Beef Wellington

Hello everyone,
I am back on my feet again with a new job.  I have started up work again in the shipyard.  I made the 24 pounder cannons on my home-made lathe.  Basically just mounted a $15 drill from Harbor Freight to a board, made some dovetail guides and a matching tailstock.  Filed down some hardwood dowels from Walmart  into the shape I was looking for and had a cannon barrel.  These pics are my first attempts so hopefully my skill set will improve.  Couldn't justify spending $500+ on a mini lathe for what I want to do with it.  This seems like it will work out... at least for now.  The 54 cannons I will need will end up costing me about $5 plus $15 for the drill.


 
Glad to have life starting to get back to "normal".
 
Tom

Very nicely done, beautiful work on the planking, really looking the part with the wales added.  Definitely agree with your decision to use the metal black colour.  Looking fantastic.

Kurt - might I suggest you create your own build log and share your pictures and approach there?  I'd be very interested to see more of your beautiful work, but it can be distracting and a little confusing for followers of BEs log to see pictures of another very similar model interspersed.  
 
BE - my apologies for hijacking your log - I can remove....

Looking good Mike - I like this stage of a build...so much potential to look forward to.....and few regrets or mistakes!

Kurt - might I suggest you create your own build log and share your pictures and approach there?  I'd be very interested to see more of your beautiful work, but it can be distracting and a little confusing for followers of BEs log to see pictures of another very similar model interspersed.  
 
BE - my apologies for hijacking your log - I can remove....

Very nicely done, beautiful work on the planking, really looking the part with the wales added.  Definitely agree with your decision to use the metal black colour.  Looking fantastic.

Very nicely done, beautiful work on the planking, really looking the part with the wales added.  Definitely agree with your decision to use the metal black colour.  Looking fantastic.

Kurt - might I suggest you create your own build log and share your pictures and approach there?  I'd be very interested to see more of your beautiful work, but it can be distracting and a little confusing for followers of BEs log to see pictures of another very similar model interspersed.  
 
BE - my apologies for hijacking your log - I can remove....

Thank you Jason, and thanks for your apology Kurt, I also think you should start your own log that we can all engage with, but don't fret about it.
on with the build.....
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Fixing the Wales
 For this 1/32" x 5/32" strips are used.

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Not too onerous to fit as clamping is fairly easy along the hull.

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Before they are fitted I painted the top edge of the upper wale strip and bottom edge of the lower strip where they will meet the Boxwood finish.
I decided to fit the wale strips in one length gluing progressively along the hull. This I felt allowed me to maintain a better natural curve  to the upper wale strip, and as they stand proud of the hull marking the butt joints with a micro saw blade was fairly easy.
Once fixed the forward 1" of the wale was sanded, scraped, and pared down to almost nothing where it meets the stem.

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Cleaned up I then applied three coats of  thinned paint; I won't complete the painting until the rest of the hull has been planked.
I  decided to use Caldercraft Admiralty 'Metal Black' water- based paint, which is less shiny than their 'Dull black' version.

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A period of general cleaning up now follows, and some revision and preparation before I continue with the planking.
 
B.E.
07/04/2018
 
 
 

Yes I guess it is distracting, intrusive too. My apologies.
 
Kurt

Kurt - might I suggest you create your own build log and share your pictures and approach there?  I'd be very interested to see more of your beautiful work, but it can be distracting and a little confusing for followers of BEs log to see pictures of another very similar model interspersed.  
 
BE - my apologies for hijacking your log - I can remove....

Kurt - might I suggest you create your own build log and share your pictures and approach there?  I'd be very interested to see more of your beautiful work, but it can be distracting and a little confusing for followers of BEs log to see pictures of another very similar model interspersed.  
 
BE - my apologies for hijacking your log - I can remove....

Indeed they are wipers, Captain's windows for enjoying the view while sipping coffee in his comfy chair, can't let rain interfere....

Indeed they are wipers, Captain's windows for enjoying the view while sipping coffee in his comfy chair, can't let rain interfere....

Indeed they are wipers, Captain's windows for enjoying the view while sipping coffee in his comfy chair, can't let rain interfere....

Indeed they are wipers, Captain's windows for enjoying the view while sipping coffee in his comfy chair, can't let rain interfere....

bit of a surprise this weekend, my DIY was completed in two of my four days off, im not going to bore you with that, 

so that meant some boat building

Exocet Missile System

the bits that i bought were not the fit for use, or the wrong shape do they were modified
instead of being stepped the modules were in pairs, so two banks were joined together
and then added to a deck plate,



i scratched two blast deflectors with 0.5mm plasticard

and added them with the aid of some hidden supports to keep them in place at the end of the missile pods


some extra detailing and a whip aerial 







   

Made guides for the ratlines...
 

Hello Everyone,
 
An encouraging update. OcCre just wrote and have admitted that they used my designs/research to create their model - and they are willing to acknowledge and recognize that in some way. 
 
I think it's a good sign. The next step will be for me to request copies of their packaging, plans, and instructions that will go with the kit to see exactly what I'm dealing with. Recognition is good, though I admit this isn't the kit I would have made. It's actually a relatively decent kit for what it is, though.  
 
I'll keep posting updates, but I admit I didn't expect this response, and I'm cautiously optimistic. 
 
Cheers, 
E&T
 
 

Excellent work on the rigging Jesse, think you've captured the scale beautifully.  The colours really look spot on as well complimenting the rest of the model.  Well done.

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Strakes below the Wale
Before I apply the second Wale layer I intend to fit the drop planks and first two planking layers.
I start with the first plank below the wale (3/16" x 3/64") which terminates at b/h J. and meets the Drop plank that will run to the stem.

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Following advice from Kurt, Dave, and Erik I have decided to  run the planks at scale lengths and this first section runs between b/hds J and B, the next section between B and 12, and a final short strip to termination at the Square Tuck piece. This last piece has some twist in it to follow the curvature of the hull.

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With the first strake fitted I can move onto the Drop Plank.

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The last of several card templates to form the Drop plank.
From the plan the forward end tapers to 3/32" and the aft end where it adjoins the second strake below the wale 5/32".
The drop plank was cut from 1/16" sheet and using a jig sanded down close to 3/64".
It is then a case of sand and tweak, tweak and sand to get the bally thing to fit.

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I stuck at it long enough to get thro' several card templates and three Boxwood versions before I got one that I could live with, which is not necessarily the standard  some of my more adept colleagues could live with.

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At last after seven days toil the first two strakes below the Wales are completed, altho' in need of some serious cleaning up.
I will now move on to the second layer Wales.
 
B.E.
04/04/2018

Excellent work on the rigging Jesse, think you've captured the scale beautifully.  The colours really look spot on as well complimenting the rest of the model.  Well done.

Sorry for bad photo quality, but it illustrates same style - dark blue and black colours. 
From the Maritime Museum of Hamburg.


 

Hi Mark - contemporary models seem to be a mix of blue and black on the stem so it seems 'correct' to go with either, but you are correct that the Bellona model is blue, the view below of the same model shows it a little more clearly.
 

Hi Mark - contemporary models seem to be a mix of blue and black on the stem so it seems 'correct' to go with either, but you are correct that the Bellona model is blue, the view below of the same model shows it a little more clearly.