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  1. cdrusn89
    Thanks Chuck - new workshop is working okay, at least for now. Starboard main channels, deadeyes and chainplates completed.
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    I also got the boarding "ladder" and the fenders installed. I have not yet got the molding between the fenders replaced. I used two different profiles for the upper and lower fancy moldings and can't find any scraps of the lower so will have to make some more. I originally used frieze on copy paper on the fenders and the top step but it seemed to "stand-out too much. It drew my eye to that feature rather than seeing the "whole ship". After some trial and error I finally managed to print the frieze on some silk span that I had from my days making sails. It seems pretty close to the "tissue paper" mentioned in the monograph. Of course some of the ink jet ink leaks through the silk span so you not get as opaque a frieze as with regular copy paper. It turns out IMHO that the silk span's reduced level of opaqueness helps the fenders to blend in with the frieze behind it. Will work on the chesstrees after I finish the main channels/chainplates.
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    Starboard side mizzen channels and deadeyes complete. Word to wise, do not cut out the fancy molding based on the drawing alone- don't ask me how I know but it is possible that your model and the drawings do not match exactly. The middle two deadeyes on the mizzen channel should fall on either side of the gun port below. I had to move the channel forward about 1/8" to make that a reality. Otherwise the there will be no place to attach one of the chainplates. I should have moved mine over another little bit to get the chainplates on each side to be more or less vertical. The forward one has to angle forward to clear the gun port. I will be more careful on the port side. And yes I see that the qdeck railing has come adrift - was trying to make a jig to hold the mizzen stool in position while glue dried - used medium CA instead of PVA but still managed to damage the railing in the attempt,
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    After much hemming and hawing using stain, dye and WoP I finally decided to go with the natural finish deadeyes. Getting the vinyl strops was more of a struggle than I had imagined, especially for the 6mm ones (somewhat counter-intuitive since they are the larger). Luckily I had two sets of the vinyl hardware so the fact that I broke 15 or so of the strops trying to get them around the deadeye was not a complete disaster. Anyway here they are ready for installation on the channels.
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    I used the Syren "you assemble them" deadeyes in the suggested 65 and 6mm sizes. I also used the "block shaper" to "take the edge off. Unfortunately the block shaper does not remove the "bridge" between the outer shell and the inner piece. See photo below: And this is one of the "better" examples. I decided that since one side will be against the channel I only had to remove this on the upper side to avoid having the strop rise above the surface of the deadeye at the top where in would be the most noticeable. So I used a very small needle file to remove the bridge on the upper side of the dead eye (the side with two eyes). Now that I have done all that it occurs to me that one way to avoid this "extra" work would be to cut the upper side of the connector on the carrier sheet of the center layer before gluing the three carrier sheets of deadeye layers together. Okay, maybe next time. The monograph says that the deadeyes were "dyed" brown. Chuck says to use fiebings leather dye, medium brown. I will have to acquire some but in the meantime I tried stain. In the photo below there are two examples of each stain I have in my "stain locker". The upper row (left to right) is two using walnut and two cherry - the bottom row is two unstained and two honey. The walnut might work if the leather dye turns out to be "too hard" - Chuck warned that it will dye anything it touches.
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    Frank, Thank you and I hope your and your family have a safe and joyous holiday seasoI will be back to the Winnie when my holiday guests go home - which is tomorrow..
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    While waiting for the turkey to cook I started working Chapter 11. I started by assembling the 5mm deadeyes while I await delivery of the Scotch Spray Mount Artist's adhesive for the channel assembly. As it turns out I needed another set of the 6mm ones to have some spares and I decided to order the cherry material for chapter 11 as I may decide to do the channels in cherry for some additional contrast. I will likely assemble both the cherry and boxwood (or maybe they are AYC) channels and then decide which to use. I need to go baste the turkey so that this will be as far as I get today - food and football to follow.
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    It took longer than I had thought (doesn't everything?) but I have finally gotten at least the inside portion of the workshop relocated. I will really miss the 400 sq ft dedicated workshop I had at the old house but once I get a part of the garage climate controlled I think this will work out. The plan is to have the power tools (Sander, table saw, etc.) in the garage to keep the dust and debris level down in the house. I also am moving the wood storage to the garage so there will probably be more trips to the garage then before but I really need the exercise - while moving is stressful, eating as a stress reliever has its drawbacks. Having seen what others have for work spaces I am grateful to be able to devote this much space to model shipbuilding.
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    I think this is the end of Chapter 10 - and not a moment too soon. I have decided to not plank over the "Great Cabin" as I am still considering adding some furniture there. All I have been able to find in 1/48 scale is doll house items some of which (table and chairs) may be "okay" but everything else I have found is either plastic or not the sort of thing you would find in this space. Last post until sometime later this year after I get a workable arrangement in the new house to allow me to finish this job; and hopefully start a new project not related to painting or otherwise laboring on the new house.
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    Thanks Fred - yes quite the "nerve shredder" although with closing on Tuesday I believe everything that needed to be done is done or is "well in hand".
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    The "fleet" is in! I had to move most of the model collection out of their display cases in preparation for the upcoming move to new (to me) house. Hopefully they will be out of harms way here in the workshop when the movers come. They will be transported one-by-one (it is only 8 miles) once the new house is "settled" or at least the display cabinets are back in place as settled is probably a 2024 "event". I got the fancy molding completed on the port side, including that side of the stern transom molding absent some MORE touch-up painting - does it ever end? Hopefully the starboard side today and the six fairleads tomorrow and some more touch up painting. Then Chapter ten is done and I am off to Europe for two weeks and moving to the new house. FYI - as you can see in the picture above the quarter gallery railing did not survive the fancy railing's installation as well as one might hope. I delayed installing the q-gallery roofs until well after Chapter three (when they were installed in the monograph) but clearly not long enough. The starboard side is in worse shape so they will have to be dealt with during the Chapter eleven and twelve work.
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    Centerline furnishings added as fancy rail (lower) is added. Masking tape is to allow for touch-up painting with less chance of getting black paint other than where it was intended.
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    With the first three sections of the lower fancy rail in place I reconsidered my earlier decision to not "populate" the centerline features until the qdeck railing was complete. looking at the upper fancy rail I now recognize how "tender" and "in the way" that I likely to be when in place so I think I will populate the centerline pieces as the lower fancy rail is completed moving aft at the very least before the upper railing is added. Hatchway railing in place. I used 3/32" X 3/32" boxwood as the starting point. The 1/16" X 1/16" material that I have is "less than it might be with respect to dimension consistency. Besides I think I had about a 25% success rate when I used the 1/16" X 1/16" material I have. Anyway I drilled the back two stanchions all the way through in one dimension (fore and aft in this case) and then into that drill hole from the other side making a "T" shaped "passageway" through the square part of the stanchion just below the "ball" at the top. Then I used a piece of .020" piano wire to adjust the stanchions for verticality and then for alignment with the edge of the hatchway. Medium CA was used to secure the stanchion to the hatchway with a .032" "pin" in the bottom of the stanchion. The piano wire was replaced with .020" phosphor-bronze wire which has yet to be painted. I used piano wire while making the adjustments because it is much stiffer than the phosphor-bronze and much less likely to get bent or distorted with repeated handling. I would keep the piano wire but trimming it to an exact length is very difficult and likely to cause collateral damage. The other stanchions were drilled through in one dimension and a similar technique employed to get the stanchions and wire aligned. After the CA had set to hold the stanchions, I put a drop where the wire exited each stanchion then clipped the wire off flush with (more or less) the stanchion. Hopefully a coat of flat black on the wire and touch-up on the stanchions and this will be "done".
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    The first sets of the qdeck fancy rail ion place. Things lined up relatively well although getting the short post into the "hole" in the base was somewhat of a challenge. That "hole" is made up of the junction of the first two pieces of the lower cap rail and it is possible that the opening is not as big as one might like. A word for those who build this later. If you decide to include the eyebolts for the gun carriages on the qdeck be careful adding the eyebolts as doing so makes the posts, which are already a pair based on the height (lower aft) but now are differentiated port and starboard by which side the eyebolts are placed. It is entirely possible to mess up and get the eyebolts on the wrong side - don't ask me how I know. It is probably best to dry fit the posts and mark which side the eyebolts go on BEFORE you start drilling holes and certainly before you glue any eyebolts in.
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    The centerline decking is complete (no WoP yet) and the binnacle, ship's wheel and capstan are in place (dry fit for now). I have the breastrail assembled and awaiting another coat of paint. I will probably not glue any of these pieces down until I have the fancy rail and transom rail done. Too many things sticking up presenting more opportunities for disaster - especially at this late stage of things.
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    Here is my finished (except possibly for some touch up paint - it look better in "real life"). Although it is probably impossible for anyone else to ever notice but I did glue a compass rose to the two "disks" inside the binnacle. I should have painted the disk edges white too but... And now I have a .jpg compass rose image that can be printed to whatever size I might need in the future. Ships wheel is almost done so I better get busy and complete the centerline decking so I can start the qdeck railing.
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    Thanks Scrubby - unfortunately I am moving to a new (to me) house and going on a two week cruise in 10 days so whatever is done by 8/15 is likely to remain that way for sometime. I am losing my dedicated workshop in the move and am guessing that re-establishing it is pretty far down the priority list of "she who must be obeyed" as Horace Rumople (of the BBC/PBS series Rumpole of the Bailey) put it.
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    Thanks Frank - your planking job puts mine to shame. Working my way fore to aft on the centerline planking. I am using 3/16" wide planks since that is what I used on the gun deck and it is what is shown in the plans. I had to reposition the mizzen bitts a bit to get them even with the outboard edge of the aft coaming - not sure what I was thinking when I first put them in. Anyway, I am still undecided on whether to plank over the main cabin and if not how to "end" the planking aft of the after-most hatch. I will get the ship's wheel assembled as soon as I get the parts from Chuck (hopefully today) and have started the binnacle assembly. And I finished up the last eight cannon/carriages so they will be ready when we get to the waist.
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    After looking at my model of Confederacy I decided that I might like to include a ship's boat on skids amidships as is shown on that model. I looked around for a 1/48th scale ships boat and the only thing that came readily to mind is the "18th Century Long Boat"; another Chuck Passaro model available from Model Shipways in basswood. So while taking a break from Winnie I built the model, outfitted it as if it were to be used both with oars and/or sails and here it is sitting approximately where is would be if I added the beams across the waist to hold it. I have not decided whether or not to include it on Winnie but it is "ready" if I decide to go that way. FYI - although it is not obvious in the picture I used the frieze from Winnie on the hull of the long boat as a substitute for the frieze that is included with the long boat kit. As used on Winnie the frieze was too large. When I tried printing the Winnie frieze from Chuck's web site the scaling function did not work but if I saved the file and opened it using the Acrobat reader I could print them at whatever scale I wanted. I ending up using 50% but then had to use two pieces on each side. The frieze will be more obvious if the long boat is mounted on the skids. I also managed to get the timberheads at the transom reattached, adjusted to the correct height (based on the provided template) and got some filler in where part of the transom got carried away. Need some paint and probably more filler too. The stern rail is one of the last things in Chapter 10 so I have some time to "get this right".
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    I completed the planking down the port and starboard sides of the qdeck and have two coats of WoP applied (a third goes on today). I have the hatch coamings and the capstan partner installed and the mizzen bits in place (glue is drying as we speak). I will start planking between and around these items shortly although I am still deciding on whether or not to plank over the great cabin (aft of the last hatch). I am trying to find 1/48th scale furniture (a desk, table and chairs might work out) to place in the great cabin and then not plank from the aft hatch to the transom. If my search is unsuccessful I am still toying with not planking that part as I am not sure it adds anything and would be another area to show my ineptitude at planking where tapering is required (and looking at the template every plank must be tapered). So here is the qdeck at it stands now. However, before I start the planking I need to address a near disaster at the stern. An inadequately stored piece of 1 X 12 pine fell on the stern and broke off all of the timberheads on the transom. In at least one case it took part of the transom with it. At the moment I have the two port most timberheads reattached and am trying to figure out how to get the others done and then patch up the damage to the transom. While I am at it I will get the timberheads trimmed down in preparation for the aft rail but it may take some effort to get the timberheads reattached and in one case I may have to "start from scratch". I have decided to deal with this before I start the planking. Here is what the stern looks like with the stern rail template in place and two of the six timberheads "back in battery" more or less.
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    Fo'c'sle is now really complete thru Chapter 9 - added the spanshackles and eyebolts. Working the qdeck planking and assembling the hatch coamings so I can start the centerline planking.
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    Chapter 9 is complete on fo'c'sle except for the spanshackles and the eyebolts on the mast partner. I am waiting until all the paint is dry before I create any more wood shavings/sawdust. Boy that flat black paint seems to attract dust like a magnet. So here is what it looks like at this point. I added some cannon (just sitting there no glue/pins yet) which I originally made for the Confederacy kit (I did not like the Britannia metal cannon in the kit) only to find out when it came time to install them that there were too tall to fit through the gun ports. So at least I can use 6 or 8 of them on the Winnie.
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    I also broke both pieces, one of them twice. Having bought both cherry and AYC packages for Chapter 9 I found the cherry pieces to be less susceptible to breakage and used thin CA on the entire piece before handling it too much to try and stiffen it up some. I am not sure it helped but I did get the starboard side done without breaking the cherry piece. I "think" I have the port side ready for final install and have not broken that one yet.
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    Starboard side fo'c'sle railing is complete including the spanshackle cleat and cat block. I did have one significant issue early on the in that the outside bulwark on the fo'c'sle was too short. The waterway would have been just above the top of the outboard bulwark WITHOUT the deck planking. A similar issue on both sides (thank god - not sure what I would have done if it were only on one side). I have no idea how this came to pass beyond my lack of attention to details at some point or points during the hull construction. I added a 3/32" "filler" on top of the existing bulwark to permit the planking/waterway combination to reach just to the top of the bulwark at the aft end. I added another "layer" of fancy molding to cover the outboard edge. Inboard I just painted it red. Looking at the outside the sharp eyed can see the extra row of fancy molding and on the inboard side you can just see the extra "filler" at the aft end. It does not look terrible (IMHO) but does beg the question of what impact this might have on the work yet to be done at the bow. On to the port side and then the qdeck planking.
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    Thanks Matt - I think now that it is done that maybe the CA was "belt and suspenders" so I will probably dispense with it on the other side. I still have the port side fore railing and the decking on the qdeck to go in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 maybe off in the future somewhere as I am moving to a new house on 8/15.

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