Chidokan

tweezers. I hate them. they either fire the part I want half way into oblivion or dont grip/pick up where I want them to. I got passed a loom a line and yes they are useless...the pins need threading and the lower plate should be steel, then it might work... any tension and the pins just pop out.
 
As an engineer I sometimes have to deal with kilograms per square inch.... don't ask.

tweezers. I hate them. they either fire the part I want half way into oblivion or dont grip/pick up where I want them to. I got passed a loom a line and yes they are useless...the pins need threading and the lower plate should be steel, then it might work... any tension and the pins just pop out.
 
As an engineer I sometimes have to deal with kilograms per square inch.... don't ask.

I am building the Victory centre x-section and have ran into a few issues with it...nothing I couldnt fix, but a bit disappointing. The main hull section was distorted and needed filing and filling to square up. I bought the 'anatomy of the ship' book on Victory, did a bit of browsing on here, and found some errors on both the drawings and the contents. If you google for victory x-sections you can find the same notes. Other than that I am now cracking on with the rigging and have learnt a few pitfalls along the way that I can avoid on the next build... next is Santisima Trinidad, which to be honest seems the better buy.

I have been chatting with John (tarbrush) about whether or not to do a scratch build log of the Mary Rose, which I fancied doing as a cross section.... so here goes... my first attempt at a blog.
 
A bit of background first. I saw MR towed in to dock after she was raised, and have been fascinated ever since. We get random tv programmes about how they found it etc, but what finally got me going was a volume on the MR weapons I found at Leeds armouries...'weapons of warre' which was closely followed by buying 'Mary Rose, Your Noblest Shippe'... (best £50 I ever spent on a ship book!) This has 15 sheets of 1:100 scale drawings as part of the volume along with numerous scaled illustrations... if anything I now have too much information...
 
I wanted to crew the model but struggled for anyone other than Henry 8th at first... since then I have found some border reivers (40mm tall, Perry miniatures) but finally hit on some nice 28mm figures from the assaultgroup.co.uk, which also includes gun crews. They have fixed the scale. (plastic, but you cant have everything! )
 I have just finished scaling up the plans from the book, deciding to go from just behind the forecastle to around the midway point. That area gives me an accurate piece to work on without making up/inventing the bits of ship they haven't found yet...
 
Once I work out how to size photos on here I will post up the keel etc. I don't get a lot of time to spend on model builds, so this is going to be a loooong blog time!
 

I do not think you could replicate the slight variations on the surface in a small scale from an adze... If you can ever get the chance at looking at say the mouseman furniture, you can feel the variation  and see it in the right light, but it still surprises me how flat a finish you can get with these hand tools!
Its an interesting point, (made me think about my MR decking!),but I am guessing if there was a plank standing proud above the rest, it would have been levelled to match to get rid of the trip hazard...

not come out too well with the camera in regards to actual colour... maybe I need daylight? (the background is actually white) I now see I have a little bit of touching up to do before I cut the bases off and add bow strings. I have decided to discard the supplied ramrods etc as a bit too thick on the shafts, and make my own from wood and filler.
 
A quick check showed my scale needs to change slightly in order to fit some of these below decks.Glad I caught this before I built the hull! I am now tempted to buy a few more to really fill up the top deck, and maybe get a couple of the chess players etc John found as more 'dressed down' crew. It would be nice to get one climbing rigging or pulling ropes etc...

not come out too well with the camera in regards to actual colour... maybe I need daylight? (the background is actually white) I now see I have a little bit of touching up to do before I cut the bases off and add bow strings. I have decided to discard the supplied ramrods etc as a bit too thick on the shafts, and make my own from wood and filler.
 
A quick check showed my scale needs to change slightly in order to fit some of these below decks.Glad I caught this before I built the hull! I am now tempted to buy a few more to really fill up the top deck, and maybe get a couple of the chess players etc John found as more 'dressed down' crew. It would be nice to get one climbing rigging or pulling ropes etc...

not come out too well with the camera in regards to actual colour... maybe I need daylight? (the background is actually white) I now see I have a little bit of touching up to do before I cut the bases off and add bow strings. I have decided to discard the supplied ramrods etc as a bit too thick on the shafts, and make my own from wood and filler.
 
A quick check showed my scale needs to change slightly in order to fit some of these below decks.Glad I caught this before I built the hull! I am now tempted to buy a few more to really fill up the top deck, and maybe get a couple of the chess players etc John found as more 'dressed down' crew. It would be nice to get one climbing rigging or pulling ropes etc...

not come out too well with the camera in regards to actual colour... maybe I need daylight? (the background is actually white) I now see I have a little bit of touching up to do before I cut the bases off and add bow strings. I have decided to discard the supplied ramrods etc as a bit too thick on the shafts, and make my own from wood and filler.
 
A quick check showed my scale needs to change slightly in order to fit some of these below decks.Glad I caught this before I built the hull! I am now tempted to buy a few more to really fill up the top deck, and maybe get a couple of the chess players etc John found as more 'dressed down' crew. It would be nice to get one climbing rigging or pulling ropes etc...

not come out too well with the camera in regards to actual colour... maybe I need daylight? (the background is actually white) I now see I have a little bit of touching up to do before I cut the bases off and add bow strings. I have decided to discard the supplied ramrods etc as a bit too thick on the shafts, and make my own from wood and filler.
 
A quick check showed my scale needs to change slightly in order to fit some of these below decks.Glad I caught this before I built the hull! I am now tempted to buy a few more to really fill up the top deck, and maybe get a couple of the chess players etc John found as more 'dressed down' crew. It would be nice to get one climbing rigging or pulling ropes etc...

yes,thats the one! The carriage sides are just roughed out.. will finish them shortly. I tapered the barrel today, but messed up when I tried to get the fluting. If I had a CNC milling machine I know how I could do it, but rotating the drill chuck by hand while cutting with a dremel just didnt work. Looks like a long time using a file VERY carefully...Whilst typing this it occurred to me to try using some filler and flatten whilst hardening... I need some for the dolphins anyway, and it might make sense to have these done as part of the main barrel rather than trying to add very small lumps of filler and shaping it.

yes,thats the one! The carriage sides are just roughed out.. will finish them shortly. I tapered the barrel today, but messed up when I tried to get the fluting. If I had a CNC milling machine I know how I could do it, but rotating the drill chuck by hand while cutting with a dremel just didnt work. Looks like a long time using a file VERY carefully...Whilst typing this it occurred to me to try using some filler and flatten whilst hardening... I need some for the dolphins anyway, and it might make sense to have these done as part of the main barrel rather than trying to add very small lumps of filler and shaping it.

I think I have worked out how to add pictures at last! These are a sample of the figures I am using. I will paint them up first, remove the bases and add wire through the legs in order to avoid spoiling the decks. What I did not realise is that there were laws on colours people were allowed to wear, depending on status, which limits the pallette a little. I am glad I bought an 'admiral/captain' figure to put on the top deck!
Next to do are some random objects like buckets, as I know if I start the hull I will forget about making this stuff until its too late to add it in...cross section starts at 8 and goes to 5,(scan below is from the book mentioned in the previous note) and works out around six inches long. The demi-cannon I have just started gives a rough idea of scale on the 10mm cutting mat. Barrel is from an arrow shaft I broke last week...I will be carving it down shortly.
 

yes,thats the one! The carriage sides are just roughed out.. will finish them shortly. I tapered the barrel today, but messed up when I tried to get the fluting. If I had a CNC milling machine I know how I could do it, but rotating the drill chuck by hand while cutting with a dremel just didnt work. Looks like a long time using a file VERY carefully...Whilst typing this it occurred to me to try using some filler and flatten whilst hardening... I need some for the dolphins anyway, and it might make sense to have these done as part of the main barrel rather than trying to add very small lumps of filler and shaping it.

I think I have worked out how to add pictures at last! These are a sample of the figures I am using. I will paint them up first, remove the bases and add wire through the legs in order to avoid spoiling the decks. What I did not realise is that there were laws on colours people were allowed to wear, depending on status, which limits the pallette a little. I am glad I bought an 'admiral/captain' figure to put on the top deck!
Next to do are some random objects like buckets, as I know if I start the hull I will forget about making this stuff until its too late to add it in...cross section starts at 8 and goes to 5,(scan below is from the book mentioned in the previous note) and works out around six inches long. The demi-cannon I have just started gives a rough idea of scale on the 10mm cutting mat. Barrel is from an arrow shaft I broke last week...I will be carving it down shortly.
 

I think I have worked out how to add pictures at last! These are a sample of the figures I am using. I will paint them up first, remove the bases and add wire through the legs in order to avoid spoiling the decks. What I did not realise is that there were laws on colours people were allowed to wear, depending on status, which limits the pallette a little. I am glad I bought an 'admiral/captain' figure to put on the top deck!
Next to do are some random objects like buckets, as I know if I start the hull I will forget about making this stuff until its too late to add it in...cross section starts at 8 and goes to 5,(scan below is from the book mentioned in the previous note) and works out around six inches long. The demi-cannon I have just started gives a rough idea of scale on the 10mm cutting mat. Barrel is from an arrow shaft I broke last week...I will be carving it down shortly.
 

hi John, I've already started to paint up my figures as I thought I would probably need to install them as the cross section decks go in and they might be difficult to add in later. Just installed Mozilla in the hope I can add pictures.... good luck with the build!

I think I have worked out how to add pictures at last! These are a sample of the figures I am using. I will paint them up first, remove the bases and add wire through the legs in order to avoid spoiling the decks. What I did not realise is that there were laws on colours people were allowed to wear, depending on status, which limits the pallette a little. I am glad I bought an 'admiral/captain' figure to put on the top deck!
Next to do are some random objects like buckets, as I know if I start the hull I will forget about making this stuff until its too late to add it in...cross section starts at 8 and goes to 5,(scan below is from the book mentioned in the previous note) and works out around six inches long. The demi-cannon I have just started gives a rough idea of scale on the 10mm cutting mat. Barrel is from an arrow shaft I broke last week...I will be carving it down shortly.
 

I have been chatting with John (tarbrush) about whether or not to do a scratch build log of the Mary Rose, which I fancied doing as a cross section.... so here goes... my first attempt at a blog.
 
A bit of background first. I saw MR towed in to dock after she was raised, and have been fascinated ever since. We get random tv programmes about how they found it etc, but what finally got me going was a volume on the MR weapons I found at Leeds armouries...'weapons of warre' which was closely followed by buying 'Mary Rose, Your Noblest Shippe'... (best £50 I ever spent on a ship book!) This has 15 sheets of 1:100 scale drawings as part of the volume along with numerous scaled illustrations... if anything I now have too much information...
 
I wanted to crew the model but struggled for anyone other than Henry 8th at first... since then I have found some border reivers (40mm tall, Perry miniatures) but finally hit on some nice 28mm figures from the assaultgroup.co.uk, which also includes gun crews. They have fixed the scale. (plastic, but you cant have everything! )
 I have just finished scaling up the plans from the book, deciding to go from just behind the forecastle to around the midway point. That area gives me an accurate piece to work on without making up/inventing the bits of ship they haven't found yet...
 
Once I work out how to size photos on here I will post up the keel etc. I don't get a lot of time to spend on model builds, so this is going to be a loooong blog time!
 

I have been chatting with John (tarbrush) about whether or not to do a scratch build log of the Mary Rose, which I fancied doing as a cross section.... so here goes... my first attempt at a blog.
 
A bit of background first. I saw MR towed in to dock after she was raised, and have been fascinated ever since. We get random tv programmes about how they found it etc, but what finally got me going was a volume on the MR weapons I found at Leeds armouries...'weapons of warre' which was closely followed by buying 'Mary Rose, Your Noblest Shippe'... (best £50 I ever spent on a ship book!) This has 15 sheets of 1:100 scale drawings as part of the volume along with numerous scaled illustrations... if anything I now have too much information...
 
I wanted to crew the model but struggled for anyone other than Henry 8th at first... since then I have found some border reivers (40mm tall, Perry miniatures) but finally hit on some nice 28mm figures from the assaultgroup.co.uk, which also includes gun crews. They have fixed the scale. (plastic, but you cant have everything! )
 I have just finished scaling up the plans from the book, deciding to go from just behind the forecastle to around the midway point. That area gives me an accurate piece to work on without making up/inventing the bits of ship they haven't found yet...
 
Once I work out how to size photos on here I will post up the keel etc. I don't get a lot of time to spend on model builds, so this is going to be a loooong blog time!
 

I have been chatting with John (tarbrush) about whether or not to do a scratch build log of the Mary Rose, which I fancied doing as a cross section.... so here goes... my first attempt at a blog.
 
A bit of background first. I saw MR towed in to dock after she was raised, and have been fascinated ever since. We get random tv programmes about how they found it etc, but what finally got me going was a volume on the MR weapons I found at Leeds armouries...'weapons of warre' which was closely followed by buying 'Mary Rose, Your Noblest Shippe'... (best £50 I ever spent on a ship book!) This has 15 sheets of 1:100 scale drawings as part of the volume along with numerous scaled illustrations... if anything I now have too much information...
 
I wanted to crew the model but struggled for anyone other than Henry 8th at first... since then I have found some border reivers (40mm tall, Perry miniatures) but finally hit on some nice 28mm figures from the assaultgroup.co.uk, which also includes gun crews. They have fixed the scale. (plastic, but you cant have everything! )
 I have just finished scaling up the plans from the book, deciding to go from just behind the forecastle to around the midway point. That area gives me an accurate piece to work on without making up/inventing the bits of ship they haven't found yet...
 
Once I work out how to size photos on here I will post up the keel etc. I don't get a lot of time to spend on model builds, so this is going to be a loooong blog time!
 

hi Keith, its the reason I am avoiding the forecastle, it seems a bit of guesswork is involved... a friend of mine dived on MR and still follows what goes on, so need to have a quick chat with him about it.
 
Anyone want to buy this book at the knockdown price of £800??  I could get a sovereign of the seas for that! unbelievable! glad I got it from the museum when I did... wonder if they have any left??
 
I had a quick look at the shop to see if they had anything new, and saw a poster that gives me a clue on the section size...if I go from the ladders to the ovens, I get ten cannon, some storerooms, and enough deck to get a few archers etc on. I am even tempted to do what the poster shows to be honest!
 
I wonder if I should display it at the tilt and blame Baldrick for the sinking?
Starting the frames today..

hi Keith, its the reason I am avoiding the forecastle, it seems a bit of guesswork is involved... a friend of mine dived on MR and still follows what goes on, so need to have a quick chat with him about it.
 
Anyone want to buy this book at the knockdown price of £800??  I could get a sovereign of the seas for that! unbelievable! glad I got it from the museum when I did... wonder if they have any left??
 
I had a quick look at the shop to see if they had anything new, and saw a poster that gives me a clue on the section size...if I go from the ladders to the ovens, I get ten cannon, some storerooms, and enough deck to get a few archers etc on. I am even tempted to do what the poster shows to be honest!
 
I wonder if I should display it at the tilt and blame Baldrick for the sinking?
Starting the frames today..

hi Keith, its the reason I am avoiding the forecastle, it seems a bit of guesswork is involved... a friend of mine dived on MR and still follows what goes on, so need to have a quick chat with him about it.
 
Anyone want to buy this book at the knockdown price of £800??  I could get a sovereign of the seas for that! unbelievable! glad I got it from the museum when I did... wonder if they have any left??
 
I had a quick look at the shop to see if they had anything new, and saw a poster that gives me a clue on the section size...if I go from the ladders to the ovens, I get ten cannon, some storerooms, and enough deck to get a few archers etc on. I am even tempted to do what the poster shows to be honest!
 
I wonder if I should display it at the tilt and blame Baldrick for the sinking?
Starting the frames today..

I have been chatting with John (tarbrush) about whether or not to do a scratch build log of the Mary Rose, which I fancied doing as a cross section.... so here goes... my first attempt at a blog.
 
A bit of background first. I saw MR towed in to dock after she was raised, and have been fascinated ever since. We get random tv programmes about how they found it etc, but what finally got me going was a volume on the MR weapons I found at Leeds armouries...'weapons of warre' which was closely followed by buying 'Mary Rose, Your Noblest Shippe'... (best £50 I ever spent on a ship book!) This has 15 sheets of 1:100 scale drawings as part of the volume along with numerous scaled illustrations... if anything I now have too much information...
 
I wanted to crew the model but struggled for anyone other than Henry 8th at first... since then I have found some border reivers (40mm tall, Perry miniatures) but finally hit on some nice 28mm figures from the assaultgroup.co.uk, which also includes gun crews. They have fixed the scale. (plastic, but you cant have everything! )
 I have just finished scaling up the plans from the book, deciding to go from just behind the forecastle to around the midway point. That area gives me an accurate piece to work on without making up/inventing the bits of ship they haven't found yet...
 
Once I work out how to size photos on here I will post up the keel etc. I don't get a lot of time to spend on model builds, so this is going to be a loooong blog time!