HMS Sirius 1797 by paulsutcliffe - 1:48 - POF from NMM plans

[paulsutcliffe]

Version 2 progress, rear seats and thwart fitted yesterday plus gunwale strip

[paulsutcliffe]

Todays progress, all thwarts mast ironwork progressing and a coat of 50/50 thinners and Tung oil on all the boxwood interior, love the colour of boxwood and ting oil

[paulsutcliffe]

Knees on two of the thwarts fitted one more to go plus counter and stem knees

[paulsutcliffe]

Sometimes the easiest things escape you, until you see someone else doing it and think why didn't I think of that, saw this on siggi's build so easy make a jig and bend it around that instead of struggling on the hull

 

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Edited February 25, 2018 by paulsutcliffe

[paulsutcliffe]

Guess what I received yesterday 

 

Syren rope rocket, not much work done on the boat today, playing with rope making, awesome piece of kit thanks chuck @Chuck

Edited February 26, 2018 by paulsutcliffe

[paulsutcliffe]

I have done a little work on the transom taffrell and counter, awful picture below, first time using surface tablet as a camera, doesn't compare to the phone 20 megapixel camera

[paulsutcliffe]

Some more progress on the tafferel and counter, I wish somebody had told me to fit the counter before wales as I read somewhere else ha

 

[paulsutcliffe]

[paulsutcliffe]

Been putting the rope rocket through it's paces, anchor rope and messenger prototype in situ to see what they would look like

Edited March 11, 2018 by paulsutcliffe

[paulsutcliffe]

Catheads made from some ebony, milled joints with some boxwood strip to show the join and the three slots for the sheaves

[paulsutcliffe]

Struggling with the gallery windows, getting the geometry right is proving to be extremely difficult, many discarded versions can be seen below

Added a few quarterdeck beams, amazing how it starts to look more like a boat when you add some bits

Thanks for all the likes guys

Regards

Paul

[mtaylor]

Looks good and you'll get the hang of those windows.  I think I went through 5 or 6 rounds of "draw, cut, test, curse, repeat" on mine. 

[druxey]

Try card patterns first. Saves an awful lot of wood!

[paulsutcliffe]

Thanks mark and Druxey, I have already done the curse and repeat a few times, the last version I did with card and still got the wrong angle and I'm struggling with  the angle for the last window that goes against the hull, anyway onto the next version

Regards

Paul

[paulsutcliffe]

my wife bought me the cheerful cutter from chuck for my 60th birthday the week before last, so now in a quandary which boat to build so I'm going to try and do both at the same time, i wont start a separate log for the cheerful as there are many on here already but might drop a few photos in here as i go along

so heres the first couple, i used copper for the keel joint instead o black as chuck suggests, i just like it showing up like it does

i was also unsure of whether i was going to paint or not so lined the forward gunport with boxwood 0.5 mm thick, then  after discussion with the wife i painted to follow chucks layout and this is where I'm up to currently

 

 

 

[paulsutcliffe]

and of course one with big sister

 

[KeithAug]

Hello Paul

 

Brave having 2 on the go at the same time. I find more than one stresses me out.

[paulsutcliffe]

HI Keith

Yes I agree a little, been doing both for just over a week now and I find I actually only work on one and leave the other, I keep thinking 'ah while that's drying' I will do something on the other but it just doesn't happen

 

Regards 

Paul

[paulsutcliffe]

I managed to fit in some work on the Sirius, added the hooks and messenger rollers in the bow, and the first couple of beams with the cathead attached underneath

You can just see the top of the roller at the front also my new hawser cable (nine strands laid right handed or with the sun into three ropes three strands in each then the three ropes laid left handed or against the sun into cable)

Also did a little work on the cheerful, needs a bit of cleaning up!

Unfortunately I have run out of boxwood strips and have ordered some more so doing things in a different order slightly to chucks instructions while I await delivery

Regards Paul

Edited April 11, 2018 by paulsutcliffe

[KeithAug]

Paul, Where do you get your boxwood from please? And where did the ebony come from?

[paulsutcliffe]

Hi Keith @KeithAug

I get boxwood strips from originalmarquetry.co.uk under lines and stringing and the ebony came from exotichardwoodsukltd.com they do a one kilo bag of offcuts under ebony in blocks and squares that had some huge pieces in it, originalmarquetry isn't cheap but send stuff really quickly, I ordered on Tuesday and it arrived today.

Exotic hardwoods have some awesome stuff and you could spend a fortune if not careful. Peruse both sites we'll worth it.

Hope that helps

Regards

Paul

Edited April 12, 2018 by paulsutcliffe

[KeithAug]

Thank you Paul - Both look interesting - particularly exotichardwoods. 

[paulsutcliffe]

still struggling with gallery windows so have returned to the 26 foot cutter, last knees added and davit

new anchor and messenger rope can be seen below the launch and in next picture

Regards

Paul

[paulsutcliffe]

also continued with some planking and the counter and transom on the cheerful

then had a little accident and dropped the hull which caught the table and snapped of the bottom of the counter piece and cracked the upper planking at the rear, which I am now going to have to replace

Regards

Paul

[druxey]

Gallery lights: Make and fit all the munions (the dividing pillars) first. Then you can make patterns in card to fit each opening.

[paulsutcliffe]

thanks druxey, I will try that, i have been trying to do them as one whole piece pretty much

regards

Paul 

[druxey]

Perhaps these images will help?

[paulsutcliffe]

Thankyou druxey, they helped greatly

[paulsutcliffe]

Reconstruction has started

To curved and the top is bigger than the bottom as I didn't take the taffrell into consideration when I cut them

Major trimming needed

Regards

Paul

 

[druxey]

Courage, Paul!