Pegasus by hdrinker - 1:48 - POF - Swan practicum

[Kevin Kenny]

Wow Henry you  not horsing around 

[hdrinker]

Ha Ha!

[hdrinker]

I decided to use rice paper for the ensign. I placed the paper over the pattern which was produced on a regular lined notebook sheet. As suggested by David, the rice paper was wetted and taped over the pattern to a board just as it started to dry. Once dry, I painted the first side. When that was dry, the rice paper was peeled off the pattern. In doing so, areas of the pattern paper adhered to the rice paper. These were removed by wetting the painted rice paper and gently rubbing off the adherent paper. A tear in the rice paper resulted in a small hole which was covered with a patch.  The ensign was turned over and taped down again, this time over waxed paper. The reverse side was then painted. The patch adhered nicely. When dry both sides were touched up. Final trimming of the edges to the proper dimensions was followed by gluing a  narrow strip of sail cloth along the halliard edge, folded over to the reverse side with the halliard incorporated. The composite was clamped until dry. Next, the halliard was passed through the sheeve atop the ensign staff and down around a cleat at the bottom of the staff. The final step was wetting the ensign with a paint brush and shaping it to resemble a flag assuming a collapsed posture in the absence of wind. The result is shown. 
 

The next image shows the big bower anchor in a styalised pose representing the process of fishing it towards its stowed location on the ship’s side. The cat fall and hook are still  engaged, the stopper and shank pendant are in place, and the fish hook is engaged around the inboard fluke arm. I’m afraid that this will complicate rigging the model some if I decide to proceed in that direction. 

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Bow sprit and jib boom completes the hull. 

[hdrinker]

While the lighting remains intact, the effect is underwhelming without more views of the lower deck I’m afraid. Lots of effort with little return.

[hdrinker]

Decided to rig Pegasus, so making the masts is next.

[hdrinker]

Bow sprit and bookings rigged

[Kevin Kenny]

Nice 

I have just started back on the thorn after a long vacation 

[hdrinker]

Working on standing rigging.

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[hdrinker]

Ratlines, Futtuck Staves, Catharpins installed. Ready to start on tops.Ed

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

It‘s looking really nice.👍 

[hdrinker]

Thanks Christian. Comments appreciated. 
Henry

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[Kevin Kenny]

Nice

[hdrinker]

Euphroes and crows feet were a challenge. I followed Dave’s advice and used 6/0 thread from my fly tying bench. #26 drill with the milling machine. If the holes in the euphroe are too close together, the thread saws its way through from one hole to the next. Leave a distances about equal to a hole diameter between holes. The thread I tie flies with in brown is not mono thread, and it readily comes apart into many tiny filaments unless it’s treated with dilute PVA. After many painful hours of trying to thread that 6/0 thread through the holes in the euphroes, I got a sewing needle from my wife and a needle threader and that made a big difference, especially when trying to reverse thread the holes in the tops. I also learned the hard way to keep tension on the crows feet during threading. Otherwise the euphroe has a habit of rotating, which gets quite confusing as one progresses causing the lines to thread the wrong way at times and losing parallel alignment. I spent about 15 hours over 3 days doing this and must have started over on each mast several times.