Kevin

im fine thank you, as is the wife and doggie, i finished the Victory last year, and did a bit on the SD14, but presently have the St Nectan on the table, great to hear from you, and hope you will be around and staying with us

im fine thank you, as is the wife and doggie, i finished the Victory last year, and did a bit on the SD14, but presently have the St Nectan on the table, great to hear from you, and hope you will be around and staying with us

Good evening everyone
 
 
the funnel, is a large lump to just drop in place, and there are no location tabs, so i have fixed a piece of wood inside the funnel, another fixed to the superstructure and drilled through a 3rd but, this screw then pulls the piece inside the funnel down therefore locking it in place (not fell of yet)
 
i continued with the rigging today, and it seams to be ok, the mast is in the right position, so for now i am making up the backstays

good evening everyone
 
have i got this right
 
i have tried. although room for improvement to adapt a turnbuckle to hold a replicated cable in place without the need to tie the rope/wire off
 
any suggestions appreciated,  
 

im fine thank you, as is the wife and doggie, i finished the Victory last year, and did a bit on the SD14, but presently have the St Nectan on the table, great to hear from you, and hope you will be around and staying with us

good evening everyone
 
Fish Hatches
 
well back to the pointy end, and the fish hatches Balsa wood,  sprayed back and dry-brushed to tone it all down,
 



 

David DAVid DAVID, hello my friend lovely to see you back, September 2018 was the last comment i placed on your  log, and lol i lied, i never bought the Diana 

good evening everyone
 
Fish Hatches
 
well back to the pointy end, and the fish hatches Balsa wood,  sprayed back and dry-brushed to tone it all down,
 



 

good evening everyone
 
Fish Hatches
 
well back to the pointy end, and the fish hatches Balsa wood,  sprayed back and dry-brushed to tone it all down,
 



 

Greetings all
               Well it is really good to be back, and thank you for all your comments, which are appreciated.  I started to finish off the port side planking . An hours job ?? Alas NO !! I got carried away a bit and rushed it. Half of one length of 3 mm strip was not tight up to the one below it. As soon as you removed the half a dozen or so clamps it  stood out a mile. So no more rushing things, I should know better. I will now leave that until last, then tidy up the gun ports.  I asked for advice on what I should concentrate on next, thinking the Wales or the stern work. Jason advised me the best thing to do was to forget about any work around the hull or stern and concentrate on the deck were there is lots to do. And obviously it reduces any damage which may occur around the hull. So yep Jason the deck etc it is. Thanks a lot. So onward I go with the deck area. As you will see on the photos which are next I have started on the deck and made hundreds of guns, and that was pretty quick !!! OK my friend wanted to do them when I showed him them. I could not deter him from taking them. What do you mean !!! You don’t believe me.. I will sort them later. OK it’s the deck plan out next.    Here are the photos of the hundreds of cannons I made.!!!!    Regards DAVID

David DAVid DAVID, hello my friend lovely to see you back, September 2018 was the last comment i placed on your  log, and lol i lied, i never bought the Diana 

Greetings all
          I have just returned to my build of the Diana after about a year.  I am rea

They're left lying around for a while, with the intention of perhaps using them for something. Weeks go by, more crap builds up and they are usually then thrown out, all good intentions out of the window, or in the bin... 

Hi Vane,
 
The first batches of laser cut for Speedy (including all Master Shipwright kits) were sub contracted to another UK company, who did an OK job, but quite expensive. I didn't get my laser machine until late December, and it took a while to get to grips with it, so I sub contracted another 20 Speedy kits to be laser cut, lest I mess them up.
 
A lot has changed since then, and I would not consider sub contacting laser work out, not now that I know what my machine is capable of. I have never noticed the lines on the edges of that 2mm MDF, I do not think they are there on later kits. I had already made 2 models, one complete and one complete hull using the same laser cut files, and didn't notice those lines along the edges, I just knew the parts fitted together very well and I was happy with all of the fit. At the time, I used the best people I knew, who replaced the Italian sub contractors, as the latter samples were way too sloppy a fit.
 
Regarding where I am now, I have attached some recent laser cut samples I have done myself, for the future Flirt 2mm wood anchor stocks, and also the main anchor body in 2mm MDF. There are no wavy lines on these along the cutting edges.
 
I have also attached a few pics of current state of laser cutting, these are the Flirt MS 2 and 3mm laser cut parts. For the 2mm, I have shown sides of the sheets - I have spent a lot of time to eliminate laser blowback (as evidenced in my previous post), to make the laser sheets as presentable as I can, whilst also fine tuning both laser cutting and engraving, which the special edition Flirt parts should show.
 
ASAT - Regarding Bristol, this was meant to be my second kit. However, because my business plan has changed, and want to produce higher quality kits with higher quality materials, the costs involved for larger kits is much, much more. Initially, Bristol was going have lave laser cut basswood parts and Tanganyika planking. It still may come with Tanganyika (as the stock I have is very good and the colour is perfect), but it will have many sheets of pear or similar, which costs a hell of a lot more than cheap basswood.
 
With this in mind, I need to work up to the larger kits a little slower than originally planned, due to the (much) higher investment costs of even the smallest kits. But what I hope and am aiming for is that all kits will be of similar high quality. Bristol is not scrubbed, as I have already invested a few thousand pounds into the development, it is just delayed, and that delay will ensure Bristol and others that follow will be as perfect as I can make them.

Just a quick update. The Zulu is complete, and just waiting for the printers now. I have attached a pic of the box label, which I finished yesterday. Fifie will not be too far behind, thanks to Jim Hatch, and also thanks to Jim for helping with the Flirt development, which I anticipate will be ready July/August, with a very, very special Master Shipwright limited edition. And while Jim works on Flirt, I can work on another development.
 
I had my new 'pin bed' arrive this morning from the US. The pins are magnetic and they raise the material from the bed to reduce/stop blowback on the underside of the material. Looking forward to trying it out..
 
Hope you're all keeping safe!
 
Cheers,
 
Chris
 
ETA - I put in a large order for Master-Korabel stuff this week, but was told Russia is in complete lockdown for the next few weeks, so I cannot get any new stock until the world opens for business again...


 

it would look great with my St Nectan, being the same scale

Whistle installed and roof completed.

no stopping me now

she looks brilliant Dennis

she looks fantastic Kevin

good evening everyone
 
as i try to close the stern off, adding blocks and now the Gallows, which were build up quite a while ago, the basic unit is secured into position and at present i am making the retaining bars from brass rod, i was undecided what base colour to use, but went safe and used black
 
 

good evening everyone
 
as i try to close the stern off, adding blocks and now the Gallows, which were build up quite a while ago, the basic unit is secured into position and at present i am making the retaining bars from brass rod, i was undecided what base colour to use, but went safe and used black
 
 

good evening everyone
 
as i try to close the stern off, adding blocks and now the Gallows, which were build up quite a while ago, the basic unit is secured into position and at present i am making the retaining bars from brass rod, i was undecided what base colour to use, but went safe and used black
 
 

good evening everyone
 
as i try to close the stern off, adding blocks and now the Gallows, which were build up quite a while ago, the basic unit is secured into position and at present i am making the retaining bars from brass rod, i was undecided what base colour to use, but went safe and used black