HMS Sphinx 1775 by brunnels - Vanguard Models - 1:64 scale

[schooner]

I’m a little late with this comment but your ship’s boats look great! 
Did you put anything on the interior wood or did you just leave the pear wood as it came?

[brunnels]

47 minutes ago, schooner said:

Did you put anything on the interior wood or did you just leave the pear wood as it came?

I just left the pear as it came with some Wipe on Poly as a varnish. 

[brunnels]

Yards

I've been working on the yards for the last several weeks.  Yards definitely took longer than I was expecting and my kit was short on a couple sizes of the dowel rods so my progress kept being halted. My local hardware store didn't carry walnut dowel, so I had to go with the basswood for a few which isn't a big deal as the yards were painted. 

 

Completed yards

 

Yards are hung up, it took me the better part of the weekend to make the harnesses and get the yards on the ship.  

 

 

I started on rigging the lifts but my progress was halted as my kit didn't have enough of several of the blocks so I ordered some pear 3d resin blocks from Syren.

Question on the fore studding sail yards

The kit shows the dimensions and plans for the studding sail yards for the main mast, and comes with the hardware to install the main and foremast studding sail yards on the channels, but I don't see any dimensions or plans for the fore mast lower studding sail yards.  Should these be on the ship? Am I overlooking them somewhere on the plan sheets?  I don't see them on anyone else's build, but if the ship should have them I would like to put them on and will need to purchase more dowel.

 

[wvdhee]

There's 2 versions of the Sphinx kit right? I can check my paperwork later to see if there's something about the fore mast lower studding sail yards.

[chris watton]

1 hour ago, brunnels said:

Question on the fore studding sail yards

The kit shows the dimensions and plans for the studding sail yards for the main mast, and comes with the hardware to install the main and foremast studding sail yards on the channels, but I don't see any dimensions or plans for the fore mast lower studding sail yards.  Should these be on the ship? Am I overlooking them somewhere on the plan sheets?  I don't see them on anyone else's build, but if the ship should have them I would like to put them on and will need to purchase more dowel.

 

This is a screenshot from my master file for Sphinx yard plans:

 

There is only one version of Sphinx, not two - there has only ever been one, designs never changed.

Edited 10 hours ago by chris watton

[wvdhee]

But I think OP means the yard attached to the channel, which is done for main mast but not fore mast it seems.

Edited 10 hours ago by wvdhee

[brunnels]

42 minutes ago, wvdhee said:

There's 2 versions of the Sphinx kit right? I can check my paperwork later to see if there's something about the fore mast lower studding sail yards.

Not sure if there are two versions of the kit but I know there are multiple versions of the instructions, I believe I have the earlier version as well because the instructions aren't as complete as what is on the Instructions on the Vanguard website. 

 

27 minutes ago, wvdhee said:

But I think OP means the yard attached to the channel, which is done for main mast but not fore mast it seems.

Yes I am referring to the yards that hook onto the fore mast channel.

[brunnels]

38 minutes ago, chris watton said:

This is a screenshot from my master file for Sphinx yard plans:

Apologies for the confusion, I don't always know the terminology. I am referring to the lower yards that attach to the fore mast channels.

These are what I am referring to but on the fore mast.

[chris watton]

2 minutes ago, brunnels said:

Apologies for the confusion, I don't always know the terminology. I am referring to the lower yards that attach to the fore mast channels.

These are what I am referring to but on the fore mast.

Ah, I see.

 

They are not shown because they are not included - It seems main lower booms were fitted, but not the fore, at least from what I could garner. This is why they are not shown - you are looking for something that the kit does not have.

 

If you wanted to include them, you can, but perhaps have them stowed on the boat beams, in-between the boats, as the anchors would probably smash them up otherwise...

[chris watton]

47 minutes ago, brunnels said:

Not sure if there are two versions of the kit but I know there are multiple versions of the instructions, I believe I have the earlier version as well because the instructions aren't as complete as what is on the Instructions on the Vanguard website. 

 

Yes I am referring to the yards that hook onto the fore mast channel.

No, there have only been two verssions of the manual. The first 50 manuals stopped at the mast assembly, as the kit was released before the prototype model was fully finished.

 

Once the 50 manuals from the first run were used up, Version 2 of the manuals were printed, with the only change being a few more pictures of the masting and rigging. Nothing else has ever changed, not the laser cut files, not the plan sheets - once designs are finalised, they are not changed again unless there's a very good reason. But in Sphinx's case, designs and plan sheets have never changed, just a few more pages added in the manual.

Edited 8 hours ago by chris watton