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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

Nope🤫 think I'm going to sabotage it

I've been slack updating this one sorry. It's about to be bottled....

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

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

Some updates on the two sideline projects

The turquoise and pink biblical fishing boat is finished

The Lego rescue boat is going much slower

Look at what they put on my birthday cake. Lego rubberduck in a jar

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 

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. 

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.

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...

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.

1 hour ago, Glen McGuire said:

The Aussie and Canadian contingents on MSW are always teaching this non-worldy Texan terms they use.  Is "bin the flop" a New Zealand expression?  Never heard that one before!  😃

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. 

On 4/4/2023 at 6:56 AM, Auger said:

Minor setback. Keep at it, you’re really creating something unique.

Buy a bottle, pour it into another, good to go! Share it with others upon completion.

 

Or, visit a local bar and ask them to save an empty bottle for you.

 

Cheers!

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...

You really outdid yourself. Well done👍😄

But before I get there, another complication. I ordered Alumilite urethane resin for this one on the basis that it was sold by the same place that stocked the paint I was after. Urethane resin whatever that means. Mixed according to manufacturer instructions. Slow pour. I even fitted a tube to suck the air out to facilitate bubble removal as per Alumilite's YouTube video.  Just look at this crap results:

I would not recommend it at all. My previous resin was excellent in comparison. This is really frustrating, I have to find another bottle of Hennessy. I don't drink Cognac.

Why does my SIB project always lead to me buying more booze. It's not a bad problem to have, but a problem nonetheless. 

On 3/25/2023 at 11:43 PM, Glen McGuire said:

The paint job looks great!

 

Regarding the oars, looks like you've already got a split hull.  Can you add the oars outside the bottle, insert each half of the hull, and then fit the halves together inside the bottle?  That's what I had to do with my Captain Kidd Adventure Galley for the same reason. 

I watched that video of yours a fe times thanks. The oars on the picture looks long, i might just shorten mine a bit...

It'll work well I think. Still have to do a sail for the wee boat

Not sure what to do with the oars. Omitting them will be easiest. But I don't really want to.but with them it'll be too wide for the neck. That'll mean fitting 10x oars in the bottle....

Some progress. Can't do models if you dislike painting. So I left my dislike of any kind of paint job outside, and knuckled down. Aided by my 2.5x magnification loupes from work, it looks better than without magnification. Or at least the errors are less obvious. Not quite done and some touching up needed. But overall happy. The purple plastic things on the left are microbrushes used for fillings. It should be freely available on aliexpress. "Dental Microbrush" should get you a hit, if anyone is interested

On 3/18/2023 at 3:08 AM, Auger said:

Again, great idea. I discovered Asterix upon moving to France. I love the comic, especially the Corsica volume after visiting Corsica a few times. 

Ah. Bonnywasawarriorwayayix 😄👍

@Auger I'll leave that to him. The front label wanted to peel off, so I quickly did 2x coats modge podge. The hull and fishing boat is primed. Awaiting some paint. 

I'll have to get over my dislike of paint if I want to make this one look good....

Sure thing

Still deciding on horizontal vs vertical. I prefer vertical, that way it can be put with his other not-so-empty bottles whatever alcohol. That should be a nice laugh for whomever of his mates are helping themselves. 

Nowhere on earth is there another one like this. Well done mate 

Maybe I missed it, are you going to pour resin over the white bit to make it look like water?

Mounted. Still have to put a cap on it

On 3/9/2023 at 11:01 AM, Knocklouder said:

The only way to stop him is to have a Penguin carcase hanging from the Kraken mouth, with a spear that some Viking poke in him. Hope this help lol  

It's here if you need it.... 😄