Bluenose by dragzz - Model Shipways

[dragzz]

My  Bluenose build  Is slow going due to my injury on my right shoulder 2 plates in 6 titanium screws in my right shoulder so the build is a bit slow i will post when I can some day are better  Then others

[CPDDET]

Take care of yourself. Health is more important than models.

[dragzz]

i will but models help me a lot  so iam not so board lol

[dragzz]

Ok was doing some work to the  Bbow spirit  Doing soldering for the rigging on the nose of the bowspirt so far so good all is going well

[CPDDET]

Looking good!

[popeye the sailor]

hey there bud!  pretty good soldering on those collars!  sorry to hear of your problem......glad though that it hasn't stopped you for very long.  for your mast dilemma,  look up other like ships.......even pictures can give you ideas.  I'm not up on this brand of model,  but I do have the Billing's Bluenose plans.       I'll give them a look over.........cross trees and spreaders.......you should also have caps for the tops of the mast sections.  do taper the topmost section,  but the first and second sections,  you can get away without,  unless you need to fit parts,  like the caps

 

I looked at the Billings plans,  but they don't show what I want to see.......I know I have another sheet somewhere.  I did find some pictures for you to see

       

your not too far off the mark........keep up the good work   

[dragzz]

its my buddy popeye how have u been thank you so much for looking that up as it does really help more pic to come thats for sure

[dragzz]

So here iam again  Working on the mainmast I tapered the top in soldered all the rings my skill really is in  soldering lol cuz I do smd soldering for poeple  Under a microscope not easy

[dragzz]

So now  I have both mainmast and  for mast all callers are no soldered together and all in place there not glued yet here some pic of my work

[dragzz]

Now on the bluenose I have the mainmast almost complete  Looking good so far here are some pic

[CPDDET]

Looking very nice! Hope my masts turn out as nice.

[dragzz]

all i really did was just take my time on  the soldering is what   slowed me down a bit it came looking great

[dragzz]

Hence I was doing the masts I took a look at my Hull and found a big mistake  Hi put some eyel on the top rail over the chainplates and thay are  epoxy them in place  Those were the wrong things to put in there so to get them out I used my really nice soldering iron heated up the eyes and pulled them right out they came out with ease is that happen to some one els this is what u can do to fix it 

[dragzz]

Ok so for the chain plates mistake I now got that fixed  I think I did a really good recovery compared to what it did look like

[dragzz]

And I have been working on the main and the for mast this is where iam at now it looking  good so far 

[CPDDET]

Thanks for the update. Both chain plates and masts are looking good.

[dragzz]

Cpddet thank you just takeing my time

[dragzz]

I got a bit more done so for looking great this where iam at now

[CPDDET]

Looking very nice!

[dragzz]

thank you cpddet

[popeye the sailor]

coming along really good Dragzz....the masts look great    I hope the bow spirit is dry fitted in place......gonna make it hard to clean up the opening   

[dragzz]

thanks popeye and yes the bowspirt is a dry fit and just so u know there will be no sails on this ship just rigging thank you for looking in bud

[dragzz]

I now have the booms and gaff done took me a bit got them done getting  Closer to worst part of the build lol here pic

[dragzz]

now its going to be time to do the rigging doing blocks and tieing knoxs and doing all that i dont want to do not good at doing that part plans dont show me where all the blocks go and where to tie them and stuff this is not going to be fun for me this might not come out as well

[dragzz]

I got some of the blocks tie to the masts looking really good now

[bhermann]

Looks like you are making some good progress.  The sheaves on the main boom look exceptional!

 

Bob

[dragzz]

thank you bhermann

[dragzz]

[dragzz]

Well all iam now calling my Bluenose by model ship ways  Finished there are some minor details to be done but other than that it's full complete and finished its been a long haul but it is complete and proud of my work and my frist Complete wood ship model here some pic 

[CPDDET]

Nice work! Well worth your time and effort. I've learned, and continue to learn from your build log. Thanks for sharing.

 

Dave