Wintergreen

thank you Egen, I appreciate your interest. 
 
I'd previously thought the bowsprit looked good, but after looking longer it looked too thick - & also the entasis looked wrong. Rather than a straight taper it was a curved taper & thickest at the stem. So now it's looking better, but it doesn't really show in the photos. It's also finished now too, my usual technique of wiping with a rag dipped in varnish to give a satin finish. As with the other spars the timber is Kauri Pine.
 
The bowsprit cap fitting (correct name anyone?) is done as well, & that photographs well. The drama of shiny brass is interesting but I feel it makes the part look larger, so darkening it will have it looking a little less noticeable & a little more like a practical fitting.
 

 

 

 

 
The whisker stay chainplates are almost done as well. Simulated rivets, which will also help with fixing to the hull.
 

thanks, Mark
 

Hi everyone,
 
I've been working on the model boat but haven't posted due to some other projects.
 
Technical Advisor to my daughter on her build:

 
& repainting the 1:1 boat:


 
But on the model I've finished & mounted the gooseneck/spider band. The ageing of the brass is not entirely successful but can probably be improved by removing some.

 
The mast cap, bow side on the right:

 
& spreaders were painted silver to replicate SS. Not sure on that one either but we'll see 

 
Bowsprit is shaped. From drawings that I drew it was quite a bit longer, but when I made it that size it just didn't look right - so I reduced it by about 300mm actual size. The boat design drawings don't give rigging, but I reasoned that it could be longish as the boat was designed for harbour racing with picnicking & some near coastal cruising - but not 'romantically' long. There's the temptation to do it solely on looks, & there's not many things that beat the visual flourish that a nice bowsprit gives to a yacht....so it was one of those decisions.  Anyway, this is what I came up with:

 

 
I also reduced the height of the aft ends of the cutwaters, they were just too high, about 75mm actual is enough. It doesn't really show in the photo, but they taper downwards from the forward end.

And after some biblical-grade trials, the detail connecting the (bought) turnbuckles to the chainplates was completed. I'm thinking of a simpler detail for most other shroud end details, where the wire terminates at a tang with a hole. 

 
Mark
 
 
 
 
 

Hi guys!
Thanks for likes and comment.
Progress has been slow despite quite a few hours in the shop. 
Why? Preparatory work.
It's like when all you want to do is to get that wallpaper up and instead you find yourself put up drywalls, fill screw holes, and then some sanding and after that more filling and more sanding. And just before you break the seal on the first roll of paper you realize that you need to prime the drywalls otherwise there isn't enough glue in the world that will keep your wallpaper up.
First, a picture to soothen the soul.

With a multi-tool equipped with a drum sander it was quite a quick job to get the skeleton close to shape.

However, to really get it down to specs took some grater care. When I gladly thought I was done prepping I cut the first strake out of cardboard.

Not happy with the run I turned to the book.

Yes, that man has like a lifetime experience of building boats. I have not.
While contemplating the planking I marked every plank on frame five (middle one). Then it appeared to me that the frame templates needed protection and with a sealed surface it would be easier to mark runs and all that. 
So first a sealer then a layer of some very old Humbrol paint. Fascinating enough, the paint is something like 20 yrs old and still "usable".

By that I also put an end to this weekends affair in the shop.
In the background can be seen blanks for planking. 20 mm (3/4") in real world translates to 0,67 mm on my work bench. Not that they are EXACTLY 0,67 mm thick, more like 0,7 mm. Close enough me think.
 
To be continued...

In spite of all the changes happening around the museum and the crowds of families with kids over the school holidays. I've managed to make a little progress on the 'Meteor'.  All of the forward square frames are now fitted and the next job will be to try and get the insides of the frames sanded and faired while I still have plenty of space to get inside the hull (at least the forward part).  Once that's done I can start thinking about the after end.
 
John
 

 

 

Thanks for the laugh Nils!
Please continue building!

Nice work, Nils.
I directly thought of captain Jack Sparrow and his "able bodied crew" when I saw the figurines 😆
Spot on!
 

Hi guys!
Thanks for likes and comment.
Progress has been slow despite quite a few hours in the shop. 
Why? Preparatory work.
It's like when all you want to do is to get that wallpaper up and instead you find yourself put up drywalls, fill screw holes, and then some sanding and after that more filling and more sanding. And just before you break the seal on the first roll of paper you realize that you need to prime the drywalls otherwise there isn't enough glue in the world that will keep your wallpaper up.
First, a picture to soothen the soul.

With a multi-tool equipped with a drum sander it was quite a quick job to get the skeleton close to shape.

However, to really get it down to specs took some grater care. When I gladly thought I was done prepping I cut the first strake out of cardboard.

Not happy with the run I turned to the book.

Yes, that man has like a lifetime experience of building boats. I have not.
While contemplating the planking I marked every plank on frame five (middle one). Then it appeared to me that the frame templates needed protection and with a sealed surface it would be easier to mark runs and all that. 
So first a sealer then a layer of some very old Humbrol paint. Fascinating enough, the paint is something like 20 yrs old and still "usable".

By that I also put an end to this weekends affair in the shop.
In the background can be seen blanks for planking. 20 mm (3/4") in real world translates to 0,67 mm on my work bench. Not that they are EXACTLY 0,67 mm thick, more like 0,7 mm. Close enough me think.
 
To be continued...

Thanks for the laugh Nils!
Please continue building!

Thanks for the laugh Nils!
Please continue building!

Nice work, Nils.
I directly thought of captain Jack Sparrow and his "able bodied crew" when I saw the figurines 😆
Spot on!
 

Thanks for the laugh Nils!
Please continue building!

Matt! thank you! This universal machine for milling and drilling I built myself using parts from industrial machines. Vises, spindle, and caliper are made completely independently, manually.

Hi Hakan,
 
am pleased you like the little figures, they were not so easy to find in scale 1:48......
 
(not to be taken seriously..)
The captain is the father in Law of J. Sparrow, and he decided to settle down away from the warm Carribian blue waters on his old days, he is now making the North African / mediteranian "Barbary Coast" quite unsafe with his "multy culty" crew.  He has a brand new Chebec under his command, this ship is leased from his pal, Abdul, a merchant, who ordered the ship from the Algerian yard recently... 
 
Nils

Nice work, Nils.
I directly thought of captain Jack Sparrow and his "able bodied crew" when I saw the figurines 😆
Spot on!
 

Good fit of the horizontal knee. Well executed 😀

Nice work, Nils.
I directly thought of captain Jack Sparrow and his "able bodied crew" when I saw the figurines 😆
Spot on!
 

Here is some progress on the deck planking. The hatches and pilot house base areas have been closed in and you can see the detail of the planking where it meest the margin plank near the bow. So far so good. 
 
Russ

Fig-108 -   A set of assembled parts at the top, in the centre is the strake of plating with door attached showing the out side, and at the bottom the second strake of plating for the other side of the hull, showing the complete door assembly attached to the inside, and including butt plates.  The one Euro coin about the size of a quarter dollar will give an idea of there size at 96th scale.

Update :
 
light guns mounted to the quarter deck balustrade and the bulwarks....
 
Nils
 

 
 

Small Update :
 
shaped the main mast bits, made the anchor posts and a containment box for the spill spars, also rigged the anchors
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Good morning Piet,
 
thanks for your kind words, much appreciated.
Here is the name giving stern-decoration for the EOA....
And also the boats pinnace has found its place on the foredeck
 
Nils
 

 
 

The ships boat will be a 27 Ft longboat / pinnace after F.H. Chapmans Chart PIXLI figure #14 (Architectura Navalis Mercatoria), scaled to 1:48
 
 

 
 

The pinnace is capable of carrying 6 oarsmen, the helmsman and one passenger (not shown here)
 

the boats front rest support was a card dummy at this time
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Update :
 
the place on deck is becoming scarce and I wanted to fit two elm-tree pumps (bilge water up and out )....
so the decision was to fit two tubes down through the decks but to fit a common double pump on it. The outlet chanels are still missing.
Further the port side anchor cableis rigged to the spill and the preliminary bit timbers at the foremast....   The boat rests above the spill on the two cradle racks and anchor cables
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Well guys I finally got to a point that figure I would do a up date on Montagu. As I had posted some where, may here or on Marks log of the Bellona that I had placed my channels wales to high and had to remove them and lower them  closer to the gun deck ports. Don't ask me how, maybe along the same line as redoing the cant frames more then once but they now reside in the right place. Had to take a few addition planks off of her, guess I just didn't like their look of them. Also been working on the cheeks and the  quarter deck gun ports and happy to report, they are in the right place and one more piece and they will be done. Also installed some battern's to help with the placement of the upper railes, in the near future. That is as soon as I am happy with how they look.   Gary

Hi guys!
Thanks for likes and comment.
Progress has been slow despite quite a few hours in the shop. 
Why? Preparatory work.
It's like when all you want to do is to get that wallpaper up and instead you find yourself put up drywalls, fill screw holes, and then some sanding and after that more filling and more sanding. And just before you break the seal on the first roll of paper you realize that you need to prime the drywalls otherwise there isn't enough glue in the world that will keep your wallpaper up.
First, a picture to soothen the soul.

With a multi-tool equipped with a drum sander it was quite a quick job to get the skeleton close to shape.

However, to really get it down to specs took some grater care. When I gladly thought I was done prepping I cut the first strake out of cardboard.

Not happy with the run I turned to the book.

Yes, that man has like a lifetime experience of building boats. I have not.
While contemplating the planking I marked every plank on frame five (middle one). Then it appeared to me that the frame templates needed protection and with a sealed surface it would be easier to mark runs and all that. 
So first a sealer then a layer of some very old Humbrol paint. Fascinating enough, the paint is something like 20 yrs old and still "usable".

By that I also put an end to this weekends affair in the shop.
In the background can be seen blanks for planking. 20 mm (3/4") in real world translates to 0,67 mm on my work bench. Not that they are EXACTLY 0,67 mm thick, more like 0,7 mm. Close enough me think.
 
To be continued...

14.17
To make a good fit for the horizontal, I make paper templates: