Prince De Neufchatel by emeneink - Model Shipways

[Jimz66]

Looking very nice sir. Very nice. 

[enemeink]

Beautiful craftsmanship! I hope the lapse in postings doesn't mean that the project has been abandoned.

Will we ever be allowed to see the completed model?

 *cough cough cough... pardon the dust and cobwebs.... I haven't abandoned this. It's still on the workbench and not shelved. Life has been busy, and I haven't had time for much else thanks to my odd desire to go back to school and finish a degree, and pursue another. Damn life goals... Will this be the year I polish this off? I'm hoping so. I actually started about a week or two ago. but since I hadn't touched this is so long I 1.) forgot where I left off. (seriously. looking at rigging plans and trying to decipher where I left off and needed to be was a head scratcher). 2.) lost my touch/technique and my work quality looked pretty poor. 3.) spent time going back and fixing things from #2 that I wasn't happy with.  So. Two weeks back and I think I have my groove again. Pictures will be forth coming.

[enemeink]

annnnd here's an update.

 

 

 

See ya next year! haha kidding

Edited March 16, 2018 by enemeink

[enemeink]

bow spirit standing rigging is complete, well as much as I can tell. I have started shaping spars to get those moving. Good times! Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 16, 2018 by enemeink

[Barbossa]

Welcome back !

[enemeink]

It’s been awhile. Again. But in my defense, I’ve completed two degrees, moved homes twice, and displaced my workbench about half a dozen times. However, I’ve never truly put the ship away or given up on it. I’ve merely put it off. So I’m here, still.  And looking to get back at it. I’ve been lurking on and off. So I’ve never truly left, I’ve just been absent. But I need to do some repair work to a broken spar that was a work in progress that became a casualty of the moving and shuffling. Luckily it was only a small piece and easy to fix. Hopefully now my work bench is in its final work space and won’t ever have to move again.

 

Also, I have plenty of broken image links. This may have already been discussed at great lengths in my absence, but apparently Photobucket has decided to disable third party links, unless I pay a $399 a year subscription. Yeah not going to happen. So I’ll start moving these out of photobucket and just put them here. I just need to figure out which ones are missing.

 

This would also explains why the older source material pictures I was referencing seems to have all but disappeared from the internet… good times.

[enemeink]

Managed to get my bench set up and the spar repaired. I now need to add a couple of blocks and it'll be ready to be attached.

[enemeink]

I've decided to put the spar off until the other mast is completed and installed. It's been slow battle with spring "trying" to warm up...

 

As I was making the mast I realized that I was missing one of the mast caps (#8 on the drawing) so I had to make one from scratch. The small walnut strips I have worked the best and we're fairly easy to shape. I just need to make the cheeks and top and I can get it painted and sealed. Also I wrap the painters tape on the mast to keep finger oils and dirt out of the wood as I'm shaping the mast, since this will be stained a natural color.