Jim Lad Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share #271 Posted August 21, 2013 A proper update at last. I got some good progress today, which was very satisfying. The main halliards are now rigged together with quite a few other bits and pieces, and I have been able to make a start on the lower square yard. It won't be too long now before she's finished. Here a few photos showing as she is at the moment - she's starting to look like the lady she is. And in this one you can just see the square yard horse - the lower square yard isn't attached to the mast, but rather travels on a vertical horse up the fore side of the mast via a thimble on the after side of the yard. Then horse is the black line you can see running vertically between the yard and the mast. John Jeronimo, jaerschen, popeye the sailor and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintergreen Posted August 21, 2013 Share #272 Posted August 21, 2013 Very neat and tidy work there John! Thx for the update Quote Happy modelling! Håkan __________________________________________ Current build: Atlantica by Wintergreen Previous builds Kågen by Wintergreen Regina by Wintergreen Sea of Galilee boat, first century, sort of... Billing Boats Wasa Gallery: Kågen (Cog, kaeg) by Wintergreen - 1:30, Billing Boats Regina - 1:30, Billing Boats Dana, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafine Posted August 21, 2013 Share #273 Posted August 21, 2013 Good to see you back at it, John. Looking very nice. Bob Quote Current builds on MSW: HMS Winchelsea 1:48: Medway Longboat 1:24 Prior builds on MSW: Schooner Halifax: Lumberyard 1/48 semi-scratch; Cutter Cheerful 1:48; Granado: Caldercraft 1:64; Frigate Essex: Kitbashed Model Shipways kit; Triton Cross Section 1:48; Kingfisher from Lauckstreet kit; Syren: Model shipways kit ;Kitbashed Fair American: Model Shipways;Prince de Neufchatel: Model shipways 1:64 Civil War Picket Boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augie Posted August 21, 2013 Share #274 Posted August 21, 2013 What Bob said ! Quote Augie Current Build: US Frigate Confederacy - MS 1:64 Previous Builds : US Brig Syren (MS) - 2013 (see Completed Ship Gallery) Greek Tug Ulises (OcCre) - 2009 (see Completed Ship Gallery) Victory Cross Section (Corel) - 1988 Essex (MS) 1/8"- 1976 Cutty Sark (Revell 1:96) - 1956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbob Posted August 21, 2013 Share #275 Posted August 21, 2013 John, Glad to see the progress. She's a beauty. Bob Quote Every build is a learning experience. Current build: SS_ Mariefred Completed builds: US Coast Guard Pequot Friendship-sloop, Schooner Lettie-G.-Howard, Spray, Grand-Banks-dory, a gaff rigged yawl, HOGA (YT-146), Int'l Dragon Class II, Two Edwardian Launches In the Gallery: Catboat, International-Dragon-Class, Spray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye the sailor Posted August 21, 2013 Share #276 Posted August 21, 2013 back at it in fine style, eh..........the booms and rigging looks great! simply superb looking build John! Quote I yam wot I yam! finished builds: Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build Billing T78 Norden in dry dock: Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20 Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400 Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ Posted August 21, 2013 Share #277 Posted August 21, 2013 John: The rigging is really nice, especially at this scale. The seizings are incredible. Wonderful work. Russ Quote T'aint a hobby if you hurry Completed projects Cross section model by Russ 1/48 scale Biloxi schooner model restoration 1/24 scale Biloxi oyster skiff 1/24 scale Biloxi schooner 1/48 scale POB Current project Biloxi lugger Captain Roy 1/48 scale POB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share #278 Posted August 21, 2013 Thank you, gentlemen, one and all. I really enjoy rigging, although these cutters are so over-rigged things get a little crowded around the mast at this scale. Maybe I should go back to three master's in the future, although I'm already committed to a ketch for my next build. John augie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisLBren Posted August 22, 2013 Share #279 Posted August 22, 2013 Wow - good to see you back - really nice John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share #280 Posted August 22, 2013 Thanks, Chris! John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtaylor Posted August 23, 2013 Share #281 Posted August 23, 2013 John, Looking wonderful. And to think, you do this in front of a live audience at the museum. Quote Mark "The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me Current Build: Past Builds: La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD Triton Cross-Section NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64 Non-Ship Model: On hold, maybe forever: CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share #282 Posted August 23, 2013 Thanks for the support, folks! Mark - it can sometimes be a bit intimidating working in front of an audience, especially when you're trying to figure out something you're not sure about - after all, we're supposed to be the experts! My best exchange to date was with a small boy of about seven or eight. It went something like:- Small boy - I make models too you know. Me - Oh, do you; that's good Small boy - My models don't look like yours, though. Me - Don't they? Small boy - No; are you sure you're doing it right? (Small boy's mum collapses laughing) John mobbsie, captainbob, clipper and 9 others 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye the sailor Posted August 23, 2013 Share #283 Posted August 23, 2013 ....and when that boy got home.......he looked at his model, threw it in the circular file, and got some fresh stock! ....and that, my boy, is how a scratch builder is born! mobbsie, mtaylor, captainbob and 1 other 4 Quote I yam wot I yam! finished builds: Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build Billing T78 Norden in dry dock: Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20 Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400 Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobbsie Posted August 23, 2013 Share #284 Posted August 23, 2013 Hi John, Boy you've hit the ground running mate, lovely bit of rigging and your right, she is looking every bit the lady. Love the dialog, out of the mouths of babes, shouldn't you have some glue splashes, hairy string and a few loose ends showing. :D mobbsie augie 1 Quote mobbsie All mistakes are deliberate ( me ) Current Build:- HMS Schooner Pickle Completed Builds :- Panart 1/16 Armed Launch / Pinnace ( Completed ), Granado Cross Section 1/48 Harwich Bawley, Restoration, Thames Barge Edme, Repair / Restoration, Will Everard 1/67 Billings HMS Agamemnon 1781 - 1/64 Caldercraft Kit, HM Brig Badger, HM Bomb Vessel Granado, Thames Steam Launch Louise, Thames Barge Edme, Viking Dragon Boat Next Build :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnkershner Posted August 23, 2013 Share #285 Posted August 23, 2013 Jim - I am in tears with Laughter. As mentioned elsewhere I am the president of our local modeling club. Every year in Seattle there is a Wooden Boat festival. for many years our club has participated. We have set up displays of our ships etc. Often we would set up a table and have a modeler there to answer questions while he worked on his latest project. One time this boy of 9 years old stopped by he was keenly interested in the work being done. I won't bore you with the details but he became the youngest member of our club. During subsequent years at the Festival he would join me at the table working on a project. It was embarrassing how much better his hull planking was than mine. So you never know. mtaylor, Blueskippy and augie 3 Quote Current Builds - 18th Century Longboat, MS Syren Completed Builds - MS Bluenose, Panart BatteStation Cross section, Endevour J Boat Half Hull, Windego Half Hull, R/C T37 Breezing Along, R/C Victoria 32, SolCat 18 On the shelf - Panart San Felipe, Euromodel Ajax, C.Mamoli America, Its a sailor's Life for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbob Posted August 23, 2013 Share #286 Posted August 23, 2013 And I qoute. “ especially when you're trying to figure out something you're not sure about" – “Small boy - are you sure you're doing it right?”. Sounds, to me, like a good question. Thanks, John, I needed a laugh. Bob popeye the sailor 1 Quote Every build is a learning experience. Current build: SS_ Mariefred Completed builds: US Coast Guard Pequot Friendship-sloop, Schooner Lettie-G.-Howard, Spray, Grand-Banks-dory, a gaff rigged yawl, HOGA (YT-146), Int'l Dragon Class II, Two Edwardian Launches In the Gallery: Catboat, International-Dragon-Class, Spray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaerschen Posted August 23, 2013 Share #287 Posted August 23, 2013 Hi John Nice to see a new progress from you. Your model is looking really good. Quote Juergen Actually in progress: 50-Gun Ship HMS Leopard 1790 POB in scale 1/64 HMS Triton 1773 POF 1/48 Finished: Brigg Irene (ex. HMS Grasshopper) 1/50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share #288 Posted August 23, 2013 Thanks, folks! The kids at the museum are great fun. It's amazing how many of them just want to stand and watch what I'm doing - even when nothing much is happening. Even the teenagers stop to look and make comments like, "That's so cool." Maybe the memory of what they've seen at the museum will stick with some of them and bear future fruit for a new generation of model makers. John fnkershner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augie Posted August 23, 2013 Share #289 Posted August 23, 2013 Thanks, folks! The kids at the museum are great fun. It's amazing how many of them just want to stand and watch what I'm doing - even when nothing much is happening. Even the teenagers stop to look and make comments like, "That's so cool." Maybe the memory of what they've seen at the museum will stick with some of them and bear future fruit for a new generation of model makers. John I wouldn't be surprised if, 35 years from now, the memory of watching your work kindles another new model shipbuilder. In our own ways, many of us try to pass on the legacy. mtaylor and fnkershner 2 Quote Augie Current Build: US Frigate Confederacy - MS 1:64 Previous Builds : US Brig Syren (MS) - 2013 (see Completed Ship Gallery) Greek Tug Ulises (OcCre) - 2009 (see Completed Ship Gallery) Victory Cross Section (Corel) - 1988 Essex (MS) 1/8"- 1976 Cutty Sark (Revell 1:96) - 1956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share #290 Posted August 23, 2013 We can only hope, Augie! John mtaylor, augie and popeye the sailor 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share #291 Posted September 5, 2013 Well, Stag progresses (more or less). The spreader has been completed and the topmast shrouds and forestay rigged. I have also just about got all the rigging on the upper square yard ready for sending it aloft. Oh, and the boom topping lift is also rigged and secured. I made a stupid boo boo just before leaving the museum - trying to rush to get things done, I suppose. I was checking the lower square yard brace pennants and realised that the starboard after pennant was way too long. Thinking, "Why did you do that?", I cut it off ready to make a new one next time I'm in at the work bench and only then realised that the starboard forward pennant was way too short!! You guessed it - when I'd fitted them I'd put them on the wrong way round, so all I had needed to do was to soften the glue, turn both pennants through 180 degrees and re-glue them. Oh, well, a bit of pennant making practice won't hurt. Here are a few photos of her as of yesterday afternoon. I realise that the close up of the mast is pretty blurry - I'll try to remember to get a better one next time in. Overall views of the model A blurry mast! The deck showing an ever more crowded area around the foot of the mast. The upper yard almost ready to go aloft John augie, fnkershner, captainbob and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elia Posted September 5, 2013 Share #292 Posted September 5, 2013 John, Stag looks tremendous. She looks close to complete, too. Have you thought about how you'll display the completed Stag? Cheers, Elia BANYAN 1 Quote Elia Rose Valley, PA Arethusa: 1907 Gloucester Knockabout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druxey Posted September 5, 2013 Share #293 Posted September 5, 2013 Ah, well, it's pennant penance for you next time, John. Don't you just hate when that happens? Think twice, cut once.... My sympathy. The model looks great, BTW. Quote Be sure to sign up for an epic Nelson/Trafalgar project if you would like to see it made into a TV series http://trafalgar.tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augie Posted September 5, 2013 Share #294 Posted September 5, 2013 Close in shot of the deck is just great Quote Augie Current Build: US Frigate Confederacy - MS 1:64 Previous Builds : US Brig Syren (MS) - 2013 (see Completed Ship Gallery) Greek Tug Ulises (OcCre) - 2009 (see Completed Ship Gallery) Victory Cross Section (Corel) - 1988 Essex (MS) 1/8"- 1976 Cutty Sark (Revell 1:96) - 1956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share #295 Posted September 5, 2013 Elia - I'm still tossing up between pedestals and a stand. I hope to get the base organised before my next trip to the museum, so that might finally settle it for me. Druxey - I really regret my reprehensible rigging (w)reckage! Augie - Thanks for the good word, mate! John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobbsie Posted September 5, 2013 Share #296 Posted September 5, 2013 Well done John, she's looking absolutely lovely. I think with a little lady like this pedestals would be right, you have to present all of her to her best advantage and I don't think a stand would do that. Your choice mate and I'm sure it will be the right one for you. Looking forward to the launch mate. mobbsie Quote mobbsie All mistakes are deliberate ( me ) Current Build:- HMS Schooner Pickle Completed Builds :- Panart 1/16 Armed Launch / Pinnace ( Completed ), Granado Cross Section 1/48 Harwich Bawley, Restoration, Thames Barge Edme, Repair / Restoration, Will Everard 1/67 Billings HMS Agamemnon 1781 - 1/64 Caldercraft Kit, HM Brig Badger, HM Bomb Vessel Granado, Thames Steam Launch Louise, Thames Barge Edme, Viking Dragon Boat Next Build :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye the sailor Posted September 5, 2013 Share #297 Posted September 5, 2013 superbly done John.........just a small oopsie......not a big deal.....huh it'll be my guess that she will reside at the museum. she'll be a very nice addition to the collection Quote I yam wot I yam! finished builds: Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build Billing T78 Norden in dry dock: Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20 Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400 Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbuilder101 Posted September 5, 2013 Share #298 Posted September 5, 2013 As everyone else has already stated....she's really looking great. Quote Sherry Every goodbye is the birth of a memory... Current Build: San Felipe Finished Builds: Mayflower Build Log Gallery: Mayflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbob Posted September 5, 2013 Share #299 Posted September 5, 2013 It's always nice to see your work. Bob Quote Every build is a learning experience. Current build: SS_ Mariefred Completed builds: US Coast Guard Pequot Friendship-sloop, Schooner Lettie-G.-Howard, Spray, Grand-Banks-dory, a gaff rigged yawl, HOGA (YT-146), Int'l Dragon Class II, Two Edwardian Launches In the Gallery: Catboat, International-Dragon-Class, Spray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lad Posted September 6, 2013 Author Share #300 Posted September 6, 2013 Mobbsie - yeah, I've been leaning towards pedestals - we'll see Popeye - The museum currently want to display her in the Members' Lounge Sherry and Bob - Thanks very much for your support! John mtaylor and popeye the sailor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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