Sjors

No update today but a reminder for myself.....
Read the drawings twice before you do something !!!!!!!!!
When I placed the deadeyes I did not take a good look at the drawing and find something out when I was finished......
I have taken some wrong size of deadeyes 
I nees smaller ones then what i have used.
Not all of them but the smaller ones.
So I have change that and now I have to put back the chains......
First job for tomorrow.
Then I can go to the other side and do it straight away right !
So .....read twice and do it once !!!!!!!!!
I know I'm not the first who is doing this and I know for sure I'll be not the last !!!!!!!!
 
Sjors

No update today but a reminder for myself.....
Read the drawings twice before you do something !!!!!!!!!
When I placed the deadeyes I did not take a good look at the drawing and find something out when I was finished......
I have taken some wrong size of deadeyes 
I nees smaller ones then what i have used.
Not all of them but the smaller ones.
So I have change that and now I have to put back the chains......
First job for tomorrow.
Then I can go to the other side and do it straight away right !
So .....read twice and do it once !!!!!!!!!
I know I'm not the first who is doing this and I know for sure I'll be not the last !!!!!!!!
 
Sjors

Hi Piet,
 
I was looking around a little and I was thinking what you are doing....
Now I have seen it !!!!!!!!
That looks so awesome good !
 
Sjors

No update today but a reminder for myself.....
Read the drawings twice before you do something !!!!!!!!!
When I placed the deadeyes I did not take a good look at the drawing and find something out when I was finished......
I have taken some wrong size of deadeyes 
I nees smaller ones then what i have used.
Not all of them but the smaller ones.
So I have change that and now I have to put back the chains......
First job for tomorrow.
Then I can go to the other side and do it straight away right !
So .....read twice and do it once !!!!!!!!!
I know I'm not the first who is doing this and I know for sure I'll be not the last !!!!!!!!
 
Sjors

Hello to you all   
Thanks for all the good words.....
I'm a little confused now 
 
@ Piet,
 
You know that you have to speak English here     Pffffffff
But thanks !!
And we want a little bit colder, it's to warm !!!!!!
It looks if we are in the tropics 
 
@ Crackers,
 
Thanks for the good word !!
I love snow, specially when it is that high what I see on the picture.
It means no bus driving but modelling on the boat     
 
@ John,
 
Thank you.
For you and the family also a happy Christmas and all the good stuff for the new year !
 
@ Chris,
 
Nice to see you also back on the forum   
 
@ Lawrence,
 
Thanks a lot !!
I'm happy with the new space that I have.
 
 
@ Dimitris,
 
I think that you have souper all the likes for one day !!!!!!!!
Thank you very much !!!!!!
I do not know why you missed this.
I'll be here for a while now.
And you are very welcome to join me on this voyage !
And also for you and your family a merry Christmas and all the good thing for 2016 !
 
Sjors

I want to use that Bug but I think it will take a couple of years before I reach that stage.....
Very nicely done !!
 
Sjors

I'm just smiling           
 
Sjors

Hi Piet,
 
I was looking around a little and I was thinking what you are doing....
Now I have seen it !!!!!!!!
That looks so awesome good !
 
Sjors

Hi Piet,
 
I was looking around a little and I was thinking what you are doing....
Now I have seen it !!!!!!!!
That looks so awesome good !
 
Sjors

No update today but a reminder for myself.....
Read the drawings twice before you do something !!!!!!!!!
When I placed the deadeyes I did not take a good look at the drawing and find something out when I was finished......
I have taken some wrong size of deadeyes 
I nees smaller ones then what i have used.
Not all of them but the smaller ones.
So I have change that and now I have to put back the chains......
First job for tomorrow.
Then I can go to the other side and do it straight away right !
So .....read twice and do it once !!!!!!!!!
I know I'm not the first who is doing this and I know for sure I'll be not the last !!!!!!!!
 
Sjors

No update today but a reminder for myself.....
Read the drawings twice before you do something !!!!!!!!!
When I placed the deadeyes I did not take a good look at the drawing and find something out when I was finished......
I have taken some wrong size of deadeyes 
I nees smaller ones then what i have used.
Not all of them but the smaller ones.
So I have change that and now I have to put back the chains......
First job for tomorrow.
Then I can go to the other side and do it straight away right !
So .....read twice and do it once !!!!!!!!!
I know I'm not the first who is doing this and I know for sure I'll be not the last !!!!!!!!
 
Sjors

Hi Piet,
 
I was looking around a little and I was thinking what you are doing....
Now I have seen it !!!!!!!!
That looks so awesome good !
 
Sjors

I'm just smiling           
 
Sjors

No update today but a reminder for myself.....
Read the drawings twice before you do something !!!!!!!!!
When I placed the deadeyes I did not take a good look at the drawing and find something out when I was finished......
I have taken some wrong size of deadeyes 
I nees smaller ones then what i have used.
Not all of them but the smaller ones.
So I have change that and now I have to put back the chains......
First job for tomorrow.
Then I can go to the other side and do it straight away right !
So .....read twice and do it once !!!!!!!!!
I know I'm not the first who is doing this and I know for sure I'll be not the last !!!!!!!!
 
Sjors

Hello to you all   
Thanks for all the good words.....
I'm a little confused now 
 
@ Piet,
 
You know that you have to speak English here     Pffffffff
But thanks !!
And we want a little bit colder, it's to warm !!!!!!
It looks if we are in the tropics 
 
@ Crackers,
 
Thanks for the good word !!
I love snow, specially when it is that high what I see on the picture.
It means no bus driving but modelling on the boat     
 
@ John,
 
Thank you.
For you and the family also a happy Christmas and all the good stuff for the new year !
 
@ Chris,
 
Nice to see you also back on the forum   
 
@ Lawrence,
 
Thanks a lot !!
I'm happy with the new space that I have.
 
 
@ Dimitris,
 
I think that you have souper all the likes for one day !!!!!!!!
Thank you very much !!!!!!
I do not know why you missed this.
I'll be here for a while now.
And you are very welcome to join me on this voyage !
And also for you and your family a merry Christmas and all the good thing for 2016 !
 
Sjors

Hey guys
 
I was away from the hobby for a while. Since I've made a big push on finishing the hull
Here's a brief summary: 
 
Finished the lanterns on the stern Started adding the last deck furnishings for the rigging, gratings etc Started adding all the canon carriages Started adding the gunport hatches Small repairs here and there One thing I found particularly useful was adding a small nail into the back of the gunport hatches. This makes them easy to pick up and turn during painting. But the main reason was to add strength of fitting them onto the ship and ease of placement. I drilled tiny holes just above the gunports. Then put some glue on the hatch and stick the pin in. You don't have to hold them in place while drying. And they don't snap off so easily as just glueing them. I love it.
 
Here's some pics of my progress.
 

 

 

 

I want to use that Bug but I think it will take a couple of years before I reach that stage.....
Very nicely done !!
 
Sjors

I neither wanted, nor intended, to get ahead of Chuck on this build, but I'm afraid that it's happening. After finishing the outer hull detailing by doing the boom supports and adding the keel plates (there are still some eyebolts to be added during rigging), I moved on to the interior by doing the stern seats, which Chuck hasn't done yet.
 
The seats were made from boxwood sheet using card templates to make the parts. Some discards before they fit, but fairly straightforward work. The seats were painted red to match the inner planking. 
 
I think that I will start making some gun carriages now, while waiting to see where Chuck goes next.
 
Bob

So, as I continue with many of the finishing details, I've been fretting how I'm going to handle the flags.  As the sails are furled, I need to give the impression that the flags are hanging somewhat naturally.  They also need to have some of the aging that the rest of the ship represents. 
  After scouring my local fabric store, and trying a variety of different silks and satins - I ended up going back to the "flags" that are supplied in the AL kit.  
   First, I soaked the flags in the same 'Scenic glue' that I was using for the rope coils.
  

 
   Then I hung the flags from my shelf, and shaped them with a variety of clips and gravity. To give them the shape I wanted that would imply hanging naturally.
 
 
 
    I then mounted each of the flags. The main and fore mast flags using blocks, and the mizzen using a mounting as illustrated in Pastor's book. I then aged them using some black and brown dusting.
 
   
 
 Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome.

Thank you Patrick, George, Cees and Anthony for your very kind words and thanks to all for clicking the like button.
 
Picturesque eh Patrick, well yeah, it livens it up a little    They did use paint and a lot of carvings all around that were also painted.  I kinda want to make it look like how these ships were painted in the mid-17th century. 
 
Okay, I finished painting the starboard side, except for a few touchups that side done.  The greyed-down green looks pretty good on her.  I have to agree with Jan and Hans, it looks much better then before.  It even matches pretty close to the color chart I got from Ab Hooving.  Now on to the port side.
 
But before I turn the build dock around I wanted to make the galley chimney.  That'll be placed on the quarter deck against the port side bulwark, it's easier to reach it from the starboard side.  I first made a rough sketch with the measurements and proceeded to cut me some wood parts.  I used small pieces of basswood for the base and top with 1 mm birch plywood for the sides.  The swivel hood has also a base of basswood with 1/2 mm plywood for the sides.  The curved top is some shaved down pine to 1/4 mm.  The 1/2 mm plywood is just too stiff to make the curve.  
 
These chimneys were removable and a water tight hatch closed the hole in the deck.  I'm just going to cement this thing to the deck and forego cutting the hole in the deck with the coamings and the hatch - - at this stage o the game.  It'll be painted with the cherry like color paint I used for the railing caps.  No fancy carvings on this thing, I'm cheap
 
So, this is as far as I got in the last few days.  I don't know If I can do work tomorrow though, it's gotten very cold here the last few days.  We'll see.
 

Gwen looked at it and liked it very much.  Of course she also looked for errors an found a fe spots I missed - - - on the underside of the railing caps.  Those are the tough-ups I mentioned. 
 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't get the starboard door off and may have to use some stronger persuasion methods.  Oh well, in that case I'll most likely have to re-cement the hinges.  
 

This shows the sketch with the parts I cut.  That little pyramid like thingy in the center of the base is for the top of the chimney where the sided are cemented to. There'll be another thin square piece of wood cemented to that for the cap to rotate on. 
 

This shows the chimney base all cemented together with the rotatable cap in progress.  I left the cap base attached to the strip of wood for easy handling.  The top part of the cap is cemented only to it's base.  I'l' have to gently persuade it to lay down nicely on the sides.  I'm using CA gel glue for this. 
 
Cheers, 

Thanks everyone for visiting and your likes.  Kees and Pete thank you for very kind comments.
 
I completed the capstan backlash pawl assembly.  Mixed some Testors "rust" with black to get some sort of an iron look and painted the pawls with it.  It so happened that when I was browsing through a few books, looking for the galley chimney, I came across the drawings of the "William Rex."  According to these drawings and also photos of the interior of that model, the anchor capstan is exactly the same as what I have done.  I guess luck is not only with the irish but also with this dumb Dutchman 
 
I proceded to prep the starboard side for the repaint job.  I managed to slice two rather thin roles from that wide rol of Frog tape.  It clogged up my bandsaw though and had to spend half an hour cleaning all the gum of it 
 
For this particular masking job I could have used the regular blue tape.  I may just do that for the port side. The sticky stuff on the Frog tape makes it slide, it's difficult to tack it and then pull on it.  Oh well, everything that I wanted to protect from paint is now masked off and I started applying the red at the forward part of the ship - - railing stanchions only.  One more coat and that should be it, hopefully.  I can then remove the masking tape and hopefully the fresh paint on the railing caps didn't suffer.
 
When I started laying one coat of the green on the waist railing it dried up much darker then I wantd.  Sooooohh, I added a little white to it and a touch of red because it was not gray enough.  I think I now have the correct color match from the chart.  We'll see tomorrow.
 
On the pics below you can also see that I have painted all the railing caps.  Gwen thinks it looks very spiffy and I'm happy with it as well.  I would have rather used the cherry wood but alas I didn't think the light colored wood would be this distracting. 
 
Okay, here are the pics as she sits today.
 

 

 

 
Cheers,

Thanks everyone for the likes and Patrick and Jan for your comments.
 
Ah Jan - I must have read your mind because this morning I made the capstan latching pawls.  They are still rough but plan to doll them up tomorrow.  I think I'll paint them blackish to simulate iron. 
 
I also painted most of the railing caps and am rather pleased with the result.  It does cut back on the whitish glared and looks more believable.  Still needs to paint the underside - - - in case somebody checks 
 
Looks like I'm close to start with the green and red paint.  I bought a roll of "Frog Tape" but it's 2 inches wide      I'm planning on cutting a 5 mm piece from it on the bandsaw other wise I have to resort to scissors.  Hope it works.  It's no concern with brushing some "maple" color paint to the railing spindles, they'll be painted over with the green or red anyhow.  I don't want green and red on the underside of the caps    I do have steady hands but this is ridiculous, the tape will prevent that, I hope.
 
The push poles have received another coat of stain but they look kina blotchy, not too bad though.  The good part is that they'll be stowed away.  I started to pre-make the hardware for it. 
 

This shows the rough layout of the capstan backlash and pawl assembly.  I epoxied tho brass bolts through the deck serving as pivot pins for the pawls. They'll be trimmed down a little at the capstan ends, made into a point to fit properly against the rope guides and capstan center body. 
 

 

This shows the pawls in action.
 
Cheers,

Thanks again to all who clicked the lik botton, much appreciated.  Thank you Mobbsie and Ian for your kind comments.
 
Yeah, they were quite limited with pigments, the more reason I am in awe at the artists of those days who produced such beautiful work with a rather limited palate.   
I think that I have mixed a decent match for the green.  It took two kinds of green with some red to grey it out.  I may still have to add some more red but at this point - - - hmmmm - just thinking, I am so close.
 
The color for the railing cap is also coming closer to the maple, when you stand 50 feet away it matches quite well 
 
I agree Ian, on the vermilion.  Too light and too bright.  So okay, my roasted pepper red may not be authentic but then my model is just my own design and not a model of an existing ship.  It's also a hybrid, a heavily armed merchant.  Originally I planned on many more cannons but - - - well you know, I thought better of it.  I love the looks of the British steam engines, so much different from the US ones. 
 
Yesterday and today I completed the anchor capstan, although they are still in the rough state.  Hopefully tomorrow I can finish that up.  This ship being a hybrid I made the poop and quarter decks a bit larger then shown on like the Prins Willem but again, the thought was to have a few 12w pounders there.  
 
I plan to not placing the push poles in the capstan because i am putting about three sails up with the rest reefed to the yardarms.  It would look odd otherwise, ships under sail don't have the poles in the capstan.
 
I plan to build a stowing rack on in the starboard bulwark.  I also need to make the galley chimney and that one will be placed against the port-side bulwark.  
 
I also need to do some more research to see if I need to add more eye bolts in the quarter deck and perhaps two small knight heads.  It'll be a heck of a job adding stuff later when the standing rigging is up.
 
Well, here are a few pics of the capstan work.
 

In the meantime i have shortened the push poles a little and are now also staines dark.  You can also see the small railing cap painted. 
 

 

When you squint you can see the extension post of the capstan going down to the orlop deck capstan.  I'm happy with the solution and it adds some more busy stuff on the quarter seck, like it needs it 
 
Cheers,

As I mentioned I'm working on the anchor capstan right now.  The actual capstan is coming along quite nicely but did not take a picture of it yet.  The push poles are made but not stained yet.  I'm finishing up on those thingies on the side of the capstan that keeps the rope from creeping up, that'll be finished tomorrow, I think.  I really need to do some yard work though.  I have a ground cover vine creeping into the front lawn I need to get rif of.
 
The problem with the capstan is that the only two places are either on the upper gun deck below the quarter deck or on the quarter dek.  If I put it on the upper gun deck it'll be mostly hidden from view except when we remove the grating. I'll also have to relocate the climbing pole to make space for the push poles.  Removing the climbing pole may induce damage to the grating moulding and other parts.  
 
There is then also the issue with the capstan rotating shaft that goes down to the orlop deck.  To drill the hole in the upper gun deck I'll have to go through the quarter deck planking that'll leave an ugly hole that  need to cover somehow.  Unless I just cement the capstan to the upper gun deck.
 
Needles to say I'm going to put the capstan on the quarter deck.  That way everyone can see it.  We'll just have to imagine the shaft going down do the orlop.  Actually, the shaft is going down to the upper gun deck now and is just behind the climbing pole.  Perhaps not as it was in the mid seventeenth century but again, I'm the shipwright, owner an captain.  The design of this ship is such that for me this is the most logical option.  Never thought about it when I started this project, besides, I didn't have much in reference material.  Regardless, it'll look okay to the novice.
 
Here is a picture I took earlier in the week when I started on this project.  The capstan on the pic is something I quickly put together a few years ago and is NOT the one I'm working on    so hold your horses and stop laughing 
 

You can see my dilemma here.  That's the climbing pole for the crew to get from the upper gun deck to the quarter deck.  Yes, I probably could have removed it and placed it at the forward part of the hatch opening and then just cement the completed capstan to the deck aft of the grating.  That way I don't have to drill a hole in the quarter deck.  But I think that my solution is the best way out, in keeping with the KISS principal   And we can play with the capstan too
 

This is the color chart from Ab Hooving's book.
 
Cheers, 

Looks fantastic sjors, amazing work!