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I have been cracking on with the hull assembly today and have made good progress. I started off with a full dry fit of the various items. I was pleased with how well everything fitted. When fitting the bulkheads, as can be seen in the next photo, I like make pencil marks as an indication that they are fully seated. Next I drew the beading line on the keel. To help ensure I remove an equal amount of the keel during the beading process I added a thin tape strip along the edge as a guide. Next I faired the bulkheads, support strips and fillers and then assembled the hull. I will complete the fairing process using planks to check the various contact areas. This is a picture of the bow section This picture shows the main support strips in place This picture shows the stern support strips in place. This picture shows the stern filler piece in place This is another picture showing the stern area This final picture shows the stern frame which are only dry fitted but once glued in place I can then fit the main deck next along with the two two rudder platform bulkheads and rudder head housing platform.
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Hello Derek I would to like get this model built before The Sphinx is released later this year. Also bashing wood again makes a nice change after many weeks of rigging
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Many thanks. If you could see some of the errors I've made, especially with some of my rigging then the bar is not set that high🤣
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Now that I have completed the Duchess of Kingston build the shipyard required a good tidy up ready for the next occupant. A selection of tools have been layout out in readiness for the Cutter Alert The Cutter Alert has now moved into the shipyard and is ready for the hull assembly phase. I do like to test fit parts to see if there are any potential problems. When fitting the inner, middle and outer stern frames to bulkhead 10 and 9 there did seem a slight alignment issue with the two outer stern frames, as shown in the photo below. With a little bit of gentle persuasion the outer stern frames could be fitted in the bulkhead 9 slots. The first task is to bevel the top edge of bulkhead 10 so it follows the same angle as the top edge of the keel. With the stern frames positioned in bulkhead 10 I marked the position of top edge of the keel on bulkhead 10 to make the sanding task easier. Using my sanding stick it did not take too much effort to shape the top of bulkhead 10. As can be seen in the photo below the edge between the two inner stern frames still requires a tad more sanding.
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Looking very good. It is another master class of your building skills.
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Thank you. Enjoy your build like I have.
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Thanks Derek. I am very pleased. I have learnt so much in building this model. Your Soeedy log helped me a great deal.
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Thanks Jim, it is a nice model, thankfully only I am fully aware of all the errors.
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Many thanks, enjoy the build it is a fantastic model to build.
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Many thanks Chris Cutter Alert up next
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All things must come to an end and today I finally completed my build of The Duchess Of Kingston. This has been a very enjoyable project and many thanks to Chris Watton for an excellent design. I have made plenty of mistakes during the build and it is fair to say that there is still plenty of room for improvement especially with my rigging. I have ordered a display case which will delivered in about 4 weeks time. I have taken a few photos of my completed build. The completed build Another view Stern Windows Main Window More Windows and Steps Cabin Doors Helm Midships Deck Bow Deck Section Figurehead
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Wishing your wife a speedy recovery.
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The end of the build is now in sight. Today I finished belaying the yard lifts. It is extremely difficult to belay to the main mast bitts aft belaying rail due to the very limited access. I managed it with a few cheats, mainly using ca gel to hold the thread in place at times. I have also added the fore yard braces, so all that is left is the main mast and mizzen mast yard braces and the anchor.
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It has been a productive day the ship yard. As indicated in a previous post the seizing on the block at the end of the bowsprit for the fore topgallant stay had failed. My first task this morning was to remove the stay rigging and to refasten the block to the end of the bowsprit. Once this was done I was able to run in a new piece of thread for the fore topgallant stay. Next I moved on to adding the yard lifts. I was surprised how much progress I have made in this respect today. All the fore yard lifts have been fully rigged and belayed. The main yard lifts and the mizzen yard lifts have also been fully rigged but they have not, as yet, been belayed. This is a picture showing the fore yard lifts. When belaying the foreyard I noticed I had failed to fit the two cleats to the inner bulwarks. It was a bit awkward to fit then at this late stage but thankfully I was able to get them glued on place. This next picture shows all the yard lifts, and the un-belayed threads for main and mizzen yards can be seen. They have been threaded down the masts toward their respective belaying pins. It is now simple a matter of a slightly adjusting the tension in each of the lifts when setting the yards square to the masts before the ends are belayed. Once I have belayed the main and mizzen yard lifts, all that is left to do is to add the various yard braces and then to finally to add the anchor. With a fair wind I hope to complete the Duchess of Kingston build within the next couple of weeks. I have also started to look a suitable display case for this model. On one of the most popular quiz shows on TV last week there was a round where the answers all ended with the letters QUE. One of the question was: " A name given to a sailing ship, typically with three masts, in which the foremast and mainmast are square-rigged and the mizzenmast is rigged fore and aft." My wife look at me expectantly waiting for me to show off my depth of knowledge. Sadly I could not offer an answer so she said what about BARQUE as an answer, as she had once heard of a ship called the Bark Endeavour. My humiliation was complete as BARQUE turned out to be the correct answer.
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Progress has been a bit slower than expected over the last few days. All the yards have now been secured to the masts as can be seen in the picture below. IJN Yamato and Speedy are in the background. I have almost completed adding the jeers, I only have the mizzen lateen yard and mizzen topsail yard jeers to complete. These jeers have been rigged and just waiting for me to be belay them. In the picture below I was setting the position of the mizzen latten yard and getting the correct tension and position of the central block arrangement. The two tail threads have not been rigged through the blocks at this stage but are held under tension using a couple of reverse action twezzers. In the next picture the two tail threads have now been rigged through the blocks and are now ready to be belayed to their respective cleats.
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