Byzantium by qwerty2008 - Scale 1:20 - RADIO - based on the Pride of Baltimore

[qwerty2008]

Sorry its been so long since my last post. Since my last post I have made the weeping angel figurehead, there's nothing more intimidating than a twelve foot tall statue of an angel covering its eyes. the figurehead is made from Sculpty. After I took the pics I did some work on aging.

 

 

Lextin.

Edited February 11, 2014 by qwerty2008

[DSiemens]

Now that I've seen some doctor who I actually understand that.  Very clever.  

[JerryTodd]

A Doctor Who fan, eh?

[qwerty2008]

Yes' I'm a big Doctor who fan. Since I named it the Byzantium and the Byzantium on Doctor Who had a weeping angle on board I decided that it would make the perfect figurehead.

 

 

Lextin.

[qwerty2008]

I have a question, if I threw on a coat of spray paint now would it cause the thinned resin that I am planing on sealing it with not to stick properly?. I want to see it with some color on it now but an not yet ready to seal the outside also the paint will illuminate any flaws that need work.

 

 

Lextin.

[SailorGreg]

Hold fire on the paint if you are going to epoxy the hull. You are right to wonder if the paint will affect the bonding of the resin - yes it will. Patience my friend - your lovely hull will look gorgeous in its own time!

 

Greg

[qwerty2008]

I asked the same question on another forum and got a similar answer, since I got the same answer from two different sources it must be good info so I will hold off on paint until the hull is sealed. Before sealing the hull I need to finish the trim and install the rest of the gunport sills.

 

 

Lextin

[qwerty2008]

I have installed all of the gunport sills and am debating on if I should add some trim to the stem just above the figurehead similar to a beakhead but just decorative as it would be to small to be useful.

 

 

Lextin.

[qwerty2008]

I took some pictures of today, overalls and closeups.

A closeup of the stem showing a mockup of the proposed beakhead'ish trim piece.

A closeup showing one of the gunport sills.

The inside.

 

 

Lextin.

[michael mott]

You are coming along nicely Lextin.

 

Michael

[qwerty2008]

I made the beakhead'ish thing, I made it by cutting grooves into my mockup version then setting small pieces of square stock into the grooves which were then glued onto the sides with some CA, I temporarily glued each halve into place then glued two pieces of square stock between them to hold them together.

     Should I go straight along the top edge or have a curve like the one I marked on it in the last two pictures?

 

 

Lextin.

[qwerty2008]

I decided to make it straight on the top and cut it along the line shown in pictures 4 and 5 of the previous post.

 

 

Lextin.

[mtaylor]

Nice work, Lextin. 

[qwerty2008]

I sealed the hull with thinned fiberglass resin yesterday and today I applied the first coats of paint. The red beneath the waterline is just a temporary placeholder until I get copper.

 

 

Lextin

[DSiemens]

She's looking pretty.  

[dgbot]

And you are going to put it in the water?  Nice work.

David B

[qwerty2008]

I did a float test yesterday, I added lead until it floated at its waterline then left it for 4 hours. Even with the weight held internally it was surprisingly stable this means that I can shorten the keel which will allow me to sail in shallower water.

 

 

Lextin.

Edited February 17, 2014 by qwerty2008

[qwerty2008]

I dug a pond a few days ago so I decided to have the Byzantium's first outdoor float test. Here are the pictures.

 

 

Lextin.

[dgbot]

Nice but my advice would be to be careful when you shorten the keel.

David B

[DSiemens]

She looks good floating in the water.  She'll be a fun ship to sail for sure.   

[mtaylor]

Looks good in the water, Lextin.  Took me a minute to realize that you had to dig a pond.  Then I remembered about Lake Mirage.. or the lakebed at least. 

[qwerty2008]

Nice but my advice would be to be careful when you shorten the keel.

David B

 

 

David: When I shorten the keel I will attach the bulb without the fin then move it up and down the bolts until I get the right balance between shallowness and stability then I will cut the fin shorter.

 

 

Lextin.

[qwerty2008]

I made the master cannon that will be used to make the mold for casting the rest. The cannon is made from paper brushed with diluted PVA  and rolled around a piece of brass tube then turned on a lathe. In order to make the cannon I first needed to make a lathe to turn it on to do this I strapped my Dremel to a board and put some eye hooks in another piece of wood which was clamped onto the first. one end of the tube that I rolled the paper around was placed through the eye hooks and the other was chucked into the Dremel.

 

 

Lextin.

[mtaylor]

Very ingenious, Lextin.  I like your lathe and your cannon.

[dgbot]

Before I bought my Sherline when I had hair I used to dream up 100 of ways of using a dremel.  It could be a pain and a problem.  But ingenuity always won out.  Congrats on a great idea .  And a nice looking master. Are you going to use resin or Brittania?

David B

[qwerty2008]

I made a carriage for the cannon. As for the casting I will first try resin but if I cant get it to work I will try lead.

 

 

Lextin.

[DSiemens]

Looks good so far.  

[qwerty2008]

I thought that it wold be easier to cast the cannons so I made a mold then tested the mold with wax but what came out could hardly be called a cannon and with the time and effort that I put into making the mold I could of made halve the cannons that I need from paper 

 

 

Lextin.

[DSiemens]

Trying out new things feels that way at first.  I haven't tried casting but I think if you give it a few more tries and some different approaches it may come out to be what you were looking for.  It may not be beneficial time wise to this build but it could be beneficial time wise to the next.   

[dgbot]

Once you have mastered casting you will never look back

David B