US Brig Syren by Hipexec - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:64 - building as USS Argus

[HIPEXEC]

I roughed out the doors and glued on the tongue and groove battens on each roof. The whole structure will be paneled with battens and trimmed. The doors will be finished as soon as I can figure out how to make the swing open and shut.

[GuntherMT]

Brass strip.  Brass tubing.  Brass round stock.  Solder.  Make little hinges.  

[HIPEXEC]

Thank you Brian...I will look into it.

[Jim Rogers]

Bring a big old bag of patience with you when you go to make those itty bitty hinges. I'd go long bar style.

[HIPEXEC]

I'm still paneling the aft structures.

[Jim Rogers]

Looks clean.

[Tigerdvr]

Just imagine this if they somehow kept the stern chasers and you are the First Lieutenant peacefully sitting in the head and one of the stern chasers is fired! Wooooooo-

 

Cheers, Harley

[fnkershner]

That will help clear the Bowels 

 

[HIPEXEC]

That's a new kind of "colon blow!"

[HIPEXEC]

Head paneling continued. I'm trying to match the only photo I have of the Argus aft structures using the materials I have at hand.

[Nirvana]

Rich,

Did Argus have stern chasers?

Looking good with the alternate build.

[HIPEXEC]

No stern chasers that I can find.

[HIPEXEC]

Paneling finished. Now I will "pretty up" the doors and figure out hinges. Then I will finish trim the whole structure.

[src]

Rich, 

looking good. On your hinges there is a European company that makes brass and stainless tube that sleeves into one another. I forget the name at the moment, I will try to remember to look when I get home tonight if nobody else has come up with the name. It's very thin wall but with some careful fitting I think you could make some nice hinges. 

Edit: Albion alloys. 

Sam

Edited August 29, 2017 by src
Found the information I left out

[HIPEXEC]

I rough finished the doors but I don't like the fit on the starboard door. I'm also working on hinges so the doors can open to see the one holers inside. Still a work in progress

[Mahuna]

Nice work, Rich.

 

If you have trouble making working hinges you could make simulated hinges and leave the door of one side open to show the one-holer.

[JesseLee]

Looks good. Curious to see how you make hinges this small.

 

Jesse

[HIPEXEC]

Frank might have the right idea....one door open and one door closed. I've made movable items on previous models and nobody even tries them. A lot of work with no reward.

[HIPEXEC]

Here's the doors using Frank's solution of one door open and one door closed.

[HIPEXEC]

By the way, Chuck Passaro told me these structures were either crappers or flag lockers. Well, looking at the scope they were probably both. The front section is the "one holer ", but there's plenty of room for a flag locker behind the hole.

[HIPEXEC]

I glued the doors in )(one open and one closed). I put door knobs on them and trimmed the structure some more.

[Nirvana]

Rich, even though tiny small items can and are tricky to get there, they truly emphasize the detailing.

Some people (spectators) may overlook that part of work, I can tell from my own modeling I know what I have put into my ships.

This looks so good. 

[Jim Rogers]

Very nice Rich. I wouldn't want my flags kept in a one holer if you get my drift. Sailors can be cretins, we had a phantom crapper on one of my ships, thought he was funny, not so much.

[Tigersteve]

The structures came out great. I like the idea of one door kept open. 

Steve 

[HIPEXEC]

15 hours ago, Jim Rogers said:

Very nice Rich. I wouldn't want my flags kept in a one holer if you get my drift. Sailors can be cretins, we had a phantom crapper on one of my ships, thought he was funny, not so much.

It seems everyone had a phantom crapper in the service.

[HIPEXEC]

15 hours ago, Nirvana said:

Rich, even though tiny small items can and are tricky to get there, they truly emphasize the detailing.

Some people (spectators) may overlook that part of work, I can tell from my own modeling I know what I have put into my ships.

This looks so good. 

You're right, but I look at some of my models where I put floors where even I can't see, or pumps that pump but I can't get my fingers in to pump. The list goes on, so I tend not to do some of these little things as I age.

[HIPEXEC]

Back to following the plans. I'm pre-bending the waterways that I sanded to a rough triangular shape. I also pre-stained them.

[knightyo]

It sure looks like you've matched the Argus' stern section well.   It's been fun to watch the modifications you've been making.

 

I wonder how many times one of the cannons right outside the door was fired when the crew knew someone was on the crapper?  Probably depended upon the captain's sense of humor.

 

Alan 

[Karleop]

Hola Rich:

I had not followed your log for some time but I see that you have advanced very well with your Syren- Argus. It is getting nice!!

 

Saludos, Karl

[HIPEXEC]

43 minutes ago, knightyo said:

It sure looks like you've matched the Argus' stern section well.   It's been fun to watch the modifications you've been making.

 

I wonder how many times one of the cannons right outside the door was fired when the crew knew someone was on the crapper?  Probably depended upon the captain's sense of humor.

 

Alan 

I doubt when they beat to quarters there would be anyone on the head. That would give new meaning to colon blow!