Scottish Maid by JesseLee - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - 1:50

[JesseLee]

Getting the masts ready. Had to re-do the crosstrees because the kit ones did not fit right at all. Decided on the white paint based on the model by the ships 1st Captain.

 

[JesseLee]

 Tying & seizing blocks. Very difficult for me to do. Maybe this will be easier after the surgeries. For some reason the camera makes the paint look way more rough & crude than it looks by eye.

 

[JesseLee]

Progress on Fore & Main masts. I don't like how thick & fat the belay pins are in the kit. Tried thinning them down some. I like them better but wonder am I really going to want to do this with every one of them for the rest of the build?

 

[guillemot]

Kit pins are always a bit tubby, you can get skinnier blackened brass ones from most model ship shops. Coming along very nicely!

[themadchemist]

The masts looks great, your truckin' right along. You must be trying to make up for the down time coming.

 

I agree on chunky belaying pins, to me PHAT pins just look awful. To me they seem to draw the eye and scream look at me...but thinning them is a pain also... but then isn't nearly everything in ship modeling?

[JesseLee]

Thanks guillemot & Keith.

 

Your right Keith, I'm trying to get as much done as I can before Monday night. After that it might be a long time before I have both hands healed & working again.

 

Started on the jib boom bobstays. After learning from others here on MSW I want to do things more the way they should be. Decided that I would serve (?) (- please correct me if my terminology is wrong)- the lines. Wrapped around the jib boom & seized them.

[JesseLee]

First surgery is Tuesday so about to have a lot of time off from the modeling. Will be thinking a lot about how to proceed once both surgeries are over. The kit supplied dark brown & natural colored thread. It is of inferior quality. Considering scrapping the kit supplied line & getting better. Wondering if it should be black instead of dark brown?

[Dee_Dee]

Jesse,

 

Wishing you a speedy recovery.  Whatever you do, don't rush getting back into the shipyard.

Maybe this is the opportune time to research the rigging details and also learn how to make your own? 

 

Dee Dee

[Littlebob]

The ship is looking good, and good luck on your surgery.

[CaptainSteve]

Best wishes with your surgeries, Jesse.

[JesseLee]

A big thank you to: Dan, Robert, Glen, Sailor, Keith, Matti, Alistar, Frank, guillemot, Edwin, Steve, Captain Steve, John, Bindy, Vivian, Robert, Dee Dee, & especially (Mad) Kieth -(partners in crime/lyme) (& anybody else I left out) for all the interaction & support during this build log. And thanks for all the likes!  What a wonderful community of people here on MSW!

 

Going to have a lot of down time for the log but I will be lurking around everybody else's logs for a while & plotting & planning on how I will get started on the rigging. Been wanting to get to the rigging & now that I'm there I have to put it all on hold. I know the first week will drive me crazy that I cant work on the ship. Will probably work on replacing the rigging thread the kit supplied so when I can start back I will have better quality thread to work with. I've learned a lot in the short time I've been here & plan on learning more during this down time.

 

Jesse

Edited May 19, 2014 by JesseLee

[CaptainSteve]

Your boat - and us - will be anxiously awaiting your return !!

[Bindy]

Hi there JesseLee,

 

Super best wishes for your surgery.  I know you will have a tough for weeks ahead of you (after more than your fair share of tough ones in the past weeks/months) but I believe with all my heart that it will be worth it and your daily life will be more enjoyable after you have healed

 

If you are feeling down during the recovery, please log on to MSW and seeing your friends will surely lift your spirits!

 

Best wishes!

[aliluke]

Hey Jesse - best wishes mate. Kia kaha and be back soon. Your skills have very good hands and I'm sure they'll be much better hands after the down time.

[edmay]

Hello Jesse,you can be very proud of what you have achieved,you are a fine modeler,with your ailments I should say super modeler,thinking good thoughts for your op,.Edwin.

[JesseLee]

This forced time off has made me see that I was in too big of a hurry. Been studying up on a lot of things. I now see that the kit doesn't have things look or built correctly for how it really functioned. I have decided to change some things. Now my impatience kicks in again. My hand is still bandaged up & I don't have much mobility with it. I am not supposed to be doing this kind of stuff yet but I am already feeling some of the benefits of the surgery & have been sneaking in some work a little at a time.

 

The first thing I've done is change a standing barrel to how a scuttlebutt might have been.

 

 

 

[JesseLee]

Next my focus has been on the windlass.  The kit has the windlass constructed wrong. It doesn't have a pawl for the cogged wheel at all. Here is the kit instructions & how I built it. Then Some illustrations I found online on how they should be. I will take from both these illustrations to rebuild my windlass a little more correctly.

 

[JesseLee]

First I notched the pinrail & stanchion to move the stanchion in closer to the cogged wheel to add a pawl. Next will begin fabricating a bell like one of the illustrations above show.

 

[JesseLee]

Forming the bell will not be easy at this small of a scale. I found this soft metal tubing in all my old modeling junk that gets saved up for years. Wedged a metal pick in one end & slowly wringed it around flaring it out. Cut it off & burnished the top down to form it correctly....

[JesseLee]

Now forming the strip of brass that will hold the bell & attach to the stanchion. Then used very thin wire to form in one piece a loop holing the bell on, the handle & the ...um....ringer? -for the life of me I can't remember what you call that thing! . I also added a short cord hanging off the handle for pulling. The picture doesn't show it well but it's there.

 

I plan on making some handspikes to go with it later. Gotta watch it- already trying to use the hand too much too soon

 

[SGraham]

Jesse, The maid is looking better and better. Great work on the scuttlebutt and windlass. Don't let your doctor see these pictures!

 

Steve

[aliluke]

Brilliant work Jesse. Can't believe you can do that virtually single handed. Steve is right - I hope your Doc isn't a member here!

[DSiemens]

That bell is very impressive.  Good work.  Hope your hand get's feeling better soon.   

[Littlebob]

Your windlass and bell look great.

[CaptainSteve]

Awesome work there .... even more so considering you are doing it with your hand all strapped up.

Oh, and the ringer thingy ... I think it's called a "clapper".

[Vivian Galad]

Great work on your windlass. Made me take notice of those on my ship. ^^

[JesseLee]

Thank you Steve, Alistair, Daniel, Robert, Capt. Steve, Vivian.

 

The Admiral caught me trying to work with my hand. The floggings began, but I was enjoying it too much . Threatened to throw me in the brig, so after she returned to work today I got back to making the handspikes.

 

 

 

[JesseLee]

Next I will work on changing the bilge pumps. Here is what the instructions show & how they look on the ship. They look horrible. Will fabricate some that look more like the real thing........when & as I am able......

 

 

[JesseLee]

Here is my fabrication of 2 elm tree pumps. Used a dowel & small scrap pieces of wood laying around. The 1st attempts didn't turn out good or meet my satisfaction. The 3rd try was a charm. Doing these pumps has caused some serious pain in my recovering wrist. Got to slow it down & let things heal (at least a little bit )

 

Looks WAY better than what the kit instructions had me doing!

Edited May 29, 2014 by JesseLee

[Vivian Galad]

Better indeed.