Sloop Speedwell 1752 by Chuck - Ketch Rigged Sloop - POF - prototype build

[hmcarlin]

Any chance (with possible time frame) for others of us to get started on this beautiful project?  I'd love the opportunity to start working on chapter one while the rest of the prototype is getting finished!  Thanks.

 

[Chuck]

Chapter 4 instructions and materials list...

 

Chapter four materials.pdf

 

SpeedChapFourMono.pdf

[Chuck]

When chapter 5 comes out.  All of you guys building the model will get a complimentary figure to show scale.  I will randomly select one of these and include it in your order for that chapter.

 

[Freebird]

That's awesome Chuck! Thank you!

 

Question, when will chapter 4 be available? TIA!

 

Best Regards .... Rick

[Chuck]

Soon…I have a few other things ahead of making another batch.

 

chuck

[Freebird]

Cool, thank you Chuck!

 

Best Regards .... Rick

[Chuck]

I am actually in a comfortable position with my inventory so I could start spending time working on the model again.  I cant tell you how good that feels.

 

I am not doing any heavy stuff yet...but its a start.  I had time to finish rigging those last four cannon on the port side.   That alone was a great thing to have completed. That actually finished up chapter 8.

 

Its a good thing because chapter 9 is where the real fun begins.  Its basically all about those fun little deck fittings.  So I started slow..

 

 

There are four ladders to be built.   Two leading to the poop, and two leading to the fcastle deck.  These were made exactly like the others we have made for speedwell.  Everything is laser cut.  I just cleaned the char and assembled them.  One note however...because of the deck roundup, the ladders leading to the poop deck need some tweaking after being built.  The bottom of each side was left a tad longer so you can sand the inboard side shorter.  You will need to do this so your ladder doesnt slant when you place it against the bulkhead.  You want it vertical with the columns of the bulkhead behind them.  So that inboard side will need its bottom edge shortened slightly.

 

Its the little details.

 

Here is the shorter ladder up to the fcastle deck...and you can see the guns that I finally finished rigging.  Those are my Swiss Pear color 3D printed blocks used for the guns this time.  I switched them out to try both colors.  I think I will fully rig her with the Swiss Pear blocks now that I see them on the model.

In addition, I also finished the stack for the fire hearth...I had built this a while back when I made the fire hearth but it must have gotten lost during the move.  So I made a new one...I will also include those parts in chapter 9 in case anyone loses theirs as well.  Nothing difficult here...fake it till you make it.  We wont be using a real coaming here.  Its just a laser cut boxwood square basically.  Sand the char off and apply some WOP.  Then center the hearth stack where the laser etched reference is and you are finished.  I also knocked off the top edge all around this simulated coaming.  No hard edges for me!!

 

Here is what the stack looks like on the model.   

 

And here is an overall shot of the progress to date although I have some paint touch-up to do and some dust clean-up.  But its really nice to making some progress again.  Next up I will be finishing up the fcastle deck fittings.

 

[KentM]

Good for you Chuck. Don’t be like me.  I’m 721/2 yo.  I have been. Under the weather for 8 months and in hospital for 45 days with 2 very major heart surgeries.  I now have an LDVA implanted in my heart….bionic man.  I have on client left but I am going to focus on family and modeling…. I started POF back in 1986 but no longer on hold. Starting with Speedwell and going next to your other models and also Chris’s.  So happy to hear that you have a retirement plan.  If you would like to sell another Speedwell Battle Station I would be interested. I hope to be a regular contributor to the forum. Good luck. It is harder than you think so listen to your wife. 
have a good retirement

thank you

Kent

[scrubbyj427]

Really looks good Chuck!

[Chuck]

Thanks guys.  Kent I hope you are on the mend.  I really cant make any more battlestation kits because it was given away as a limited edition.  All 25 went fast and are being built which is great but they were signed and numbered.  
 

I doubt the guy who got kit number 7 of 25 would be very happy with me if I suddenly made another 25 kits.

 

But I could be wrong.

 

chuck

[glbarlow]

Limited Edition series 2? 😎

 

I’d be interested too should things change. Something I could build with my grandson. 

[Desertanimal]

That explains why I couldn’t find one on the site for sale! 👍

I would have liked one also. 
Chris