Jim Lad
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The 'Duchess' continues to move ahead, although it's difficult to see just what has been done as I'm completing deck details and correcting small items along the decks at the moment. In the first image below you can see that the ladders from the poop have had their handrails corrected and they have been moved outboard to their correct positions, the fittings on the top of the donkey boiler house and the water tanks have been corrected and the gangway door has been cut. There is now a water pipe running along the port side and down the front of the poop bulkhead and the first section of the new wooden cap railing has been fitted. It the wider view, the loosely coiled lines hanging over the side are the whips for two of the hoisting yard halliards, the winch drum ends have been painted and cargo runners fitted and, almost impossible to see, the winches have been turned around so that they are now facing in the correct direction. There is a lot more small detail like this still to do. Once the new poop railing is installed I will need to fix the donkey boiler house and water tanks and finally work out the run of pipes between them and then get on with the cap railing. John
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Don't worry about that - it's a common feeling no matter how many builds you've completed! John
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Hello Mark, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Just catching up on your model, Valeriy. Absolutely beautiful work. John
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Keith, I think I'd be "relatively satisfied" with that effort, too!! 😀 John
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I somehow missed that photo you posted on Friday, Mark. What a great shot of a small yacht powering along! John
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Simon, I think you'll find that the Suez and Panama Canals were built for purely economic reasons. Sailors were cheap and low status; it didn't matter if they didn't come home! Those "water doors" are usually called freeing ports. John
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That's funny, Steven - it looks exactly the same colour as the original! 🙂 John
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Great work on that prop. Keith. John
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Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. Model making can certainly be a peaceful and absorbing activity! John
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She continues to impress, Doug. John
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Great work, Melissa. She's a credit to you! John
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Hello Michael, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
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Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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The multiple sections helps the boiler fires to draw better. 😀 John
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Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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It's been a while since the last update, so here's the latest on the 'Duchess'. In this first image there hasn't been a explosion on the forecastle, rather I've finally decided I can't live with the forecastle railing in the wrong position, so the after ends of the railings have been ripped out of the waterways in preparation for fixing inboard of the sidelights. Here are the railings in their new position - still a bit of cleaning up to do. This is the current state of the model. At least she's starting to look like a sailing ship (even if I do get questions asking whether she was steam ore diesel powered) Before too much more rigging takes place, I'll need to go back along the deck correcting more errors that have become apparent and finishing off bits and pieces. John
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Coming up very nicely, Mark! John
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Great birthday photo, Keith! John
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Hello, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
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Two English books; Robert Kippins's 'Masting and Rigging' (1856) and George Biddlecombe's 'The Art of Rigging' (1848) may be of use to you. Both are available in modern reprint copies. John
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