Ranger type yacht by Mark Pearse - 1:12 - SMALL

[Jim Lad]

Really looking the ant's pants, Mark!

 

John

[Bedford]

Magnificent work Mark

[Mark Pearse]

Thank you everyone,

 

I'm now back from a Nordic trip in the northern hemisphere summer, & have now finished & assembled more of the details around the cockpit & face of the raised deck. The horizontal varnished trimming pieces both sides of the companionway, which insect with a vertical varnished piece each side; & the weathered teak cockpit seat backrests.

 

Overall view:

 

Detail, & I can see the pencil alignment mark needs to be removed:

 

The junction of the strips was difficult to get, but happy with this:

 

Detail, showing the drain openings & another pencil mark to be removed...

 

 

Trimming piece, against the deck.

thanks for looking in,

 

[Bedford]

Mate, she's beautiful. Great details!

[wefalck]

Somehow, I had missed this project up to now  🙁

[Mark Pearse]

Thank you Steve & welcome Welfack, & hi to everyone - 

 

I've now almost completed the timber work, & apart from the spars just the tiller remains to be done now. Then I'll work on the spars & metalwork. This boat has stainless steel fittings, so I'll be painting the metalwork silver. This recent work includes deck & cockpit timber details, all unfinished (weathered) teak.

 

 

The bases for the cockpit winches, which are used mainly for the running backstays.

 

The deck cutwaters, deck winch bases & a small base for a cam cleat fitting - that are all alongside the main hatch. And the large cutaway on the port side cutwater is a support for the spinnaker pole.

 

 

 

The Sampson post & the forwards support chock for the spinnaker pole. The sampson post isn't fixed down yet, there will be a mortise for the bowsprit, to be cut into the forward side face.

 

And the port side cutwater. The small holes are for the lines that lead to the cam cleats: spinnaker topping lift one side & spinnaker pole kicker the other. I'm not sure what the 3rd one is, but will find out.

 

They were tricky to drill due to the angles & the fact that regular drill bits down't work well at angles, especially if it's a small hand drill. What I did was: to initially drill the holes & then put CA glue on it all to harden the timber up, drill right through & CA to the hole...then when hard clean it all up. I also found that a 1mm wide strip of sandpaper was quite a useful way to sand inside the angled holes.

 

thanks, 

 

 

[JacquesCousteau]

Excellent work! The contrast between the weathered teak and the paint and finish on everything else looks really sharp.

[Jim Lad]

Very sharp, Mark!

 

John

[wefalck]

If you make the metal-work in brass, instead of painting, you could also look into self-tinning solution. Over here in Europe some model-shops carry it, but otherwise it can be found in electronics supply shops - nothing looks like metal - like metal

 

[Mark Pearse]

Thanks all, & Welfack: a big thank you for this suggestion. I'll investigate & do some tests. I assume it needs to go onto metal as a base? (I purchased some small brass winches off the shelf, & on the smaller ones I'd like to add a base, as most contemporary winches have a base flange that is around 25-30mm thick - so my plan was to add a round disc to the bottom from 2 or 3mm thick acrylic).

[Bedford]

Mark, beautiful work as usual, if the winch bases are just circular I can run them up on the lathe for you so you can tin the lot properly.

[Mark Pearse]

Hi Steve,

 

that would be fantastic - as a guide they will be around 9mm diameter, if that's not too small for your equipment, with a hole in the centre. I'll confirm later via a personal message.

[Bedford]

Mate, I can handle that. Send me a drawing

[yvesvidal]

Fantastic model and beautiful boat. I love the contrast between the different varieties of wood and the exceptional finish and precision of the parts.

Absolutely superb.

 

Yves

[Mark Pearse]

thank you both, & I also like that contrast between varnished timber & the weathered timber

[Mark Pearse]

Some more details on the boil: 

The tiller is underway, & either finished or nearly there. Possibly another coat or two of shellac, the actual tiller is an aged piece of hardwood, so would be good to give it some of that character.

 

The bowsprit & spinnaker pole are underway, here they are tapered & cut to length:

 

I will do the pole, including end fittings primarily in timber. The actual pole is unfinished carbon fibre , so satin black, & the ends unfinished cast alloy of some sort.  The basic details of the end fittings are roughed out, & since the photos the ends were treated with some CA glue to harden the timber & avoid splitting when cutting the beaks. To replicate carbon fibre, I rubbed the pole with black paint, with no undercoat. It's looking ok, so a gentle sand & another coat might do the trick. To help articulate the joint at the end fittings of the pole, I did a groove by rolling the pole under the blade of a craft knife, they have a nice straight long blade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 04:33 AM by Mark Pearse

[Jim Lad]

More beautiful work, Mark.

 

John

[Bedford]

Beautiful, as usual. The brass rings are on the way