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  1. flyer
    Hi Nils Thank you. I have to do my very best in order not to lapse too much behind the standard you are setting. Hi Martin Thank you. Wolfram zu Mondfeld is THE German authority on ship modeling. His book Historische Schiffsmodelle is one of my main reverences. There exists also an English version Historic Ship Models. It is still available in bookshops. Cheers Peter
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    The rudder chains are in place. I used a simple arrangement which is depicted in W. Zu Mondfelds book as fitting for the period. The lantern was fixed with 2 additional diagonal struts in a way which I found in a book about HMS Pandora. I was thinking to rework the rather slim posts for the swivel guns into an octagonal shape but decided against it (out of sheer laziness). Instead I strengthened the tops with iron bands made of cartridge paper. Rudder chains in place Lantern added The tops of the swivel gun posts are strengthened with ‘iron’ bands
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    Hi B.E. and Nils Thank you. :blush: Yes the end is near(!) but fortunately the next project is already waiting on the shelf. I did think of the Titanic as a change from all that knotting and splicing but after a comment of the admiralty about how plain such a steamer looks without any rigging (I took this as a hidden compliment for my rigging skills) I switched back to my idea of an improved Pickle. Cheers Peter
  4. flyer
    Hi Martin Uups! Either it’s ‘déformation professionnelle’ or you are right. Cheers Peter
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    After cleaning up the forecastle the remaining braces and the missing lines on the gaff and boom of the mizzen were installed. After belaying all those lines – rigging was finished! There remains still a lot to do: More gun port lids are already installed but there are still two remaining to be made. Also the rails of the main and foretop are not yet there. The safety/emergency steering chains of the rudder must be fixed and the anchors are not yet stowed. Also the hammock netting is still partly missing. And finally the slightly reworked lantern still waits to be mounted. All the lines on the forecastle are belayed The remaining braces and other lines on the quarterdeck are in place The quarterdeck is cleaned up, but the rudder safety chain is not yet finished and the lantern is still missing The colour scheme on the foremost gun port lid follows the colour on the fuselage The rail of the mizzen top is in place The anchors are still missing but she already looks quite good
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    Hi Frank Thank you. Of course my Pegasus looks much too clean, but those flying beasts never catch that much barnacles and fouling matter as your ships do. Cheers Peter
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    Hi Nils Those sails look great. The whole ship will be an absolutely spectacular beauty. As usual I also nag a bit. I like those shroud cleats – very ingenious. But, don’t they look a bit skeletal? I admit I don’t know if they were originally made of wood or cast-iron or whatever but I think they could use a bit more substance. Perhaps you could thicken the legs with some solder? Keep up the good work Cheerio Peter
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    Hi Martin I am astonished myself how some details suddenly can make sense (and therefore have to be added subsequently - much more tediously of course than it would be if you did it right the first time – but who said ship modeling is pure fun?). (Nevertheless – it is!) Hi B.E. As always your generous comments are highly appreciated. Yes, I even have my own way to make coils with the loose ends of the running rigging. Standard procedure for most modelers seems to be to cut the line near the belaying point and make separate coils to hang them over the belaying pin or knighthead. When I started ship modeling I was not aware of that technique and drudgingly made the coils out of the real end of the line by winding it around the belaying pin and the end of a needle file 3to 5 times. The coils were then fixed with diluted white glue which can be dissolved again with water in an emergency. Every now and then, when I have to reset a line which I thought was definitely fixed and trimmed, I was glad about the excess length. Without it I would have to completely remount the complete line. Therefore I stick to this technique, cumbersome as it is. Take care and enjoy a very happy new year, all of you Peter
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    During the collection of facts about the jib sail I found that the traveller needs a hook for the sail. I amended one made of an eye pin. The sail was made in a similar way like the topmast staysail. It was bent to the jib stay and furled. Despite the by 40% reduced surface the furled sail still made quite a large packet. But the sail is quite large and I hope the proportions are correct. During the photo session I found that I forgot the sprit topsail yard lifts and installed them. Now just a few braces remain to be installed and the cleaning up of the forecastle cannot longer be postponed. By the way - during all that work on those sails I had to tighten several already installed lines and was glad that most of that installation was provisional only. The new hook on the traveller is not yet painted Jib is finished The jib is set Detail with the traveller The furled jib (and the missing sprit topsail yard lifts) The lifts are installed
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    Hi Aldo Long time no see. It’s nice to have you back. Thank you for the comment. Cheers Peter
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    Hi Martin Well, sails shouldn’t be too heavy but here I understand weight in a sense of substance and not just a whitish ornament somewhere on a yard. At least that’s what I want to create. Of course if I wanted real substance I would have to mount full sails – maybe I’ll try that with my next project. Hi Alistair But be warned: The more realistic you paint him, the louder he shouts! A real bosun could be quite deafening, I read somewhere. Cheers Peter
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    Now the first of the staysails, the fore topmast staysail was made. For the dimensions I used the data in Lees. The result was checked on Pegasus and in comparison to the proportions on HMS Pandora according to the book of the ‘Anatomy of the ship’ series. Both showed that the sail was too large. I corrected it according the proportions of Pandora’s sail. Then its size was reduced by about 40% (the sides were reduced by 20%) because the intention was again to show it furled. The sail was bent to the preventer stag and the necessary lines attached. Furling was quite tricky and after several tries the result seems acceptable for me, but I hope neither the bosun nor captain jack will have a closer look at that sail before it will be fully set the next time. The sail maker is putting in the last stitches. The four different sizes in the drawing are: First full size according Lees, full size according Pandora’s proportions, reduced first size, reduced smaller size – final version. The sail is being bent to the preventer stag The sail seems rather small but proved to be still quite large to be stowed... Stowed sail This is not a full harbour stow ready for an admirals inspection. The sail is supposed to be ready to be used on short notice.
  13. flyer
    Hi Nils Your proposed sailing equipment for your boat looks good to me. In ‘Anatomy of the ship Pandora’ I found the following picture of a 28-foot pinnacle which confirms your disposition. Pandora was built in 1779 and I use her occasionally as reference for Pegasus. If you allow a small critical comment: I think the rudder looks a bit to heavy compared to the graceful rest of the boat. But perhaps it’s only a question of the perspective. Cheers Peter
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    Hi B.E. Yes, your solution looks good – in every way. And all the best wishes for you and all in this forum. Thank you Nils. But those pictures only show half the truth. The other half looks like this… (No wonder the bosun is quite beside himself shouting for right seamen to clean up that mess.) Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Peter
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    Hello Nils It is a masterpiece. While I admire others in this forum for their extremely clean and almost clinically precise builds I also like that just slightly handcrafted look your work still has. It’s beautiful, individual and charming, for me it looks almost more authentically and is a true work of art. Oh, and please have mercy with those poor sailors and allow them to sail the gig if the wind is favorable – rowing is hard work! Cheers Peter
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    The boats just resting unsecured on the spars were not longer tolerated by the first officer and they were tied to the spars. I had no idea how to do it and opted for a simple solution. This should be OK, as there is no heavy weather expected - after all the ship is still in harbour. In the meantime the sprit topsail was made, bent to the yard, furled and the whole thing attached to the jibboom. The jibboom horse presented a small problem first as I initially found a drawing for the frigate Pandora where the horses hang below the sprit topsail yard. This would however present some problems when setting a sail on it. I thought the horses should lie over the yard to allow it to slide below them and also setting a sail without having to unbend the horses. The yard was positioned just above the cap. The arrangement is somehow mirroring the mizzen mast. Between the different steps of that undertaking many small tasks went on: Making and attaching more gun port lids, adding buntlines and braces and generally slowly cleaning up the mess with all that loose ends of running rigging on the forecastle.
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    Hi henry The sailors are Amatis 25mm crew figures. They may be hired e.g. via: http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/amati_crew.html Cheers Peter
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    Thanks for all the likes. What credit is due for the anchors really goes to B.E. I only managed a poor copy of his masterpieces but still got an improvement of the anchors straight out of the kit. @Martin Oh, he absolutely has to be that strong. I only got about 5 of those tiny sailors to do all the work on Pegasus and 2 of them are officers (I think, those don’t do real work). But seriously: the sailor should show the quite astonishing size of the anchors even on a relatively small vessel as Pegasus. On the other hand - such an anchor had to have the strength to hold the whole ship against the force of current and wind. I think that the anchors provided with the kit are definitely much too small. Cheers Peter
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    As a break from the rigging work I made the anchors. For size and number I relied on B.E.’s research (again: thanks!) and the remarks in one of my books on Granado. The first bower anchor was produced with the ring made from the material in CC’s anchor kit. This looked out of size even without puddening. Therefore I made a new ring using 1mm brass wire. For the iron bands around the stocks I used black cartridge paper which looks good even without painting it. The anchor metal was painted with Caldercrafts ‘metal black’. The left anchor still has the original ring from the kit. The right one shows the new ring before puddening The captain inspects the finished bower and sheet anchors and the smaller kedge. The kit for the stream anchor is still there as I’m undecided if to ‘stow it below’ (mentioned in Granados book) or not.
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    Hi Mobbsie I must admit, that I really stumbled Maturin-like across that horse on the bowsprit when I first read about it. What does a horse do on a bowsprit? Whine and fall into the sea, most probably, panicky beasts they are. (I like them.) Then I wondered why horses on the yards are always done in all details but those on the bowsprit hardly ever. No answer for that question. Unfortunately most of the netting will probably be covered by the furled sail but we’ll see. Hi Nils No, it’s between the stays and quite easy to fit in. Good luck with all that laundry you plan to hang into your rigging. Usually I follow W. zu Mondfelds advice and start aft and low moving upwards and forward and inboard to outboard also when installing yards and sails. But I never put up more staysails than spanker and jib so far. I think it’s most important to find a working order where you don’t block yourself your access to further working areas and belaying points. Cheers Peter
  21. flyer
    While working in the bow I noticed that I was quickly running out of usable belaying points for all that running rigging. Therefore two additional knightheads had to be installed right up in the bow. The skipper approved this and the bosun also changed the belaying point of the fore yard lifts to one knighthead aft of the one according to the kits plans. Now it should get a little less crowded on those knightheads. First try with a new knighthead Now, where did that carpenter go? The skipper seems content and the bosun already has other urgent tasks to be done.
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    While browsing through James Lees book to check what blocks where needed for the sprit topsail and the staysails, I noticed that a bowsprit netting was needed to stow the furled fore topmast staysail. As I intend to attach that sail furled I searched further and read that this said netting was to be attached to some nag or other cattle and suddenly felt much sympathy (again) for Stephen Maturin. Then I found out that the netting was to be mounted between the bowsprit horses with two stretchers. Those horses (and those of the jibboom) were missing in this kit. In fact, the only kit so far where I came across that seemingly often overlooked detail was Mamolis ‘La Gloire’. Fortunately I found also a picture of the netting in my book and was able to make one out of the same material I use for the hammock netting. The horses for both bowsprit and jibboom were also installed. Finished netting ...fixed in place Horses installed The bowsprit cap gets a bit crowded. I installed two additional ringbolts on top for the horses.
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    The spritsail yard is now finished (the braces left off until later. Next will be the sprit topsail yard with its furled sail.
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    Hi Ken Thank you (and I knew there was a hidden catch somewhere but at least that admiralty doesn’t write monthly bulletins). Frankly I had no problems at all with the brails because I cheated and left them off completely. They would have been covered by the furled sail anyhow and only have added to the bulk of the cloth. Checking on your (really nice) Fair American I presume, that you did the furling according Lees page 113. There the brails in fact seem somehow to double up as gaskets which I find complicated. I thought my brails could be more according to the sketch on page 109 (bottom right) because that seems to represent an older version. With those the clew would have been pulled more upwards (as it happened on my sail) and then I used a few single gaskets on the gaff and a spiral gasket on the mast to fix the sail. Below you find some more pictures of the spanker (others are on page 17 of the log) Cheers Peter
  25. flyer
    Thank you very much, Martin Yeah, the conch republic definitely has its very unique charm although the tourists sometimes are a bit disturbing (tourists: other foreigners which invade with cruise liners). Cheers Peter

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