HMS Terror by clearway - FINISHED - OcCre - 1:75 - upgraded

[DanielD]

Keith, your work is impeccable! Now that fall is upon us here in the states, I'm getting the bug to start work on my own Terror again. After digging out all the boxes, I started working on another small boat, one of several I plan for this model. I still have not received my Terror book by Dr. Betts, I guess has not been published yet, according to Amazon. I had hopped to wait until the book was release to start the rigging...but I may have to do without. But, thanks to you, I have a wonderful example to follow. Keep up the great work.

[clearway]

Ty very much Daniel, not sure how right or wrong i have got the rigging but it is certainly more accurate than the instructions! Well the local T.V. weather forecasters kept harping on about how dry September was so it's basically hardly stopped raining in October so far!!!

with the dark nights and poor weather comes shipyard time though😜. Have finally finished the running rigging on the mainmast sails (bar the braces that is) final jobs were the t'gallant lifts, clewlines and the topsail yard halliards (also nice to have the funnel, compass table and capstan back in place though still not glued in place yet).

 

 

 

 

earlier in the week took my son, daughter and mother in law for a daytrip down to the steam railway and aquarium at Lakeside, Windermere.

 

 

 

Take care all and have fun

 

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for likes comments and looking in everyone. Have got the rigging for the topsail yard  halliards stowed and rigged the backstays for the top/ topgallant masts (topgallant still needs tidied up). Work also continuing on the fore yard.

 

 

 

 

 

Take care all

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

 Keith, you're doing a super job on the rigging and the ship as a whole looks great!

[clearway]

Ty keith,,,, had a look at that link you posted on other Keiths post ...really cool.

 

The other Keith!

[Keith Black]

 It's always fun when we get the Keith, Keith, and Keith conversations going. It's like the 'who's on first' bit. 

[clearway]

Thanks for likes , looking in , and comments everyone. Didnt realise a couple of months has passed since last update (distracted by 1/35 armour again)! 

Back with Terror and hoisting the foreyard and course are getting nearer, will need to add footropes to the yard and rig the chain slings. The black thread with the loops on the yard are the truss pendants.

 

 

Take care all.

Keith

Edited January 16, 2022 by clearway

[Brian Hanington]

Dear Clearway, I’m new to MSW and hugely inspired by your work here on Terror. I hope to follow in your footsteps, yet have many metric tonnes of learning to do. Your marvellous photos and explanations will help immensely. Thank you!

[clearway]

 

14 hours ago, Brian Hanington said:

Dear Clearway, I’m new to MSW and hugely inspired by your work here on Terror. I hope to follow in your footsteps, yet have many metric tonnes of learning to do. Your marvellous photos and explanations will help immensely. Thank you!

Ty Brian and welcome to MSW- it is a great place to learn from and people will always try and help with any queries you might have.

 

Keith

[clearway]

back in the shipyard and we now have the foreyard and sail in place though only held in place with the chain sling at the moment, will follow same procedure as main mast regards lifts etc.

 

 

take care all and thanks for viewing.

 

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in/ comments and likes everyone. work slowly progressing (only thing positive about the lockdown in 2020 was the 100% shipyard time)! The fore topsail has now had the seam stitched around the edges and the yard is getting nearer to completion, also the lifts on the foreyard have been rigged but not belayed yet.

 

 

Take care everyone.

 

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in , wow two named storms in a row over last 48 hours (luckily we were spared the worst of storm Eunices wrath with winds of around 60 to 70 mph this afternoon hitting West Cumbria).

In the shipyard and the fore topsail is now hoisted with the topsail sheets rigged so far.

 

 

take care all

 

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in everyone, been quiet in the shipyard due to entire family being down with latest strain of covid then sidetracking with 1/35 armour yet again. Luckily i was cleared in time to go to Keighley for the spring steam gala (last years cancelled due to lockdowns). 

Back with Terror and decided before i continue with the sails on the foremasts i best sort out the jib boom and bowsprit shrouds etc. also rigged the jib stay from the fore topmast head , passed through jib boom and the dolphin striker though only temp belay job at the moment.

 

 

 

take care all 

 

Keith

 

 

 

Edited March 22, 2022 by clearway
typo

[clearway]

nice to see spring is in full swing 😁. Thanks for the likes as always. Sticking with the bowsprit/ jib boom/ martingale all the rigging except the jib boom guys/ whisker booms is in place. the topgallant stay runs in a groove at the end of the boom. from top to bottom through the dolphin striker we have the jib stay, martingale stay (chain) and the topgallant stay. used lees masting and rigging as opposed to occre instructions.

 

 

 

take care everyone and dont  forget clocks go forward an hour over the weekend .... yippee back to real time!

 

Keith

Edited March 29, 2022 by clearway
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[clearway]

Thanks for the likes and looking in as always everyone. Back with Terror and we have the fore topgallant yard nearly finished and the sail ready to bend to the yard, Also the rings have been sewn onto the fore topmast staysail.

took mother in law, son and daughter down to Keighley to ride the steam trains at start of easter holidays, the engine was built in 1899!

 

Take care all 

 

Keith

Edited April 22, 2022 by clearway
typo

[Keith Black]

 Good looking crew, Keith. You folks there in the UK kept your history alive, here in the US we scraped our history and turned into frying pans. 

[clearway]

ty Keith , we did turn a lot into razor blades, cars and frying pans, but luckily a few people did realise what we were losing and done something about it thank god.

 

Keith

[clearway]

Work progressing on the foremast and the glorious bedlam and confusion that is rigging😁. All the square sails are now on the masts though the fore topgallant yard/sail hasnt had any rigging belayed yet.

 

 

thanks for looking in everyone.

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

 Keith, love the first photo bedlam and all. You've made tons of of very nice progress since post #372. 

 

You hear anything from the other Keith? 

[clearway]

Thanks Keith, seems like ages ago! Regards the other Keith he has been quiet over last few months, think the last i heard from him was last September ..... hope he hasnt given up on his lil terror, though he might be awaiting matthew betts book being released which should be this October.

 

Keith 

[Keith S]

Hi guys, sorry for the protracted absence and lack of comments on your models. I am not waiting for Dr. Betts' book; I feel I have all the information I need to complete the model, and when I get working on it again I will continue to post progress pictures.

 

The real issue is simply lack of relaxing model-building time and the need for a break. Last year I decided that I would step away from it for a while because I was getting a bit obsessed with it. You might say the thing I'm really waiting for is for the Canadian government to resume exploration of the real ship. On my model, there are a few details I've taken directly from photographs of the real ship sitting on the bottom, and if it wasn't for the accursed plague I'm sure we would have many more. 

 

Also, for the last several months I have been in a training situation at my job that hasn't left a lot of time for hobbies. I think I've been inside my hobby-building space about four times since last summer, just to nip in to get a pair of pliers or whatever.

 

I'm expecting to get going on the model again soon. Just waiting until I feel like it, which hasn't happened yet. 
 

Ironically, I came about a mile and a half from the actual Terror yesterday, vertically. I flew over the site which lies on a direct track from Gjoa Haven to Talurjuak, Nunavut. As you might imagine there is nothing to see, just wind-swept and drift-strewn white ice and black rocks as far as the eye can see in any direction. Funny to think of all that lies beneath. I also flew right over Chantrey Inlet, the outlet of the Back River, on my way back home. Some folk think the remnants of the expedition made it this far, perhaps farther. Nevertheless it took me three hours at a speed of two hundred and twenty knots to make my way back to Yellowknife, on Great Slave Lake, which is where they were all headed. Looking down from above, I wondered how in the world they thought they could have made it. It's late April now and the land shows no sign of emerging from the depths of winter.

 

Anyway, thanks for thinking about me guys, and I will be back with my model soon.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Keith S

[Keith Black]

 Man, it's great to hear from you, Keith. Glad you're doing well and look forward to you being able to provide build updates. I'm sure you're tied up flying for the season, fly safe and don't be a stranger.

[clearway]

Hey great to hear from you Keith and yes sometimes it is nice to step back from a hobby- if your mind isn't in the right place it won't be the relaxing past time it should be (only spending one or two  days a week in my workshop recently). I have been reading the Frank Herbert Dune saga- wow great read.

 

Glad to hear you are o.k. and must be weird/ sublime actually passing over where it all happened.

 

Hey we have the keith, keith and keith combo here😎.

 

The other Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for the likes and comments and popping in for a look everyone. Work continues with the rigging on the foremast with a most of lines belayed and coiling the ropes commencing. Also the fore topmast staysail is bent but still needs the halliard belayed and sheets, tacks and downhaul rigged.

 

 

 

Take care everyone.

Keith

[Keith Black]

 Keith, I'm envious of how far along you are in rigging the Terror. She's looking so nice. 

[clearway]

Thanks Keith, to be honest your build is looking pretty darn good especially as she is nearly twice as small as terror scale wise.

 

Keith

[clearway]

Wow 2 years since i started terror.... woooosh!!! Just a little update with the rigging coiled on the belaying pins on the foremast pinrails and the halliards rigged on the fore tops'l yard tyes along with the topgallant backstays (still needs tidied up).

 

 

Thanks for looking in as always.

 

Keith

Edited May 10, 2022 by clearway
typo

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in everyone, weather turned wet and windy so spent weekend in workshop..... ahh the joys of summer in Cumbria! After deliberating over the boomkins finally made them using some 1.5mm brass tube with an eye glued in the end and a flattened o ring slightly down from the end for the stays. Also rigged the braces on the fore topgallant/ topyard using lees masting and rigging for reference.

take care everyone

Keith

[Keith Black]

Gorgeous work, Keith.

[clearway]

thanks Keith- after the rigging i need to work out the boat skids/ ice bridge and boat davits + the ice anchors (just when i was thinking i was on the final stretch)!

 

Keith