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Jolly Jo
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Hello Everyone, I was working on the deck furniture but without much to show. I had an idea how to do the venting piece on the binnacle but decided get to that at a later stage of the build. Instead I went on with the fore hatch. The grating I preferred to scratch build rather than using the kit supplied piece. After some trial and error I made one out of walnut. It was nice and a proof of concept but ledgers and battens were obviously out of scale. Furthermore the milling setup was less than ideal. In consequence I bought a real mill that was a quite game changer. I went for smaller 1 mm stripes for ledgers an battens and oak instead of walnut. For the coamings I stayed with walnut. My scratch-hatch versus the kit supplied grating on the right For rounding the edges of the coamings I uses a sanding bit 0.5 mm above the table so the bottom edges stayed square.
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Impressive progress, Steve, I love it! Listing your sources will be very helpful for my build in the future, thanks for that.
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Your build quality and speed is amazing and your fleet is quite impressive. Well done!
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Thank you very much, Steve! I haven't even thought about the lead in terms of long lasting effects (besides taken care not to breath in any material while drilling). I first thought of a funnel on top but in Marquardt's "The Global Schooner" there's this spherical cap instead. I think I'll stick to it in terms of shape but throw out the lead and also go for something smaller.
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Next piece to tackle was the binnacle. The kit supplied a solid piece of wood (looks like oak) to glue stripes to as to simulate doors etc. I wanted it to be walnut like the rest of the deck furniture and to add a "real" window so I preferred to scratch build. (oops, there was a dated coin in my wallet...) The "glass" is cut from the clear plastic of the model's cover box, the drawers and doors are simulated by carving the outlines and tracing the grooves with a 0.3mm pencil. Before adding the lid I painted the rear wall white as I thought would have made sense to augment the light from the lanterns and I didn't cut a window into the back for stealth as the ship is a smuggler. The venting hood is made from a pellet head which I drilled 0,5 mm holes into. It is not fixed yet as I'm not sure about the size. What do you guys think?
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Your pintles and gudgeons turned out really nicely, well done!
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As @SaltyScot pointed out to me it was time to drill the hole for the bowsprit before the deck furniture will make it hard to do so. As it totally makes sense I did. Thanks, buddy!
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Next on the menue were the fife rails. The measurements in the plan didn't add up and I didn't like the way they were supposed to be built either (the kit is an old mamoli one, not one after mamoli was bought by Daniel Dusek, so maybe the math is right now and/or the shape different). Furthermore the holes for the belaying pins should have been 1mm but the pins were 1.12mm at the tip and 1.75mm at the top of the shaft. Hence I turned my drill 90°, carefully chucked the handles into it and filed a couple of them down to 1.2mm. The pin holes were drilled accordingly. After test fitting I thought the pins are to short. They are 6mm so I will order some 8mm ones. As I want to add topsails I went for 4 holes in the side rails instead of 3 as the plan suggests. I cannot say I have any idea or plans for rigging or belaying yet since I never built a ship before but it doesn't hurt to have a spare hole I think...
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Congratulations on finishing your build! The ship is a true marvel and your log a great reference and inspiration. I got very much out of it and will look it up again and again in times to come for sure. Thanks Phil!
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She looks absolutely magnificent! That's (a) top notch craftsmanship, congratulations!
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Aloha ye all! Back from my holidays it was time to go on with the build. After being a little lost what to do next I had the revolutionary idea to just follow the plan... This means fiddly stuff. The bowsprit and anchor bitts are just loosely put on deck yet. I also stained the port cap rail as it was of a lighter tone than the starboard one.
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She's a beauty. Your attention to detail is remarkable, well done!
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That's excellently crafted, Steve, bravo!
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Thanks Mark. It's basically double cooked linseed oil with pine extract from the German manufacturer VLVR
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The bulwarks got raised as planned after the third gun port was cut. As the oak strakes were wider than the bulwarks I had to cut and sand them to the right width. After repainting the bulwarks the walnut cap rails could finally be glued on and oiled.
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Good job Mark, the bend looks really good! As an old the saying goes: The better the bending, the less the sanding
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Blackened the barrels with burnishing gel and built a carriage prototype from oak today. The wheels are from stained 4 and 3 mm beech wood as I didn't have any other at hand. As the oak didn't stand out much from the deck I decided to paint the carriage red and also sand the tail piece. The wheels are darkened in Photoshop to decide whether to paint them black or go for walnut. I'll order some walnut.
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Well done Steve! You will win a lot of prizes...
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That's what I thought about my first first planking as well but it doesn't have to be perfect to fulfill it's purpose anyway. And it is likely to look much better than you think after sanding. Good luck!
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A satin look to match the anchors would be nicer, at least to my taste.
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Hello all, today's work was making a mockup for playing around with bulwark proportions and different aspects of armament. My plan is to raise the bulwarks. At first I thought I put the deck to high but I didn't. Checking other build logs again I saw that all of them had about two and a half planks above the false deck whereas I put on just two. Therefore I will top them up with two stripes of 1.4mm oak wood of my stash I already bent to shape. The mockup represents the new height. Next will be cutting two additional gun ports aft. I couldn't shake the feeling that just two 3-pounder guns per side wouldn't have been enough, even for self defense. Therefore I contacted @Daniel Dusek, the new owner of Mamoli, who generously sent me 6 barrels of his new designs for this ship. The barrels are a bit longer and better made - all muzzles got the same, evenly centered bore now. Thanks again Daniel! I was also thinking about the gun port dimensions which are currently 8x8mm like stated in the manual. I tried 7mm square on the mockup and like it better so I will change the existing gun ports accordingly. Next will be scratch building carriages (the one on the pictures is an original cast metal one for the small guns) and then gun port covers.
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