Dave_E

Good Morning Boys, After I slept on my dilemma, I got up this morning and looked at every build log I could find for the Rattlesnake (I think I have them all bookmarked 😳😄) and found a wide verity of builds regarding the gun port installations. Some go clear to the top of the bulkheads, others slightly lower and some lower yet. All the finished ships look so alike and unless you were eyeballing this particular thing, you wouldn’t know the difference. The drawings… as I think they all are… are wooden ship building hobby drawings… not CAD and such with tolerances like .09 - .1 inch that I’ve been using all my life in the aviation industry. John, you hit it on the nail. By my very best attempt to get the actual model to match the drawing I was 2mm lower than what I am now. I will still be able to get (1) 1/32 X 3/32 plank between the top of the gun port and the cap rail. Half of the completed ships I look at… that’s what they ended up with. So, all that math aside, it just looks like the carriages might be a tad large. When the model is complete (rigging included) if someone says, “Dave your cannon carriages are out of scale” they get a prize. 😆 John, your completed gun port installation is about a mm below mine. Your cannons will be very high in the gun port. But as Keith mentioned, modify the cannon carriage so the cannon sits lower in it. My cannons are all built, yours are not, go for it. There’s just no getting around the realism and end product of the Syren carriage! Unfortunately the cannon carriages that came with the kit are… atrociously not realistic and look like toys.

I had a terrifying thought tonight. Even though I used the Britannia cannons that came with the MS kit, I am using Syren’s cannon cradles which I’m pretty sure are 1:48. How bad have I goofed?

Disassemble time. I decided to make all the framework on assembly (that’s what we called it in the airplane manufacturing bidness). I’m putting along fairly well per the drawings and I thought “I better check the cannons”. Sure enough, they are too tall (notice the rear trucks are off the deck). So I must rip out the framing that’s done and raise it. 😑😳😄 Had to go up 2mm.

The fly swatter is from 20 years ago in a different house when my guitar building studio was a room in the garage and during summer months… yes there were flys. 😆 And I don’t know when the horse shoe showed up. 🤔😆

Hi All, I’m going to try a bamboo board for my bending station. Last year the plywood bending station didn’t take kindly to water or heat. So, got out the tools and am trying it out. I bent the waterways for the ship. Is that progress I see? 😁 We’ve got a good month or so yet of wet weather here and me thinks the flame has been reignited.

Go man go! 👍😀

Outstanding Sir! One photo there, I had to double take a look cause it looked like a photo of a real ship and the sea. I know it’s supposed to. 😄

Hey Cisco, I love your description of not making progress. 😆 Your work is outstanding, looking good! 👍

I never did chime in on the outstanding build. I hope mine comes close. For #2… excellent build Sir! 👍😀

Nice work! Welcome to the forum! 👍😀

We’ll done! What’s next? 👍😀

Hey Al, welcome to the forum! 👍😀

Gunners mate… I think we’ll take these ten 6 pound cannons for our new ship Rattlesnake! Back to the ship. 😄

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“I don’t know”? 🤣

Why do we subject ourselves to this? Two hours of listening to some righteous 70’s rock and getting red ocre all over my fingertips. 😆

Hi Giuseppe, welcome to the forum! 👍😀

Yo Jeff, welcome to the forum! 👍😀

Ever thought about adding professional model maker to your repertoire? Unbelievable perfection. 👏👍😀

Hey Jim, welcome to the forum? 😀

Must be on the east side? 🥶

Hey Todd, welcome to the forum! 👍😀

Hi All, Thanks Andrew. I’m actually pretty busy being retired. Volunteer facilities worker at my church, in the worship band, president of my home owners association with a wife and house to take care of… and I’m a chess fanatic. However, I am involved with the build on a slower scale. I found a chamfer scraper on Amazon for $12. Also building the cannons. Built a jig for the rigging when the time comes.

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Hi Tim, good to meet you. 👍