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  1. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Keith, thank you for your comment and thank you for joining me on this ride. It’s been a lot of fun!
  2. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Everyone, I hope you are all having a great New Year. Thank you very much for the Comments and Likes. This will probably be the second last post for this log. It’s coming together quickly. I started by stropping the 5mm deadeyes that a friend gave me. They are from an abandoned Billing kit. Slices were cut from a 1/4” brass tube. After being cleaned up they were heated. When cool they were shaped around the deadeye and then the whole thing was placed into blackening solution. The fences were made next to see if there would be any clearance issues with the deadeyes. A template was made from a file folder. There is a slight curvature in the deck where it runs past the cabin so the horizontal slats were edge bent all together. They are 1/32” x 3/32”. According to Chapelle’s drawing, none of the posts are spaced equally. Probably to avoid scuppers and things. After a test fit the fences were given a coat of clear shellac and then airbrushed. A #22 copper pin was used in every other post to attach the fence to the deck. The posts are 3/32” square. The pins are glued into the posts but not the deck. A length of.009” rope was attached with a clovehitch to the shroud ( with a bit of varnish) where the top of the deadeye is located. This rope is used to tie the knot where the shroud passes itself at the top of the deadeye. Once these are finished it will be just a matter of cleaning up some ropes on the deck. Hope to see you soon.
  3. Paul Le Wol
    Bob, you’ve built a beautiful ship. Perhaps you can start a build log so that we can see her completion. I have been using Ropes of Scale synthetic rope and using Vallejo Matt Polyurethane Varnish straight out of the bottle to shape it. If you need it to look like wire rope or cable I think Ben will work with you to get the color you need.
  4. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Patrick, welcome to MSW. Good luck with your Calypso. It looks like a very nice kit. If you want to comment on someone’s post, go to the bottom of their post and click on “Reply to this post “ .
  5. Paul Le Wol
    Dave, thank you very much for your support.
  6. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you Glen, I’m finally absorbing some of the metal work knowledge that’s available in this forum.
  7. Paul Le Wol
    Very nice Keith!
  8. Paul Le Wol
    Looking great Jacques!
  9. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you John for your comment. I appreciate it very much.
  10. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Jeffery, welcome to MSW. I just used an online scale calculator and plugged in 1/200 scale for 728 feet which Wikipedia gave as the length of a North Carolina class battleship. It came up with 43.68”. The width came in at 6.48”. You would have to verify that because I have been known to be wrong before. You can play around with these calculators to see what scale is best for you.
  11. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you gentlemen for your kind remarks. I appreciate your confidence druxey, but I don’t think I’m there yet 😀
  12. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Everyone, I hope you all had a great Christmas. Thanks to all for the Comments, Likes, and support. Finally decided to sit down and make two fairleads for the bow. They are made from 1!16” x 1/64” brass strip soldered together, cut and shaped. They were sprayed with Vallejo Oily Steel and then touched up after mounting. Mostly to paint the brass nail heads that had been filed and sanded while chucked in a dremel. The drawing that I have shows the anchor rope going through some sort of block that is mounted to the side of the bowsprit. I’m thinking that it might be a snatch block although my block doesn’t really look like a snatch block. This rope was shaped in place using Vallejo Matt Polyurethane Varnish. The rest of the rope coils are being made using the following procedure. Cotton thread is taped to a dowel and the rope is then wrapped around it. The coil is tied with the thread and then slid off of the dowel. I like using the Press’nSeal because it sticks to most things in this case a piece of foam board. The coil is brushed with varnish being careful not to get it on the cotton thread. Once the varnish has dried I trim one of the loose ends ( depending on how you are going to mount it) and glue it with CA where it won’t be seen. For some reason I found that the CA works better after the rope has been varnished. Varnish is used to glue the coil to whatever it is mounted to and once it has dried the coil is shaped and varnished again. A bit more rope work and then on to the fences and the deadeyes. Have a great New Year!
  13. Paul Le Wol
    Vaddoc, congratulations on completing your Fisherman’s Launch. Truly a beautiful looking model!
  14. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you Keith. Merry Christmas to you, your family, and to everyone in this wonderful community!
  15. Paul Le Wol
    Congratulations Glen, well done!
  16. Paul Le Wol
    Keith, love the group picture. This is going to be a great looking presentation!
  17. Paul Le Wol
    Glen, Big Country is a fine looking animal!
  18. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you Jacques, I have been airbrushing them and then touching them up with a brush after they are installed. For some reason these two ended up being different colours. Thank you Glen, I appreciate your comments very much. Keith, thank you very much for your nice comments!
  19. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Everyone, I hope you’re all ready for the holidays. Thank you so much for the Comments and Likes. I started making shackles with a jig that was made for a previous build. The vertical bit is a #59 and the horizontal bit is a #70. I think the vertical bit should have been a little smaller. The copper wire is 22 gauge. The shackle was slid onto a 1/32” piece of brass and squeezed flat. The end of a wire was squeezed flat to make it appear to be a thumb screw and soldered to the shackle. I’m not sure of how many shackles, rings, and turnbuckles were used on these boats as opposed to other types so I’m just going with the minimum amount. The blocks mounted on the gaffs for the peak halliards were seized to a loop of rope and the ends of the rope were threaded through a hole that was drilled in the gaffs. The rope was long enough to be able to loop the block around the end of the gaff although it could have been threaded through the hole in the opposite direction. CA was applied at each end of the hole. The gaffs were mounted and rigged. The windlass was finished using some spare parts from Cheerful. It’s kind of rudimentary but I ran out of spare parts. Right now I’m tying off and trimming excess rope and planning the fences that run each side of the cabin. Have a great Christmas and New Year’s.
  20. Paul Le Wol
    Congratulations Jacques on the completion of your Canoa de Rancho. This has been a most enjoyable build!
  21. Paul Le Wol
    Beautiful rope and sail work Jacques!
  22. Paul Le Wol
    Congratulations Chris on completing a wonderful model! I look forward to seeing your New Year project
  23. Paul Le Wol
    Thank you very much Tim. Building this model was a very enjoyable experience and Chuck’s excellent monograph was of immense help to me. There’s something about Cutters that you have to love!
  24. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Tim, thank you. Chuck has a Rope and Block list as part of Cheerful’s monograph. I picked up whatever was on that list. They are very nice. They just needed a bit of material removed where the rope enters and exits around the sheave. From looking on the Syren website the new ones look even more nice. Good luck with your Speedy. She looks amazing!
  25. Paul Le Wol
    Hi Tim, the blocks look great. It’s nice the way the rope runs around the sheave. Did you have to shape them at all?

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