Adrieke

Popeye if you d go back to some of the earlier pages you ll see that the bar was already set up for Sjors and Robbyn  so come on in
 
thanks Robbyn   yes its holding but the breaks are too visible top let it like that. this weekend i ll have a count of the dowels for the GF and see if i can pinch one . i l have to stain it but might be better then what it is now
 
thanks Anja it wil be soon , i am just checking everything to make sure i am not forgetting anything
 
thanks Mick   this weekend she will be atleast mostly done (unless reall life interferes too much as it usualy does on weekends for me) but wiht luck i can finish her
 
thanks robert
 
 
 

Hello again fellow shipwrights.
 
Today I actually started with the conning tower, hurray 
I started with the crew hatch tubes, the AA gun tubes and the periscope tubes and the snorkel exhaust and intake tubes.   At least I still have more access to the bottom part of the boat.  In order to secure the crew hatch tubes I had to cut a hole in the deck structure to get to the pressure hull.  This'll give me more meat" (wood) to cement them securely.  For the AA gun mount tube I had to cut their holes also to the pressure hull but in the center of it I have to install a smaller diameter tube for the retractable gun mount.  I went all the way down to the vertical false keel for this.  This arrangement will act like a hydraulic lift.  Instead of an other brass tube to slide inside I made a wooden dowel instead.  This seemed easier to attach the gun mount platform to then using brass.   
 
I have to wait with completely finishing allthese tubes with the hinges, lids and ladders for the crew hatch tubes and the "hydraulic lift" with gun platform and gun mount, hinges and lid till the framing for the con is done to the point of being ready to receive the deck.  That way I can know with certainty how long these tubes must be and gives me access for the epoxy cementing job.  
 
I'll use the same procedure for the snorkel system exhaust, intake and the periscopes.  They all retract, at least that's the plan.  There is also an antenna mast to consider.  Now I'm coming to a lot of fiddly detail work.  Well, at least it's a start and will be slow going.  I used the detail drawings of the con that Remco send to make the drawings to my scale.  That way I can just measure right from my drawings.  
 
I might as well go on record and tell y'all that I owe Remco and Gino den Ridder a ton of gratitude for their help.  Remco being able and willing to go to the Navy Archive in the Hague and search for drawings I have a need of.  Thank you both gentlemen.
 
I also cemented a small strip of brass behind the anchor cowl.  It was just too delicate end with playing with the anchor it buckled easily.  I also painted the anchor flat black, the pics show some shine on it but in actuality it looks really nice.  Y'all come and visit   
 
Well, here are a few pics of today's work.
 

The completed and now painted anchor being hauled up.
 

The anchor almost ready to slide into it's little "house."
 

Here is the anchor safely stowed away.
 

All three hatch tubes for the con are cut to some oversize and stuck into position.  The tubes for the AA guns is another matter.  They are of a larger diameter and I could try making them myself from some brass sheet or use the 0.7 mm styrene I just received.  The dilemma is how to attach the hinge hardware.  I could solder the hinges to a strip of 0.1 brass shim stock and then cement that to the outside of the styrene tube.  I have to do some thinking about that. 
 
Cheers,

Popeye if you d go back to some of the earlier pages you ll see that the bar was already set up for Sjors and Robbyn  so come on in
 
thanks Robbyn   yes its holding but the breaks are too visible top let it like that. this weekend i ll have a count of the dowels for the GF and see if i can pinch one . i l have to stain it but might be better then what it is now
 
thanks Anja it wil be soon , i am just checking everything to make sure i am not forgetting anything
 
thanks Mick   this weekend she will be atleast mostly done (unless reall life interferes too much as it usualy does on weekends for me) but wiht luck i can finish her
 
thanks robert
 
 
 

thanks Piet
 
Mark    
 
as promised the daily update picture :
 
all cabling has been done now.

 
with a bit of luck and time I might be able to finish her this weekend

The mainmast topmast stays. Its starting to look like a real ship finally.

thanks Piet
 
Mark    
 
as promised the daily update picture :
 
all cabling has been done now.

 
with a bit of luck and time I might be able to finish her this weekend

Popeye if you d go back to some of the earlier pages you ll see that the bar was already set up for Sjors and Robbyn  so come on in
 
thanks Robbyn   yes its holding but the breaks are too visible top let it like that. this weekend i ll have a count of the dowels for the GF and see if i can pinch one . i l have to stain it but might be better then what it is now
 
thanks Anja it wil be soon , i am just checking everything to make sure i am not forgetting anything
 
thanks Mick   this weekend she will be atleast mostly done (unless reall life interferes too much as it usualy does on weekends for me) but wiht luck i can finish her
 
thanks robert
 
 
 

hello there Keith!........nice you want to follow,  but you need to keep in mind that this is a Swedish ship.........the rigging may be somewhat different.   the terminology might be a little different as well......just watch other folks who are doing ships like your Swift.   too bad about Randy......don't know what happened to him.  he was all over the news for a while there.......now he's probably sitting in a Canadian jail,  all because of that crazy woman he hooked up with     I got the Movie from a company Christmas party.....Yankee Swap......it's a staple in our house too........right along with Scrooged :D
 
 
yea......Dr. Dafi's correct Ferit........just something I overlooked.  I've stripped out some 1/32 flat stock from my junk bin..........a tiny bit more narrow,  and I'll use some thinner rope.   I'll just save these two for something else.
 

 
 
I don't need them right now......so this will give me time to make new ones.  in the meantime,  I did as I was going to do.....cut some of the anchor ropes and make the gaskets for the gun port lids.  I also painted the railings and cemented them in place........I'm happy with how they came out.
 

 

 

 

 
the last thing I got to do before we took off to get the tree,  was the eye bolts for the lids.
 

 
I'll see what I get  'roped'  into today 

.......and other builds....I do.      the past B.S. that has been going on.....coupled with my slump in building,  is getting very dry.   I gotta liven up my build table.   so,  the first thing I did,  was tie off all the ropes on the mizzen shrouds,  and trim them.
 

 

 
I need to do the main mast shrouds......but there are a few thing I need to do still.   I decided to chop some wood.......about 22 of them.
 

 
then......drill some holes......they need to be all the same.   I used long pins to sand and square off the ends.
 

 
then thread some string,  and I came up with this.
 

 
I had made up these railings a while ago......this is where they are to go.
 

 
the rungs were cemented on the strings with real tiny drops of white glue.  they will be stained later on, and the rails will be painted red.   over the tops of the gun port lids,  there is a thin gap.  I intend to take some string,  stain it brown,  cut it to size,  and cement them in the gaps.  I don't think I'm going to anything with the hinges,  but I am going to cement in some eye bolts and rig them with ropes.
 

 

 
I went with ten rungs.......but I had the two extra {no mistakes}.......so I used them.   ohhhhhhh!  wait!
     I just had an after thought.....or a before thought,  seeing as I haven't done anything yet!   I really don't need all that anchor rope.....I'll just use some of that for the gun port lids!   sorry for thinking out loud........it's nice to know the stooges haven't fried ALL of my brain cells     see you at the next update. 
 
 

Fore topmast stays. I've used the Clasic Models violin blocks. I cheated somewhat doing the mice by using a parrel bead served over to make the smaller bulge required. I really had to guess the belaying point as I can't find reference to one anywhere. 

thanks Piet
 
Mark    
 
as promised the daily update picture :
 
all cabling has been done now.

 
with a bit of luck and time I might be able to finish her this weekend

thanks Piet
 
Mark    
 
as promised the daily update picture :
 
all cabling has been done now.

 
with a bit of luck and time I might be able to finish her this weekend

thanks Piet
 
Mark    
 
as promised the daily update picture :
 
all cabling has been done now.

 
with a bit of luck and time I might be able to finish her this weekend

thanks Piet
 
Mark    
 
as promised the daily update picture :
 
all cabling has been done now.

 
with a bit of luck and time I might be able to finish her this weekend

Thanks to all who came and visited my dockyard and your "like" votes.
 
Today we reached a milestone of sorts.  The anchor is finished and the cowling is cemented on and primed.  I also painted the inside of the anchor "house" dark grey.
 
It was getting late and to let the primer cure, and it was close to quitting time anyhow, 1700 hours.  So I went inside and had a well deserved brew.  I showed the anchor to the Admiral and she wants one on a necklace - - - hmmmm - - - not    No, she really likes it and that's a good sign 
 
In trying to fit the anchor into it's little house I had to remove some more wood from the inside and  in the process rubbed some of the paint off the hull.  No matter how careful I was, well - - - stuff happens.  This is no problem at all, it's just the paint and that area will be painted green anyhow.  I finally got the anchor to slide in effortlessly, like it knew it knew it  belonged there.  That made me a happy camper.
Can't wait to paint that little sucker flat black - - - tomorrow and stow it out of the way..
 
NOTE, The blank pic locations cannot be reinstalled because somehow I must have forgotten to [ut them into my photo file.  I do have them in my Word doc but they cannot be transferred to this post.  Edited 05/ to/2014. 
 
Now I'm close to painting the green on the topside, whoopee - - -

The completed anchor, unprimed and painted.  Well, okay, it has a little battle damage looks like   
 

The completed anchor, unprimed and painted., from another angle.
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Here we see the anchor stowed in its little "house."  There is just enough room for it and it's deployment.
 

I have cemented the anchor cowling on and applied some epoxy putty to the front for hydrodynamic flow. It's not metal but if yuns don't tell I won't either    Looks okay from ten thousand feet we used to say in the airplane business   
 

 

 

I couldn't resist letting anchor, now primed, hanging down from it's cable.  Ah yes, an unorthodox way but so what     
 
Cheers,

good progress today with the railings and the cabling

 
I think I will only just get by with the supplied white 0.15 thread for the cabling. which meant there wasn't enough because I would also needed it for the little bit of rigging. for that I used some tan thread from the GF kit
 

hello Dragzz
 
look at this picture the back off deck 2 and 3 need to be right above each other

 
 
when you fit the 3rd deck on top of the 2nd deck stateroom with the pre cut slots you will notice that the 3rd deck doesn't line up at the back and is a bit forward. if you adjust the pre cut slots till the decks are equal at the back you will see that the 2 holes for the smoke stacks will line up too as will the holes for the slanted poles

she looks amazing

good progress today with the railings and the cabling

 
I think I will only just get by with the supplied white 0.15 thread for the cabling. which meant there wasn't enough because I would also needed it for the little bit of rigging. for that I used some tan thread from the GF kit
 

Hi Guys,
 
My turn to add an update on progress made so far.
 
Well I ripped out all of the eyebolts from under the platforms and followed the advice from Grant on how they should be done, he kindly sent me some information from one of his practicums which illustrated it perfectly.
 
The big question was "How in _ells teeth am I going to do that", but it wasn't as bad as I first thought. So it was with some trepidation that I drilled my first hole in the Main Platform followed by another 11. The results you will see.
 
The railings and netting was fitted next.
 
I have since fitted the Mizzen Platform to the mast but the Main and Fore Mast Platforms are only dry fitted.
 
Next came the Burton Pendants, I made hard eyes for these out of 4mm dowel, I drilled out the centres with a 1.8mm bit and filed them down to the size required. I then had to serve rope for the Mizzen Pendants, Then it happened, my super duper server fell apart, the gearing got all jammed up and kept jamming, so I had to pull it apart and virtually start all over again. I now have a server that's got more holes in it than a colander, still it works which is the main thing.
 
With the rope served I attached the eyes and served the ends, it is now fitted to the mast.
 
So that's it, not a lot really, but unfortunately life has a habit of getting in the way of building, plus the fact that I have had a bit of builders block, at least that's behind me now.
 
Some pics.
 
Top of the Main Platform showing the retaining pegs.

 
The completed Platforms

 
The underside of the Platforms

 
The Burton Pendants on the Mizzen Platform

 
 
The served rope seized around the mast

 
The 3 masts with platforms

 

 
So there we have it, next step is the Mizzen shrouds.
 
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
 
Be Good
 
mobbsie
 
 

yes adrieke u was right  on with that pic i lined up the deck3 with deck 2 i hve to move back such a simple fix that i did see that tys for the help   ps keep up the great work
 

sorry Sjors but that box behind the serving machine is too distracting

good progress today with the railings and the cabling

 
I think I will only just get by with the supplied white 0.15 thread for the cabling. which meant there wasn't enough because I would also needed it for the little bit of rigging. for that I used some tan thread from the GF kit
 

hello Dragzz
 
look at this picture the back off deck 2 and 3 need to be right above each other

 
 
when you fit the 3rd deck on top of the 2nd deck stateroom with the pre cut slots you will notice that the 3rd deck doesn't line up at the back and is a bit forward. if you adjust the pre cut slots till the decks are equal at the back you will see that the 2 holes for the smoke stacks will line up too as will the holes for the slanted poles

sorry Sjors but that box behind the serving machine is too distracting