HMS Beagle by usedtosail - OcCre - 1:60

[usedtosail]

Thank you Steve.

 

I soaked the transom piece for 20 minutes and clamped it to the hull for a few days while I was away. Today I glued it to the hull.

 

 

Edited Monday at 04:30 PM by usedtosail

[usedtosail]

I removed the clamps from the transom piece and it was nicely glued to the hull, with no gaps on the edges. I finally finished painting the fake quarter galleries. For the final touch I used clear paint on the window panes. I test fit them and will glue them in place soon.

 

 

I have also been working on the rudder and its hardware. The kit came with premade pintles and gudgeons which I was going to use, but after I blackened them I thought they looked too wide. So I used some thinner brass flat stock to make new ones. It took me a few tries to get the bends right but after I made a useable one I was able to reproduce it pretty well. I soldered a pin into the pintles then pickled and blackened all six pieces. Here are the new pintles mounted to the rudder with brass nails that I also blackened. In the cup are the new gudgeons on the bottom and the kit supplied ones in the top.

 

 

Today I mounted the rudder to the hull. I did not glue the gudgeons to the hull, but used the blackened nails to nail them to the hull.

 

 

I have also been working on the cat heads. I drilled holes in the ends for the sieves and painted them black. I then glued them in place after widening out the slots in the bow for them and notching them to fit flush against the fore deck. This took a bit of fiddling to get them to fit right. I'll get a picture of them for a later post.

Edited 15 hours ago by usedtosail

[Jolly Jo]

Your pintles and gudgeons turned out really nicely, well done!