Syren by JesseLee - FINISHED - Model Shipways - scale: 1:64

[cog]

One might wonder: What stands the cluttered desk for ... ???

 

Jesse,

 

You are brilliant

[clearway]

I wait till I cant actually work on the bench anymore before I have a tidy up!

[JesseLee]

Started working on the coamings and gratings. The wood provided with the kit splits and cracks too easily and doesn't sand very smoothly. I see the benefit of using better wood like I've seen others do in their builds. These are just dry fitted for now.

 

Jesse

 

 

[cog]

Even if the wood isn't the highest quality, those gratings look pretty good, Jesse

[ca.shipwright]

Jesse,

Your gratings are beautiful. How did you get the metal corners on the rope locker grating to come out so realistic? This is probably an item that I would have never considered modeling. Way beyond my skill level.

 

Regards

[JesseLee]

It's just paper painted gun metal black with wires snipped off in them to simulate metal rivets.

 

Jesse

Edited September 28, 2016 by JesseLee

[Elijah]

Those are some fantastic looking gratings! I look forward to more!

[CaptainSteve]

It's just paper painted gun metal black with wires snipped off in them to simulate metal rivets.

 

Jesse

 

Great idea, Jesse ... That one is going straight in the Ideas Folder !!!

Edited September 28, 2016 by CaptainSteve

[Piet]

Great little tutorial on your mast hole jig JesseLee.  That'll make life a lot easier for you later on.  And a wow on the gratings, great job.

Cheers,

[ca.shipwright]

Snipped off wires. Wow! Some things are really complicated.

Thanks Jesse

[Gahm]

These are some very nice looking gratings! Just check on the positions of the openings for the anker cables. I think they need to point towards the bow.

 

Thomas

[JesseLee]

Its not glued down yet. Didn't pay attention which way I laid it for the picture.

[JesseLee]

Made the Capstan. Used the kit supplied parts. The drum head was a simple layering of precut parts together. Getting the whelps spaced right wasn't working out well for me so I marked out the spacing on the bottom. My memory tells me I took more pictures of the assembly but my camera memory card tells me I didn't so I took pics of the finished piece. Sorry some of the pictures didn't focus correctly.

 

Jesse

 

 

[cog]

Jesse,

 

With these small parts we tend to get to closewith the camera, which makes it hard to focus. Try to keep your distance and zoom in.

Your capstan looks the part to me. Marking the position on it is a good trick. Need to remember that somehow ... thanks for sharing

[Elijah]

Nice job with that capstan! I like the color!

[Gahm]

That capstan turned out very nicely! Well done!

 

Thomas

[JesseLee]

Haven't got a lot done on the ship since Hurricane Matthew came through. Things are still bad here in North Carolina. People have drowned. Farms are lost. Livestock lost. Many homes flooded. Been letting some family over to get showers. But I have been working a little.

 

Started constructing the 2 cannon. Tried to figure out how to sand the laser cut wheels provided all the same. Played with a few ideas & came up with this. Found an old piece of guitar string left behind by our son a few years ago. The wheels screwed snug on the wrapped wire & held just enough to get them all uniform. I achieved this by rolling them all on sandpaper with my fingers. it rounded them up without taking too much off. Painted them while they were still on the wire (didn't pain the sides). Test fitting them on the partially built carriages.

 

 Jesse 

 

[cog]

Nice solution Jesse,

I wouldn't have thought of it (don't have guitar string, but could have use the cable for a bicyle's handbrakes come to think of it).

 

And another person helped out ... you are an amazing person, with such an open heart, I feel privileged to get to know you for as far that is possible on a forum

[Canute]

Good technique, Jesse. Glad to hear you're OK after the Hurricane.

 

I was up in the Hampton/Norfolk area last week and the local news shows were reporting on the flooding and devastation in eastern NC. The Tar Heel State took a massive hit.

[CDW]

Hey Ken

One of those crazy redneck drivers from way down south is headed up your direction in the mountains next week. Blow your horn and show me a West Virginia Howdy if I'm driving too slow.  

[CDW]

I am really enjoying your build of the Syren, Jesse. The same kit is in my stash to do at some time yet to be appointed. Your efforts and results are inspirational.

[Canute]

DR, I'd give you a New York minute to get moving.   May not use the Chrome Horn, but I'll be flying close formation. Enjoy the trip.

 

Jesse, sorry about hijacking your thread.

[Mike40]

Hi Jesse. Your Syren is really looking sweet after all the excellent work you have done to get it there. I am a newcomer to the site, but I have read  your log from the beginning and I really appreciate all the great photos you took and your explanations of the ongoing work. Invaluable to a beginner like myself and also just fun to see. 

[JesseLee]

Thanks so much guys, your input is always welcome.

 

No problem Ken!

 

Welcome to my build Mike, glad to have you.

 

Well I must have not fit something right when I assembled the carriages. I saw that the axles did not stick out past the trucks.  I sanded a toothpick to the same diameter as the axle, drilled out the existing axles a little and glued the toothpick in and trimmed off to the right length. Used a very small twist drill to make holes for cotter pins. Because of the small scale I just used splinters of wood for the cotter pins. Looking at other builds and the diagrams of these guns in Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern by Milton Roth I made some effort to add some more small details like bolts, ring cotters, etc. to make them look a little better. Mine don't look as nice and smooth as the others who have done this but at this scale it looks ok until you blow up the pictures. There is still some minor clean-up to be done and there was a lot of very fine sawdust clinging to these in the pictures from the surfaces they were sitting on.

 

Jesse

 

[usedtosail]

Those cannons look great, Jesse.

[Gahm]

Great job on the cannons, Jesse! All those added details make a lot of difference.

 

Thomas

[ca.shipwright]

Nice Canons Jesse!

[lambsbk]

I love em'...

 

well done Jesse.

 

Dave

[JesseLee]

Thanks for the encouraging comments and "Likes".

 

Made the Binnacle. Pretty standard, assembled kit supplied laser cut pieces. Added a grooved trim on the sides and back. Rather than try to make tiny knobbed handles I glued snips of wire flat to the drawers to simulate flat pull handles. Added tiny wire pins to hold it to the deck better when it is added latter

 

Tried soldering 2 wires to make the bell holder. Don't have the best soldering iron or solder so this was very stressful. After many ties they kept breaking back apart. Was giving up on soldering and trying to glue with just as bad results. Then I remembered something from my years as a bench jeweler. I remember sometimes holding a small clipped piece of solder with CA glue on the joint. The CA held the solder in place but also acted as flux when heated. One last try this way and it finally worked.

 

Tried to solder the bell to this but the bell melted some and warped a little bit. This turned out to be a good thing because the kit supplied bell was a bit large. After filing down and reshaping the bell it was much smaller and shorter which worked better. I drilled a hole through the top. Inserted a wire through bell to double as the ringer below and the means to attach it to the holder at the top Will finish it up later when all this is actually added onto the deck.

 

Jesse

 

[cog]

Interesting concept, the CA with the solder, must remember it. Saved by the bell ... as it was to large ... You are doing some fiddly work. I see some more small items stowed in the background. Looks good, Jesse. Don't stress, so far you have come up with solutions to everything. It looks like you practise our royalties motto: "Je maintiendrai"