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This shot really accentuates the lovely lines you get when you go back to the original draughts for the roughtree rails. Having a correct lantern helps.
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I received my lantern kit from Chuck Passaro the other day so I spent most of today building it, very fiddly work but the end result is very good, Really well designed Chuck! The first pic is the lantern supplied with the partwork that I replaced.
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Nic work Slog. I think Caldercraft have skimped on detail with the anchors to make things easier, the stocks should start to taper at the inner iron band and should taper both ways so that the ends are still square but half the width of the centre of the stock. Steve
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Hi Ron The bulkheads bear no resemblance to the position of the deck beams on the real ship so don't try to line the nails up with them. That lower deck is good for practice because you can't see most of it once the weather decks are on, you can only see whats visible through the hatch openings. Re your question on camber, on mine the centre of the deck is about 2mm higher than the edges at the fore end of the quarterdeck and flattens out a bit as it goes aft. Cheers Steve
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Thanks Mick Yes you hit the nail on the head, scale is so important and just about every kit suffers from some sort of problem with the scale of certain parts. I didn't use the trestle trees and bibs supplied because they are slightly big, I used the pre-cut ply top supplied but I had to trim it slightly to get it the right size and shape. Cheers Steve
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Thanks for all the compliments guys. Cheers. I've been working onthe foremast today. I have sanded a curvature into the battens on the top because I've seen photos of contemporary models that are like that and it looks better I reckon. For the mast head hoops I used car pinstriping that I cut down to width. Steve
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Hi Ron Looking good so far. Your Occre is basically the same kit as my Eaglemoss. My two cents worth on the planking - I didn't cut them to 65mm because it looks wrong. I used 160mm planks (the length they were supplied) in a four shift pattern. Below is a photo I later took on the Endeavour replica showing a four shift pattern. Also, now is a good time to do a modification that also make your model look better, give the decks a camber. If your OcCre is the same as mine then it doesn't have deck camber, but its easy to modify the deck beams to make them curved so that the deck has the correct camber. Cheers Steve
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Hi Denis Sorry, yeah I see now, I wasn't disputing you, just intrigued how you might have known about Endeavour's colour scheme. Yeah the SOS models I have seen are black.with lots of gold decoration and a red band at the top. Sorry for clogging up your log with this Ron. Steve
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Hi Denis I'm intrigued, which part are you saying should be black? I have researched extensively to try to find out what colour the actual Endeavour was, without luck. I have painted my model of the Endeavour based on what was common practice at the time based on contemporary models made back then but still cannot be sure. The live work of the upper sides could have been black, blue or even blue and red. Cheers Steve
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I had a bit of a play around and managed to make a half decent long tackle block by gluing two different size block together after filing one end of each flat. I have also just started making the lower masts and tops.
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Hi Greg I reckon they should be level, ie parallel to the waterline, makes sense because they are ladders. Here is a photo of the replica and they look level on her. I did my AL Endeavour with them level. Just chalk it up as another one in the long list of mistakes/errors in the AOTS. Cheers Steve
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Happy Birthday Mick have a good one
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Hi Mike Just give them a good buff with a cloth and redo the blackening, sometimes it takes two goes to get them right. My barrels are Chuck's and I used the same blackening solution and mine look great. Cheers Steve
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I have a Model Expo rope machine and, although a bit clunky, it works fine. It just takes a bit of practice to learn how to make good rope with it.
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Thanks Alistair I thought rope strops on the blocks would be more authentic because I have never seen gun tackle blocks with metal bands. See the pics below of the Victory cannon and the restored cannon from the actual Endeavour in a museum, they both have rope stropped blocks.
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As a bit of a side project I bought some Caldercraft 1/60 cannon kits to put on my AL Endeavour, because the ones on my AL are crappy. The Caldercraft cannon are a bit low slung though and don't look realistic. Anyway I will make them up and put them on, but I won't be rigging them, just recoil ropes. One bonus is they came with lots of small eyepins, and good capsquares that I used on my 1/48 cannons. You can see the relative sizes of the 1/60 and 1/48 cannon.
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I've been a bit tardy on the ship lately, too much other stuff going on at the moment. Got some done this weekend. Finally finished building all the guns, now I just have to rig them all. I've rigged one gun so far.
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Happy Birthday Mike
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I wasn't happy with the capsquares on the cannon so I modified them to look more correct.
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Hi Mick The blocks on the cannon are 3mm ones that I bought from Chuck Passaro. Yes, the "bit that holds the bowsprit" you refer to, the knightheads, are different to yours because I didn't use the kit supplied ones. There are a lot of things different about my Endeavour compared to all the others because I am not referring to any instructions or any one single reference source, I am doing my own version based on the original 1768 draught plans and many other contemporary sources. Many of the parts on my Endeavour have been purchased separately or scratch built. There certainly are many different versions of the Endeavour because all of the reference books etc have filled in the knowledge gaps with guesses and none of them agree with each other, then the kit manufacurers adapt their kits differently depending their interpretation and which reference sources they used. Also a lot of builders are modifying their kits to look like the full size replica of Endeavour or base them on the Anatomy of the Ship book. Cheers Steve
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