Armed Virginia Sloop by CiscoH - Model Shipways - 1:48

[hamilton]

Juts catching up here - the decking looks great!

hamilton

[CiscoH]

Page 8!  At my rate of building speed thats remarkable.  Slow and steady.

 

First up progress on the AVS.  My shipmodel friend Jason and I drove the 4 hours to Connecticut on Friday night for the 42nd Annual Joint Clubs show.  Nothing in the world compares to the joy of 95N narrowing down into the George Washington bridge.  We almost ran out of things to talk about.

Anyway I wanted to display her at the Conference if I could get the main cabin planking finished so I had a Deadline.  

 

After dividing the front of the cabin into aprox 1/8" wide divisions I got 20? I think planks.  After gluing the the most starboard and then the central planks into position I made another 9 planks and glued them in 3 at a time.  

The top of the cabin curves upwards so if you put too much pressure on the planks they would suddenly flip outwards.  Inventive clamping became necessary.

Once starboard was done I did the same for port.  The penciled on triangles helped keep track of the planks order.  Its not as apparent as I had hoped but the planks narrow as they get towards the center.  

 

Looks a little rough in this picture and it was 2 days to go.  I scraped and sanded (180, then 220) the planks down close to level.

Next up was cutting the planks flush and inserting a curved molding over the cabin doors.  I traced the rounded profile I wanted and assumed there would be some springback so made my jig a little more curved.  Holly , even thick stuff, bends well with some heat and a touch of water.  I was thinking about complicated laminations but turned out to not be necessary.

I trimmed it to fit, had to bend it again a little more in 1 location and unbend it in another.  The molding fit into a rabbit that was irregular and wasn't a good "bed" so I used epoxy instead of yellow glue.  Its easy to get epoxy everywhere you don't want it so (like dripping over/into the doors) but I got lucky in this go around.

 

Final sanding was in the hotel the morning of the Conference and then she was good to go.

I think up next is making more deck fixtures and cleats and bollards.  Also some pumps so my AVS doesn't sink.  And on the horizon is Cannons!

 

I took some pics at the Conference which I will post next.

 

thanks for reading

Cisco

Edited 17 hours ago by CiscoH

[Tim Murphy]

Dear Sir, I was at the North East Show on Saturday. I was also one of the Judges.

I thought your model was absolutely beautiful. Your woodwork was impressive and clean.

I wish your model was finished so we could have judged it for the Jim Roberts

Award.

Can’t wait to see the completed model next year.

Thank You

Tim Murphy 

 

 

[CiscoH]

Thank you very much Tim!  I appreciate the kind words.  It may be longer than a year though...

 

Some Conference pics.  It was raining hard when we got there and I managed to step into the river flowing through the parking lot so wet feet for a while.

 

Heres a pic of this case which I really liked; and I notice I accidentally caught Dave and Greg talking in the background.  They gave the lecture after lunch about their current project, a 1:48 behemoth frigate? thats so big there are concerns it may not fit through Greg's doorways when he's done rigging her.  Along with some other attendees I worked on them both to restart the Admiralty Workshops and its sounding hopeful.  If either of them are reading this I still vote for a short cross- section of a ship.  They did Echo years ago which I have downloaded but maybe a different ship, same idea.

 

There were 30 minute mini-talk/demos running all morning; every one I attended was worthwhile.  I will always be a more traditional-minded builder but it was interesting learning about printers.  Maybe when I am deciding on which cannons to use.  Dan Pariser's talk on building an Admiralty style hull was fascinating and in my opinion his was the best model there.   Here's a side-on pic.  If i remember correctly shes a sister ship to Fubbs, but named after another of the king's mistresses, of which he apparently had a veritable fleet of. 

I found another mini AVS in 1:100 scale which was very well done.  I liked the case too.

Most cases are made in dark wood, not sure why unless its tradition.  Heres a great 1:96 admiralty style ship in a light coloured case which I also liked a lot.  Notice the large cutout venting in the case bottom.

And finally the raffle.  I have never bought tickets for a raffle before.  But.  The prizes were a tablesaw, which I was sorta interested in (although I hear Byrnes is making saws again), and several of Chuck's new limited edition Speedwell Battle Station kits, which is what I really wanted. 

 

One of my tickets was the first called so I got my Chuck kit, the next guy got the saw, and then I got called again so my modeling buddy Jason got a kit too.

 

Heres the kit unpacked.  An amazing amount of stuff in it, all Syren quality wood, rope, blocks, and a flawless cannon.  And a sailor and his cat. 

It seems to me this would be a high demand kit - high quality but small so not the commitment of the other bigger kits he carries.  And it has well thought out directions, especially for rigging the cannon, which is essential in my book.

 

And after this triumph we drove back to Delaware and I got to loathe 95S and the George Washington bridge all over again.

 

Have a great weekend folks

 

Cisco

Edited 18 hours ago by CiscoH

[Ryland Craze]

Hey Cisco, I saw your AVS at the show.  Pictures just do not do your model justice.  It is an absolute beauty of a model and I look forward to seeing it completed.  Glad you won one of Chuck's kits.  I bought many raffle tickets for it, but no luck on winning one.  It was a great show and I look forward to next year's event.

[Ronald-V]

Your deck is looking great Cisco! Nice pictures also of the conference.  

[Tim Murphy]

Cisco, glad you enjoyed the Lecture. Few people know that the Constitution and her 5 other

sisters ships have the 1778 Frigate South Carolina as their design base.

Should be interesting to see the model.

Tim