HMB Endeavour by BANYAN - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - circa 1768

[GLakie]

Ah!  Welcome to the club! 

[mtaylor]

Congrats on finally retiring, Pat.   I hope this new year will be good one for you and yours.

[BANYAN]

Thanks Mark and back at you - I hope you and yours  had a great festive season   With the Death Star commissioned I am sure 2016 will be a great modelling year.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

Wow, retirement, only 14 years to go! Well done.

[popeye the sailor]

lucky man!   I can't retire for five years yet........I can still hold out hope for early retirement though

[ca.shipwright]

So many ships, so much more time!

Enjoy

[mikec]

Happy New Year! She looks fantastic. I haven't touched my boat for over two months. I took a break to build a 132nd super detailed f105 thunderchief.

You have inspired me to get back to the shipyard-

I have my mojo back!

[BANYAN]

Thanks all for looking in. 

 

ca shipwright - More ships???  Flat out keeping up with what I have in the shipyard  

 

Good to see you back in the dockyard Mike.

 

Greg, Popeye - unfortunately retiring 5 years earlier than planned for health reasons - get some quality of life in while I can.  My complaints however are minor compared to many!

 

cheers

 

Pat

[DaveRow]

Hi Pat,

Congratulations on the step to retire. A well earned cold one 

Not an easy decision these days to retire.

 

May your shipyard, shipbuilding provide much enjoyment.

Push the Endeavour along and get her finished, she looks great.

 

 

 

Dave R

[BANYAN]

Thanks Dave, that's the plan re Endeavour (and a couple of frosties of course )

 

cheers

 

Pat

[BANYAN]

I made some further progress with the boom and jib but I have come to a temporary halt while I wait for some more beige line.  I had purchased the running rigging thread prior to getting my ropewalk and cannot match the colour, so until my new supplies arrive in the next couple of weeks I have statred on making the parrels.

 

The following photos show Endeavour at her current level of completion and in her display cradle. The top of the cradle is a copy of Cook's Chart for the East Coast of Australia that he drew while surveying his discovery of this part of our country - this has been sealed under a couple of layers of clear poly.  There are still many lines/ropes that are only temporary secured waiting for final tensioning and the footropes still need to be stiffened into their final position.  I am holding-off doing the final adjustments until I have stopped working in this area so that I don't knock them our or shape, or have to move a rope to fit another etc.

 

    

 

  

 

The parrels have been made from Red Gum which is a very dense timber, so it will allow me to cut thin clices from the milled shape shown n the photo.  I will drill the rope holes with indents for the parrels by hand using a template.  The photo shows the stock after thicknessing, the milled shape and the beads I will be using.

 

 

cheers

 

Pat

Edited January 8, 2016 by BANYAN

[Nirvana]

Pat,

I have read about the Red Gum but have no experience with the material itself. Thought Red Gum was some exclusive material for the southern hemisphere.

But it sure looks good.

[BANYAN]

Hi Per, yep it is indigineous to Australia.  Being so dense it is resistant to termites and very long lasting wood - they use it for railway sleepers, bridges and fencing due to these properties.  Lately, some talented woodworkers have been making some great furniture from it also - but boy, tough on the tools   take a look at this link - http://www.kropf.com.au/timber-furniture/river-red-gum.htm

 

cheers

 

Pat

Edited January 8, 2016 by BANYAN

[BANYAN]

Hi John, thanks for looking in.  Hope all is well.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[donrobinson]

Your Endeavour is looking especially great, I really like the idea for the base...very original

[GLakie]

Those are some really great pics of her Pat! Nice idea with Cook's map on the base! 

[Keith_W]

Great work Pat, very neat. 

[BANYAN]

WOW - thanks for all for looking in here and 'At a Glance' - much appreciate the interest and comments folks, they keep the mind positively focused..

yep John, that was for you

Keith, very many thanks for your kind offer the other day.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[captgino]

Beautiful work! The pictures turned out great.

[BANYAN]

An update on the parrels - still experimenting so the following is not the actual completed product.  For example, the beads I used are just as they happened to come out of the packet.  Being cheap they are not graded to the same size and many are not evenly shaped etc.  For the real deal I will sort/grade these to get a consistent spacing.

 

The parrels are 0.75mm thick and the burning on the parrel pieces are caused by the saw blade - need a new one but will not ruin it cutting this hard wood.  I have sanded off some of the char, but then realised these would have been 'greased/tarred' and would end up looking blackish anyway - saved some effort .

 

I also found that stacking the parrels in the temp fixing jig caused the bottom ones to split and crumble when I was drilling so I have reverted to drilling  and contouring the holes (for the bearings) individually; more time consuming but less breakages.

 

Anyways - getting there.  The parrels are actually quite smooth; the close up and contrast I have added make them look quite rough edged  I am also going to try some privet (in the Boxwood family) to see if I get a better finish.

 

cheers

 

Pat

 

     

 

     

 

  

Edited January 9, 2016 by BANYAN

[Cabbie]

Looking good Pat

keep working out the methods and techniques for me, I will be coming back here later

on to find out how to do it.

Cheers Chris

[popeye the sailor]

very nice job on the parrels Pat.......your latest update on the ship itself is super........Endeavour is looking awesome!

[mtaylor]

Pat,

 

Looking good on the trucks and beads.  I have a question/comment regarding the closeups.  Should the beads be bigger than trucks, such that they roll against the mast and trucks don't touch?   Visually, what you have looks fantastic, though.

[Jim Lad]

Nice work on the parrels, Pat.  But what a wimp - you should have used Ironbark instead of Red Gum!

 

John

[BANYAN]

Thanks again all for looking in and the likes.

 

Chris - no worries - just cost you a couple of 'frosties'

 

Popeye - thanks mate - slowly getting there.

 

Mark - now you have me thinking -  Not sure to be honest - I thought the beads (wooden balls) just created a bearing type effect and were smaller - need to research now  -  ​ 

 

John - now that would be a challenge - but, I need to try some of that privet you provided first.  If the saw survives then maybe....

 

cheers

 

Pat

Edited January 13, 2016 by BANYAN

[mikec]

Awesome work. I like the idea of using native timber. i think that is a good touch. I will take your lead -though I will use a suitable New Zealand native.

I am working on the (knitting and stays), so I am a wee bit behind you.

[shipaholic]

Hi Pat, looking good

 

Re the parrals, here is a page from "The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships" describing them in better detail. The drawing in AOTS is very misleading.

 

Cheers

Steve

[BANYAN]

Thanks Steve, that resolves the issue for me - now to source some larger beads

 

Mark - I don't know whether to thank or curse you - Nah!  Many thanks for the head's up mate.

 

cheers

 

Pat

Edited January 10, 2016 by BANYAN

[mtaylor]

Pat,

 

Feel free to curse away...    

[RGL]

Don't forget they don't have to work! Once lashed up you will not notice them. It's a lot of revision for something that's never going to move. Unless you own little people who are going to sail it, then I'd say they'll need revision.