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O.B.one replied to O.B.one's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Aaand it's a flop. Glue for the split hull got into the rigging. Hours and hours just went down the sewage. Just as well. I wast happy with the propoetions and colors of the masts booms and spars.... but the Endeavor is going to be shelfed for a while -
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I've been slack updating this one sorry. It's about to be bottled.... -
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O.B.one replied to O.B.one's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Currently working on the sails. I wanted to do woven fabric this time. I saw that trick where someone stain one half of a piece of cloth with tea, then pull the threads down. This gives the sails brown lines. I tried that. Didn't work. I chose the fabric because the weave is nice and fine. However the thread being thin breaks when you try and pull it. I then tried brown pencil, but that looked like brown pencil on fabric. In the end I settled on grey lines -
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HMB ENDEAVOUR by O.B.one - 1/500 - BOTTLE
O.B.one replied to O.B.one's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Hi all. About time for an update. The initial model was too small for the bottle I have. I never knew there were different bottle names. This one is called a flagon. Wide neck. So pf course I made the hull bigger. Yo know, have to make things difficult. The reprint is in a new (cheaper) resin that still doesn't like to be drilled. The small rail canons also didn't print at all, so I'll add that later. Started the rigging. Not hinged this time, but rather inserted masts. Sofar I like it better than hinged, but that'll probably change very quickly in the bottle Ignore the transparent elastics. That's for keeping the hull on the clamping analogue -
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O.B.one replied to O.B.one's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Ill be using @Robert Taylor build log as a reference, hoping he doesn't mind me peeking at his pictures. This build log has the best pictures anywhere on the net, thanks Robert. -
Every time I set out I think "no more split hull!!!" And then promptly ignore that and do a split. The Endeavor has a deep keel and draught, and plenty of sails. So split hull it is. She also has a rigging that boggles the mind. Not my mind, I lost that looong ago. This time I did not spend hours drafting her myself, I took a short cut in the form of a download-able model. I can post the link if someone is interested. The owner sells these for $5us I think, and has a few more. I had to add the life boat as well as the rear windows. Not sure if those are called portholes. This saved me plenty of time, but I'll have to drill more holes. This particular printing resin doesn't like to be drilled. We'll see
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Thanks everyone for following along. I have reached the end. I'll cork it, wrap, and gift it to my brother. I won't seal the cork, if I ever happen upon some .stl figures that I can turn into the pirates before printing, they should be easy to add. But as far as this build goes, I regard it as finished. What a difference the surface waves makes. I was a bit heavy on the white, but it is a cartoon after all. At least that is what I tell myself. The two other projects are still going, albeit no progress this weekend. Mothers day took over, rightly so. I'll add photos of those as they progress. I don't want to push them hard on those.
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Both the pirate ship and fishing boat is in. Still have to add about 2mm of blue resin, then the waves. I had to tie some knots inside the bottle, not doing that again. I could not find figures resembling the pirates. Still looking, but I'm thinking of omitting those. I'm running out of time, friends are taking it back to South Africa from New Zealand. I only have a couple of weeks. As for the lego rescue boat, hard at work sanding The fishing expedition has some small fishes made of Playdoh. The fishing net is a torn hair net from ballet. Decorative pebbles for the bottom of the lake, fishnet and pebbles to be submerged in resin.
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I doubt the two young one's projects deserves threads of their own. Yes indeed, two of them. My 6 year old also wa ted in on the action. So I'll just sneak a few pics in along this one. Hull halves in, i now have them aligned. Ready for an adhesive, but I think I'll be getting some slower set epoxy this time The eldest has her SIB based on this Lego rescue boat, some kind of yacth Balsa is easy for them on a block of sanding paper. They also like playing with the sawdust My 6 year old has an idea of a biblical era fishing boat, and of course it was pink and turquoise We'll have some small fishes made of playdough in a hair net suspended in the ocean beneath it...
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New resin poured in new bottle. Turned out brilliant blue. I think @Augers idea of removing the back label has to happen. It is in the way, plus that label differs from the original. Keel and bottom of pirate hull in, amd embedded. Next the startboard and port pieces. I've decided on flattened copper wire for oars. Flexible, so I can bend it to fit. Hope it works. My 9 year old girl also want to do a SIB, she wants to put a scale model of her Lego Friends rescue boat in an upright bottle, complete with sea sand at the bottom plus some seaweeds etc. So that'll hopefully be a nice dad daughter project for us. Looking for some Balsa for her to try her hand at carving.
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Ummm no not really. I'm originally from South Africa, English is my second language. Binning something I think is an expression from the U.K. They seem to like turning objectives into verbs. So you end up binning rubbish, food scraps or like your wife does with your favourite old T shirt. Or in my case the flop.
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What can I say. If it's worth doing, do it well😄 This is a partition wall between the living room area and kitchen. You can guess where all the projects are going. That's why I'll be very pedantic about the water. Not just for this project. That beeing said. I'm not going to bin the flop, I'll put something else in it. Not sure what, perhaps a diorama of a sea creature attacking a ship. Take inspiration from the @Glen McGuire kraken. Well see...
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