HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans

[Siggi52]

Keith, did't you have a whip?  😇

[Keith Black]

1 hour ago, Siggi52 said:

Keith, did't you have a whip?

 

 Yes I do, Siggi, but my wife is usually too busy tending to other things. 

 

 

Edited November 15, 2021 by Keith Black

[Siggi52]

Hello,

now this chapter is also finished. All channels are ready and installed. The next time the smith has to build in the deadeyes. 

 

 

 

 

[md1400cs]

Siggi,

 

Been following..... superb work! - I will try to copy (hopefully haha) some of your detail work for my current build. Your ship is so excellent indeed.

 

Regards,

[Wintergreen]

Every time I visit this build, I find myself admiring the painted friezes. They.Are.Just.Amazing!

 

[Siggi52]

Hello

and thank you all for your nice comments and likes, they are very appreciated 

today I installed the first parts to the fore and main channels. Don't ask me how there name is 😟 They are in the second row. Next, in the first row, the deadeyes are to be done.

 

 

[Siggi52]

Hello,

today I finished the first deadeyes, or put them straps on. After clearing how to do it and wich dimensions and which material, it worked really fine. I forged the strap around the deadeyes flat, because the had a broad groove. These are 9 mm deadeyes, I got from Poland. Others I have from the US, and Canada. So they are really international. The copper wire is 1 mm in diameter.

 

 

And here the first test sitting 

 

 

So, if you did't hear the next time anything from me, I'm busy with the rest of them 🙂  

 

[Siggi52]

Hello, a short update

When I'm building the first deadeyes, I had only the pictures from the Centurion in my head 😐 

 

 

They build the straps filled with tin! Over night I was thinking about this and thought that this is't right. So the next morning I changed it. 

 

The „new“ deadeyes, above, look now much more correct. The one to the left are those for the fore mast, I build yesterday. Today I changed my strategy from soldering them, to glueing them. Here the first one for the mizzen mast. That is at least much easier 🙂

Edited November 25, 2021 by Siggi52

[Hubac's Historian]

This is a very clever method for stropping that I will be adopting, myself.  Is there a particular CA, or other adhesive that you like for closing the strop ends?

[Siggi52]

Hello Marc,

I use always „ZAP-A-GAB, Medium CA+“ and have good results with it. It fills open spaces and did't bond immediately.

[Siggi52]

Hello,

all the deadeyes and the first chainplates are installed. It takes so long, because the paint doesn't dry really good now.

Here are all parts together

 

And there some of them now

 

I did install also the chain-painter chain. What a funny name! I hope it will fit later with the anchor

 

And the whole ship. So for the next weeks I think, I'm busy to install the rest of them.

[Keith Black]

Beautiful work, Siggi. 

[Jaager]

14 minutes ago, Siggi52 said:

chain-painter chain

I have not seen the term before, but on an open boat, the painter is a section of rope at the bow that is used to tie it to the back of the ship - or whatever else is towing it.   It supplies a metaphor? for removing someone from your support: " cutting the painter".   To fit that name, I would guess that the chain is a relatively short length with the distant end not attached to anything - until it is used to temporarily secure an anchor or boat.

 

Looking at your deadeyes,  I wonder if a two part strop would work?  

1- a belt that wraps around the body with ends that meet at the bottom.

2- a hole in the deadeye at that bottom site where an eye is glued into the hole.  The end of the eye being a pointed tap - twisted?

 

Would this be faster to mass produce?  I can see that a two part epoxy would make this a "forever" unit.

[Siggi52]

Thank you Keith and also Jaager,

the chain-Painter chain holds the anchors like in this picture. According to the 1719 list of establishment the chain should be 15 feet long. But I think, because the channels moved up, it could be at least shorter. But that I will see later. 

 

[druxey]

Almost right! It's called a 'shankpainter chain'. It is taken around the shank of the anchor when it is stowed.

[Siggi52]

Thank you Druxey,

I confused this. 

[druxey]

There are some very strange English terms, Siggi! You would probably laugh at my German language skills.

[Siggi52]

Druxey, no panic, I would't. 

[druxey]

Viele danke, Mein Herr!

[Siggi52]

Hello

and many thanks for your nice comments and likes. I'm overwhelmed 😮

I finished the fore mast port side and started with the main mast. 

 

 

 

And that are the bolts who hold the chain plates in place. But today wasn't my day. So I stoped working.  There where a 0,8mm bold should fit, I tried a 1mm bold and for the 1mm bold I drilled 0,8mm holes! And all ready with CA saturated 😬 

[albert]

Wonderful work Siggi, very very nice.

[druxey]

Everyone has days like that! Hopefully tomorrow is better....

[Dowmer]

Wonderful work Siggi.

where do you get your chain plates?

[GrandpaPhil]

Your work on the Tiger is simply amazing!

 

Days like this are why coffee was invited.

[Siggi52]

On 9/18/2021 at 5:30 PM, Siggi52 said:

I let the cain plates etch, and because they should be in the middle 0,7mm and at the outside only 0,5mm I welded some tin on them. So that they bevels a little.

 

Hello,

and thank you for your comments and likes

Edited December 9, 2021 by Siggi52

[Siggi52]

Hello,

it is done, the port side is ready!

 

 

And I got a new toy, an LED ring lamp. She is good for working , and taking pictures through it. But that I think only at a short distance. You could dim in 10 stages and change the white temperature from cold, white to warm. And she is amazingly light.

[Wintergreen]

Ahh, those painted frieses...

 

Well, I have a question Siggi. What about armament? It looks like you are only planning for guns on weather/2nd deck? I mean, first gundeck is a bit hard to do any work on now, right?

 

About lightning, I remember that Gaetan B had some posts about lightning a good while ago. He compared flourescent lights with led and halogen if I remember correctly. Pros and cons and did reasoning around them.

 

Keep it up!

[Siggi52]

Good morning Håkan,

the cannons, also those for the gun deck, are ready. The beams for the upper gun deck are til now not all permanently installed.

With the lightning  and taking pictures I have no problems. I have LED lightning already in my shop. The only disadvantage with LED's is, that they did't have UV-A radiation. So the paint did't harden really good. 

 

 

 

 

[Wintergreen]

Aha! Planning ahead I understand. Well done, and an impressive set of thunder there!

[Siggi52]

Hello and thank you for all your likes

Today I finished the chain plates at the star board side. 

I see it every time at the pictures, but the underwater ship is't so dirty. That is mostly noise in the picture.

 

The next thing would be, finishing the anchor lining. There I have 3 opportunities

After Goodwin the upper part should be parallel lined, but I found also models where it is't so. I would let the lining end under the channel, not in front of it, and prefer the curve #2. At these older ships the channels where mostly set at the waist rail, later below it, and I would't brake that line. At the models you see it sometimes so, or so.