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Hi Carl,
thanks for the kind words.
All the others thanks for the LIKES.
 
In the meantime, I am making the ratlines on the port side of the main mast.
This is also a question of discipline, regularly two ratlines every day ... 😁

 

RAF Coastal Command Hudson drops an ‘Airborne Lifeboat' to a downed crew somewhere wet! Designed by Uffa Fox, they could be carried by several types of a/c Sorry about quality of photo w/c 14” X 10”

Thanks for the tip Dan.  I bought some of the JB epoxy and used it.
 
Anchors and chain plate link assemblies blackened--

 
Yes, I am short one preventer plate.  It could be anywhere!  I'll have to make a new one.
 
Ron

Welcome aboard!  Building a model of something that you have some connection to really helps to maintain your interest.  I have the same urge to build  a 3/16" scale scratch model of the Wisconsin schooner Denis Sullivan.  I have been aboard her, have taken numerous photos and even got some detail drawings from the architect, but I have been searching unsuccessfully for the hull drawings for years.  Better luck for you on your search.

Based on HMCS Moncton before conversion to long foc'sl
W/C  9.5” X 6.5”
Jim

Welcome aboard!  Building a model of something that you have some connection to really helps to maintain your interest.  I have the same urge to build  a 3/16" scale scratch model of the Wisconsin schooner Denis Sullivan.  I have been aboard her, have taken numerous photos and even got some detail drawings from the architect, but I have been searching unsuccessfully for the hull drawings for years.  Better luck for you on your search.

Welcome aboard!  Building a model of something that you have some connection to really helps to maintain your interest.  I have the same urge to build  a 3/16" scale scratch model of the Wisconsin schooner Denis Sullivan.  I have been aboard her, have taken numerous photos and even got some detail drawings from the architect, but I have been searching unsuccessfully for the hull drawings for years.  Better luck for you on your search.

Wonderful work Danny. It’s great that your grandson will be able to continue your work.

Magnificent job as usual Dan. Would you consider a card project more difficult than a similar
type and grade of plastic kit?
We will miss your ability to answer simple questions without making the asker look
stupid.
Best wishes, Harley

And finally (for now) three wagons to go behind the loco :












I have also built a small truck to go on the dock, but no pics of it yet.
 
Basically all that needs doing is about 100 boxes and drums, the barges and a few more vehicles, and fitting all assemblies to the base. This might be grandson Khye's first project.
 
Danny

The locomotive. Not quite as detailed as the Bulgar I built earlier, but after all it IS 1/10 of the size :













TBC ..........
 
Danny
 

The two  Dockyard Cranes :











TBC ..........
 
Danny

The four ship's boats and a deadeye for one of the masts. The "lashing" is 0.3mm black wire :



The mostly completed freighter. One of the cranes will be glued on when a length for the cable can be established :







TBC ..........
 
Danny

One of my grandsons (Khye) who is 21 y.o. has recently bought a house with his fiancee. It has a couple of spare rooms (until rugrats come along  ), one of which he is making into a trophy/exhibition room. They have both taken a great interest in my models, so I am giving them all the ones I have left.
 
He has also indicated that he would like to take up modelling of some type as a hobby, and is going to build a workshop in his huge backyard for that purpose. So I am also going to give him my substantial collection of modelling tools, equipment and workbenches.
 
He's a very smart and responsible lad, so I am hopeful that he will carry on my work, including finishing this kit.
 
Thanks everyone else for the comments and Likes. More pics of the diorama will follow in the next post.
 
Danny

Various laser-cut rails, a companionway and a winch :







Bollards, Ventilators and ship-board cranes :














TBC ..........
 

Just for fun I thought I'd make a few of the various types of boxes and drums to see how much was involved - not too bad considering the drums are only 4 mm high :
The hull of the freighter, a waterline model of course :


The decks and hatches are fitted next :








Followed by the superstructures :




TBC ..........
 
Danny

Hi all,
 
This is definitely my last model, and it will have to remain unfinished due to my health issues. However I did manage to get a long way into it before the eyes and body gave up on me, so I do have a lot of pics I can share with you. I'll have to keep the text down to a minimum I'm afraid.
 
Ir's a Card (surprise surprise  ) diorama of the Hamburg docks circa late 1930's complete with a freighter in dock. The kit was published by HMV, and is quite complex. Printing and instructions were very good.
 
Here's a pic of the cover art :

Work starts with the dock, sea and warehouse :









TBC ................
 
Danny

Ahoy!
 
Superstructure









 

Well, Time for another oldie but goodie... Was rummaging around the stash and spotted this one hiding at the bottom of a stack of 1/32nd scale warplanes... And I've always wanted to try a Natural Metal Finish.... And this has natural metal to spare... But I also like to do specifics also so there is a history.... The Aircraft I wish to build is one of the two that was used to win the 1962 US Air Force William Tell air meet...... Tail Number 57-0914 and 57-0915 of the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing which was based at George AFB California...  It was the only F-104 unit in the competition....
 
The meet was flown by Capt. Charles E “Chuck” Tofferi... who in a few years time would lose his life flying this exact same aircraft over Laos....
 
Here is a film reel of that meet...
 
This aircraft also has another connection I like to model, Star Trek, it is the Famed "Blue Jay Four" of the Original Series episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday" First Season, Episode 19..... in the lead in to that episode, you see a sequence, the same sequence you see in the William Tell film, opening the episode up.... 
 
 
That is Captain Tofferi returning from one of his William Tell runs... As you can see it was US Air Force Stock Footage used as the opening sequence for the Star Trek Episode.....
 
There was stock footage of two other F-104's used in that episode.....

52-0969 and 57-0926 but it's the opening sequence that set which aircraft "was" Blue Jay Four.... 57-0914....
 
This is what I intend to model, 57-0914 an F-104C of the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing circa 1966 during an incident that happened over an undisclosed airbase in Nebraska (probably Offut AFB) where it was thought they had seen a UFO....
 
For the rest of the story, Capt. Charles E “Chuck” Tofferi went on to fly Skyhawks with the Marines at Cherry Point, NAS, after his return He deployed to Udorn RTAB, Thailand, where he met up with his William Tell winning Airplane old 57-0914... which of course he took back as his own aircraft........
 

A photo of the Captain returning from a mission over North Vietnam in 57-0914 painted up in SEA camouflage scheme....
 
On October 20th, 1966, flying a mission over the Plain of Jars in Laos, in the aircraft he loved flying, the same one he won the William Tell Trophy in, Captain Tofferi lost his life....
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross....
 
This aircraft deserves to be modeled.... Not how it was lost, but how it was a winner, and an unknowing star in an episode of one of the most popular television shows of all time...
 
I give you, Blue Jay Four.....
 
EG
 

Blockading Brest during the Napoleonic Wars. A Brig brings in a captured French Lugger.
W/C  14” 10”

Hi Everyone 
This is my first model of this type and having only just found this great site and wish id done so earlier! 
I’m at the rigging stage of building HMS Mars, I’ve done the stays and rat lines, ( even found how to do the mouse!) but if anyone can point me towards pics of the yard rigging stages onwards that would be great.The plans are pretty good, but seeing  it is so much more helpful, as the nearer the end I get, either I’m getting denser, or its getting more complicated!
Right now I’m not sure if I never want to see another model again, or jump straight back in and try not to repeat some of the schoolboy errors I made, there has been more than one occasion when I have sat starting blankly at a mini fail, only to realize that mistakes you make wait a while before they come back to bite you!
Any help would be very much appreciated.
thanks
John
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

@Ondras71
Thank you for your nice comment.
 
Today only a short update. 
The starboard side is so far equipped with the ratlines.

HMS Belfast about to transfer the Admiral to HMS Ocean during the Korean War.
Detail from bigger pic.
jim

Now that the anchors have been cast, I still have to figure out how to deal with the iron stock.  I'm not going to attempt soldering near the casting, and I would like to be able to use the stock I already made.  I thought of hammering the "foot" end narrow enough to pass through the hole in the anchor, and then hammering it flat again, but I have doubts about that working well.
 
I decided to saw the stock in half, with the thought of epoxying it together after blackening (I'm not sure how epoxy would hold up to the blackening process--has anyone tried that?)--
 

 
While sawing I had the thought of drilling a hole in both ends, and soldering a small bit of wire as a pin, to make a more secure joint--

 
Here is the pin soldered in--

 
My hole was drilled a bit off center (I'm a terrible machinist!), but so is the hole in the other half of the stock, so as long as I get them rotated correctly, the halves should line up well--


This is dry fit--
 

 
I admit I am tempted to try soldering the halves together, using heat sinks and wet paper towels.  Maybe I'll do some experiments with an extra anchor.  But most likely I'll epoxy them.  The shank will be lashed down with the anchor; there should be minimal stress on the joint.
 
Ron

Time for an update.   I did a lot of soul-searching to get to this point as there's a couple ways to go so I decided to simplify things.  I've laid the gundeck using two methods.  One is for the areas that won't be seen (and that's most of it) which is simply a single large plank of thin yellow ceder.  The center area is boxwood planks.  I went forward and aft enough on the boxwood to add some details where things will be seen.  I've also added the waterways before the decking.  The boxwood still need sanding and the grates (which have planks such as used in bad weather).  I'm thinking I'll just actually use a grate where needed and paint that area on the deck black.   
 
Next up after getting the deck sanded is framing in the gunports. I'll use the method that   Jacques is using.  I'll start that ports at mid-ship and work fore and aft as it just seems logical to me.  When I get to the aft end, I'll need to work on the stern area.    
 
Having fun, exercising the brain and upper body with the sanding.  I put the boat from the wreck of the Licorne just get a sense of things.