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FINISHED! - See Completed Ship photos here: https://modelshipworld.com/gallery/album/2969-hms-bounty-constructo-150/

One last build log post, maybe. I went to the wood shop yesterday in contemplation of a name plate. Through the meandering of shop and mind I put my thinking together with my partner and we decided to try something with our 4D Resin printer. Over lunch we found a website for name plates and you can download the STL files for free. Once we got home we sat down and built a name plate with an appealing font, downloaded the file, and then scaled/size down. https://www.nametag-designer.com/ If you use this site, note that the size defaults to almost 36in long. So if you are going to size down you have to make everything a bit bigger than you would suspect (like base plate 50mm, Letter height 65or so mm) it will feel too much. but it worked out so well. Once printed we sanded and primed it. Then my partner helped me use the air brush to cover it all in black. After I had some Golden Metallic Acrylic paint from my D&D character paint set and used a toothpick to over the tops of the boarder and letters in Gold. Clear coated the top and glued to base. I am very happy with the completed look and that it now feels complete to be placed on the shelf. Next up will post final photos to Finished Albums. Will post link here once I get the album created.

I did something similar to this on my HMS Victory Cross section. At the time I didn't think about different diameters of dowel. That is a great note! I ended up pulling all the flags off the ship. We did some online research on how many and what flags were ever flying on the ship at one time when it was underway vs. at port. From what I found there would only be two flags frown: 1x British red commissioning pennant HMS 1606 pattern and the 1x Red Ensign. Based on the design and time period what came in the kit is totally wrong anyway so i have to print, make, or order flag that are correct. Since I have finished everything else I have decided to go flagless at the moment. I took final photos yesterday and will be adding a name plate then calling this one complete! That said your advise will absolutely be utilized in future builds, thank you so much for following this build and helping to answer some of my questions. So helpful.

Ha. Feels like way more than 3 days to get these sails on. Your words are so kind. Thank you. Once I attached the sails to the spars (took a half day) I had to step away. I just wasn't up for the potential frustration and taking the next step of getting them attached to the Masts. To get them on the Masts that took almost a full day of drilling holes that were missing and finally understanding what one of the drawings actually meant. In hind sight it probably was about 3 very long days and ability to do nothing else (estimate over 16 hours of work), to get them on. It has taken me another week or so to figure out all the sail rigging lines and work through my frustrations. Thanks so much for following this journey.

Request for help. I'm in the last bit of the ship, and just installed the flad but I honestly hate how they look. they aren't hiding any shape and look like stiff boards rather than like everything else. I would like to use completely different material. anyone have a source for British flags (all 4 kinds) in 1:50 scale. Also the kit doesn't have a name plate. any suggestions on making one?

Thanks everyone. I remembered one challenge has is typically adding to my frustration and curious is someone has a trick on how to more precisely do this. Belay pins require a wrap around top and bottom. The first wrap is pretty easy but the second wrap particularly on the underside seems to be really challenging. I'm only doing two wraps on all pins (i dont know if i need to thats just some unconscious decision i made early on). Anyone got a trick for catching the bottom of the belay pin?

Life has been hectic and motivation low for a while but got some energy and few days off during thanksgiving time to sit at the bench a while so i made progress. I noticed early, thankfully, that I needed to lash the sails to the spars before lashing/fixing them to the masts. This realization likely saved me a lot of headache. Had picture but with getting a new phone i cant seem to find it. Then as recommended by others and the plans i started at one end and worked my way stern to bow adding the layers of lines as i go. I'm using a thicker than scale thinner cotton and ironed them with some slight curve. I knew at this point I wouldn't be able to furl the sails as the fabric is too bulky but i also need to figure out how to give some more shape down the line once all the rigging is in. Given this is my first true full sail ship i am allowing myself to just lean into the learning and be okay with it not being perfect or 100% correct. I have 4 more ships in model storage to practice this craft on. For now it is lots of learning. As I made lots of progress and seeing some good results I was motivated to continue the next day building the rigging that attaches to the sails. In just three days I got all the sails up, secured, and now working on the rigging that helps trim the sails (I believe), I have a few more steps before flags get installed. At the moment what I'm trying to imagine is how to get the sails a little more billowed(full) with them on the boat knowing the fabric is heavier than scale. At the moment my thought is to bundle up some cloth to place under the sails, then spray or brush on a water and white glue mixture and then let it dry. Any other ideas given the choices I have made? One last learning moment is the monoculars should be installed after all the rigging. The amount of times I've now broken these monoculars off has driven me crazy. I gave up repairing and plan to complete them once all rigging is done. You can see one of the monocular casualties on the deck in my last photo of this post. Happy building to everyone! Happy holidays too!

Thanks @MikkiC. Hopefully all goes well with rest of sails. The ones Ive done so far look pretty awesome when all finished and laid out. Will be fun once the sails start going on the masts. Much much more to come and do. My first boat was ugears sail boat then small 18th century sail boat, then cross section of victory. So i went from easy to advanced pretty quick but still novice skills and lots of trial and error and so far have some good success. Pretty impressed on the final products but a ton to learn still. Thanks for following along

Sails...I read a variety of posts and watched some videos and various posts. I decided to go down the path of cotton cloth. Im not ready to go down the path of silkspan. I scanned all the plans for a duplicate and bought a natural cotton so its unbleached and there are parts that have some darker strands. I then cut and traced onto the fabric the needed lines. then sat at my sewing machine to sew the lines in. Then folded the edes in and and oinned. Then ran a slightly longer stitch length around the edges. Then hand seeing begins with whip stitching the main thicker string around and making a loop on each corner using slip knot and anchoring it with stitch and continue around with a small overlap of the larger "rope". I've got many more to trace, cut, and sew. I plan to furl most of the sails and keep the ones between the masts out. I dont know the official names for them. Will be a bit till I get them attached but hope to provide more photos as I go.

Wow on use of legos to create jig and ways to clamp. Also love the film canister trick for blackening. Thank you for sharing your tricks along the way. My first bigger ship was a cross section of HMS Victory. Great place to learn and develop skills. Apologies, I'm new here so don't understand the best way to comment on specific posts well and have issues posting without lots of clutter.

Thank you admin (Chuck P) for helping move my build log into the correct launch era. I'll be more careful when creating in future!

Rigging! Rat lines finished up a few weeks ago. This last weekend tackled the lines between the masts. I'm sure I don't have angles right but I was in the space of "this is what it is given its my first full ship and did my best to follow the directions." I have already learned so much from reviewing everyone else's builds that I'm excited to do it more accurately on my next build. As mentioned in my last post I am at a stopping point as I figure out what I am going to do with the sails. Thank you to everyone who has already helped. Hope to make a decision and move forward with sails by this weekend.

Thank you. I likely selected the wrong one on accident. The hull is actually wood stained and has a clear varnish (a semi gloss I think). Overall I really like the look of it but know its potentially not totally accurate.

Thank you Richard for the insight. I will take a look at NRG to see what things are available.

This is HMS Bounty Kit from Constructo 1:50 Scale. I started this project in last August 2023. Due to work schedule and that work on the ship can't really be done (at least for me) in small time blocks, I only get to work on it on the weekends when there isn't other things going on. There have been times where I hit big struggles and stepped away for multiple weeks (such as between hull and mast building). (Side Note: The paint sets in the background of my photos are my spouses, who does plastic model building. We share project building spaces so there is a little of his paint inventory on my work bench) I've struggled with the instructions from Constructo. At times they were written very well while other times they were vague. The instructions don't refer to plates in the plan set which I think would be really helpful. The last part is for rigging and the instructions just said refer to the step by step in the plan set. Well there is no numbers related to steps and the assumption of working left to right and top to bottom for "steps" but it's unclear if things are mirrored nor is there a "other side" or bow, stern view to refer to. I think I've made good decisions on interpretation along the way based on photos and random videos I have been able to find online. I do wish there were more photos of the rigging and cross sections of the ship I could refer to but we all do what we can. Mast building hack (from a beginner) - this likely is what everyone else already knows but without a lathe and not wanting to spend hours sanding I was able to use a hand size planer to taper the mast sections. Placing the planer at an 45 degree angle to the mat and pushing toward the end while my other hand held the end and rolled the dowel. Once you are close I finished the rounding and symmetry with a small block sander. So effective and saved me so much time. Cradles throughout the build: In the beginning I used no cradle at all and when I needed some stability or support I actually used a rice sack I made a long time ago as a heat pack. It's great in that it can be scrunched, folded, and situated to fit the shape of the support needed. Once the Keel was on I switched to a keel clamp cradle. This worked well until once day while shifting the base the pivot point got stuck and when giving it some extra ump it snapped the keel straight off the hull (lots of cuss words and some crying occurred as I felt like the ship was ruined). After the keep repair my spouse purchased me a "dry dock" like cradle and I've used that since. All three methods have been useful at certain points in the build and wouldn't now work for all the stages. I've learned a LOT along the way and are just getting into the install of the spars. I'll get to all of that in a later post. Since I just joined I wanted to provide some background and pictures of my journey to this point. I look forward to my future builds and sharing my struggles, questions, ad triumphs along the way.