Patrick Haw
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Wonderful work Gil. The level of detail is just spectacular. Just fitted my quarterdeck so your finished quarterdeck is an inspiration for me to charge ahead and try, just try, to emulate you. I won't come close, you've set the bar pretty darned high! Thanks for sharing. (Oh, and go Niners ) Patrick
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The quarter deck is in place and we move onto a new phase of the build! It went in pretty smoothly, although a few tense moments and is glued and pinned to dry overnights. There is a gap on one side of the skid beam surround but the surround will be sanded down and after the deck is planked there will be wood strips placed on either side of the skid beam assemply, so the gap won't show. It's been a good day. Quarterdeck is in and Chelsea beat Manchester United. I think I'll splice the mainbrace and (for my American friends here) will watch the San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks and head to the Super Bowl! Cheers Patrick
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Hi Glenn, She's coming along fine. You'll find those balsa fillers at the stern and bow will make the planking a lot easier, although I only used fillers at the bow. Patrick
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Looking good Sean. Always a good feeling to get that first plank on. You're on the way to having a hull! Patrick
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Thanks Glenn & Rob. Here we go with installing the quarter deck. On problem I ran into was the positioning of the camber beams. According to the plans, they're all supposed to sit aft of their respective bulkheads, but the positioning the upper gun deck inner bulwarks to line the gun ports up with the outer bulwark gun port opening means that the slots for the camber beams don't all sit aft of the bulkheads, some sit in front of them. So some of my camber beams are aft of the bulkhead, some forward. I really don't think it makes any difference and nobody is going to see the camber beams anyway. So onward and upward. Installing the quarter deck isn't as complicated and intimidating as the manual makes it seem. The key is in preparation..sanding the quarter deck sheet so it fits just right, making sure the skid beam assembly fits easily into the waist cut out, making up the bitts, etc. In the pictures the deck is glued in place from bulkheads 13 to 17. The bitts are in place but just held by a clamp and will be glued to the upper gun deck later. I raided the Admiral's clothes pin supply and am waiting for the skid beam assembly to glue up, then will complete the installation of the quarter deck. Feels like I'm having fun now! Patrick
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Thanks David, Sjors, Grant, and Eric for the posts and compliments. All cannon balls present and accounted for and I have finally finished the upper gun deck and have built the skid beams, upper deck fore brace bitt, and fore brace bitt pins, sanded and dry-fitted the quarter deck and am ready to start installing it. Should have the quarter deck in place by tomorrow so feeling like I've made a great leap forward after living with the upper gun deck for months! I'll put up some photos when the quarter deck is in place. Patrick
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Hi Glenn, I moved to the United States about 40 years ago and now live in Maryland. I get back over to the UK fairly often though and have been up in Yorkshire re-visiting old haunts a few times. My grandparents lived in Marske so I'm very familiar with the Yorkshire coast...Bridlington, Scarborough, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay. Hope you enjoy the Hartlepool Maritime Museum and maybe get a visit in with David. Patrick
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Hi Gary, Welcome to the club. You're off to a great start and I will follow with interest. Good luck and enjoy! Patrick
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Hi Glenn, Thanks for looking at My log. I've been at it for a year so you're on track. Enjoy your build. It's a hobby, not a race! I grew up in Hull, so going to Scarborough was a regular summer event. Patrick
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Uh oh, just noticed there's a cannon ball missing from the rack at the front of the middle companionway! Somebody rolling cannon balls on the deck in the second watch? Not a good sign! Patrick
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Time for a quick update. After poring over all the Victory build logs here I noticed that very few people did the side tackles for the uppergun deck guns, but only did the rear tackle. This makes sense to me as very little of the detail on these guns will be visible once the ship is completed (in abut 25 years at my rate of work!). So I decided to skip the side tackles too. Rigging the guns has been very time-consuming with a lot of trial and error and do overs. I orginally intended to attach hooks to the tackle blocks a la Gil Middleton. Made my own hooks out of copper eyebolts and everything, but when I rigged the prototype the blocks were too close together and didn't look right, so scratch that idea. I used 3mm blocks with a double block at the rear of the gun and a single block attached to the eyebolt in the deck. Looks ok I think. I then made rope coils for each tackle. Trial and error again. The trick is to get the right mix of water and PVA glue to brush the finished coils with. At first I used too little glue and the coils just fell apart when I peeled them of the masking tape backing. I just kept adding glue to the mix until I got it right and the coils dry into hard little disks. A bit of black paint touch up needed on some of the gun eyebolts, but no problem. I think I may be done with the upper gun deck this week and can move on to getting the quarter in place. Patrick
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Hi Eric, Just catching up on your log and have to say I'm a bit confused. When you posted last in November you had completed the first planking and were working on the stern facia. In your latest post you mention receiving new hull parts and it looks like you're back to working on fitting the keel and bulkheads. What happened? Did I miss something? Patrick
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Hi Glenn, If I were you I'd paint the entire area around the gun dummy barrel strips black...floor, bulwarks, the lot. They are all visible through the gun ports and unpainted wood will show with no way to fix it if you don't paint them now. Yes, fixing the ledges around the inside of the gun port openings now is a very good idea. It will save you a lot of time and grief later on when you line the gunports. You're doing fine, keep it up. Patrick
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Hi Glenn, That looks much better...all the bulkheads in the right place and you're off and running again! Good luck with her. Patrick
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Well done on the repair Grant! Seeing your beautiful work damaged like that almost brought a tear to my eye, but I think we've all been there, done that at some point in our modelling careers, it's just a question of how we respond and it sounds like you've brought her back to ship shape and Bristol fashion very quickly. Great work! Patrick
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Hi Jerry, Congratulations on completing your hull. Man, you have built this thing so fast! She's looking great and you must be very proud of what you've done in a year. Well done! Patrick
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Sean, One other thought on this...When you do the hull planking there's going to be a lot of moving the ship around, turning it upside down, etc. Also there's going to be lots and lots and lots of sanding dust flying around, getting into everything. If you've installed and rigged the guns before planking the hull you run a real risk of damaging the guns while planking, and clogging up all your beautiful rigging work with sanding dust. Patrick
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Sean, I'm not familiar with the Mamoli kit, my Victory is Caldercraft, but I imagine the construction sequence is similar. Before you start installing guns I think you're going to have to plank the hull, first and second planking, then install and plank the inner bulwarks and locate the gunports. Only then can you set the guns in their proper locations and go ahead and rig them. As I said, I'm not a Mamoli expert, but I hope this helps Patrick
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Beautiful work Mike, seriously good. I can't offer anything on the flags and pennants. Just wanted to admire! Patrick
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Hi Sean, I made the same mistake on my Victory, but your middle upper gun deck ladder is pointed in the wrong direction. One should descend it looking forward
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Jud, I agree. But $2,200? There's another site offering the same piece of crap for almost $2,800 Patrick
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Laughing at the stern. They didn't get the stern even close. Wrong number of Windows and what is up with the stern decorations? And "HMS Victory" on the stern nameplate? Weak!
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Is this the absolute worst model of the Victory ever? The nerve of these people asking almost $2,200 for this thing. There is so much wrong with this slab of wood that it's almost impossible to begin. I'd give them $2.00 for it for firewood. LINK Patrick
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Hi Archicar There are 30 guns on the upper gun deck. When the quarter deck is put on 20 0f those guns will be completely covered up, never to be seen again, so I'm not rigging them at all. Once the quarter deck is in place there are 10 upper gun deck guns that will be visible under the skids that hold the ship's boats. I am going to fully rig these 10 guns with breech ropes, which controlled the gun's recoil, the 2mm blocks and tackles used for hauling the guns out, and the train tackles at the rear of the guns, used for hauling the guns inboard. Best wishes Patrick
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Hi Glennard, So sorry to read about your major snafu with the bulkheads, but glad you caught it early enough in the build to be able to remedy it. I kind of feel bad that none of us Caldercraft Victory builders caught it while you had the bulkheads dry-fitted...looking back at your earlier photos the misplaced bulkheads do sort of stand out like a sore thumb! Oh well, welcome to the wonderful world of building this model! My own build log is a veritable catalog of mistakes and fixes! Best of luck
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