Elia
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It has been some time since my last update and with a little time off of my feet I've been able to do little things here and there on Arethusa. I have begun making masts....first time in oh, about 5 years! I'm following my method I wrote about in the downloads section some years ago. Here are some photos showing the major steps. My only process change has been to use a plane to remove material instead of the rasp/file originally shown. On the hull - I touched up the anti-fouling paint and hull sides, made some little scroll art at the bow names, and applied Dullcoat over the outer hull. It is the first time I've used Dullcoat and I am happy with the results. The shininess of the acrylic paint is gone and hull details are more clearly visible. One odd and funny (to me!) aspect of the photos - you may see what looks like scupper run-off 'weathering'. It isn't. What you are seeing are reflections from clear, highly glossily packing tape I used to seal the 'work stand' box. On the deck I finished painting the checker boards. I've deviated from my 'pristine' modeling approach by applying a semi-transparent paint layer to those details and the deck battens. I think it gives appearance of worn painted boards and battens. Also worked on were attached the windlass brakes and connecting links. Luckily I hadn't glued those down yet - I found one of my soldered joints to have broken. And a final photo showing the two lower masts. The masts have been tapered and cut to length, only requiring flats and rebates where a host of spar related hardware goes. Cheers, Elia
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She looks beautiful, Tim. Cheers, Elia
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Darrel, Veerrryyyy nice, Darrel. The cabin roof looks sweet - the stained color adds much warmth and character to the model. Cheers, Elia
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Tim, She looks gorgeous. What beautiful contours. I can't wait to see it finished. Very fine and finessed work there. Cheers, Elia
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Clare, It's good to hear you're still working on Saginaw. I'm very interested in the laser work goes. Cheers, Elia
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Darrel, The hull paint looks super - very even and smooth. Well done. The emerging deck furniture also looks quite good. I look forward to seeing the populated deck take shape. Cheers, Elia
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Hey Gerald, I'm very glad to see you back at Model Ship World, and very happy that you're continuing this super fine build. Cheers, Elia
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Ed, Stunning work. It has the presence of a real clipper being built. Every day after work, when (if) I have a free moment, I look for updates. As I've noted before it is a joy and an inspiration to watch your progress. If you ever decide to publish this model design and plans you've got one solid sale right here. Cheers, Elia
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John, I'm in the chorus with the others - a beauty of a hull form and the framing looks great! Cheers, Elia
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Rick, My avatar is the Schooner Virginia, a replica 1916-17 (I think) pilot schooner. Her home port is Norfolk, Virginia. I had the pleasure of sailing on her some years ago BC (before children). She is a beauty. I now see the thin wire on the jib topmast staysail - I had wondered how the sails stood off the model. I like that approach. Really nice set of sails there. Thanks! Elia
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Rick, Age is catching up with me. I (re)found your original thread: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/6758-hello-and-question-re-grand-banks-fishing-schooner/?p=199981 And in it you described your sail process. Elia
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Rick, I really like the look of those sails. Have you described anywhere how you've made them? The curvature, the barely visible panels, the boltropes and corner reinforcements all look quite nice. When I get to making sails on my schooner I hope they look half as nice as yours. Cheers, Elia
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Russ, Those new chainplates do have better proportions and look 'right'. Very nicely done. Those are very delicate little details! Elia
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Bob, That deck and furniture look great - very clean and tidy and to scale. Excellent work. Cheers, Elia
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Beautiful work on that hull, deck, bulwarks and stanchions. Oh so nice! Elia
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Russ, I like the cabin, the entryway, and those windows. Very nice and well scaled to the hull. Those dead eyes look good and oh boy they are tiny. My Arethusa dead eyes were 0.15 inches in diameter and I thought I had difficulties. Your's are so so small at 0.06 in diameter. Very nice work. Elia
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Druxey, I've had the same question. I purchased Britannia metal blocks for my schooner from Blue Jacket Shipcrafters. The blocks are internally iron stropped with wooden shells. I would like them to look like varnished wood. I'll experiment with your suggestions. I bought bass wood strips for the masting and spars and would like the blocks, masts , and spars to appear reasonably similar. I've got a number of different Minwax stains I could use on the wood components. Do you have any thoughts on an approach? Thank you, Elia
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Amazing result Danny. It's hard to draw a link between those first two photos of your last post. Outstanding effort sir. Cheers, Elia
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Omega, Very impressive work on such a tiny and delicate hull. The hull lines look sweet, and I look forward to seeing this little beauty continue. Cheers, Elia
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John, You've got another little gem going there! The keel and framing looks quite smart. As Russ noted - those cant frames look sharp. Cheers, Elia
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Bob, Very nice work on that windlass and all it's components. Sweet. Cheers, Elia
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Danny, This is an amazing and a miraculous salvage effort. Very well done. Cheers, Elia
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Michael, That ought to be the sub-title of my modeling hobby. Thank you much. Cheers, Elia
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Darrel, I've following along here and just wanted to say that I think you're doing a fine on your Bluenose model. I enjoy each update. Excellent first effort. Cheers, Elia
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Bob, Thank you. The fish pens shown athwartship of the forward fish hatch were used to dump catch off of the dories. Interestingly I've seen pictures of dories, nested, and placed keel up, on those rails. The guides along the main rails, the sides of the main hatch, the bait gurry, and cabin are called checker or dividing board guides. Boards were placed in the slots of the guides to provide bins for fishing being processes (split, gutted, etc). I've seen only a few models with these, which is kind of funny, since many fishing schooners other than the mackerel seiners employed them. Here are links to a few images I've found on the web showing them. http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/tags/fisheries (The very bottom picture of the images on the left side) http://ghwalk.org/story-moments/21 In Chapelle's The American Fishing Schooners, 1825 - 1935, page 406 on the lower half of the page, you see a couple of sketches showing a general arrangement of the guides. Also on page 386 in bulwarks subsection, at the top of the page one finds some main/monkey rail checker board guide sketches. If you can find Thomas Hoyne's artwork of the Banks fishermen you find many paintings showing the checker boards. Erik A.R. Ronnberg made an impressive series of 3/8 scale models of the lineage of Gloucester fishing schooners for Hoyne which he then used to develop his artwork. As a last note images from Mystic Museum were posted here at MSW2 of ship models and one of them is one of Ronnberg's 3/8 scale ...Cavalier...and you can readily see the checker boards on it, too. http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/3662-mystic-seaport-models/?p=103570 I hope this all helps. Cheers, Elia
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