Shipyard sid
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Greetings derek Well done, you have been busy. You have caught me up , and yes there's no doubt you need a turntable now. With this rigging lark you have to move the ship around a lot now. I knocked the end of the bowsprit off last night, and you cannot afford to be doing it when you have the rigging thread fitted. Yep you are moving on nicely, keep it going. DAVID -
Hello Patrick Yep your cannons look excellent with heavier breech ropes, as will the tackle using 0.25mm. Are your guns central height wise in their ports, if not you may have to raise the front wheels. Well done. DAVID
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Greetings Patrick Thanks a lot, and Welcome back, I have yet to look at your cannon rigging. I think I have just seen it mentioned somewhere . And yes is the answer to... Getting on with the bowsprit!!!!!!!!!! I have just in the last 5 minutes broke off the long thin pointy part at the front. The flying jibboom. Keep enjoying it .DAVID
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Hello Jerry This is my solution I have a secret gun behind the lanyards. DAVID
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Hello Jerry I can see what you mean. The deadeye itself is looking a little bit apprehensive and glum. Gunport lids next ??? Enjoy them. DAVID
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Greetings Jerry Sorry it looks like I have not been checking your log for a few days. Well it's looking really good, and those chainplates and deadeyes are splendid. And you are now heading off to the gunport lids, and a nice little project in its self. Keep up the excellent work and enjoy it Jerry. DAVID
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Greeting all After finishing the back stay rigging, it appears I am moving on to the bowsprit to do some work I should have done earlier, but did not make sense to me, as the instructions told me to fit the bowsprit with the gammoning. then leave the driver gaff and driver boom till later. Then do all the stays with the final one being the royal back stay. Now I need to fit the jib stay to the jib boom which doesn't exist yet and the jib halyard to the flying jib boom which also doesn't exist, but it probably my fault. Now you understand that. So tonight I fitted the jib boom, the flying jibboom , the dolphin striker and the flag staff. So I think tomorrow I can get sorted with the earlier stuff. Ok here's a few photos of the nights work, and at last we have something different. Anyway it's still good fun, here we go with a few photos. Thanks a lot DAVID
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Greeting all Greetings all for your comments and for viewing . Thanks a lot grant for the offer of the tulle for the hammock netting. It appears it is available in a couple of shops in town, but thanks again. I have completed all the yards on the plan I am working off, and was ready to move on to the next plan, but alas I have been sent back to the previous plan and now need to add the jiboom which I had left off because of the danger that it may get broken of. And now I need to fit the boomkins plus there is couple more pieces that fit on the bowsprit and are not made yet , so it's out with the david plane sandpaper and needle files. What I have noticed is the top part of the the foremast pulls back when the stays are belayed, so I surmise I should not tighten them until the stay or stays that link from the bowsprit back to the top of the foremast are sorted, and use this as the starting point for any tensioning . I may be wrong but it makes sense to me. So that's me for now . I have once again posted some photos, but sorry they are as usuall boring, as once again much of a muchness. Has anybody spotted that that bit of ratline on the mizzen is still not done, and it will have to wait, I'm enjoying myself, and seen enough of those knots for a while. Here's the photos. Thanks a lot for viewing. DAVID
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Greetings Eric Well it looks like it is coming on fine. The planking look fine to me. Keep up the good work and just enjoy it. DAVID
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Good morning Lawrence By you are an early bird !!!!!! No I did not serve the shrouds. I did not know what it even meant until I looked it up. The last ship I built was over 30years ago , The Billing Bounty, and my father took over at the rigging stage, I probably could not be bothered as there was loads of knots !!!!!!!!!! ( as we well know) You have mentioned serving before so it will be interesting to see it done. Keep enjoying it Lawrence
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Good morning Derek Birthday greetings!! Hope all is well, and you have seen the last of those shrouds, and on to the stays next. Have a good day, Don't get drunk........to hell with it. !!!!!!!!! Get bloody drunk, why not !!!!!! Regards DAVID
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Hello derek Thanks a lot for your comments. Yes you are correct about the netting, it's not mentioned on our kit as far as I can see, and jokitas proto type has none fitted. I wonder if any of the other kits include it as part of the kit. Good to know you are about done on the ratlines, it seems to go on for ever. and good luck with the stays, they should keep you happy for a good few weeks. DAVID
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Greeting all Thanks a lot Jerry and Kevin and Lawrence . The foremast stays are not yet done yet Lawrence and will be started tonight, and as for the netting, I could not find anything suitable, so it had to wait. I guess it will be awkward to do them with all the rigging about as well. The hammock cranes themselves have also taken a bit of a bashing during this rigging. There is also damage to the gunport lids, at least 6 of them have been knocked about and need to be sorted later. I think it is just about impossible not to cause some damage no matter how careful you are. Once again thanks a lot DAVID
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Greeting all Well all is going pretty well, and I have added all the standing rigging to the mizzen and main mast, and just need to tidy it up. So only the foremast to do and then onto the next plan sheet. There is as I said earlier a multitude of rigging to do on this plan sheet, which also involves the bowsprit rigging. I have been looking forward to doing this. One thing I have not done is make up any yards , so a few of these need to be made up, and this will all add to the fun. So thanks to you all for viewing and all your comments and here's a few pictures of my progress. DAVID
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Hello Lawrence I have finished all the mizzen back stays and all but one of the main back stays, which only leaves the fore back stays and without doubt they will be done on Friday. I have just looked at the next plan on the rigging which is plan 15 out of 18, and there is a multitude of rigging on it. I am really looking forward to it. I reckon this is the most enjoyable part of the build. There will be no sails on, as I prefer to see the rigging. I know it's a bit early but have priced the cost of making a display case, after advise from others about the size it should be, and reckon it will cost around £230 - £240. The biggest prob at the minute is were to put it in the house. I do suggest places were it could fit, but the usual response is "that monstrosity is not going there !!!! " I don't know whether I told you but I gave the brother in law the Mantua HMS Victory 1/96 scale which I got for myself and my father to build when he came to visit. We only got the bulkheads and the first deck fitted when he sadly passed away. So the ship was put to one side. I bought the jotika victory and as I said gave the mantua ship to the brother in law........ He brought it back last week and said it was lo complicated for him. There's no way in this world I will finish it , so I will advertise it on the site for some other poor soul to do. Are you back on your ship yet??? DAVID
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Hello jerry I may be wrong. But I think the way of fitting the deadeyes Kevin said may have been to widen the slots so the strop laid in, then drilling a hole to fit a pin in the gap left My idea is much the same but avoids widening the gap completely. The first photo shows the way I did mine, and second shows the fitting of pins. I hope all is going well DAVID ,
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Hello Jerry The way jotika tell you to fit the strops is on plan 12, this is around the time that you are doing the ratlines !!!! A long time in the future as you can see, and there in my option is nothing to avoid pull out apart from the glue , and not safe as the gap is wide open. Lawrence's strops are a far better idea in my opinion. DAVID
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Greetings all Thanks to you all for your comments and for viewing. So here's were I am at the moment . I decided to do all the back stays next from stern to bow, and have about 11 pairs left to finish. All I am doing is 3 pairs each evening so all being well I will be done on Friday. I did have a problem with the first stay I fitted on the main mast called the top mast breast back stay. The stay was just touching on the ratlines and the main top as it passed down to the channels for belaying. I had a word with Gil Middleton who informed me that on he's ship the stay was clear all the way down, but only just cleared the main top. Anyway I will have to live with that and nobody will notice. It's seems that I am heading to the bowsprit next and the flying martingale and jib horse??????? It's all new to me, and there are stays galore about, so that should be fun to sort out, Maybe!!!! Anyway here's a few photos of were I am at the moment . Much of a muchness as usual and probably a couple duplicated. Thanks a lot DAVID
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Greetings all Thanks to you all for your comments and for viewing. So here's were I am at the moment . I decided to do all the back stays next from stern to bow, and have about 11 pairs left to finish. All I am doing is 3 pairs each evening so all being well I will be done on Friday. I did have a problem with the first stay I fitted on the main mast called the top mast breast back stay. The stay was just touching on the ratlines and the main top as it passed down to the channels for belaying. I had a word with Gil Middleton who informed me that on he's ship the stay was clear all the way down, but only just cleared the main top. Anyway I will have to live with that and nobody will notice. It's seems that I am heading to the bowsprit next and the flying martingale and jib horse??????? It's all new to me, and there are stays galore about, so that should be fun to sort out, Maybe!!!! Anyway here's a few photos of were I am at the moment . Much of a muchness as usual and probably a couple duplicated. Thanks a lot DAVID
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Patrick I totally agree with that, it will look a lot better. So there's no prob feeding the 1.00mm thread going through the eyelets? Have you fitted rings ( I don't know what they call them) on the rear of the barrels ? I look forward to seeing them completed with the heavier rigging. I fitted the eyelets on the thread first, then drilled the holes in the carriage and then fitted the eyelet in the hole already threaded if you follow, it made threading it easy. DAVID
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Hello Patrick One of my companion ways is the wrong way around, you have to climb over the canon balls to reach the ladders, have a look on my ship. You must have been following my build. Any way how many guns are you rigging?. There are only ten visible, five on each side, so that's all I rigged. Regards DAVID
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Hello Patrick The tackle is 0.1mm for all guns, and the breaching ropes are 0.5mm. 0.1 seems very thin but that's what it says. Page 14 of manual....I started using the wrong size and M Taylor spotted it and warned me.. Enjoy all those 2mm single blocks they are very small. Best wishes DAVID
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Hello Patrick Well done Patrick, it looks really smart, and the paint work on the hull looks excellent, really crisp and smooth. Just keep enjoying it. Well done DAVID
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Hello derek I did not realize you had finished the rigging. Well done!!!! Yes I will go along with a summer finish ok away you go on the rigging, well done.DAVID
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Hello derek Thanks a lot. How much work do you need to on the boring ratlines. Once you start on the rigging you will be happy. I surmise your treatment is finished and you only need a three monthly review. now. Yep get those ratlines finished. Thanks a lot DAVID
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