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Glenn-UK
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Thanks David I already had secured some insulated sleeving which I was going to use to cover the thread through the hole. -
I was doing some research and found the following picture which shows the actual rigging of the beakhead gun port lid; located adjacent to the roundhouses. Most builds seem to have two eyelets / rigging lines fitted, one each at the end of the hinge. I think I will try to replicate this tonight. I have already modified the red side of the lid to match the picture shown in the owners Haynes manual. I will post some pictures of my arrangement when I have completed the task.
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Hello David Many thanks for the kind words. I have been in contact with Yon. He's lost all the pictures due to a hard drive failure but may have a few on another computer but can't check that out until next week sometime. Doors and pilasters have been fitted and doors fully functional.Hinges fitted to the two gun port lids. Plan to fit tomorrow night as I'm waiting for glue and paint to dry fully.
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Hello Lawrence Many thanks for your visit and kind comments. You have completed an outstanding model and should be righty proud of your achievement. I will keep referring to your log as I continue on with my build.
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Hello Gil As always very informative and detailed information. I'm finding your build log invaluable as I progress with my build. Thank you.
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Hello Jerry Many thanks for your kind comments. I'm looking forward to completing this assembly and getting to grips with fitting my first ever gun port lids. I hope the finished result lives up to the initial promise! I have also made a small jig so I can set the hinge back 1mm from the edge of the gun port lid
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Next stage of the beakhead roundhouse assembly. The roundhouse assemblies are now complete and painted blue Dry fit of the roundhouse assembly to the hull. YOu will note that I have also dry fitted the doors and gun port lids, just for fun. It has taken a couple days to paint the pilasters, so I thought I would dry fit them. I think they look good. The roundhouse pilasters still require bending to fit correctly. I plan to glue the pilasters to assembly tomorrow night and will also fit the hinges, doors and gun port lids. Bottom and edges of lids painted red, slight leakage of red paint on one lid to correct
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Congratulations on a job well done; a fantastic acheivement, cant wait to see the Victory in your display case.
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Wow, looks even better than i would have imagined in your case. Fantastic job from start to finish; I'm very impressed.
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Just a quick update as not much work carried out this weekend. I decided to build the beakhead roundhouse assembly offship, the first task was to construct the roundhouses. Roundhouses built, ready for final shaping Before starting the shaping I decided to use my super phatic glue to seal all the gaps. Will start the shaping tomorrow once the glue is fully dry. I have also completed the cannon assemblies, looking at the real cannons the side breach rings were much larger than the normal eyelets, I decided to replicate this. This picture show the rear and side breach rope rings fitted to a cannon I like the menace of this picture
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An end of an era, I can't imagine the joy and pride you must feel at the moment on a job well done. Your next task should be a visit to Scarborough to help me with my build.
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Hello David Great result at weekend and last night for Newcastle, very pleased for you. In truth I did decide to move out as space was fast becoming an issue after we had rearranged two of the bedrooms. There was no pressure from the Admiral to move out, but she is now very happy with the new arrangement. How's the display case coming along?
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Hello Lawrence The additional room is a godsend, wish I'd moved in months ago as it has made working on the build so much easier. And of course the added benefits of better lighting and better storage facilities for the tools / build materials. The garage it not too bad temperature wise at the moment so no need for any additional heating. I have sourced a suitable heater which I will buy when the temperature drops a bit more.
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Thanks Jerry, your comments mean a lot to me.
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I have attached the kevels, pinstrips, staghorns and shot garlands to the quarterdeck. Here are a few pictures. Following this I decided to start the assembly of the remaining 8 cannon assemblies Parts removed and ready for assemby Having refined the task, I have found it best to insert the 1mm copper strip first, not glued in at this stage. I then used some super phatic glue as I inserted the front cross beam and then clamped for a couple of minutes whilst the glue grabbed. During the phase I did also check the width ready for the fitting of the rear cross beam I repeated the process for the rear cross beam After about an hours work all 8 basic assemblies were completed.
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A masterpiece Jerry, and you've painted the name on it as well. One more to go then.
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I building Caldercraft Victory ( 10 months into the build and started fitting out the Quarterdeck, highly recommend it, but not for the faint hearted
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Hello Kevin Really enjoying your build, great set of pictures.
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Just a quick update I have installed the waist ladder baluster and associated wood strip, but will delay fitting the waist ladders for the time being as I want to decide on the best eyelets for the hand rails. Also I have completed the rigging opening, main companionway and admiral companionway. Finally I have prepared the kevels, shot garlands, staghorns and belay pin strips. I noted there was an error in the build instructions regarding the shot garlands which should be painted yellow and not black as advised. I have also inserted a yellow infill into one of the quarterdeck kevels and yellow strips to the staghorn assembly. Here are some pictures, the last one is the progress as it stands. No more work to day as I'm off to the Man United V Chelsea game.
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Welcome back Jerry It seems you have the measure of the small boats, well done.
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Nice work, looks like your are making very good progress
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Looks really good, something for me to think about in the future.
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Looks like you have continued to make good progress and the build looks really good.
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Thanks to everyone who has visited my log, for all your likes and very kind comments.
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Tonight I assembled the 4 waist ladders. Before I started I decided it would be benificial to make a simple jig to aid the assembly. It was a very simple jig and I found it did speed up the process. Here is a picture of the jig, there is an section to hold the 2 x ladder sides in place and a second section to cut the ladder steps to the correct length. Ladder sides installed in the jig The ladder steps were all cut to the same size, using the jig Assembly of the ladder work in progress Completed the frist waist ladder assembly Dry fit of the first ladder. Completed all four ladders, ready to be painted black, noting two ladders will be fitted on opposite side
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