Venti Posted Friday at 09:20 PM Author #31 Posted Friday at 09:20 PM Here's the pictures I forgot! Going to work on her now! palmerit and Kenchington 2 Venti In Progress: Norwegian Sailing Pram Completed: Grand Banks Dory
Venti Posted Friday at 10:16 PM Author #32 Posted Friday at 10:16 PM Well probably a very short session tonight... The pintle straps supplied seem to be WAY too short... I might have used the wrong piece for the bottom rudder gudgeon but even so the longest one only has about 1/16" engagement with the rudder... I think I'll get some thin brass sheet and cut my own out. halvoric and Kenchington 2 Venti In Progress: Norwegian Sailing Pram Completed: Grand Banks Dory
Kenchington Posted Friday at 10:29 PM #33 Posted Friday at 10:29 PM 1 hour ago, Venti said: the pictures I forgot! Very nice! In progress: Norwegian sailing pram, by Model Shipways Completed: 1880 Gloucester halibut dory, based on Model Shipways Lowell banks dory
Kenchington Posted Friday at 10:30 PM #34 Posted Friday at 10:30 PM 13 minutes ago, Venti said: The pintle straps supplied seem to be WAY too short... Yup. Especially if you wrap them around the bit of tube, as the instructions suggest. Trevor robert952 1 In progress: Norwegian sailing pram, by Model Shipways Completed: 1880 Gloucester halibut dory, based on Model Shipways Lowell banks dory
Venti Posted 9 hours ago Author #35 Posted 9 hours ago Lots of progress today! Steps 39, 40 and 48 done Step 39: Pintles Got some 0.010" thick brass from Hobby Lobby and cut a 2mm strip out. Cut two 15mm lengths of that and drilled some holes in the end and got started. You can see below the difference in length of these and the ones they supply... Went pretty well after I had those made. Just had to make sure the lower pin was slightly longer than the top one and then make sure to put them the in the right spot to line up with the Gudgeons. When gluing, I had to make sure it stuck to the right spot as well as keeping the pins parallel to the rudder edge. Next I did a test fit to make sure it worked and then I drilled a hole through the rudder to bolt the pintles on. Surprisingly I hit the hole on the other side very easily despite the angle I needed to drill at as you can see below. With the supplied nails, I cut them about .5mm longer than needed and tried my hand at riveting them since this seemed like an ideal piece for that. And it worked well!! It isn't neatly rounded but it definitely mushroomed out to hold it in! Success! 40: Display Stand Pretty straight forward. Biggest thing to note is the hole in the base is slightly too big for the supplied dowels. It's not so much bigger that it looks bad from one side so I used that as the top. Got it glued and square and then just filled in the gaps on the bottom with glue haha. I'm not super worried as I don't think this will be it's permanent display stand. 48: Oarlocks Another super short step but satisfying since it makes the boat look much different. I had to drill the PE parts out slightly for the nails but this was easy after glued to the pads. Pinned them with the nails and glued the oarlocks in. Another very satisfying day! I'm super excited to start the the sail and rigging but not really looking forward to shaping the mast... I will try using a plane on the square parts they give but it seems most other kits give dowels so I might try my hand with the dowel first... We'll see. Kenchington, palmerit, Ryland Craze and 1 other 4 Venti In Progress: Norwegian Sailing Pram Completed: Grand Banks Dory
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