HM Armed Cutter Sherbourne 1763 by Nightdive - Vanguard Models - 1:64 - First Build

[Nightdive]

20 minutes ago, bigcreekdad said:

Very nice work! Question....what were those round thingies you used to hold the second planks til dry?l 

Looking forward to your rigging. I'm on the first planking of the cutter Alert and both our builds have similarities.

 

Thanks for stopping by! Those round things are just thumb tacks with the white plastic bit removed. 

 

 

 

 

[Nightdive]

 

The companionway is almost ready for paint. I also found a better way to make its footprint slightly larger. 

 

I'd greatly appreciate any opinions on the hatch stay that Caldercraft's HMS Pickle has. I'm considering replicating it for the Sherbourne. Is it based on something real, or just model designer's imagination? The part circled in red is also a bit of a mystery to me. I think that the vertical iron has a tooth that catches on the horizontal piece when the hatch is open, but I'm not sure. I haven't been able to find any close-up photos in build logs.

 

 

[Nightdive]

 

I've made some good progress since my last update. 

 

Before gluing the deck on I performed some experiments with LED lights, and light was shining through even when both decks were in place. A layer of black paint seems to block it. I also painted the visible parts of the interior black. Fitting the inner bulwarks and spirketting on was fairly straightforward, but I had to add a small extension piece to one of them.

 

I built the hatch stays out of 0.5 mm aluminium sheet. I sanded it down to 0.3 mm after cutting the pieces. They were very tricky to install, but I think that the end result looks nice. I used brass pins for door handles and PE-21 hinges from the 0.2 mm PE sheet. There are only six of them and the manual says that they are "not in use", but I assume that they were originally intented for the port lids. I might try to fake those eight missing hinges with paint. The ladder was copied from the kit ladder and took me three tries to get right. 

 

 

I look forward to continuing this project next year. Many interesting phases of the build remain ahead. 

 

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

Edited 22 hours ago by Nightdive

[ERS Rich]

Beautiful job!  Happy New Year!

 

-Rich