Banshee II by Glen McGuire - 1/700 - BOTTLE

[Keith Black]

1 hour ago, Glen McGuire said:

You ain't the only one, Gary!  You'll notice I only stuck it in far enough to make sure it would fit, then quickly retracted before I did something really dumb! 

 If you hold the bottle neck down........skip taking a picture.

Edited Saturday at 08:16 PM by Keith Black

[BANYAN]

Stunning progress Glen, she is looking great.  Hopefully you will be able to maneuver the assembly into position without much of a problem.  I am assuming the fore-funnel will not be placed until then?

 

Cheers

 

Pat

[Glen McGuire]

14 minutes ago, BANYAN said:

Stunning progress Glen, she is looking great.  Hopefully you will be able to maneuver the assembly into position without much of a problem.  I am assuming the fore-funnel will not be placed until then?

Thanks, Pat.  The answer to your question is yes (I think).  The plan right now is for the ship to go in stern first as usual.  Next, I'll put the aft smokestack in followed by the sidewheel subassembly.  Then I'll insert the fore smokestack, then raise the masts.  However, I may have to raise the foremast first to get it out of the way depending on how it lays down and how much it's in the way.  TBD on that.   

[Glen McGuire]

Also, happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there.  I just got a wonderful gift from my son.  Very cool reference book!!

Edited Monday at 01:41 AM by Glen McGuire

[BANYAN]

Thanks for the feedback Glen.  I find the way you sort out these 'puzzles' is of great interest to me (being a non-SIB builder).  Have fun reading the book, looks interesting.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Glen McGuire]

Two steps completed over the past few days - putting some water (epoxy resin) in Sailor Jerry's bottle and constructing the masts with booms and gaffs.

 

Here was the setup for pouring the epoxy resin into the bottle.  I tinted the water more greenish than usual based on my own experience visiting Galveston. 

 

 

 

There are 2 masts of almost equal height with the aft mast being slightly taller.  Each has two steps, a gaff, a boom, and no yards.  I started by making the hinge and lower step.  These are small bamboo rods that start out at about 2mm in diameter before any tapering.

 

 

Next, I shaved a couple of notches into the top and bottom pieces of the masts to help them fit together securely

 

 

 

For the gaffs and booms, the trickiest part is trying to drill a tiny hole dead center near the base so it can be tied off to the mast. 

 

 

 

I use fly-tying thread (Uni 72D 8/0W) to secure the gaffs and booms to the mast.

 

 

 

Here's both masts dry-fit into the hull.

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:12 PM by Glen McGuire

[Glen McGuire]

I'm trying to keep pace with @Knocklouder and his King of the Mississippi paddlewheel build, but I'm afraid Private Gnomer Pyle (greatest name ever!) has him steaming far ahead of me.  Part of my problem is that every time I look at my picture of the Banshee II, I see something new that I need to add.  The latest is bands and a spine around the smokestacks. 

 

 

 

For the bands, I took a piece of 0.5mm brass wire, wrapped it around a piece of brass tube that I had cut the smokestacks from, and clipped it off.  

 

 

The spines are made from music wire that measures slightly thicker in diameter (.6mm) than the bands.   In the 2nd pic below, you can also see that I added some gratings to the deck.  Those were made from window screens.

After finishing the smokestacks, I noticed a screw-up.  On my Banshee II picture, the spines face each other.  But I have both of them on the aft side of the smokestack, which seemed logical to me when I was making them.  I went and looked at a bunch of pictures of dual-stacked ships.  Most of them do have the spines facing each other, but I saw a few that were oriented like mine.  So rather than redo it, I'm going to take a bit of artistic license here and leave it as is.  Personally, I think it looks better with both on the aft side.  I like the symmetry.

 

 

 

Next, I got some work done on the ship's boats.  I took some small basswood blanks, hollowed out the inside of each, and affixed them to toothpicks for final shaping of the outer hull and painting.  Then I added a thin stripe (aided by some pinstriping tape) along the top edge.  

 

 

I'm still not sure I've got room for the ship's boats hanging from davits off the side.  One more thing added to the TBD list!

Edited 13 hours ago by Glen McGuire

[Knocklouder]

Hey Glen ,  Private Gnomer Pile says he please to meet you, and don't worry  your boat will be on the water before mine. He says he has to teach me everything all over again, but do it right this time lol.

 He tells me what the mind can conceive  and belive can be done. So we have no doubt that the little boats will make it on board.

 Very nice work , amazing  actually. 

Bob M.       

[gsdpic]

On 6/18/2024 at 3:10 PM, Glen McGuire said:

I tinted the water more greenish than usual based on my own experience visiting Galveston. 

Haha, I thought that would have resulted in tinting it more brown than usual

 

Great progress, those ship's boats are tiny!

[Glen McGuire]

35 minutes ago, gsdpic said:

Haha, I thought that would have resulted in tinting it more brown than usual

LOL!  I guess it depends on when you go there!  At least you didn't suggest I add a bunch of tar balls!!

[Javelin]

Tagging along with great intrest as usual. 

In your epoxy setup, I see you tied up the hose to something underneath it, is that a metal guide to make it hold that bend? 

 

Interesting way with the gaffs and booms, need to remember that. 

That said, it's often easier to drill the hole first and then taper the rod, depending on which way you use for tapering.

[Glen McGuire]

33 minutes ago, Javelin said:

In your epoxy setup, I see you tied up the hose to something underneath it, is that a metal guide to make it hold that bend? 

You are correct, Roel.  I repurposed a stainless steel skewer from my backyard grilling stuff.  It's very rigid, which is needed to hold the double bend in the surgical tubing (duct taped holds the two together).

    

 

As for drilling and tapering, you are right again.  I taper then drill.  I've tried drilling first, but the area around the hole would get so thin and weak that it kept breaking off when I would put it the rod in my drill lathe to taper.

[Ian_Grant]

Glen, your smokestacks are awesome!!