Greg Davis Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share #91 Posted November 11, 2023 Got a little behind when I broke a couple of soft metal cleats. It turns out that getting replacement cleats of the same size proved to be a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, I found what I needed for a far price and quick overseas delivery from Cornwall Model Boats! So the cleats are on, as are all of the mast blocks: What are the chances I will cut all of the waste material and not any of the block attachements on the main and mizzen masts? James G, Auger, Keith Black and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearway Posted November 12, 2023 Share #92 Posted November 12, 2023 On 11/11/2023 at 12:21 AM, Greg Davis said: What are the chances I will cut all of the waste material and not any of the block attachements on the main and mizzen masts? oh yes- i have been known to have been trimming excess thread binding shrouds and not realised another shroud was in the scissors jaws till it fell away with the other thread😱. Build is looking great Greg- my collection on hold until i get my outdoor messy modelling garden room finished! Keith Greg Davis, Keith Black and AJohnson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Black Posted November 12, 2023 Share #93 Posted November 12, 2023 1 hour ago, clearway said: i have been known to have been trimming excess thread binding shrouds and not realised another shroud was in the scissors jaws till it fell away with the other thread😱. My greatest nightmare! clearway and Greg Davis 1 1 Quote Current Builds: 1870's Sternwheeler, Lula Wood Hull Screw Frigate USS Tennessee Decorative Carrack Warship Restoration, the Amelia Completed: 1880s Floating Steam Donkey Pile Driver Early Swift 1805 Model Restoration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share #94 Posted November 18, 2023 Here are the eight spars for the main and fore masts. I believe that all the needed blocks and brace pendants are in place. James G and clearway 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share #95 Posted November 18, 2023 I've temporarily pinned the spars to the masts. They are not staying right where they belong, but it is giving me an idea of how much space this model will take up. Not too wide, so when cased it should easily fit in the office it is destined for. I guess it is time to get the lower deadeyes in place so that the rigging process can really get underway. SiriusVoyager, James G, ccoyle and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share #96 Posted December 26, 2023 Finally got back to working on this ship. Since mid-November, I've been spending most of my building time on the new Model Airways Santos-Dumont 14bis kit: So back to Le Pouquoi-Pas? for a while - maybe straight to the end! The lower deadeyes are all attached, the masts are erected, and I started putting on the lower shrouds yesterday and today. It's nice to be reeving lanyards again. clearway, James G, SiriusVoyager and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share #97 Posted December 30, 2023 The lower level of standing rigging (including a few stays) was finished yesterday and I'm now on the second level. More shrouds are being added currently. Keith Black, James G, scrubbyj427 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearway Posted December 30, 2023 Share #98 Posted December 30, 2023 Looking good Greg- ahhh the joys of shrouds and ratlines! Hope you have had a nice Christmas. Keith Keith Black 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share #99 Posted December 31, 2023 17 hours ago, clearway said: Looking good Greg- ahhh the joys of shrouds and ratlines! Hope you have had a nice Christmas. Keith I did - a good Holiday Season to you and everyone else! Keith Black and clearway 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share #100 Posted December 31, 2023 All the shrouds and fore stays are in place. Tomorrow the back stays begin followed by the rat lines! James G, SiriusVoyager, Keith Black and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 3 Author Share #101 Posted January 3 All of the back stays are in place. Just the rat lines and the standing rigging will be done. Keith Black, JacquesCousteau, clearway and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 5 Author Share #102 Posted January 5 I started with the rat lines on the port side. I expect this side of the ship will end up against a wall when displayed, so it was a good place to reacquaint myself with clove hitches! Time to swing around to the other side and tie a few more knots. JacquesCousteau, Keith Black, James G and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 8 Author Share #103 Posted January 8 Now the starboard side ratting is also done Next up: some spars! JacquesCousteau, Keith Black, ccoyle and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 10 Author Share #104 Posted January 10 Spars and lifts for the fore and main masts are in place: Certainly will be adding the spar braces. In the meantime, thinking about how many of the sail handling lines are going to be added. clearway, James G, JacquesCousteau and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 12 Author Share #105 Posted January 12 Since yesterday, I was able to add most of the sail handling rigging - the last bit, associated with the lower masts will be added later. A few of these lines are attached to pin rails. When I got to this part I decided to rummage thru odds and ends for enough metal pins to replace the wooden ones provided (that were badly out of scale and historical period for the ship). Now I have started fashioning the two spars that attach to the mizzen mast. James G, Keith Black and clearway 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 14 Author Share #106 Posted January 14 The last two spars are in with their respective rigging. Now I can see just how much room this model will take up. Looks like it is turning into an acceptable display model! The list of tasks to complete is shrinking: lower mast sail handling rigging braces anchors ship boats finishing touches display mounts display case The launch date is coming into view! clearway, James G, JacquesCousteau and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 15 Author Share #107 Posted January 15 Foresail and mainsail rigging done - I always like the three blocks that come together for this part. Time to start with the braces. clearway and Keith Black 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 16 Author Share #108 Posted January 16 I set up the braces this evening. Tomorrow when I have natural light I will take another check that the lines are where they are suppose to be. Then I can complete the attachments to belaying pins and cleats. JacquesCousteau, Keith Black and clearway 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 16 Author Share #109 Posted January 16 Braces have been taken care of. No more rigging planned at this point. I'll be setting the main assembly aside for a while; hopefully in a safe place! I'm looking to have the project complete for when it warms up and the snow / ice goes away - probably well into April. Likely on and off work till then. Time to work out what the case will be made of. Currently thinking of using Cherry so the case can be darker in nature and complement the hull. Once the case of the base is done, I'll make the two cradle type mounts - these will be painted black and attached to the case base. Once the ship is mounted, I plan to add the anchors, either hanging or laying on the case base. Additionally, I want the ship to have all 6 boats. The kit came with two cast boats that are the correct size for the upper deck. There should be two slightly shorter boats alongside the smoke stack and then two additional (even shorter) boats ahead of the foremast. I have searched the web countless times looking for boats that fit the need of this ship but have not been able to find anything that will work. Looks like I will need to fabricate them myself. Ryland Craze, clearway, Keith Black and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Black Posted January 16 Share #110 Posted January 16 Greg, check out the below. These folks are out of New Zealand, their products are gorgeous and very pricey. The third link is their 1:72 boats which is as close to your 1:80 scale that they sell. Search through all the boats, you might find something that would work for you. i've not bought from them but I'm very tempted, let me know what you think. https://micromaster.co.nz https://micromaster.co.nz/collections/royal-navy-ships-boats https://micromaster.co.nz/collections/royal-navy-ships-boats/1-72-scale There's also Cornwall Model Boats in the UK. Very nice folks, I've ordered from them several times. https://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/aeronaut-liferafts.html Quote Current Builds: 1870's Sternwheeler, Lula Wood Hull Screw Frigate USS Tennessee Decorative Carrack Warship Restoration, the Amelia Completed: 1880s Floating Steam Donkey Pile Driver Early Swift 1805 Model Restoration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted January 17 Author Share #111 Posted January 17 25 minutes ago, Keith Black said: Greg, check out the below. These folks are out of New Zealand, their products are gorgeous and very pricey. The third link is their 1:72 boats which is as close to your 1:80 scale that they sell. Search through all the boats, you might find something that would work for you. i've not bought from them but I'm very tempted, let me know what you think. https://micromaster.co.nz https://micromaster.co.nz/collections/royal-navy-ships-boats https://micromaster.co.nz/collections/royal-navy-ships-boats/1-72-scale There's also Cornwall Model Boats in the UK. Very nice folks, I've ordered from them several times. https://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/aeronaut-liferafts.html Keith Thank you for the links - the micromaster boats are amazing, but there is no way I'm spending > $250 on boats to give away! They must have a pretty nice 3-D printer. I've recently thought about getting a 3-D printer for making some parts myself. I haven't been able to determine what a minimal outlay for reasonable results would be. There are so many printers on the market. I've already been thru the Cornwall site a few times and didn't see what I wanted. I've ordered from them previously and, like you, have had good experiences. Thanks again, Greg Keith Black 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidG Posted February 28 Share #112 Posted February 28 Hello Peter, good luck for your search for the manual. It may sound silly at first... but if you have the plans and still feel the need to a pictorical manual, look thorugh a manual of a different ship from the website of Artesania Latina or Occre. These type of kits have very similar design, and you may get answers to building sequence, planking tips etc, even it's a different ship. Hope you find what you are looking for, though. clearway and Keith Black 2 Quote Past builds: Prins Willem, Amati Coca Current Build: Occre Diana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted September 7 Author Share #113 Posted September 7 After months of having this model sitting on a shelf, I finally added the 6 ship's boats and the anchors. The ships boats are not as good as I had envisioned, but will do. I decided to paint them all a color similar to the hull planking and then stowed them upside down. I'm taking some 'artistic liberty' here, as the actual boats were probably white at this time and stowed upright as the ship had a significant davit system for the boats. Here again I choose not to include this detail. I'm going to call it job done as far as the model goes. Time to build a case and get this out of the house! Keith Black, clearway and JacquesCousteau 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Black Posted September 8 Share #114 Posted September 8 Greg, congratulations on completing Le Pourquoi-Pas. I think she turned out looking great. Quote Current Builds: 1870's Sternwheeler, Lula Wood Hull Screw Frigate USS Tennessee Decorative Carrack Warship Restoration, the Amelia Completed: 1880s Floating Steam Donkey Pile Driver Early Swift 1805 Model Restoration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted September 8 Author Share #115 Posted September 8 13 hours ago, Keith Black said: Greg, congratulations on completing Le Pourquoi-Pas. I think she turned out looking great. Thank you so much! Keith Black 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearway Posted September 8 Share #116 Posted September 8 well done Greg- need to kick myself up the buttocks and get back onto mine! Keith Keith Black and Greg Davis 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Davis Posted October 18 Author Share #117 Posted October 18 Finally started working on the case today - maybe I really don't want it off my shelf! Fortunately, I'll still be able to see it once it is cased and moved to its destination. This will be the fourth case I have made based on Wes Marden's 'Build Your Own Model Ship Case' PDF. I got most of the base completed today. A nice piece of plywood is the main part of the base. The rest of the wood in this case will be cherry - I wanted a wood that would finish nicely to match the darker hull of the model. So the molding was made from some 1" by stock. It's now 3/4" thick and I routed a Roman Ogee shape into the top of the molding. It is now glued and finish nailed to the plywood. Next I need to make up a lot of 3/4" square material for framing the 'glass'. JacquesCousteau, Ronald-V, Keith Black and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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