HMS VICTORY by Jerry - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72 - 1805 version

[Jerry]

So far, so good...To be continued tomorrw.  Goodnight everyone.  Jerry

[Jerry]

OK folks, I think I finally understand what my problem was.  I needed to do a new post every 10 pictures instead of going back to my original post and editing it.  I'm going to see what happens now.

 

Mar 17

 

  Bow view of finished first hull planking    First hull planking completed    Stern view of finished planking

 

Mar 18

 

  Beginning starboard side quarter galleries

 

Mar 19 

 

  starboard side quarter galleries in progress

 

 

Mar 20

  Stern work almost finished

 

 

Mar 21

    Port quarter galleries built up  

 

Mar 23

  Half of middle gun deck planked

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2013 by Jerry

[JPett]

Ahoy Jerry

 

WOW

 

Are you sleeping

 

The instructions say 2500 to 3000 hours to complete this build

 

Somehow i do not think this will apply to you

 

She looks great

[Garward]

Ahoy Jerry

 

WOW

 

Are you sleeping

 

The instructions say 2500 to 3000 hours to complete this build

 

Somehow i do not think this will apply to you

 

She looks great

 

The modeller sleeps, and process goes... 

[Kevin]

well done

For a good start to the build

and overcoming the posting issue

Edited April 30, 2013 by Kevin

[Jerry]

Jpett..

 

I hardly sleep but believe me when that happens I play on-line poker and give the ship a break.  LOL  It feels good to know that I finally figured this posting thing out.  Thanks for your support..Jerry

[Jerry]

Kevin..Nice to hear from you.  Thanks for your kind words..Jerry

[Jerry]

Garwood..Your philosophy is right on.  Stay in touch...Jerry

[Jerry]

So now I will bring this log further up-to-date:

 

Mar 25

 

  Side entry port sills installed    Close up of side entry port    Middle gun deck planked and varnished

 

Mar 26  

                  

  Deck area between barrel strip and ship side painted black matt

 

Mar 27

 

  First two rows of second hull planking

 

Mar 29

 

  Bow view of second planking continuing     Rear port view of second planking continuing

 

 

 

Mar 31

  Hull after 4 mre plankson each side      Stern view with up-to-date planking

 

Apr 1

     The second planking keeps growing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2013 by Jerry

[Shipyard sid]

Greetings Jerry

Good to see you have got your photos sorted, so now you can get on with your build. Everything is looking good, keep up the good work and keep the photos coming. Regards DAVID

[Jerry]

Hello David...Nice to hear from you.  Yes, thank goodness, I finally understood what to do.  It took a lot of prodding by several patient people and I'm on my way.  I started to line the ports today and managed to get two finished. I believe this stage is the slowest part of the buildso far.  I'm going to try and bring the log to where I am at this time.  Have a great evening up in the North there.  Jerry

[Jerry]

Well, I only have a month of progress to go..so here it comes....

 

Apr 2

 

  About two days to go to finish second planking    Second planking moving along

 

Apr 3

 

  Second planking finished on starboard side of the hu;;

 

Apr 4

 

  Second planking of hull completed

 

Apr 5

 

  Last look at middle gun deck before upper gun deck is installed

 

  Hull sanded and keelson and stem post added

 

Apr 7

 

  Beginning to run second planking upwards    Continuing planking upwards

 

Apr 9

 

  Upper gun deck and inner bulwark patterns added.  This was my first thought that things were getting difficult.  I kept my fingers crossed as I bent the upper deck horizontally to try and get it to fit over the bulheads. I was sure I was going to split it.  I managed okay but did break a couple of tabs squeezing the deck into place.  These were easily glued and as it turned out, one doesn't ever see this part of the deck when the inner gun patterns are in place.  The inner gun patterns took a lot of sanding at the bottom to get the gun ports of the inner and outer paterns to match up.  But I kept going and finally everything worked out.  Thank goodness for my mini belt and disc sander

 

Apr 10

 

   Planking the upper gun deck

Edited May 1, 2013 by Jerry

[Jerry]

Well, I don't have much more to go so I'll forsake dinner and get this thing to where I'm presently at:

 

Apr 10

 

  Planking upper gun deck

 

Apr 12

 

  Uppergun deck lanking ready for sanding and varnish

 

Apr 15

 

  3rd to 10th gunport lined on starboard side    Closeup of lined gunports

 

 

Apr 17

 

  Beginning the lining of inside bulwark pattern

 

Apr 18

 

  Bulwark walls finished

 

Apr 19

 

  Hull planking begins going upwards again

 

Apr 20

 

  Planking temporarily suspended

 

 

 

Apr 21 

   Inner gunport sides are painted yellow ochre

 

Apr 23

 

  Wales are finished     Closeup of finished wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2013 by Jerry

[Jerry]

The following will bring my build up-to-date...........  I would like to acknowledge  Shipyard Sid  (David) with a very special thank you for enlightening me about the balsa lining seats.  They are not in the instruction manual so I was very lucky to hear about this method from David.  Thanks again, David....

 

Apr 25

 

  This is the tool that I used to place the balsa seats that will support the gun port linings.  It is made with two very small fish hooks which turned out to be perfect.

 

Apr 26

 

  Balsa seats after being trimmed     Closeup of gunport with rough balsa seat

 

 

Apr 28

 

  Another closeup of a couple of balsa seated gun ports    Balsa seats completed in all gun ports

 

 

Apr 29

 

  Both sides of hull painted yellow ochre

Edited May 1, 2013 by Jerry

[mort stoll]

You are doing a great job. Keep those updates coming. One question, what size were the fish hooks you used for the gunports?

 

Thanks,

Mort

[Jerry]

Sorry, Mort.. I have no idea.  I bought them a long, long time ago.  They were snelled hooks and I cut off the  leader.  They are a just a drop leass than a quarter of an inch or about 5mm in diameter.  Check out the pic of the tool on my site and notice the relationship between the tool and the American dime.  Hope this helps you.

Jerry

[jarero]

Jerry, I am enjoying your beautiful build and I am happy to see that you worked everything out with the pictures.

 

Happy modeling!

 

Jared

[Jerry]

Hello Jared..

 

Thank you for your pleasant note. 

I need sleep!  LOL 

I can't believe my misunderstanding of how to post but, as you said, I finally got things worked out. 

I appreciate friends like you.

Jerry

[Nirvana]

And I learned something new, thank you.

[trippwj]

Your Victory is looking really good, Jerry!

[Jerry]

Thanks trippwj...Nice of you to make a complimentary comment.  FYI, I too have an autistic son who is now 58 years old, living in a great facility and still has never spoken.  He was diagnosed about 55 years ago.  He seems happy, takes care of himself, manages to work easy tasks and I daily pray for him.  I understand your feelings very well;  thank you for the avatar.

Jerry

Edited May 7, 2013 by Jerry

[mort stoll]

No problem Jerry. I appreciate the picture. I am going to need that tool when I build my Victory and your pix and Sids will be a great help when the time comes to make my own.

 

Thanks,

Mort

[Jerry]

OK Mort, let ,e know of I can be of any help.

Jerry

[ocean clipper]

Hi Jerry pleased to see you got a log going hoping to return to my build soon,so far you are doing a fine job    DEREK

[Jerry]

Hi Derek...Thanks for your compliment.  I appreciate your comment as I have visited your log many times, watched your progress and learned a lot.  I  got the idea for the fishhook tool from your log and from David's too.  Your  log is  one of a handful that helped me make the decision to start the Victory  Thanks, again...Jerry. 

[mort stoll]

Hi Jerry,

 

Thanks for the offer, I am sure I will take you up on it. I am a few years away from my own Victory. I am building the Snake and hope to build the Diana before going on to the Victory. In the mean time I am monitoring all of the Victory builds and taking lots of notes. 

 

Mort

[Jerry]

I've been quiet for a couple of days...all work and no play.  I found the last construction to be the hardest so far, lining the gun ports.  But I kept on trying and thanks to David's idea of making balsa seats for the lining, I finally finished the starboard side of the ship.  Here are three images of where I stand as of now.  It'll be back to work and if all goes well, and with today's experience under my belt, I hope to complete the gun port lining by tomorrow evening.

 

May 7

   close up of gunport linings

 

   a little longer view of the gunport linings

 

   Full view of starboard gunport linings

 

So until tomorrow or so...

 

Jerry

Edited May 7, 2013 by Jerry

[Shipyard sid]

Greetings Jerry

Yes your linings are looking good, and you will have the port linings finished tomorrow !!! ?. How much time are you spending daily on the build? What are you going to do when the linings are finished?? I surmise you will be looking at the copper plates. Anyway well done, keep up the good work. DAVID

[Jerry]

Hi David, good to hear ffom you again.  Most of the linings are already finished.  I only have to do the 9 upper deck gun ports on the port side.  Thanks for your encouragement and to answer your question, I work on the ship about 5 hours a day and relax to join my wife in the evnings.  She's very much younger than I am and is an 8th grade school teacher here in Naples so I can't spend any time with her during the day anyway.  After the linings are completed I will touch up the yellow paint on the inside gunport wall where I trimmed the excess gunport lining.  I also need to go back and paint the top gunport linings that are not recessed that were finished earlier.  I also have some filling and repainting of the hull to do and then I'll probably paint the black bands to be followed by coppering.

Take care...

Jerry

Edited May 8, 2013 by Jerry

[Kevin]

Jerry 

are you going for the kit tiles or copper tape, , yr build looks great, lol -

i wish i had 5 hours a day spare, managed 4 hours during the whole of last week

 

all the best