Craigie65

Just had a fight with the brass sheer rail

 

Softened the brass but there is still a bit too much spring in the metal. Using epoxy resin glue to attach it to the hull/capping rail, but did not hold the rail where is curves round the bow. Possibly I did not leave it clamped long enough to cure fully. Will try again in the morning.

Lovely, clean and neat work. The desking has a marvelous hue - did you stain the wood? After 21 years has some of the timber dried out?

Hi I am not vey good with the terminology the iron straps are called Gudgeon Straps which attach to the hull and rudder pintle straps which attach, unsurprisingly to the rudder!

What a lovely contrast in colours! Your build is really taking shape.

Hi Steve

I built this kit last year and you will learn a lot. You will learn even more if you post a log of your build. The people here are brilliant and will help you if you ask

 

Good luck!

Wow what a great kit. That was really great of the supplier to give you all they parts to backdate your build. You don't get service like that very often:(

 

Mind you it must be heavy? Looking forward to watching this all coming together

 

What aircraft flew from the carrier back then?

You have the right of it. Use the model as test bed and don't worry if it goes wrong. I tried to make the rigging more accurate but realised that I should have put in belaying pin racks so just used brass eyelets - it looks okay even if it is not accurate

 

I am building the Caldercraft Bomb vessel Granado . It is about a third bigger than the president but has a much better package. Great instructions and proper plans. If you are short of space they have a number of smaller models that look good.

Hi Jonny,

As you have guessed this is not a model of a real ship. So you can do what you want! This was my first build and I used it to learn the techniques for my second build. The cannon are carronade- like which were originally made not very far from where I now live. There a lots of inaccuracies with this vessel.

Hi Cap'n Jack

Glad to see you have posted your log. Your pics reminded me that you need to sand down the planking at the stern to fair it in with the stern post. If you don't when you add the second planking and try to fit the rudder you will find the iron work is not wide enough. Guess how I know? You don't get that in the instructions. See the "how to" section on creating a bearding line when planking

Hi Simon just drop me a line if there is anything I can help will

 

Good luck

A few posts back, I suggested that a blue box was imminently due.

It was collected today.

 

BlueBox2.JPG

 

Anyone care to guess what's inside ??

(HINT: I may have chosen to follow some additional builds recently)

Don't tease! Just get the pics on line or a certain Dutchman might get stroppy

Looks interesting - mind if I pull up a chair and watch your build?

Most definitely, Slog !!

If ya don't take them off, ye can quite easily walk into walls/doorways/animals.

Not to mention the head-spins just from standing upright quickly !!!

 

I need my glasses to read and without them any detail on my build is just a blur. Mind you when I take them off the ship looks perfect!

 

I often use a magnifying lamp to paint the detail. As for finding a 1 mm part........

Add some scale roman marines and you could have the bones of a wonderful diorama

I have an airbrush as like you I also build aircraft and armour. It was one of the best investments I made. However depending on what i am painting a hairy stick can be best. For my Granado I airbrushed the hull below the waterline. Just too big an area to get wrong. I also airbrushed the wales. For the interior I used a brush and I find 2 or 3 coats of thinned acrylic paint is just fine.

 

If I just built ships I am less convinced that an airbrush would be a sound investment but with over 60 aircraft built and a dozen or so tanks well.....

I was wondering as well Craig. Think it may be this:http://www.taimen.com/en/se/product/stonefly-bobbin-threader_99931416/103887

Got it now - I was figuring out why I needed waders to thread a line

http://www.taimen.com/en/se/product/stonfo-bobbin-threader-2-loop-wire_9931/102339

interesting link - what are we looking for?

Nice little tool - did you make it? I sometimes use the needle threaders you can buy in any sewing shop. I find that dipping the end of the line in a bit of CA works just as well and can be easier in those hard to reach places

It also helps to hide the laminated walnut that the carriages are made out of

Bit of both. Instructions neutral but I think red looks better and I think I read it somewhere on this forum that red would have been a likely colour.

I should start a log Craig, haven't done one before as it's my first build and I guess wasn't sure if anyone would be too interested given the quality of others in the forum. Will try and get something together.....

I'll be interested for one

Always room for more sanding. Did you fit the foaming with the chimney in place? It'll help get a nice fit.

Yes I tacked the chimney in place and measured the coaming around it. I have taken it off as I want to modify it with a screen for the front

Just noticed that the last picture shows the coaming that surrounds the chimney needs a bit of sanding

Hi Mick

Are you starting a build log? Always good to see how fellow builders are getting on

Timmo

Thanks for the heads up as I am starting on the headrails this weekend. Might try a test fit to see if I have tHe same issue.