Wintergreen

Calling in sick has its advantages on modelling time... but it does not help the revenue, so I'll go back to work tomorrow. Feeling way better today than yesterday. I even fell asleep mid-day yesterday. I normally don't do that. "What so special about that? I do that every day", I hear you say. Well, I'm not THAT old yet. 😄 
 
Thanks for all the likes in my humble build log.
 
Wisky plank is in!

And all treenails are in.
Hull i sanded, painted, and sanded down through 100/120/180/240 grit. Yes, there are seams still open. Yes, you can see individual planks. Yes, it is not a museum quality piece. In fact, I will try to weather it a bit to go with the less than meticisously perfect hull. 

And I thought this image looked cool:

Look @KeithAug, I did not turn it into a lamp-shade material!

Next up... hm, two things, 1. rudder shaft and rudder. Need to find the drawing and print according to scale. And 2. Drill for prop shaft. Needless to say, they will be done in reverse order...
Pax et bonum!

Finally, the end is near!
 
For the planking, that is. I am not a doomesday vigilante...
The wisky plank will soon go in. Yay! 🙂 
Port side is sanded, which the sharp eyed viewer can see. I thought that by painting the hull prior to sanding it would be easy to see the progress.
That turned out to be true. However, I did not dilute the acrylic paint very much and used it quite generously. Bad choice.
It led to clogging up the sandpaper. Of course; I probably could have thought that out before hand. But I didn't. So, when sanding the starboard side, I will not paint until the very end. With diluted paint. 

 

Yup, it's a good feature that brain language isn't recorded anywhere outside said brain 😄 
Very convincing deck, me like.
 
Keep it up!

Thanks @Jim Lad, I thought it'd be a nice Sunday challenge 😄
 
@KeithAug, well, I do in fact own a lathe (for wood), but how that is going to help me turning out coamings is beyond me 😛 Any tips?

Tool rants and sailing discussions aside, I said I was about to do the rudder.
Did I?
Erhm, no.
After painting the hull a couple of times it didn't appeal to me to do the rudder (too simple). Instead I've opted for somethinge inherently much harder and more complicated - the coamings for all the deck openings! Truth be told, I have never done a fish tail corner in full size and now I attempt them in 1:30.. sane? No, not really. Buth then, amongst the kids I'm not known for being sane all the time 😄 
So far, so good I must say. Only about 19 or 23 more corners to do 🙂 


And here is my setup with tools to accomplish to work.

Now a brake to watch some cross country skiing.
Cheers!

Yeah, space and tools... but on the other hand, learning to do it with less is beneficiary to the skill level in the long run 😉 
Nice job so far.
 
Keep it up!

Tool rants and sailing discussions aside, I said I was about to do the rudder.
Did I?
Erhm, no.
After painting the hull a couple of times it didn't appeal to me to do the rudder (too simple). Instead I've opted for somethinge inherently much harder and more complicated - the coamings for all the deck openings! Truth be told, I have never done a fish tail corner in full size and now I attempt them in 1:30.. sane? No, not really. Buth then, amongst the kids I'm not known for being sane all the time 😄 
So far, so good I must say. Only about 19 or 23 more corners to do 🙂 


And here is my setup with tools to accomplish to work.

Now a brake to watch some cross country skiing.
Cheers!

Thanks @Jim Lad, I thought it'd be a nice Sunday challenge 😄
 
@KeithAug, well, I do in fact own a lathe (for wood), but how that is going to help me turning out coamings is beyond me 😛 Any tips?

Yeah, space and tools... but on the other hand, learning to do it with less is beneficiary to the skill level in the long run 😉 
Nice job so far.
 
Keep it up!

Yeah, space and tools... but on the other hand, learning to do it with less is beneficiary to the skill level in the long run 😉 
Nice job so far.
 
Keep it up!

Thanks, Ab, much appreciated !
 
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Installing the ship’s boats 2
 
It is done! All four boats are suspended from their davits and the work was achieved without major damage to other parts.
 
Good thing that there is not (yet) any brain recorder … because of the mental language that accompanied the process at certain stages.
 
Still there is a lot to be done, such as tidying up the loose ends, making and installing the coils of rope from the runners of the boat-tackles and the longitudinal chain-stays for the davits.
   

 
To be continued ....

Starting on the full frames. For now they're just dryfitted, it'll be a long time until I can glue them in place. I'll make a building board when I get to that point. 
Sawing out the pieces by hand takes some effort but it can be done. I've no room for an electric saw where I currently live anyway.  Someday hopefully I can have a full workshop for my hobby... 

Dovetail joints even! So now it's cabinetmaker Håkan! 
 
John

Yes, I think that will work. I did similar with the stern stanchions on my build. Altho that is a complete different kind of boat.

From what I have heard and learned the hard way, slow and steady is far better than fast and sloppy 😉
Looking good!

Well, you are not alone with that feeling 😉  It's easy to feel inferior when looking at some of the builds here on MSW. Then we have to remember that with any performing art there are thousands, and even tenth of thousand hours behind in training to perfection (or as close as you can come).
 
You are doing good from what it seems!
Keep it up!

This looks like a promising build to follow.
Count me in 🙂

Glad to see an update Henrik!
Relocate to Stockholm you say, soon enough we can start a subsidary there with all the Swedes on MSW 😉 😄 
A sincere Good luck to your upcoming move!

@Mark Pearse, yes, Sweden and the Baltic region is totally shattered with islands and skerries like no other part on the entire globe actually. It makes for quite stunning trips in the archipelago. The Admiral has a sailing friend in Florida, where they only have shallow sand beaches everywhere. To his complete horror we send him films when we sail only meters away from solid rock islands on both sides 😄 
My avatar picture is of a ship that sails in the Baltic sea, owned and maintained by a Christian organization. It has been a couple of years now since I last enlisted as first mate on it, but further back I was a regular for about 7 years. Fatigue through work and cancer did its best to take the fun of it for a while. As a first mate on it I was part in everything from sailing to finding the nearest power outlet and so on.
Primarily though it is my own sailboat I commandeer. Picture below. It is called OE36 after its constructor, Olle Enderlein. He studied at Sparksman&Stephens in NY and the OE36 is very similar to the more known Swan 36. The Swan is a bit more slender around the waist compared to the OE36. 36 is the length in feet. The first OE36 is from 1969 and mine is from 1980. The Swan predates that with a handful of years if my memory is somewhat accurate.

Tool rants and sailing discussions aside, I said I was about to do the rudder.
Did I?
Erhm, no.
After painting the hull a couple of times it didn't appeal to me to do the rudder (too simple). Instead I've opted for somethinge inherently much harder and more complicated - the coamings for all the deck openings! Truth be told, I have never done a fish tail corner in full size and now I attempt them in 1:30.. sane? No, not really. Buth then, amongst the kids I'm not known for being sane all the time 😄 
So far, so good I must say. Only about 19 or 23 more corners to do 🙂 


And here is my setup with tools to accomplish to work.

Now a brake to watch some cross country skiing.
Cheers!

In an attempt to stay somewhat true to the original detailwise, I mused over how to fabricate the coppling between the rudder and rudderstock. Se the picture below.

What I came up with I figure is an alternative way to make trucks for gun carriages. For those of us that do not own a precision lathe, that is.
How then? Well, I used my bung drillbit, then swapped it for a regular drillbit without moving the stock. Then parted it off with the bandsaw.


Apart from the coppling I also used it as bottom support for the rudder. 🙂 

This was all for today. Now that the rudder assembly is figured out I can turn my attention to the bitts for the bowsprit. That also includes the bowsprit itself. So back to the plans and software...

Yes yes, the measurements are to scale and not real world dimensions. My reasoning behind that is so that I not necessarily need to print them out, but instead just can look at the drawing and fabricate the spar from that.
 
That's all for now, cheers!

Tool rants and sailing discussions aside, I said I was about to do the rudder.
Did I?
Erhm, no.
After painting the hull a couple of times it didn't appeal to me to do the rudder (too simple). Instead I've opted for somethinge inherently much harder and more complicated - the coamings for all the deck openings! Truth be told, I have never done a fish tail corner in full size and now I attempt them in 1:30.. sane? No, not really. Buth then, amongst the kids I'm not known for being sane all the time 😄 
So far, so good I must say. Only about 19 or 23 more corners to do 🙂 


And here is my setup with tools to accomplish to work.

Now a brake to watch some cross country skiing.
Cheers!

Tool rants and sailing discussions aside, I said I was about to do the rudder.
Did I?
Erhm, no.
After painting the hull a couple of times it didn't appeal to me to do the rudder (too simple). Instead I've opted for somethinge inherently much harder and more complicated - the coamings for all the deck openings! Truth be told, I have never done a fish tail corner in full size and now I attempt them in 1:30.. sane? No, not really. Buth then, amongst the kids I'm not known for being sane all the time 😄 
So far, so good I must say. Only about 19 or 23 more corners to do 🙂 


And here is my setup with tools to accomplish to work.

Now a brake to watch some cross country skiing.
Cheers!

Druexy - I sort of imagined they would have many uses when first liberated about 10 years ago. They are nice and springy.
 
We could invent a game - The "what rubbish do you have in your modelling draw" game. Nil points Pat.

Post One Hundred and Forty-three
 
Strops, Chains, and Plates. (Part One)
Time consuming items, even before assembly starts.
Removing from the fret, sorting the various components, prepping for chemical blackening, and the process itself.

3626
It helps to have a system to speed up the job and to avoid mixing up the parts.
 
There are a lot of individual items to be blackened, which are done in batches per side.
 
My procedure:
Clean with fine steel wool.
Acid dip and rinse.
Immerse in diluted blackening fluid. My preference is for Carr’s Metal black for brass.
Rinse
Buff and repeat to taste.

3628

3630
Using the above system the strops blackened quickly and following a buff required very little re-treatment.

3631
The strops fit beautifully thro’ the channel slots without any need for adjustment. 
 
Fitting the Deadeyes into the strops is done with care to reduce the risk of scarring the blackened strops.

3634
These pliers are perfect for the job.

3644

3636

3652
For the aftermost strop on the Mizen stool which is for the T’gallant Backstay I have replaced the 3mm deadeye arrangement with a 2.5mm size, to better reflect  the lighter line.

3654
The T’gallant Backstay is of 2½” circ. This equates to a scale diameter of 0.3mm, compared to 0.5mm ø for the 4”circ Topmast backstays.

3656
The smaller version dispenses with links and chains and is fixed directly to the hull adjacent to the roof line. This accords with the Official Adm plan.
One additional benefit is that there is no need to try and cram an additional chain fixing in the very small space between the gallery lights and the aftermost gunport.
 
Two full days have been spent on the starboard side thus far, but a race it ain’t.
The second stage is fixing the chains and Preventer plates to secure the strops.
 
Hoping that the Preventer plates fall right on my build.🤞
 
 
B.E.
10/02/2024