Red Jacket by MrBlueJacket - FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - Scale 1/8" = 1' (1:96)

[rwiederrich]

Coming along nicely for sure.  Love the attention to detail in the hull construction.

Love clippers..nice to see yours progressing so well.

 

I'll be following.

 

Rob

[MrBlueJacket]

So here's how the deadeyes and chainplates come together. First you need to bend the chainplate:

 

Then you have to put some .010 wire in the upper u-bend, crimp it in, and then wrap the wire around the deadeye, and CA glue the wire :

 

And finally you can nail it in place with a couple of pins.

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[MrBlueJacket]

So I have the port side finished, I figure about 8 hours of work.

[MrBlueJacket]

I think the Starboard will only take 7 hours (experience)

[MrBlueJacket]

After that, it is put on the cap-rails, the mask off the interior and waterline, spray what remains black. Now it starts to get real fun!

[MrBlueJacket]

The Red Jacket instructions call for cutting the stern caprail out of bass sheet, and fitting it into place. I've always had trouble doing that, because it is difficult to get an even width. Mine always look a little "off."  Taking a hint from the bow caprail on the Charles Notman, I decided to laminate it. The rail is 1/8" x 1/16" so I used 4 pieces of 1/32" x 1/16." A simple 5-minute soak in water made them pliable and I taped them around the stern overnight. The next night it was very easy to lay them down. The finished product looks nice and even.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

AN overall shot - next step is masking and painting the hull black.

[ScottRC]

You are coming along very well. 

[MrBlueJacket]

So the masking didn't work out the way I wanted. I forgot to run a seal coat of clear after I masked it off, and the paint bled. You can look at October 2018 newsletter (www.bluejacketinc.com - newsletter archive) to see the technique. So on Sunday I re-sprayed the waterline where it bled. (*sigh*)

 

[MrBlueJacket]

OK, here we are, all re-masked off and ready for paint.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

Take a deep breath, cross those fingers, and spray! OK it looks good, now the real test - pull off the masking tape........

 

HOORAY! Just a little touch-up needed on the inside of the bulwarks from the first spray job.

[MrBlueJacket]

Added the Bosun's locker and the Head

[Sailor1234567890]

Which of those two cabins is the head and which is the locker? 

[MrBlueJacket]

Head is Starboard

[MrBlueJacket]

Last night I measured, trimmed and installed 34 stanchions on the port side. Each one is a slightly different length. It was a couple of hours of great fun.

[ccoyle]

1 minute ago, MrBlueJacket said:

couple of hours of great fun

Am I detecting a slight note of sarcasm? 🤔

[MrBlueJacket]

Wondered if you would notice !

[Kurt Johnson]

I wonder about the use of a ponce wheel on the decking as a detail. It seems as many times as not the marks made don’t line up with the deck planks at all. To my opinion ( which is just that, mine probably alone) takes away from the model, more than if it was not done at all. All I notice is that it doesn’t match up. If it wasn’t there, I wouldn’t even think about it.

 

Kurt

[MrBlueJacket]

To get each stanchion the correct height, the best way is to mark it in place. I use the Xacto blade to make a cut in the edge. Sometimes it needs a touch of sandpaper to fit, but mostly it goes right in. Then hold it with tweezers while you apply a drop of thin CA glue.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

And now the port side is done. Next up is the pinrails.

[MrBlueJacket]

Pinrails - as promised. Now it occurs to me that I didn't have to be so precise about fitting the stanchions - the tops can't be seen!

 

[rwiederrich]

Fantastic job for sure..well done.

Very clean 

 

Rob

[MrBlueJacket]

Over the w/e I started the poop deck railings. The kit provides several lengths of cast stanchions/railings. These have to be bent to fit the curvature of the stern I decided to bend them upside down, to get a more accurate curve. Then they will get painted and installed.

[MrBlueJacket]

And here's two of the 3 pieces glued down into their many little holes. There will be puttying to do to get a smooth railing at the transition point.

[MrBlueJacket]

Meanwhile, back at the pointy end...............

 

We have installed the knightheads, catheads, hawse lips, spray rail, and some eyebolts.

[MrBlueJacket]

Last night I made one of the two hatches for the deck. I used eyebolts bent over for the hatch lifting rings.

[MrBlueJacket]

It's time to do the figurehead and stern carving. They are of Sagoyewatha, the Seneca chief of the Wolf clan. His nickname Red Jacket is because of the red coat a British army officer gave him during the American Revolution.

 

One of the problems in painting is to mix the flesh color of an American Indian. A google search yielded plenty of advice from miniature figure painters, but they involved colors in acrylic and/or oil that I never head of. What I finally settled on is a mix of Burnt Sienna and cream. I think it came out OK.

[MrBlueJacket]

Today I put on the photo etched scrollwork at the stern. It took an hour of aligning and re-positioning and gluing to get it done. I am happy with the result!

[GrandpaPhil]

Looks good.

[jgodsey]

Very nice!