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    Looks great!
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  20. Nightdive
    The companionway is almost ready for paint. I also found a better way to make its footprint slightly larger. I'd greatly appreciate any opinions on the hatch stay that Caldercraft's HMS Pickle has. I'm considering replicating it for the Sherbourne. Is it based on something real, or just model designer's imagination? The part circled in red is also a bit of a mystery to me. I think that the vertical iron has a tooth that catches on the horizontal piece when the hatch is open, but I'm not sure. I haven't been able to find any close-up photos in build logs.
  21. Nightdive
    Thanks for stopping by! Those round things are just thumb tacks with the white plastic bit removed.
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    Does anyone happen to have information about the hold-open device that the Pickle's companionway has? Is it based on a real 18th century example, and how is it supposed to work? I can't figure out the part circled in red, all of the images that I could find are too blurry. Maybe there's a tooth on the rod that catches on the horizontal bar? I'm currently thinking of replicating this for my Sherbourne.
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  26. Nightdive
    Companionway progress. The laser-etched area is slightly larger than the companionway, so I'll have to add a small board to cover it.
  27. Nightdive
    I keep finding small errors in my photos that I hadn't noticed in real life! This time it was the port-side wale that was a little too low. I re-attached the entire thing and it's better now. Getting the wales on properly was a struggle for me, and I'd recommend shaping them with steam until they're a perfect fit. I only bent mine in one direction before putting the paint on. That's probably deep enough. I could have just drilled down, but I opened the front as well, so that some light from the LEDs might shine into the companionway. I'll paint the interior black, if building the open companionway works out.
  28. Nightdive
    Before I glue the deck on, I'd like to explore the possibility of opening the companionway, as it could be a fun little project. Maybe the doors only, or the roof as well. There seems to be a lot of wood underneath it, but maybe that could be removed with Dremel engraving bits to make room for a ladder.
  29. Nightdive
    Thank you Chris!
  30. Nightdive
    I'm finally back to modeling. The yellow ochre turned out to be a little darker than I'd expected, but I think that it still looks great. I deviated from the manual and attached the wales early, but then I realized that they make trimming excess wood from the stern and lower counter very difficult. Luckily I had only used CA, so the ends detached easily. I painted the prow by hand after this contemporary model. The other side is red, but I might change that before I put the bulwarks and spirketting on.
  31. Nightdive
    50th anniversary of the sinking.
  32. Nightdive
    It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure it out myself. I too scoured other build logs, but since there was no mention of it, I assumed my PE sheet had a printing error that others didn’t. Should have mentioned about it in my log though. This is how I did it, not sure if 100% correct: Sternpost: PE-26, PE-24, PE-22 Rudder: PE-25, PE-23, PE-21
  33. Nightdive
    Wow, it sometimes takes a while for parcels to arrive from the UK. In the meantime I started another side project, creating some lighting with an Arduino. I'm planning to place one or two leds below deck, plus one on the deck, but as the Sherbourne doesn't have any fixed lights, I decided to create a portable lantern. I used HMS Victory's lanterns as a model, with dimensions sourced from this website: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-painted-tin-and-horn-lantern-from-the-gun-decks-c-ce640afa9a It's made of 3 mm acrylic rod, electrical tape, shrink tube for the horizontal bands, plus some paint and scrap brass. 2025-10-30.mp4 edit: After making my post, I realized that the top part looked a little off. So I went back and removed an extra piece of brass from underneath the loop.
  34. Nightdive
    While waiting for the paints, I started working on the display case. It's mainly alder, which I'll stain later (test piece in the lower right corner). The baseboard is a glued beech panel, and I'll probably paint it black. I've left room for a 2 mm ventilation gap around it. I plan to add some illumination to the case, so the small drawer is for batteries. I'll replace it with a solid panel, if I abandon my lighting plans.
  35. Nightdive
    That's awesome, welcome to the hobby! With my limited experience, I actually find scale modeling and scuba diving to share some similarities. Everything is about careful planning, calm execution, and if you're breaking a sweat, you're probably doing something wrong! I started diving at 16, but then forgot about it for well over a decade. For the past 10 years I've been mainly diving shipwrecks in the Gulf of Finland with my old high school buddy. The wrecks are fantastic, but the water is always freezing cold, and visibility is often poor. I wish there was a place with the visibility of the Great Lakes, combined with the variety of intact shipwrecks dating back hundreds of years that the Baltic Sea has. Most of my favorite wrecks are actually from the Sherbourne's era. It's crazy to go down the mast of a merchantman that sank sometime in the late 1700s, and see all of the items where the crewmen left them all those years ago. Sometimes even coils of rope survive.
  36. Nightdive
    Below-waterline painting completed, time to celebrate a little. After two layers of acrylic, I opted to touch up the seams with a brush. I lost count of how many airbrushed layers of paint I applied, but before the final two ones I attached the PE parts with CA. Too much CA in fact, some of the depth markings had to be removed, bathed in acetone, and re-primed. I think that there is a nice amount of woodwork still visible. I would have preferred more consistent lines of planking, but for a first model it's close enough to the real thing: I have to take a break from modeling now, as I'm waiting for Cornwall Model Boats to restock Admiralty Paints' yellow ochre and 5x5 mm walnut strips. The strips are for a little slipway that I'll try to build for the finished ship, inspired by these models: https://nauticalhistory.weebly.com/the-70-gun-third-rate-prince-frederick-of-1714.html

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