USS Constitution by Hipexec - FINISHED - Constructo - 1:82

[robnbill]

I did my final shaping with a file once I attached it to the spar. You can make quick work of it.

[HIPEXEC]

Thanks to Bill, I'm taking a break from bowsprits and returning to hammock nets. Bill suggested tieing the nets in startegic places before gluing. I precision cut the four sets of nets after folding them to fit with clamps overnight. I inserted all four into the stanchions and I just finished sewing the first set. I'll trim and glue it next. Thanks to Bill, I think this will works.

[GuntherMT]

Excellent tip, and it looks to me like it works great!

[robnbill]

They are looking great. These are more difficult than mine since my rails, stanchions, and netting were all black. I could hide issues easier. 

Edited September 7, 2014 by robnbill

[Karleop]

Hola Rich,

 

your Constitution is getting really nice and I see that your expertise with materials is developing at great steps.

 

Saludos, Karl

[HIPEXEC]

Here's a "sutured" set and then a finished set. I feel like a doctor in the ER after a crash through plate glass.

[capnharv2]

Looks good Rich. You're doing what I did on my Connie's hammock netting. I tied them top and bottom at each hammock crane. It's tedious, but the results look great.

 

Thanks,

 

Harvey

[augie]

Yup -- I've done that as well.

[dgbot]

Your hammocks are great.

David B

[usedtosail]

Thanks Rich for the tips on the hammock nets. They look great. I will use that same method when I get to them (in a year or two or three).

[HIPEXEC]

Tom,

I got the tip from Bill and it works. Othwise it's like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.

[HIPEXEC]

I'm starting to rig the bowsprit. Not the sport of thick fingered, shaky old men.

 

I keep dry installing and removing the pre-built bowsprit to constantly check alignments and to give my self room to screw in the many eyebolts on the hull and the bowsprit. I couldn't do it if I permanently glued the bowsprit in.

[HIPEXEC]

The bowsprit is now doweled and glued in place in the hull. The dowel is 3mm and in to the hull about 4mm. I also glued a wedge unseen behind the heads. It fits very sturdy even before the glue sets. I used PVA.

 

Most of the rigging is now on the bowsprit an I have 3 more lines to add to the bow of the ship before I tie it all together rigging the bowsprit to the hull.

 

I'll trim the dowel after the glue sets.

Edited September 9, 2014 by Hipexec

[SkerryAmp]

Rich, overcoming and adapting - one of the best parts of this hobby eh?

 

Great job so far! Hammocks, bowsprit, all of it - nice!!

[HIPEXEC]

Does anybody have some photos of a rigged bowsprit? Constucto's instructions are awful.

[augie]

You may be able to get some ideas here Rich.  It's from Chuck's Syren manual:

 

http://www.modelexpo-online.com/images/docs/MS2260/MS2260-Syren-Instructions-Chapter-16.pdf

[HIPEXEC]

Augie,

That's a great tutorial....thank you very much!

[HIPEXEC]

I installed a guard on my work stand to prevent me hitting the bowsprit when I rotate my model to work. Thanks for the heads up.

[HIPEXEC]

Here's the bowsprit guard I installed way back when I installed my rotating work table. Something told me way back I would eventually knock off the bowsprit with one.

[Sjors]

That's a clever idea Rich !

When I make such jig....it becomes like 1 meter long.......( or one mile )

 

Sjors

[GuntherMT]

Excellent idea Rich!  I can see needing to do something like that on future builds as they grow larger.

[dgbot]

I forgot how many bowsprits I broke over the years.   I had a Toyota Tercel once.  And when I went to club meeting the model would be in the back seat.  I snapped the bowsprit several times getting it in and out. That was one of the reasons I went to a smaller scale.

David B

[HIPEXEC]

Let the rigging begin. My thick fingers have strung the first of many yards of line. Constructo doesn't make it easy. I have to look in numerous places to figure out where and how each line goes. I have to refer to the outside websites all if you have provided me, also. I even had to cut and paste several of Constructo's drawings since one half of the bowsprit was on one sheet and the other half on another drawing! Who says model ship building was easy? I feel like a detective.

Edited September 11, 2014 by Hipexec

[HIPEXEC]

For all you eagle eyes....I'm still trying to make the bowsprit steps right without ripping them off and starting over. Believe it or not, I made them just like Constructo depicted them..which was wrong!

[GuntherMT]

Constructo doesn't make it easy. I have to look in numerous places to figure out where and how each line goes. I have to refer to the outside websites all if you have provided me, also. I even had to cut and paste several of Constructo's drawings since one half of the bowsprit was on one sheet and the other half on another drawing! Who says model ship building was easy? I feel like a detective.

 

I have some issues figuring out where lines go for rigging the Carmen, and it's a much simpler ship.  I can only imagine how terrible Constructo's plans are for a square rigged ship.

 

Good luck Rich!

[Sjors]

That looks like a trampoline Rich   

But well done on the first rigging !

 

Sjors

[HIPEXEC]

My shipyard will be closed for a week while I visit friends in California. Might visit the Maritime Museum near Oxnard to see their collection of model ships.

,

[Sjors]

Enjoy your visit Rich !

And we want to see pictures of models     

 

Sjors

Edited September 12, 2014 by Sjors

[src]

Rich, have fun, but, its going to be HOT.

Too bad your not coming out in December, the Lady washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain will be in LA, the cruises are always entertaining and informative.

Sam

[Karleop]

Hola Rich:

 

Have a nice stay in California!!

 

Saludos, Karl