allanyed

Brian Lavery's Arming and Fitting English Ships of War gives a lot of information on British armament.   Adrian Caruana's  History of English Sea Ordinance is probably the best source of detailed information.  Wish I had a copy of this two volume set!  

Allan

Dan,

Many years ago a friend and  I made a set of glass and gel coat molds used to make  a couple fiberglass models of Islander 30 sail boats.  To get  scale non-skid surface areas  I masked of the area that was not to be textured. The uncovered area then received a thin coat of resin.  Last I used an old fashioned dust sprayer (remember the scene in the Godfather One where Don Corleone is spraying tomato plants with his grand son) and sprayed glass micro beads which actually looked and flowed like a powder. The texture was perfect and of course glass lasts and can take a paint over it as well.

Allan

Dan

Sweet!!! 

Metal work can make or break the appearance of any model in my opinion.  Your metal work is looking oh so nice!  Any detailed photos on the how you are doing everything and anything will be most welcome.

Allan

 _Egen,

_{Number 1 is the correct location  The drawing attached shows the line in red.  You can also see this in the plans in the inboard profile.}

_Allan

Rob and Egen,

In almost all cases where there was inconsistency between Steel, the Astrea/Curacoa contract and the drawings, the drawings were the default that I used. There were dozens, perhaps hundreds, of items where there were inconsistencies. It was a happy day when two out of three of the sources matched. I will look at the model and drawings to see if I can remember how I came to the conclusion I did reach on making the part itself. 

Allan

Rob,

I cannot tell you how much fun it is to watch your build, along with Egen and anyone doing Euryalus or other ships in the class.  Careful with the stern timbers.  I waited until much later to set them in place as I was worried about knocking them off before before they were fully framed and the counter planking completed.

Great job, and thanks again for sharing

Allan

Hi Dan

Very happy to see your log.  Thanks for sharing details on how you are doing the various steps and please do keep them coming.  She looks terrific.

Allan

Don

http://www.seawatchbooks.com/  $75 plus S&H.

I have volume I and have learned quite a few tips from Ed's book.  There are many things that would be useful to any model and any level builder.

Allan

Dan,

I agree with your use of wood as a substitute for metal  for the bearings.   I have used English boxwood for such small parts and painted it a grimy black.  So far no one seems to have noticed they are not metal.

Allan

   Beautiful detailing.

Allan

Greg,

I never tire of looking at your posts.  SUPER!

Allan

Tony

The following are the scantlings for a 16 foot cutter found in W.E. May''s book which were taken from Steel, so we are talking about 1800 +/-

Floors

Sided 1 1/4"

Moulded at the head 1 1/8"

Moulded at the throat 2"

Futtocks

Sided at the heels 1 1/8"

Sided at the heads 7/8"

Moulded at the heads 7/8"

Scarph of the timbers: 1'7"

Hope this helps you

Allan

Clay,

Further to your note on having a copy of the original drafts there are often quite a few notes and sketches with references, dates, etc. as you have no doubt found.  Wayne incorporated them as much as possible on the Euryalus drawings.  One of the copies of the orginal drawings that we had, a cross section, shows changes made to some of the later vessels in the class and signed by Seppings.   With NMM now electronically sending, the colors do indeed give further information and make it easier to interpret some of the lines.   Wish they did not charge an arm and a leg for such a scan and send.  I would have thought it would be less expensive than the paper copies but I guess not.

Your build is looking really great and a joy to follow.

Allan

Gary,

Long before Model Ship World was started, I have been following your  built for a long long time and it has been a treat. Thanks for sharing during so many of the steps along the way.

Allan

Egen

I had my doubts that your idea would work, but am now a believer that there is  always something  new to consider or actually try.

Allan

sport29652

The appearance of the woodwork looks very nice.   Regarding your request for feedack on the cannon rigging, couple suggestions, so hope you don't mind.  It looks like you ran the running rigging through the eyes where there would be another block.  The blocks that you do have there appear to be oversized, which may be the reason it did not look right in your earlier tries. For the blocks that you did use, the hole in the blocks through which the line passes should be towards the bulkhead.  The missing blocks would have the holes opposite. The ends of the lines were more likely frapped rather than coiled on the deck.  Again hope you don't mind the comments.  

Allan

I suggest getting a copy of McCaffery's Ships in Miniature for "how to" information and Donald McNarry's Ship Models in Miniature for photos of many small scale models.

Allan

Bob,

For sure try the sewing.  For me I find the stitches to be out of scale so went to pencil.

Jay,  NICE cross stiching on the bolt rope.

Re: what material?  I use 800 or 1200 TC linen in off-white color.  The fine weave is about as close as I can get to scale with linen. 

Allan

Guillermo

Yes I did try to preweld and then file the handle shape.  The heat needed for silver soldering softens the brass so it is too weak when chucked in the drill and bends as soon any pressure is applied. 

Allan

Ron

There is a note on making pins that would have 0.020mm smallest diameter pins in the deck furniture forum posted February 24th that may help you.  I suspect I should have posted it in the rigging forum.

Allan

The photo is of the paper written by George Stockwell who built the model of the HMS Bristol and found in the model as pointed out by Greg in an earlier post on this thread.   I am not sure, but it may still be on loan to the Art Gallery of Toronto.

The note says This model was made May the 7, 1774 By Geo Stockwell Shipwright at Sheerness Yard

This is actually a copy of the original and put on display with the model.

Allan

I too use a pencil to make the seams, but continually sharpen the pencil.  I like to use a clutch pencil and renew the point each seam.  A mechanical pencil that holds the smallest available lead (0.2mm I believe) is also good as it maintains the same width for the entire seam.

Allan

Grant and Edward

Thank you very much

Allan

Joss,

There seems to be a line missing.  I have attached a sketch identifying the timbers.  If my sketch is incorrect, Wayne or someone please step in as I do not want to lead Joss down the wrong path.

Allan

Alfons,

Impressive work, especially the deck planking, well done!  Are the techniques you are showing all given in the kit, or are you inventing some of your ideas?

I look forward to your next posts.

Allan