18th Century Longboat by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:100 scale - BOTTLE - using most of Chuck's Practicum

[gjdale]

Hey Danny,

 

As someone once said to me, where did you get that giant fake hand? :D

[Richard Griffith]

Nicely done, Dan, thank you for posting~!

 

Duff

[amateur]

Wow........

 

Jan

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks very much for the kind comments Mark, Per, Pat, David, Grant, Duff, Jan and John .

 

As someone once said to me, where did you get that giant fake hand?

 

 

Wasn't that me Grant :D ?

 

I made the grapnel anchor from brass sheet which I filed into shape, silver soldered and blackened :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[Dan Vadas]

One of the last things to do before bottling the boat - the oars. Pretty self-explanatory :

 

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Wow, that's a really nice little boat. I must allways look at the scale of your model 1:100

[dgbot]

Now comes the fun part preparing the bottle    .

David B

Edited October 10, 2015 by dgbot

[archjofo]

Hi Dan,

 

as always, an absolutely fantastic work.

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you Christian, Crackers, David and Johann. But not so fast with the praise just yet. I've had an Oopsie! It seems like I miscalculated the height of the mast by a couple of millimetres.

 

I squeezed the boat into the bottle and used Clear Epoxy to glue the hull to the bottom of the bottle:

 

 

 

When I tried to raise the mast it snapped off at the uppermost hole, which of course was the most vital one later as the Jib Halyard has to be pulled through it:

 

 

Next problem was how to cut the end off the mast to get it to the right height. I came up with this solution - a sliver of scalpel blade Super-glued into a pair of long-nose pliers. That worked beautifully :

 

 

Stay tuned for further fixes .

 

  Danny

[gjdale]

Ouch Danny! What a shame. Can't wait to see your bound-to-be-ingenious fix!

[GLakie]

Sorry to hear about the mishap Danny. I think the boat was calculated correctly, the mis-calculation was actually in the thickness of the bottle.   But like Grant says, I'm sure the fix will be nothing short of genius. 

[DSiemens]

You have managed to fill the bottle well which makes for a great ship in bottle. Like a good photo filling up the frame and not leaving empty space on the edges.

 

This problem happened from times to time. I know I've done it more than a few times. There's a few adjustments that can be made. Lower the mast, shorten the bow so the ship can be moved to a slightly taller part of the bottle, or lower the sea or stand the ship is sitting on. Either way your real close Dan. She's looking great.

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks for the commiserations Grant, George and Daniel.

 

George got it exactly right - there is a bulge inside the top of the bottle which wasn't apparent until I actually tried to lift the mast.

 

As Daniel said, I tried to get right to the extremities of the bottle to make it look "filled" - just that little bit TOO much . The boat has been epoxied into the bottom of the bottle, so any repair/adjustment work needs to be carried inside it now.

 

  Danny

[BANYAN]

Good luck Dan, as that add said Bugger!  Just when things were going so well - one of Sod's laws isn't it.

 

Look forward to your solution.  Will you simply cut off neat just above the eye/loop and put a cap on?

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Dan Vadas]

Will you simply cut off neat just above the eye/loop and put a cap on?

 

 

That's the plan Pat, but I don't think I'll have enough room for the cap. We'll see.

 

  Danny

[DSiemens]

At least the backward method helps bring the mast tip to the bottle neck. Had you done it conventionally it would be much harder to fix.

[dgbot]

I hope you have a successful do over.  It would be a shame otherwise.

David B

[rth385]

Hi Danny,

Sometimes I think you "manufacture" an "oopsie" just to astound us with the fix!!!

Can't wait for it however.

Regards,

Russell

[dvm27]

"Missed it by that much" - Maxwell Smart

Or maybe you Aussies never received "Get Smart" from the classic age of US television.

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks Daniel, David, Russell and Greg.

 

Sometimes I think you "manufacture" an "oopsie" just to astound us with the fix!!!

 

 

Trust me Russell, this wasn't "manufactured". I'd have finished the whole thing a couple of days ago except for the accident .

 

Or maybe you Aussies never received "Get Smart" from the classic age of US television.

 

 

We're only on the other side of the world, not on Mars Greg .

 

Well, so far so good. I've managed to get the jib stay back on and tightened. Also the forestay. The tip of the mast was a real bugger to get back on after doing the other two lines. It took some rather ingenious (if I say so myself ) special tools to help me do it.

 

From the top, a Q-Tip on a BBQ skewer used for cleaning off glue. A sliver of Scalpel blade super-glued to a skewer for trimming excess line. A piece of bent brass tubing on a handle used for applying glue. A pair of extra-long tweezers made from scrap wood :

 

 

Raising the forestay. Another tool I made was a piece of square wood with a "U" filed into the end, used as a push-stick. This holds the mast in position while I pull back on the fishing line attached to the stay. The hair clip holds the line while the glue dries :

 

 

 

 

I used the Q-tip to hold the top of the mast in position while the glue dried on the repair. The Blue-tack holds the push-stick in place :

 

 

 

 

And .... I also managed to get the Truck back onto the top of the mast :

 

 

  Danny

[dgbot]

Magnifique Danny  wonderful do over and quite a bit of outside  the box thinking as well as steady hands.

David B

[gjdale]

Very clever Danny - well done!

[rth385]

Hi Danny,

I knew you'd impress with the fix. Great tools too!

Regards,

Russell

[Dan Vadas]

quite a bit of outside  the box thinking

 

 

That's part of the fun of ship modelling . Don't you mean "outside the bottle thinking"?

 

Thank you David, Grant and Russell.

 

With all the fixes and adjustments done to my satisfaction (not quite perfect, but hardly noticeable) it was time to add the "sea"

 

I used Digger's two-part Ultra Clear Casting Resin. It looks a little yellowy when first mixed, but dries clear when it hardens. I used a squeeze bottle to which I glued a piece of Heat-shrink tubing to get the resin into the bottle without actually tipping it in which could have been very messy. Clear tubing would have been better, but I just used what I had on hand :

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[mtaylor]

Sweet!!!!!  Looks great in the bottle and that sea is perfect.   

[GLakie]

Congrats on the fix Danny!  Looks great. Another masterpiece! 

[BANYAN]

That's a 'bottler' Dan - or should I say a 'corker'  (sorry mate couldn't help myself)

 

cheers (and now back to my day job)

 

Pat

[druxey]

You are certifiably crazy or a genius, Dan! 

[DSiemens]

Awesome! I like the assortment of tools. That's half the fun of sib building.

[gjdale]

Sweet! Great outcome Danny.