure if it is for your ship or not, It is your ship, plank it the way you would aesthetically want. Hope this helps. Bob M.

Excellent, nicely done. Bob M.

Congratulations, she looks great, nicely done. !! Bob M.

Great work, the copper dome should cover most of the base, and the stairs, wow. When I put mine together those stairs were the nices wood I have ever finished. Kinda sad you only get to see the top step. Thanks for posting yours. Bob M

I have two fiddle blocks and 3 singles left on the foremast, then the blocking is done.. A couple of jigs were made for the deadeyes , an upper and a lower, the lower is spaced at 15 mm and the upper is spaced at 12 mm one of the first things I did was put the Bowsprit mast away for save keeping, rembering how many times I broke the Bowsprit mast on my Dutchess of Kingston . I am attempting to add chains to my capstan, I read somewhere, (words I seldom say lol), about these pins that hold the poles on when turning, I used an eye hook for the center and a pin nail for the outer. Three links of chain was added to connect the two. Not sure if I will go with this idea, might just fill the holes and paint it if I don't like it.. That will be decided latter in the build. I served 20 feet of line to 1mm - 1.1 mm for the lower shrouds on the foremast and main mast, this wont be enough to finish, but it is a good start.. The Mizzen mast is rigged at .75 mm, Also a few stays are .75mm as well so I will serve up some 75mm latter today Last night I started cranking the sevring machine and said this will take for me forever , so I hooked up my cordless drill and in 90 minutes i had 20 feet of 1.o mm line ready for shrouds. After it was served I soaked it in Mog pog , then hung to dry. so with that, I am going to set up the serving machine and make some more Lines, .75mm and some 1.3 mm, after I figure out how much of each I will need. I never serv anything smaller than .75 mm , in my opinion serving .50 mm line is to much time spent on something you cant really tell you did. I can tell you adding the drill to the sever was a good idea, lol I only hope it does not fly apart using the drill lol. A lot of time severing lines and tieing shrouds are on the horizon, a most enjoyable task. It gets even better @Moonbug has told me that there is 874 clove hitches to tie, I hope that is for one side lol. I love ratlines. Well that's my story so far, we have lots of outside interferences so progress will slow for a couple of weeks, winter is coming so I be able to go full time soon . 😀 Thanks for looking in on my Pegasus build,off to do some speed serving lol. Knocklouder 😁

Congratulations, nicely done, Bob M.

Good luck on your journey with this build, she looks like a beauty. Bob M.

Thank you so much, With all the masts painted it was time to put some blocks on. Just on the Bowsprit mast there is single blocks, double blocks, heart blocks , fiddle blocks and deadeyes. I hope I got them all. Five more blocks for the foremast, then I must go do some serving . Lots of serving lol. Looking forward to adding the shrouds. This is a great ship to put together, I am just so excited about building it, for what ever the reason. Talk soon my friend's. Bob M

Great work my freind, I know the feeling of making a beautiful little part of a ship to just cover it up, and you got to look sideways up close to see it. Does this mean your finished this, and may be working on that ship I noticed in the background several times lol. Fantastic work, . Bob M.