harlequin

foremast now completed.

Main mast fitted with all its blocks and deadeyes......Victory in the background keeping an eye on things.....My friend Keith was quartermaster on board Victory till he left the navy a few years back

I did follow that for a while.....it looked fantastic.

8 hours ago, Bill Morrison said:

Beautiful job so far!  I have this kit waiting in the wings, and you are inspiring me to jump in!

 

Bill

jump in Bill.....it is not without its problems being a corel kit but it is rather beautiful

13 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

Hi there  (sorry to but in)  long time no speak since our  Greyhound  days   hope you keeping well.

 

OC

hey there old friend.....I have just brushed the dust from Greyhound....hope all is ok....

main mast furniture slowly being added......the only trouble is I have just found a glenfarclas single malt that needs some attention...

16 hours ago, hamilton said:

Wow - nice shot here Harlequin! I'm itching to get back to building - especially as the COVID situation continues....unfortunately, I have a mountain of work to get through before I can get back to the "bench" (i.e., dining room table)....hope you're all well over there! 

hamilton

all well over here cheers, and I trust and hope all is ok at your end.....sometimes I just look at the rigging and just think why do I put myself through this......then I go out and buy another ship to complete.....utter madness......I may do like albert finney did in the film network and stick my head out of the window tonight and shout....."I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" ...it may catch on.

mast tops dead eyes in place using aforementioned method.

3 hours ago, hamilton said:

She's looking great Harlequin! Impressive work

hamilton

hey Hamilton....long time no see.....hope you are keeping well......Bellona is now 7 years in the making.....Greyhound took about 10 months but my corel Victory about ten years.....

foremast dead eyes using my solution in previous post.....seems to have worked fine.

well... corels cast collars for the dead eyes mounted on the masts are useless(first pic)….they just keep snapping ….so my solution is a piece of black rope secured around the dead eye with just enough rope to poke through the mast and a brass eyelet poked through the opposite direction and glued in place. The eyelets will be blackened.....job sorted....just need 32 of them. Corels fittings are sometimes so bad they are not worth including in the kit. 

well this is the most rigging I have done in quite some time

This model is on my build list....I have a fascination with Franklin’s mission to find the north west passage and the disaster that ensued....your build is looking good and don’t get to hung up over mistakes, we all make them, it is the only way we learn.....show me a man who has never made a mistake and I will show you a man who has never lived....keep up the good work.

Just thought I’d let you know of an error in the placing of the pillars near the binnacle and under the poop deck for anyone doing corels Bellona. The first pic is where I had them originally and the second pic is the correct positioning with one single pillar in front of the binnacle and the other two further under the poop deck.

I have just remembered why I hate rigging....well not all rigging, some rigging is easier to hate than others. Ah well ,...keep calm and carry on.

a couple of the yards have been given some ropework...….this could take some time.....

well after several false starts ….some main mast horse stirrups to start things off...….I have spliced the rope to form the loop and used a tiny drop of glue to hold in place.

looking good Gan Do.....I do things differently from the instructions.....if I can help I will but it is so long since I did things on Bellona my mind may be hazy....

covid 19 doing its worst....time to do some rigging on Bellona.

On ‎11‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 2:26 AM, druxey said:

Sorry, but brown gummed paper and brown paper do become very brittle with time due to acid content. Check the back of old paintings and framed prints! Only archival (read 'acid free) papers have longevity.

the paper I use is archival

picture gallery tape is neutral. I use it to frame my pastel pictures to prevent dust and insect incursion. one of my other hobbies....shown here an old paratrooper.

Cheers Pieter.... will have to share Unicorn's time with Bellona's rigging which I have not done anything with since May.

a few pics of Unicorn. I bought this kit for about £15.00. Took a chance because it is very old but it appears to be ok. Had to buy some new instructions because they had seen better days and in a day I had got the frame and keel under way.

Bought this very old Corel Unicorn kit for pennies a while back....whilst doing the rigging on Bellona, I need something else to do as rigging gets on my nerves. Will post some pics soon. 

and I have also started to build HMS Unicorn too.....will have to set up a build log for her soon.