Pride of Baltimore II by Karleop - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:64

[Tigersteve]

Very nice Karl!

Steve

[Ulises Victoria]

Hola mi amigo! Your attention to detail is excellent! Also excellent is your work in general. Me cae que sí!

 

Saludos

[Mirabell61]

Hallo Nils:

 

Thanks for your words, specially considering you are really a MASTER in ship modeling.  I saw your  "SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" and let me without words!! Your work with wood and metal is astounding, probably you must consider writing a Book about Ship modeling. For sure I will be one of your readers.

 

Viele Grüße, Karl

Karl,

 

thank you very much for your compliment and your nice words, much appreciated...

 

Viele grüsse aus Glinde

Nils

[Mirabell61]

Hola:

 

Now I finished the three lockers that surround the main salon trunk: the Life Jacket locker, the Rope Locker and the Diesel Pump Parts Box.

 

Here some pictures:

 

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Saludos, Karl

Those sweet lockers look very nice Karl....

 

Nils

[Karleop]

Que tal Ulises:

 

Gracias!!  You are doing also an excellent work with your Royal Louis 

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hallo Nils:

 

Thanks for your nice words   

 

Saludos aus Mexiko

[Karleop]

Hi everybody:

 

After finishing the lockers I decided to follow with the lifeboat:

 

The most tricky part was to sand the interior because the kit comes with the "bread and butter"laser-cut lifts.  To accomplish this I glued only two of the lifts and before gluing another pair I carved and sanded the inner surface of the pairs. Nonetheless it is quite difficult to achieve a "perfect" soft interior.

 

Here you can see some pictures of the finished boat:

 

The cradles:

 

 

 

And the boat in it´s final position:

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

 

 

[donrobinson]

Nice work on the boat Karl, your deck is quickly filling up

[Nirvana]

Karl,

Your approach of shaping after each layer is a good idea. The lifeboat looks nice.

[Tigersteve]

Nice boat Karl!

Steve

[Karleop]

Hola:

 

A new update. I made the crew berthing and galley access trunk.  

 

 

The tricky part was the fire hydrant and hose because the Britannia part that comes with the kit makes it very difficult to add a hose. So I weld a couple of small brass nails simulating the hydrant.

 

 

To simulate the hose I used a thin electronic wire:

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

Thanks for viewing and for all the likes

Edited December 5, 2016 by Karleop

[Ulises Victoria]

Hola Karl. Very clever your idea of the hydrant and the hoses. Good work!!!

[Karleop]

Que tal Ulises:

 

  That is why it is always advisable to keep things that may be useful later.

 

Saludos Gracias!!

 

[Karleop]

Hola a Todos:

 

After more than a week here is a new update.  First I finished the two lockers that laid close to the Galley access:

 

 

Also I install the eyebolts and skylights that run along the deck:

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

[Karleop]

Hola amigos:

 

Almost finishing this year and almost finishing the deck fittings and structure, now with the Binnacle, the Wheel Box and the small Vent box:

 

 

I want to take this opportunity to send my best wishes for this Christmas and wish you all an excellent 2017!!

 

 

Saludos Karl

Edited December 20, 2016 by Karleop

[donrobinson]

Best wishes to you as well Karl

[Karleop]

Hola a todos:

During the Holidays I had no much time to make some advances in my ship, nonetheless I finished some details:

 

After several tries I make the Step Pads using the Word program of my computer:

 

Also, some of the Bitts, the wood cleats to hang the Life rings and the Gun stowage blocks:

 

 

The channels:

 

 

The Cat Heads:

 

 

The Steps:

 

 

And finally, I varnished the Hull:

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 8, 2017 by Karleop

[Nirvana]

Karl, I like the deck work with the variations of color.

[md1400cs]

Karl,

 

Ola - Don't know how I missed this one -Did not want to stuff your inbox with likes - Nice project. I will follow along.

PS: Loved your weather deck planking work super well detailed

 

Cheers,

[Karleop]

Nirvana and Michael:

 

   Thank´s for your kind words

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hi friends:

I am almost finishing the deck furniture (so many details!!  ).  Now  there are the Fife Rails, including the winches:

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

[Professor]

Superbly executed, Karl. I'm greatly enjoying the build and look forward to seeing this beauty completed.

Sierra Hotel!

"Professor" Ray

[Karleop]

Professor:

 

Thank you very much for your kind words

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hola:

 

Continuing with the last steps of the deck I installed the Gunports lids that must remain closed:

 

Also I fixed the rudder blade to the hull:

 

Special mention deserve the cannons and carriages: If you try to follow the instructions you are dealing with an impossible task mainly because the gun tackles are out of proportion (compared with the instructions drawing) and there is no way to accommodate both tackles in the space provided, additionally the eyebolt position on the carriage is in wrong place, instead of being at the center it must be put a little behind the smaller trucks and in a vertical position: All of these changes can be seen in the real picture of the ship.

 

 

Here you can see the differences I talk about. The first two are according to the instructions and the other ones with the corrected position.

 

 

Final comment about the carriages: the brass rod provided to serve as the tackle rods are very thin and so I must to do them  filing toothpicks to the right size.

 

Saludos, Karl

[Karleop]

Hola;

Following with the cannons and carriages, apparently the problem was solved changing the eyebolts but that was not so. I tried to accommodate the cannons in its place but they do not look good, the reason: the blocks are out of scale and are to big (the correct size would be less than 5/64 instead the ones provided 3/32). So, instead of two blocks per side I remove one of them to get more space. They are not as they must be but they look better.

 

Here with the two blocks:

 

 

Here with one block removed:

 

 

Here you can see the difference of both

 

 

Saludos, Karl

 

[Karleop]

Hi everyone!!

 

After almost seven months, finally I finished all the deck furniture and glue them in their proper place. Here some pictures:

 

 

Next step, start with the masts.

 

Saludos, Karl

 

 

 

 

[Tigersteve]

Nicely done, Karl! Looks great. Congrats.

Steve

[janet bode]

Janet B

Well Karl i have followed your build from the start,your ship looks really nice.

 

cant wait to see your masting and rigging,i feel like i would also like to build

 

the POB maybe sometime anyway well done

[Professor]

 Marvelous job, Karl. Particularly impressive are the multiple light prisms for illumination of the deck below. (Were those kit pieces or did you fashion them? In either event, might you have a macro photo of one?) Well done build, mate.

Edited February 4, 2017 by Professor

[GuntherMT]

Hola;

Following with the cannons and carriages, apparently the problem was solved changing the eyebolts but that was not so. I tried to accommodate the cannons in its place but they do not look good, the reason: the blocks are out of scale and are to big (the correct size would be less than 5/64 instead the ones provided 3/32). So, instead of two blocks per side I remove one of them to get more space. They are not as they must be but they look better.

 

 

And... now you know why I immediately throw all the kit blocks in the garbage and use whatever size looks correct from Syren.  

 

The deck is looking great with all the furniture on it Karl.