Beef Wellington
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Carl - I'll think I'll put off the photo-etching of my own letters to a future build! I have enough going on with just the kit -
Hi Mobbsie, looking forward to seeing how your gunports turned out, I must say it the process sounds a bit harrowing!
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Very nice Ray, she certainly has some nice lines and seems to be a big girl! If you ever have a moment, I'd love to see a picture with Diana next to your Pegasus to get a sense of the difference in size.
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Nice work on the guns Timmo. I think these are going to be the death of me on my Snake as there are 18 of them and I'm just trying to figure out the rigging aspects. Curious on your blackening method whether you tried diluting with hot water to see how that played out? I must confess I wanted to use the blackening approach but I just couldn't get a consistent finish with all the different metals involved in the carronades, yours are looking very nice and the rope work looks great. Which part of the cannon carriage did you 'pin'?
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Skippy, lovely build you have going there, especially like your use of the maple. I'd have to agree with BE on the copper plates, you look to be well short and I suspect that a call to Jotika would be in order, they may send to you for free. On my Snake I certainly had more than 15 mistakes and was still able to complete it just fine. A break from the coppering while waiting may not be a bad thing!
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Jim, Smitty - thanks, I have your Pickle on my 'to read' list which I promise I'll get to soon. Definitely agree BE, unfortunately the Snake kit doesn't even come with the photo etch letters as an option which I've seen in some of the other builds, so its this or nothing it seems.
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Had a naming ceremony! Credit for this goes to Blue Ensign whose excellent approach on his Pickle build I poached for applying the lettering, which are letraset 5mm gold Times New Roman dry rub transfers. Easy to apply, but alignment is a bit tricky - looks better in person for some reason. I tried to get the letters to follow the curve of the underside of the stern.
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I think Danvad just installed these on his Vulture build.
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Hi Stergios, just to confirm - yes, diluted PVA glue is the way to go. You can dry assemble the grates (which I found very fiddly) and then use a cheap brush to soak the dilute PVA glue in - seem to recall I used about a 50% dilution. When dry assembling I found that if you put the pieces on some tape, it helps hold things together until you can glue. Also be careful to ensure they are 90% corners, I needed to redo one or two as they had slipped, but I simply soaked in rubbing alcohol and then re-glued - very easy to fix once you know how.
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The replacement wheels come individually in a pack so you would need 2, I hope I didn't suggest anywhere only one was needed, if so I apologize.
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Very nice. What kind of a butt shift did you use? And how about the treenails? :-)
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Hi Len, looking forward to seeing more progress, I loved following your Bellerophon's progress before the great crash. Thanks for reposting.
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Very nice solid start Pierre, nearly as nice as your Chimay...a perfect combination! You mention realigning the gunports, is there something you would have done differently if you had to do it again? I'm curious as I would love to tackle this ship in the future.
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Glad you like the pictures, its a lot easier to post pictures than make progress I think. I hope I'm not guilty of posting too many with too little progress
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Great pictures Sjors, Mirage looks very impressive...and your workspace is very nice too.
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Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops of the Royal Navy
Beef Wellington replied to molasses's topic in Nautical/Naval History
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Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops of the Royal Navy
Beef Wellington replied to molasses's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Great info Dave, very interesting. I would agree that there is an opportunity for Caldercraft to offer such a kit that would make it easy to model any one of the Cruizer class - it seems the later Cruizers had the caronnades and often had the fore and aft platforms (paintings of HMS Pelorus illustrate this when she grounded, and interestingly she was ship rigged for a period as well which suggests that masting changes may have been pretty common). Looking forward to the next installment. -
Hi gunslinger, just found your log. Your Badger is coming along very nicely, look forward to more progress pictures.
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Appreciate your motivating comments chaps! Robert - coming from you and what you've done with your Mars that is high, probably undeserved praise. I can only aspire to what you've acheived. Jean-Pierre - thanks for stopping by and the kind words. I did my best to ensure the chains were symmetrical and they look fine in person, however they never quite seem to look look right in photos, must be because of all the angles involved. I don't have a lot of prior experience, the usual Airfix plane and tank kits growing up, and of course HMS Victory (think it was 1:180). My last complete model was 20yrs ago,1:96 Revell USS Constitution, I was happy with it at the time but I'm sure if I looked at it today I'd see a lot of things I'd want to do better. I started the Billings Bounty 15 or so years ago and really got no further than the framing as instructions were poor and I couldn't figure out the basic planking and failed horribly! It wasn't until I found MSW that I got the courage to try again with the wonderful support and help from its members that really helped de-mystify the hobby. Carl - I built the table for practice Jim - I'm with you on the Carronades, this seems to be the next 'daunting' task which I wan to get started on soom
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M - thanks for watching over my shoulder Robert, here you go, hope you're not disappointed...she had her first trip outside for some beauty shots. The Snake doesn't have the most beautiful lines of the other ships on here (Mars and Pegasus esp.), but maybe a certain "utilitarian elegance".
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Maurice, Robert, Carl, appreciate you checking in and the advice. Finished the starboard pinrails, couple of things to note (mainly for my own benefit when I refer back to this) Two brass pins were used in each pinrail as recommended to take any strain from rigging Once the right height had been determined, I made a block that could be placed on the deck to ensure each pinrail was a consistent distance from the deck. The height chosen ensure that there is sufficient clearance from the capping rail, and no interference with the sweep ports Putting bit of pressure on pins attached to the pinrails was sufficient to make small 'locating' indents in the bulwark that could then be drilled out properly before gluing. Installed the belaying pins once pinrails were fixed and painted. Once again, these are not the kit supplied pins, they are the aftermarket Caldercraft ones offered in their newer kits, a cheap but worthwhile upgrade in my humble opinion. Glad I deviated from the plans, second photo shows that there is a more workable distance between the belaying pins and the bulwark which will hopefully allow me to coil some ropes on here when I get to the rigging. Will be travelling next week so will need to put tools down until I get back, but pretty pleased with the way these turned out. Shes starting to feel a bit more like a ship and not just a hull.
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Hi Jeff, those blocks are a dramatic improvement, do you happen to have a link to the website where you got them? Cheers
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Thats a nice looking rudder Stergios, glad you're back in the shipyard.
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I seem to have reached a stage where there are now many options open to me on how to proceed, and have had difficulty deciding how I wanted to attach the bulwark pinrails. The plans indicate that these should be fitted directly under the capping rail, however everything I've seem indicates that these should be mounted lower (pics below of Trincomalee and Constitution). Mounted one set to see how it looks and think this is how I will proceed, these are at 3'5" (~1m) actual height above the deck which seem to tie in with the real life examples. Another reason for choosing this height is to ensure that the belaying pins don't interfere with the capping rail overhang nearer the stern where the bulwark height is less than the bow.
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Brian, here's how I tackled it on my Snake. I'm not representing that this is 100% accurate but I was please with how it turned out. http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/509-hms-snake-by-beef-wellington-caldercraft-scale-1-64-first-wooden-ship-build/?p=31018
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