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In case anyone was curious about how this mess will be attached, here's a few pics of the assembled one-piece unit, the glue points will be at the base of the simulated keel/stem, along the leading edge of the deck and the rear bulkhead piece where it mates against the inside of the hull, in theory it should work. Thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

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Still in the process of dressing out the bowsprit, starting with the knee and top, as much customizing I've done on ships I've never fabricated a top from scratch, while not totally accurate, I think it looks ok.

 

Michael D.

 

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The exercise the last couple of days has been fabricating the grating for the beakhead, this took a few tries but I'm satisfied with the result, the slats are made with .015"x.020" styrene, I also angled the bowsprit to the centerline and made the cut outs for the gammoning in the trailboard.

 

Michael D.

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I took small break from the beakhead and roughed in the planking at the stern. I added the gammoning cleats, these measure just over 2mm in length and I'll pare them down a bit in height, the mock up gammoning rope is 0.4mm. Up next, I need to add the additional fore stay and shroud cleats and wooldings.

 

Michael D.

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Thank you, Kirill, it will be quite useful, just amazed at the amount of detail in Paynes engraving. I'm working on the bowsprit shroud dead eye placement using .030"x.030" styrene as a rail to mount them on port side only with eye bolts on starboard side. This will no doubt be a tricky phase when the time comes to rig them, and I think scale wise everything is looking good. 

 

Michael D.

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Indeed she is Marc and I'll try my best to produce a worthy representation of her and her rigging will definitely test my skill. I completed the wooldings using 100wt brown ploy thread and 50wt thread to simulate the wooden hoops, they are 1.8mm wide, 12" at scale. Thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

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Oh no WAY! For reference, i have those exact same clips and use them on models, and they are about 3/4 inch in length. Now, compare that to the deadeyes he is using. 

My question then becomes how do you make deadeyes so small, much less rig them? What sort of magnification do you use? 

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I use a #80 bit, the smallest available. The dead eyes for the bowsprit top are completed and I simulated the iron futtocks with thread, it looks ok and a mock up of the new overall length for the spritsail topmast.

 

Michael D.

 

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I finally have the main deck gratings in the arrangement I'm pleased with along with the capstan base, I needed to relocate the main mast forward according to plans in McKay's book, which was also needed as the modified bulkhead mockup would've hit the mast anyways and also needed to check clearance of the gun, it's tight but acceptable. Still much more work lays ahead in this area.

 

Michael D.

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Working on the upper bulkhead, I sandwiched .011" styrene between the scale decking used for this, the armless crew member measures out to around 5'-8" for scale reference.

 

Michael D.

 

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I'm calling this bulkhead complete, while one cannot achieve the same level of crisp detail as that of a larger scale model, I think it looks fine without being too gawdy. As always thanks for taking the time to stop by and take a peek. 

 

Michael D.

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Looks great Michael!  Following your build, I find ideas popping into my head for 3D printing; that bulkhead for instance, complete with decorations.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing how you handle the deadeyes and chains. I remember looking at my kit and pondering how to use those tiny parts with actual thread shrouds.

 

Best Regards,

Ian

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Thanks Ian,

3D printing is definitely a game changer and something I had thought about recently but for me anyways for now, there's nothing more satisfying then building from scratch with your hands as frustrating as It may be sometimes. Regarding the the deadeyes and chains, on the Vasa I used bluejacket ship crafters  1/8" old style hearts which I felt were a little too out of scale so I'll fabricate those this time around and use the same 28g wire for the chains.

 

Michael D.

 

 

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Work continues on the Qtr decks, the upper Qtr deck bulkhead is slowly taking shape along with the hatches with much fine tuning left to do but I'm liking the results thus far.

 

Michael D.

 

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The detailing on the upper Qtr deck bulkhead is just about compete, I'm particularly pleased with how the windows turned out, I used the smallest tulle I could find for the grid and simply placed over some clear acrylic sheet and applied clear gel tacky glue over it, once dried glued them to the backside of the bulkhead, the armless crew member is there just for scale reference and measures 5'-8" tall at this scale.

 

Michael D.

 

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Thank you Ian, regarding the ladders, all the reference material I've read does not show them, Payne, Van De Velde, McKay etc, the Culver model along with Wolfgang Rotter and others do show either, but some of those also show what appears to be grating or netting covering the main deck which would render ladders useless in that case, I could be wrong though.

Besides some touch up the upper Qtr deck bulkhead railing is completed, this was quite fiddly to say the least and turned out ok.

 

Michael D.

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