HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans

[Remcohe]

Brilliant Danny, what you forget to show is how incredibly small the parts are!

 

Remco

[Alex M]

Hi Danny, very fine wheel! And very good step by step showed!

 

Alex

[patrickmil]

Outstanding work on that ship's wheel! 

[gjdale]

Fantastic work on the wheel, Danny, and a great tutorial as well - thanks.

Edited March 28, 2014 by gjdale

[newbuilder101]

What an informative way to build a ship's wheel. I will be tucking that one away for future use, it's terrific! 

[popeye the sailor]

very good tutorial on making the ship's wheel Danny......... super progress your making

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks for the comments Alistair, Druxey, Joe, David, Mark, David, John, Remco, Alex, Patrick, Grant, Sherry and Popeye .

 

I notice your gratings and coamings are quite heavily cambered whereas some models show them quite flat.

 

 

Alistair, it probably depends on the particular ship as to how much camber (or "roundup") the gratings have. On the Swans it's quite a bit more than the roundup of the decks.

 

what you forget to show is how incredibly small the parts are!

 

 

Take a look down the page a bit Remco .

 

Continuing on with the wheel .... I turned the Barrel and fitted it to the wheel :

 

 

 

Last things to make were the two Stanchions that support the wheel assembly. These have a molded section in their faces, which I cut with an Xacto :

 

 

Here's a pic showing how small the wheel is compared to a 5c piece :

 

 

The wheel dry-fitted to the deck. I'll leave it off for now as it could get damaged fairly easily. Oh yeah, and the wheel is fully operational (or will be when it's rigged ) :

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[Trussben]

That wheel looks great Danny, you need to build a bomb shelter like EdT did on his Niaad to protect from damage! Lol

Your Vulture is a thing of beauty, I hope my Pegasus can be even close to it.

 

Ben

[scratch]

Super work . I don't know how you do it . Even with glasses and a head visor i still struggle to see . 

 

 

 

David

[mtaylor]

Just another beautiful bit of work, Danny.  Thanks for the comparison to the coin as I for one, often forget how small things are when looking at pictures. 

[Jim Lad]

Now that wheel setup looks really first class, Danny!

 

John

[Sailor1234567890]

Simply masterful. 

[BANYAN]

That is an incredibly well constructed wheel Danny.  I was initially very impressed with the quality of the work - and then saw the 5 cent coin - wow - at that scale.  I doff my hat Sir!

 

 

 

cheers

 

Pat

Edited March 29, 2014 by BANYAN

[gjdale]

That shot with the 5-cent coin just blows the mind Danny, though I'm not too sure how many of our Northern Hemisphere brethren appreciate just how small that coin actually is!

[newbuilder101]

BEAUTIFUL work Danny - as always!

Grant's comment prompted me to research the size of the Aussie 5 cent piece compared to ours.

The result: It's half way between a Canadian 5 cent and 10 cent piece. (American coins are the same size as Canadian)

I now appreciate jsut how small that wheel is now!

[patrickmil]

Incredible work on this scale. Simply breathtaking...

[Dan Vadas]

That shot with the 5-cent coin just blows the mind Danny, though I'm not too sure how many of our Northern Hemisphere brethren appreciate just how small that coin actually is!

 

The coin is 19.25mm (3/4")  in diameter.

 

  Danny

[gjdale]

Might want to check that measurement Danny - or you have over-size coins up there in Newcastle.....

[Dan Vadas]

Might want to check that measurement Danny - or you have over-size coins up there in Newcastle.....

 

I used my Digital Verniers Grant - I hope they're accurate, as it would mean Vulture is way out of shape if they're not  .

 

  Danny

[gjdale]

My apologies Danny - should have known better! That just "sounded" too large - thought you might have misread the scale, but should have checked myself before opening my mouth!

[GTM]

only one word: wow..!!!

[Jim Lad]

Danny,

 

Check your digital verniers - the official diameter of a five cent coin is 19.41 mm!  

 

John

[texxn5]

Wow, that's nice Danny.

[edmay]

Thanks for passing your vast knowledge,your logs always leave me in awe,truly a one man band,a learning encyclopedia which many modelers ,scratch or kit surely appreciate.Edwin.

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks Theo, John, John, Nils and Edwin.

 

Check your digital verniers - the official diameter of a five cent coin is 19.41 mm!

 

 

Picky, picky .....

 

Quarterdeck Ladderway

 

The last ladderway to be made and fitted is the one for the quarterdeck. This would need to have been removed any time the lower capstan would have been in use.

 

I made it in similar fashion to all the previous ones :

 

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[rth385]

Simply incredible Danny.

Regards,

Russell

[Timmo]

Brilliant work as ever Danny.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better you knock up a ships wheel! Inspirational stuff.

Great to see something next to a coin I can relate to for scale.

[Kevin]

Dan just caught up with your log again - outstanding work, thank you 

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you Russel, Timmo and Kevin.

 

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better

 

 

Well how about this then Timmo ?

 

Ladderway Railings

 

The Stanchions for the railings are turned from 1.2mm brass wire. They taper from 0.7mm at the top to 1mm at the bottom. The lugs that hold the railings are made from a couple of spare chain links (left over from the pump chains). They are silver soldered to the stanchions - a bit tricky to hold in position, as the double ones are only 1.6mm long and the singles are 0.8mm :

 

 

Here's the coin again - the stanchions are 18mm long :

 

 

 

Fitted to the ship :

 

 

 

  Danny

[Timmo]

Aww ok then , that's pretty good but I reserve the highest praise four your work in wood.