Benjamin sullivan

Hello, I have like 20 dull craft knives laying around and I was wondering what the best way to sharpen them would be.

I do have a lot of sand paper and three 600# grit sharpening  stones, but sadly I don't know how to use them.

thanks

wow, amazing hull

20 hours ago, Kevin said:

apart from all the rubbish, ladders, cannons and other detail that has to be replaced, i always deliberately put a loose note in mine, say, what the build is, date started and completed, photo of me and family, etc etc, , no real reason i do it, i just do

I did something like that to in mine I put a little note in the hull before planking that read

"if you are reading this someone broke my ship, what du heck people"

I don't know, would clay be easyer to work with as a first time?

that is what I am thinking of using

yea that is what I was thinking to Jim

Hello, I am looking to make the figurehead for my USS Essex frigate and I was wondering if it makes more sense to carve one out of wood or to carve one out of clay and then paint it,

but I have never done this before so any advice is welcome.

the figurehead ...

 so mine will probably be a little more basic I am going this but his left arm is at his side and his tomohok thing is resting on his shoulder

there are only a few small gaps so I think I will fill them with sawdust.

thank you for the replies.

49 minutes ago, Paul Le Wol said:

Hi Benjamin, have a look at Crafty Sailor website. They are in Calgary and they sell Falconet deadeyes made from pear.

I will ,and this is my first time getting deadeyes so any suggestions on where to get them is much appreciated.

49 minutes ago, ScottRC said:

Are your models of the Essex from kits?  I am a big fan of the Essex and so far have only been able to obtain the old 5/64 scale Model Shipways kit which is pretty much a block of wood to start a scratch project with.  I too end up in need of small blocks and deadeyes.  

no it is a scratch build , i just really like the look of the ship, this is my first time adding deadeyes to any ship .

so I tried a few, making a frame and fitting it in seemed to work the best for me .

thank you everyone you have all been very helpful and it was good to get ideas from people with more experience.

Benjamin.

I am in Canada but I'm sure they would ship here .

great job, it will be interesting to see this ship done at such a tiny scale

will do , do you have a prefered place to get them?

I noted that on syren they has each one for 36 cents or something but model expo has 40 pacts for 7$ which is the amount that I need (at least of the 5mm ones) .But .36 times 40 =$14.4 which is twice the price of the walnut ones but they appear to be a softer wood,

so I was wondering why that would be .are the syren ones higher quailty?

thank you again you have all been very helpfull ,and I feel like I an learning quite a lot.

12 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

 Ben, you can use walnut stain on boxwood blocks and deadeyes. See post 294 and 297.

 

 

 

I see what you mean the stain does look quite nice .

thank you everyone I will test try a few of these solution.

so I think I will buy them for this model but I know some places have better quailty ones and some don't .

I know a few people have suggested that syren has some good ones but while looking them up I noted that model expo has walnut ones andI think that syren's are boxwood or something and for the amount I need it seems to work out to less for the walnut ones but I don't know .

scale is 1: 64 I think I could not actually find pre printed lans so I had to buy some and print them as to scale as i can which was wrong the first time so i had to do it  a second time so at the size now everything that says it is 5 mm on the sheets measers to 4.5mm.

sorry ment to right 2.5 mm🙂

the sizes i need are 5mm and 2mm .

(40) 5mm and (20) 2mm ,the ship i'm building is the 1977 USS Essex frigate ,I have made it three Essex's so far and I am quite happy with the improvements just adding a few things each time as I get better to make it better and this time i'm hoping to add deadeyes and blocks.

well this ship is scratch built, but another existing problem is i'm only 14 so i have literally next to no income so even if I sell it for 100$ I can start save up to get better tools.

even if it dosen't sell for much there are like 6 in our house so i'm running out of room to keep them.

5 hours ago, allanyed said:

Is the hull solid, plank on frame or plank on bulkhead?  Not unlike Jud's method, but for modelers without firearms, if all the planking is up, draw the location of the ports exactly where they should be.  Keep in mind that if multi-decked, the ports on the lower deck are larger than those on the next deck up and so on to the QD and FC.

 

Once the openings are marked, drill VERY SMALL holes just inside the line.  Then cut with a scalpel or a scalpel and keyhole saw (small ones for Xacto work well)  combination.  Use a plug the right size as suggested by Toni and file or use sanding sticks to open the port to the proper size.  Once done add the sills top and bottom and the linings on the bottom and sides.  There were USUALLY no stops on the top of the port but we have seen a couple contemporary models at RMG and I think Preble Hall that have them on all four surfaces.

 

Cheers

Allan

it is a plank on bulkhead.

hmm, but what is the best way to make them all square?

thank you i think i will buy them this time, but i'm hoping to sell the ship i am working on and i plan to get a mini wood lathe with the money .

thanks.