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

[Mirabell61]

Beautiful work Danny,

a wonderful model in every Detail...

 

Nils

[mtaylor]

Lovely work on the taffarel, cap rail and all the fiddly bits, Danny.  That is an interesting method. 

[BANYAN]

Great job Danny, that is some quality joinery!

 

Cheers

 

Pat

[CaptainSteve]

Beautiful work, Danny. You continue to amaze ... and continue to inspire all of us with just what is possible !!!

[gjdale]

Spyglass,

 

I'm sure Danny will give you some great advice as he always does, but in the meantime, to debond CA, you need to use acetone (not IPA - that's for PVA glue). If you soak some paper towel in acetone, apply it to the joint and cover it with plastic wrap (to slow the evaporation), that may help the penetration. Give it about 10 minutes, then slowly work a thin blade into the joint. You may need to continue/repeat several times. The only issue you run may into with plywood is delamination of the ply itself if you dissolve the glue between layers, so tread carefully and take your time.

Edited April 17, 2014 by gjdale

[overdale]

Lovely work Danny.

Always a pleasure to drop in and look at your progress.

[albert]

Fantastic work Danny.

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks very much Brian, Frank, Janos, Patrick, Grant, Nils, Mark, Pat, Steve, John (welcome back), Spyglass, Dale and Albert .

 

Good to see you have your Acetone problem sorted Spyglass - thanks for giving him the info Grant, I've been away on one of my extended holidays again .

 

Roughtree Rail

 

The final Rail to be fitted is the Roughtree Rail, also called the Quarter Rail. This rail is bolted to the Swivel Gun Mounts on the Quarterdeck, and also has an iron brace near it's fore end.

 

I made the fore end from a piece of wide stock, cut on the scroll saw. A much easier way than trying to bend it into shape :

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[Jim Lad]

Very nice indeed, Danny!

 

John

[dgbot]

A simple yet elegant design.  One of the hardest to do right.  Great Job.

David B

[Mirabell61]

Thanks very much Brian, Frank, Janos, Patrick, Grant, Nils, Mark, Pat, Steve, John (welcome back), Spyglass, Dale and Albert .

 

Good to see you have your Acetone problem sorted Spyglass - thanks for giving him the info Grant, I've been away on one of my extended holidays again .

 

 

Roughtree Rail

 

The final Rail to be fitted is the Roughtree Rail, also called the Quarter Rail. This rail is bolted to the Swivel Gun Mounts on the Quarterdeck, and also has an iron brace near it's fore end.

 

I made the fore end from a piece of wide stock, cut on the scroll saw. A much easier way than trying to bend it into shape :

 

Roughtree Rail 001.jpg

 

Roughtree Rail 002.jpg

 

Roughtree Rail 003.jpg

 

  Danny

 

Danny,

 

the quarterrail Looks very nicely, also the metal supporting in the front section, it rounds up the Quarterdeck sides perfectly together with the swivel gunposts.

 

Nils

[patrickmil]

The railing is outstanding. That's a very clean joint at the iron brace.

[mij]

Hi Danny

 

You shoud be very proud of what you have done.

Very, very nice work.

 

mij

[tlevine]

Great to see another update.  Visually, the rail really pulls it all together.

[gjdale]

Welcome home Danny. Another lovely little piece to celebrate your homecoming! BTW, great job you're doing on that del prado Vic up at the van too.

[Erebus and Terror]

Your metal work never fails to amaze me. 

[Beef Wellington]

Simply unbelievable, inspirational work Danny in all respects, have followed from the start and will be here until the end.....<...speechless....> 

[lagrayjr]

Danny, how did you end the rough-tree rail at the stern? If possible can you show us a picture of this area of the ship. Also are you planning to add a taffarel fife rail? Great work Laman

[Dan Vadas]

John, David, Nils, Patrick, mij, Toni, Grant, E&T, Jason and Laman - thank you all very much for your kind comments.

 

how did you end the rough-tree rail at the stern?

 

 

I ended it the way shown on the NMM sheer plan - in mid-air. It's only 16 (real) inches from the last gun mount, so doesn't need anything more :

 

 

 

 

The NMM plans don't show a Taffarel Fife Rail, so none will be fitted. If it had been fitted the Roughtree Rail would have butted against it.

 

  Danny

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you Geoff - you didn't have long to wait for this one, but the next update won't be for a week or two - I'm back up to the van and some more will be done on that Victory re-build (maybe even get her finished I hope ).

 

Brake Pumps Fitted

 

Going through my "Finished Parts" drawer this morning I realized I could fit the already finished Brake Pumps, so I did :

 

 

 

  Danny

[Dan Vadas]

Steering Rigging

 

I also rigged the Steering Wheel to the Tiller. I removed the previously fitted eyebolts in each side, as it's MUCH easier to strop the blocks to them in my vice rather than on the ship.

 

The blocks are 6" (3mm) from Syren Ship Models, and the line is 3" (0.45mm) from the same place - great stuff, thanks Chuck . I also seized the line to the starboard side of the Tiller off the ship :

 

 

 

Then I replaced the eyebolts/blocks on the starboard side and glued in the wheel :

 

 

Five turns around the wheel Hub, replaced the Port side blocks and did the rather fiddly seizing to the port side of the tiller - TWICE. The first attempt wasn't as successful as I'd have liked - I took over an inch of slack out of the line the second time :

 

 

 

Some views of the completed rigging. Note the very small nail in the centre of the turns on the hub :

 

 

 

 

See you all in a couple of weeks.

 

  Danny

[Piet]

Hello Dan, lovely work!

[Trussben]

The rigging of the wheel to rudder is great Danny, the reason for the nail is??

And the Syren company's products look excellent.

 

Ben

[popeye the sailor]

very well done Danny!

[MEDDO]

I am learning so much watching this build. Thanks for the great updates Dan.

[Mirabell61]

lovely work on the steering kinematic Danny

 

Nils

[mhegazi]

We'll done Danny , beautiful work .

Edited May 10, 2014 by mhegazi

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks once again for the "likes" and the nice comments to Robin, Brian, Piet, Ben, Popeye, Michael, Nils and Mohamad. Always appreciated .

 

Head Works - Cheeks

 

I've started work on one of the most interesting and complex parts of the build - the work around the Head of the ship.

 

First thing to do was remove the forward support which holds the hull in position on the baseboard. It doesn't really get in the way as such, but work on the lower cheek especially is a lot easier without it being in the way and there was the problem of it pulling the Knee of the Head out of position as work commenced in this area. I hadn't used the aft support for a long time - before the rudder was installed actually - so I had to move it backward a bit.

 

This starts off with making the Lower and Upper Cheeks, which laterally brace the Knee of the Head. It's quite tricky to get the inner faces to mate up with the Knee and the curvature of the hull. A card template was used to get the inner faces somewhere near right, but my first attempt still resulted in a failure. The second go was spot on .

 

The main problem is that there is a substantial bevel on the inner face where it curves around the hull to allow the forward part of the cheek to run at the correct angle on the knee. It took me a couple of hours to sort it out, but at least I now know where I'm going with the other three.

 

The forward part of the cheek also has a slight upward curvature, so I made the piece from thicker stock and sanded that into it. You may be able to see this in the next pic against an unshaped blank :

 

 

Two moldings were scraped into the outer face :

 

 

  Danny

[tlevine]

The moldings look great, especially with the curve.  Did you free-hand it or make a scraper?

[Erebus and Terror]

Beautiful as always!