JimO

Spent most of the day making kingposts and dead eyes etc and added shrouds to rear mast. After rigging the port side shrouds to the channels and chains, I thought good but after a few hrs I felt something was wrong. Then sadly I noticed the channel dead eyes were wrong. Grrrrrrr. Need to redo them. Wasted time.

Another evening has come. Decks almost compleated, need more furnishings then on to the more tedious work….rigging and making deadeyes and blocks. Someone still using the head.😜

Still working on the decks, main deck laid , forecastle deck laid as is the poop deck. Need to make some deck furnature etc. but some stowaway is using the port head.

Guns and port hole covers on, working om decks and a wee bit of rigging.

Yet another day done. Short time spent finishing gun port hatches. Cut some dowel for yard arms and tied them up to see what they would look. My Airfix 1:35 scale Ferret Scout Car finally arived after over a month. May take a ship break and do the ferret turretless version that I drove and later commanded back in the mid to late 70s.

So ends another day but not a lot done. Made some hatch rope. Adding ropes to gun port covers and then install.

Done for another day. Channels on and port side anchors tied up. Next up main deck install and guns?

Done for the evening. 0

The nice thing about being retired is time on my hands and winter. No golfing.

Base made, hull all planked, need to work out channels an additional windows/gun ports in quarter deck.

What is the scale?

Not sure if this passes muster but here is a canon I made in 1/35 scale as that of the 1/72 scale.

Happy New Year everyone. Meanwhile lower hull to plank.

Heading out of town for xmas so everyone have a good holiday🎁🎅and stay safe.

End of a day working on the GH. After grinding the filler blocks on the hull one needed a shower and a xmas cheer of eggnog and a double (maybe a triple) shot of grog. Took no pictures of rough filler blocks as there is no need to take Bakers title of ugliest hull pictures on MSW. Part of time used to make a start on gun port hatch covers and rudder.

Did some serious hull wood grinding and test layout of masts.

Awesome work on the Mary Rose and the other one. Rather relaxed way to catch some ice. No ice fishing hut to sit or rather lay in? LOL.

Found the right size blade, got two for good measure.. Onward and upward anchors away, all four done, under the watch of Sir Drake and not Gary

Back to store wrong size blade for bandsaw, may have to amazon it. Meanwhile one anchor done.

Thanks OC. I wanted to build a larger scale aircraft carrier because the aircraft would have been bigger and more detaied but that kit was more expensive. I have been eyeballing the larger USS Hornet though.LOL. Same with the Bismark but they would have taken up more room as it is these two GH and SR will fill the void. I did not know of this site when I built them so ya no log. The 1/72 scale landing craft that I built for my museum display was also a great build which I added the Arty OP tanks, Priests with the porpoises, and universal carriers with wading equipment on all of them plus crew was a very pleasent build, It was a resin kit by Milcast. I noticed their no longer producing them or are out of stock. They also made a 1/35 scale as well but same story on supply. I wish I had pictures of it to show (may have some on file somewhere). Still deeply annoyed that that guy gave it away, It was $$$. The large scale Yamamoto would be nice to buld. Thanks Baker as well. I will be adding more ribs as the build continues. Meanwhile as I wait till tomorrow to get a new blade belt decided to make a start on 4 anchors. Small one is the 1/72 scale. Question: the cannon and trucks of the GH, that would the size be in 1/35 scale of the various types used? The 1/72 scale trucks were 7.0 mm wide minus wheels X 18.3 mm length X 5.9 mm high and the cannon are 31 mm wide by 32.5 mm length ( the upper deck guns “weather deck”?) Will also be adding swivel guns. The trucks also look like they varyfrom 4 wheels to 2. Thanks again for any and all info.

Filling in the bottom with block. Band saw blade belt broke. Girrrr.

Le Soleil Royal has arrived after a little more than two months, but I must now store it until my scratch build Golden Hinde is done 😥. The SR at 1/100 scale and the GH at 1/35 scale are the same size so no room to do both at the same time. So far looking at the SR it will be an interesting build and helpful at the same time in the GH build as far as info. My furry friend thinks otherwise😜.

Some good news. Postal strike is over so I should be getting my Soleil Royal that I had ordered back in October and held up in transit. It will have to wait on that build as I have no room to build two large ships at once. Today I sanded the ribs to the GH and cut out the middle to again dry fit on keel. Sander worked well.

Made two cradles, one for my ship, and one for my power drill to act as a disk sander. The red spots on the ship ribs is not paint.

Thanks. Plywood ribs cut and temporary placed on keel with spacers but need to smooth them out. Need to make a desk clamp to hold level..