HMC Sherbourne 1763 by tkay11 - FINISHED – Caldercraft – Scale 1:64 - A Novice’s Build
The following is the reconstruction of my build logs for the Sherbourne following temporary loss of the Model Ship World Site in February 2013.
First posted May 6th 2012.
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It started with a birthday present in January of £200 from my daughter. What could I possibly want that would have some meaning over the year? I suddenly remembered that as a younger chap I had really enjoyed rigging plastic model ships, and had had a long-time yearni
ANCHORS
As usual, I had thought I might be able to make the anchors from the kit parts, but the moment I tried to fit the wooden stock I found (as have so many before me) that the channels cut in the stocks are too wide for the shanks. So I had to make my own stocks. I used a pear offcut I had and dimensioned it using the dimensions given by zu Mondfeld in his book Historic Ship Models.
I drilled 0.5mm holes for the bolts, used 0.5mm brass rod to fill them, and touched the ends with undi
