USS Constitution by Unegawahya - Model Shipways - scale 1:76

[Unegawahya]

1 hour ago, mtbediz said:

Hi Thomas, how did you make the white stripes on the rails on the bow? It's been a long time, I hope you remember  By the way, the ship's boats look great!

That’s ok I still remember! I just wish I had a new cool technique to share, but I just hand painted them. 
I painted all the black first. Then I went back and painted the white stripes. This way allowed me paint from the sides and have a little touch up in some of the black areas.

[Der Alte Rentner]

Could you please add a couple of photos from the top so I can see detail on the curve in the rails?  

[Unegawahya]

4 hours ago, Der Alte Rentner said:

Could you please add a couple of photos from the top so I can see detail on the curve in the rails?  

are these the pictures you needed?

[Unegawahya]

20 hours ago, mtbediz said:

Hi Thomas, how did you make the white stripes on the rails on the bow? It's been a long time, I hope you remember  By the way, the ship's boats look great!

I just remember something!! At the hobby stores you can get polystyrene strips and sheets. They are extremely flexible and come in a ton of different sizes and they are already white. I’ve used them mostly to make cooling fins for my planes!

[mtbediz]

3 hours ago, Unegawahya said:

I just remember something!! At the hobby stores you can get polystyrene strips and sheets. They are extremely flexible and come in a ton of different sizes and they are already white. I’ve used them mostly to make cooling fins for my planes!

Thanks a lot Thomas, I make them from brass wire. I was just wondering how you did it. I tried to paint them like you did but I didn't succeed. You have a scale modeling background so you are much better at painting than I am.

[Der Alte Rentner]

The styrene solution is the one employed in the Hunt practicum. It's a fairly easy material to work with and may have been an easier route for you to take, Mustafa.

 

But yours is definitely an out of the box  alternative solution.

 

And, the more I look at Unegawahya's work, the more I'm impressed.  

 

Cheers

 

 

[Unegawahya]

I’ve finally finished stitching my hammock netting on! I’ve started carefully scratching out the background on my gangway boards. I’m using a curved scraping tool that I’ve had for long enough that I don’t even remember where I got it.

[JSGerson]

That gangway board carving is gorgeous! You mentioned you used a "curved scraping tool." can you show us a picture of what it looks like?

 

Jon 

[Unegawahya]

48 minutes ago, JSGerson said:

That gangway board carving is gorgeous! You mentioned you used a "curved scraping tool." can you show us a picture of what it looks like?

 

Jon 

Sorry.
This is what I’ve been using. I’ve had it so long that I had to hone the blades. I’ve been carefully using it to gently scrape away the borders in the carving on the laser cut supplied parts.

[Der Alte Rentner]

Okay, now you're just plain showing off!

 

 

Edited May 8 by Der Alte Rentner

[JSGerson]

That tool looks like it's from a tool set for sculpting clay. Nice job repurposing it.

 

Jon

[mtbediz]

17 hours ago, Unegawahya said:

I’ve finally finished stitching my hammock netting on! I’ve started carefully scratching out the background on my gangway boards. I’m using a curved scraping tool that I’ve had for long enough that I don’t even remember where I got it.

I don't have the talent or patience to do that. Congratulations.

[Unegawahya]

4 hours ago, JSGerson said:

That tool looks like it's from a tool set for sculpting clay. Nice job repurposing it.

 

Jon

I believe that’s where I got it! I just don’t remember.

[Unegawahya]

My fist two gangway boars are installed and I’ve mapped out where my sea steps are going to be located.After doing some research, it seems that when the bulwarks on the waste where removed it looks like the placement of the sea stairs where changed and one was removed. I’m borrowing mtbediz’s method for making the sea stairs and made a jig for the top 7 for each side. My first one is done. Now I have 19 more to make.

[Unegawahya]

My port sea steps are done! The starboard side will be much faster because I made them at the same time!

[Coyote_6]

Those steps look very precise!  Wow.

[Unegawahya]

For the sake of not taking up too much more space on Mtbediz,s page I’ll post this to my page!

 

From what I’ve been able to find from the Constitution’s FB page, it looks like the fore tack boomkins were removed sometime before 2011 and still not present today.I also ford a link on the Constitution Museum’s website from Nelson’s Navy describing the use of the fore tack boomkins in the era she was built.

Link to the article above!

From: Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793-1815 - Brian Lavery!

So it leaves me with the decision of do I leave them off because they weren’t there in 2015 or do I just go ahead and put them on? Because if I want to do the full rigging I’ll need them!

[mtbediz]

If you are not going to make full rigging, you will not need boomkins. If you decide to make a limited rigging, you will not need them either. By limited rigging, I mean making the masts and standing and running rigging, but not adding sails. In the meantime, please feel free to share anything on my page.