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Beef Wellington reacted to texxn5 in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Nice details for working with small blocks, I'll try to remember to reference this for my build of the Niagra later on. thanks for sharing the photos on your methods.
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Beef Wellington reacted to Landlubber Mike in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Nice work on the gun rigging and catheads! Stropping and running the small blocks on the cannons was probably the most frustrating part of my build - was a relief to be able to jump from 2mm blocks to 3mm blocks for the rest of the build
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from Landlubber Mike in Badger by Landlubber Mike - FINISHED - Caldercraft - 1:64 - Brig
Very nice Mike...something else to copy!
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Beef Wellington reacted to freewheelinguy in HMS Bellerophon by freewheelinguy - FINISHED - Victory Models - Semi-scratchbuilt
Guys, thanks for the comments.
Build update:
Finished adding pieces to complete this phase of the build, except for items that will be added after rigging phase is complete. I sure if I added the stern lanterns they would be knocked off many times. Figurehead isn't added yet either. The one that came with the casting package has a bowed left leg (won't seat flush with stem). These items don't bend, so I made a mold of the leg out of clay. Would like to get a replacement from Amati.
Things that were done since last update are:
Did all the hammock netting and stanchions.
Added fire buckets, but didn't order enough of them.
Made and added the additional ladders required.
Made and added the channels, supports, eyelets, chainplates and deadeyes.
Rigged the four guns on the FC.
Completed the catheads, headrails and associated pieces.
Added ship boats and tied down.
Next step making the masts.
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Beef Wellington reacted to Ray in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Hi Jason
Good Question, I have been pondering this point, and your question has made me make the decision on how I will depict the armament. I have looked at other open rail models, most do not show any guns, and some show 9-pounders at all the gun ports on the quarter deck, and four, on the forecastle, but this gives her too many carriage guns. I consulted my books The Sailing Frigate A history in ship models (which backs up ) the information in The Anatomy of ship Diana,the book states that Diana received 32-pound carronades on the 23rd of February 1795, but she was only given six,not eight, the establishment requirement and she also did not lose any of her 9-pounders, and she most likely received the other two 32-pounders at the time of her refit in 1796.
I will therefore arm Diana as in mid 1795 with four 32-pound carronades and eight 9-pound carriage guns on the quarter deck and two carronades on the forecastle with two 9-pounders as bow chasers. She would still have had an open rail quarter deck, as she did not have a refit until 1796, which logically would have been the first opportunity to fit solid quarter deck bulwarks.
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from Sjors in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Few pics before I forget on the approach taken for the single blocks for the carronade rigging, this seems to have worked best so far after many choice words on multiple failures. Finding this particularly fiddly dealing with the hooks and the blocks and keeping them aligned....at least the double blocks only need stropping.
After simple overhand knot through the previously made hook, applied a bit of GS Hypo glue to the thread and attach the single block (very small amount of glue, this is just a temp at way to stop the block continually falling out
Yet another overhand knot around the block for the stropping. "Helping hands" come in very handy here
With the block still in the helping hands, pry open the stropping enough to insert a length of the line through and pull around so its at the bottom of the block (believe its the **** end?) and tie a double overhand knot
Apply some dilute PVA glue and trim once dry...repeat
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from GLakie in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Few pics before I forget on the approach taken for the single blocks for the carronade rigging, this seems to have worked best so far after many choice words on multiple failures. Finding this particularly fiddly dealing with the hooks and the blocks and keeping them aligned....at least the double blocks only need stropping.
After simple overhand knot through the previously made hook, applied a bit of GS Hypo glue to the thread and attach the single block (very small amount of glue, this is just a temp at way to stop the block continually falling out
Yet another overhand knot around the block for the stropping. "Helping hands" come in very handy here
With the block still in the helping hands, pry open the stropping enough to insert a length of the line through and pull around so its at the bottom of the block (believe its the **** end?) and tie a double overhand knot
Apply some dilute PVA glue and trim once dry...repeat
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Beef Wellington reacted to jim_smits in HMS Snake by jim_smits - Caldercraft - First Build
Ratlines driving me insane! That is all.....
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Beef Wellington reacted to drtrap in HMS Snake by drtrap - Caldercraft
So realy difficult to place all the deck fittings back here...
Especially to find the right spot to drill the front holes for the eyelets of the wheel rigging, because of the holes of the last caronnade.
I think I need to study your previous photos mates!
The fittings are placed temporarily of course...
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from Ferit in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
B.E. - thanks, that's a much appreciated compliment coming from you!
Pete/Ferit - Believe capstans would have been painted in practice, don't think I've seen one unpainted. In terms of colours, I tired a couple of thinkgs before settling on the plain red which I like best. However, I'd agree with Ferit that if I had been building an model without paint I would probably have tried to scratch something as I really do not like the ply look. I can live with it on the ladders because it not too noticeable.
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Beef Wellington reacted to Blue Ensign in Stern of the HMS Victory
Hi JP as a bit of inspiration, here's a couple of examples of Victory models depicting her in pre great repair days.
Firstly the stern of Victory in a model by Wyllie in the Portsmouth Naval Museum.
Secondly, detail from a conversion of the Heller Victory by an excellent modeller, Michael D whose log is on my home forum.
But remember it's not just the stern gallery that differed on the pre 1803 Victory, the Figurehead was also significantly more ornate.
Michael modelled the Figure detail in Fimo from the details of the model figurehead also in the Naval Museum Portsmouth.
Food for thought eh?
Cheers,
B.E.
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from Mike_H in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Not much of an update, but its all I have as I haven't had much time to spare recently. I've been staring at the holes I'd drilled in the cathead pretty much from when they were installed and I just couldn't get comfortable with the way they looked. Reaching a point where I would have no options I decided to try and improve these, took a while to convince myself fully recognizing that a mistake would probably make things a lot worse. Finally plucked up the courage to tackle them, and by drilling some more holes in between, and using a sharp knife, a very small file and some patience I was able to get proper slots rather than holes. I then simply cut small slices of dowel for the sheaves. Far from perfect but I'm much happier with how its looking now.
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from Ferit in Frigate Berlin by Ferit KUTLU - Corel - 1/40 - 1674
Love the photos Ferit...very nice indeed.
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from dafi in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Timmo, Ferit - cheers!
Pete - have done nothing at all to the pins
Alistair - thanks for the detailed guidance, I love the suggestion, I think BE also took a similar approach to what you describe and now after re-reading its all making a bit more sense - learn by doing I suppose. Your picture is really tremendous, a work of art in of itself! What kind of line are you using, it looks so much better than anything I've seen elsewhere - on my next kit if I get that far I definitely want to upgrade the thread. I'm going to ponder the cannon rigging question for a bit, mainly because I'm not going to have time do anything in near future, but definitely think that your suggestion is the way to go. I've also been quietly checking out your Fly (that sounds bad!), you've got a wonderful build going there that I'm certainly learning from.
Managed to finish off one of the carronades after much experimentation. Far from perfect, but pretty pleased with how it turned out compared to the look I was going for. Would have been nice to have had smaller blocks as they are definitely a little overscale, but I can live with it. No more updates until I'm done with carronade rigging!
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from maddog33 in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Not much of an update, but its all I have as I haven't had much time to spare recently. I've been staring at the holes I'd drilled in the cathead pretty much from when they were installed and I just couldn't get comfortable with the way they looked. Reaching a point where I would have no options I decided to try and improve these, took a while to convince myself fully recognizing that a mistake would probably make things a lot worse. Finally plucked up the courage to tackle them, and by drilling some more holes in between, and using a sharp knife, a very small file and some patience I was able to get proper slots rather than holes. I then simply cut small slices of dowel for the sheaves. Far from perfect but I'm much happier with how its looking now.
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Beef Wellington reacted to The Sailor in HM Schooner Pickle by The Sailor - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
She has ratlines!!
Well, with it the standing rigging is done.
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Beef Wellington reacted to Ferit in Frigate Berlin by Ferit KUTLU - Corel - 1/40 - 1674
Ratlines between the mizzen shrouds...
Mouse on the mizzen...
I realized that these small pets had been so familiar to the crew, so friend... all around on board... and had entered into the ship vocabulary...
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Beef Wellington got a reaction from dafi in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Not much of an update, but its all I have as I haven't had much time to spare recently. I've been staring at the holes I'd drilled in the cathead pretty much from when they were installed and I just couldn't get comfortable with the way they looked. Reaching a point where I would have no options I decided to try and improve these, took a while to convince myself fully recognizing that a mistake would probably make things a lot worse. Finally plucked up the courage to tackle them, and by drilling some more holes in between, and using a sharp knife, a very small file and some patience I was able to get proper slots rather than holes. I then simply cut small slices of dowel for the sheaves. Far from perfect but I'm much happier with how its looking now.
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Beef Wellington reacted to jim_smits in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Looks great Jason!
It's funny I was looking at my cat heads in exactly the same way the other night.......
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Beef Wellington reacted to Ferit in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
As always very clean and nice...
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Beef Wellington reacted to aliluke in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Those sheaves look very good to me. I might try that approach when I get there. Very nice work!
Cheers
Alistair
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Beef Wellington reacted to j21896 in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Nicely done Jason!
Robert
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Beef Wellington reacted to texxn5 in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Hi Jason, the carronades and catheads look great. thanks again for the pictures, they really help get a good understanding of things.
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Beef Wellington reacted to jim_smits in HMS Snake by jim_smits - Caldercraft - First Build
As promised I have installed the port side futtock shrouds.
Firstly, as per main shrouds sieze a deadeye using 0.75mm thread and 0.25mm thread and cement.
Allow to dry and then trim.
Thread through one of the gaps in the platform.
Pull down to the seizing.
Being very careful at this point, pull the seizing through the gap. You may need to remove and sand a little further.
Thread the trailing length around the bar.
Pull taut.
Then seize to the main shrouds ensuring everything remains nice and taut. Cement in place.
Repeat as necessary!
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Beef Wellington reacted to j21896 in HMS Mars by j21896 - Caldercraft - 1:64 - modified kit
Elm Tree Pumps
For some reason I got totally bogged down working on the pumps. At every stage, especially working with the brass components, nothing seemed to come out right the first time, and re-work after re-work was necessary.
In the end I gave up on using brass for the iron bands and circles on the pump tops and sheepishly turned to black paper for these. At least the pivots, outlets and rods are blackened brass.
Because I had such a rough go of it, I didn’t take many pictures during each phase of construction, but this is what I have.
The pivots were cut from a strip of brass and shaped with needle files.
Prior to fabricating the brakes, I installed the pumps in the step I had made for them.
The completed pumps.
And finally in place on deck …
Robert
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