US Brig Syren by Augie - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:64

[Gahm]

Your Syren really is coming along very nicely! Your rigging is just superb! But I am glad to hear that somebody else also has to do some other stuff but ship modeling. I was already under the impression that I was the only one getting distracted by such "ordinary tasks" like yard work, home projects, earning a living, family, . . . (-:

 

Thomas 

[augie]

Thanks Frank.  Time for you to be thinking of the next build????

 

And thanks to Dan, Grant and Patrick for stopping by.  Patrick-  posted a question over on your great Niagara log on YOUR next build.

 

Hey Thomas ---- everyone has other stuff going on.  And it doesn't get any better when you retire.  In fact, I often wonder how I ever had the time to work     :D                   .  Your 'golden years' will come.  Do not, I repeat, DO NOT be in a hurry. 

[patrickmil]

I got around to answering that question with MS's Constitution. Have we touched base yet on what you are putting together next? You are just as close to the finish line.

[popeye the sailor]

I have only one ship in mind at the moment...........but I need to reduce the  'clutter'   I'm getting the F-15 out of the way at the moment,  and then the last few things for the Lobsie twins.   I have the sails for the AmericA on my desk,  waiting for the reef lines.   once these are done.....I'll be on the Goth!

 

I dunno........I'm looking forward towards retirement......you think i have a bunch of builds now...........  LOL!

 

I thought you were on the lookout for a Supply kit?  I thought that I saw Mamoli has one.

[augie]

I'm weighing the possibilities Popeye.  No, not Supply.  Need to get further down the road on Syren first and I'm waiting to see what the ME Essex finally looks like.

[realworkingsailor]

Go big or go home...   Try the Confederacy... and then see if you could buy the plans for the Essex and boost them up to 1:48 and scratch build her.... you know you want to...

 

Andy

[augie]

Confed is 'on the list'.  All depends on size of fully rigged Essex (long story).  Besdes, there are too many nice Confederacy's already and yours will be still another.

[realworkingsailor]

There can never be too many

 

Besides.. I haven't yet begun mine..maybe in the fall I will start... we shall see

 

Andy

[patrickmil]

Hey Augie, at least Confederacy is in the same scale as your Syren. I'd like to see a rigging plan with her though. I don't think I'm inventive enough to come up with it on my own.

[augie]

I think Chuck intends to do a rigging plan at some point.  But he has a lot on his plate.  His Winchelsea is going to be spectacular.  Only time will tell.

[Trussben]

I'm with the others, I think a Confed in your future is a great idea seeing what you have accomplished with the Syren.

 

Ben

[Sjors]

Augie,

 

I can not stay behind my friend.

Take my advice and go for the Confed!

 

[augie]

Yes, Confed is a beauty and I appreciate all those who have spoken out in support of her.  She's still in the running, especially now that Sjors has made his long awaited, world-wide announcement that he is going to build Agammemnon.  He's going to have more guns than the entire US Navy (albeit they will fire only cotton balls).  I wonder if he will mount it on top of his existing double decker Le Mirage/San Ildefonso ?

 

No decisions until the anchor cables go on Syren.  I'm having all I can handle right now making yards.....seemingly yards of them!  There's smoke coming out of my drill and I have more blisters on my fingers from hanging on then Mark Taylor has from typing 1000+ posts

[patrickmil]

Augie, one thing I found to help with the finger burn is sandpaper belts that would normally go on a belt sander. It is much stiffer because of the thickness of the material, but this helps keep your fingers stay cooler and takes more material off quicker.

[augie]

Thanks Patrick.  But I depend on the burning sensation to alert me to when I've already ruined the piece.  No sense wasting time making it even worse  

[JeffT]

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one that burns various fingers with sandpaper. I though I was doing something wrong.

[augie]

     .  No, you're not doing anything wrong.  A lot of folks recommend wearing gloves.  That just helps me break the dowels.  There was a reason for me not to become a surgeon !!!!

[Sjors]

Augie,

 

It can be take a while before I start on the Aggy….

I'm now in negotiation with a metal shop who want to make canon balls for me….

And there is gonna be a lot of them!

Just what I was saying…the Confed is a very nice build for you!

So be a man and repeat me…….I'm gonna build the Confed!

Be a brave guy and just do it!

 

 

[augie]

Between you and Andy it sounds like size is all that matters !  Patience my friend.

 

The shipyard is closed for 2 days as I need to carry out some bombing missions over the Colorado skies.  This multi-tasking is getting tough.......not to mention that the trout are beginning to stir.  My next project is not yet a dot on the horizon.

 

Oh, recommend you check the foundry for your canonballs ....unless you're having them machined.

[realworkingsailor]

Between you and Andy it sounds like size is all that matters !  Patience my friend.

 

Oh, recommend you check the foundry for your canonballs ....unless you're having them machined.

 

We may be encouraging you to go big for different reasons... I think he wants you to go big because he can't hit small targets...

 

And I think making canonballs may be a violation under the "Anja" convention....

 

Andy

[patrickmil]

 This multi-tasking is getting tough.......not to mention that the trout are beginning to stir.  My next project is not yet a dot on the horizon.

Augie, I hear you loud and clear on the trout. Fishing season for me is just around the corner!

[Sjors]

Andy,

 

I can even hit a fly between the eye's…..

 

Patrick,

 

I'm gonna take my rods and coming your way.

Then those 2 nice guys can talk to each other about me…..

 

[trippwj]

Hmmm...Sjors building the largest decked sailing warship ever - Aggy as the base, then Le Mirage & the SI on top - not sure about the sailing stability, but would sure be interesting to see!

 

Fly fishing from the Niagara sounds interesting as well - almost makes me want to learn fly fishing!

 

Your Syren is looking awesome, Augie - enjoy the flights!

[newbuilder101]

Okay...save some fish for me. Preferably trout.

As for your next build Augie...I'm sure whatever you choose, it will be terrific like your Syren!

Edited March 29, 2013 by Newdarksider101

[augie]

Thanks Wayne and Sherry.  Today's flights were aborted due to a nasty Chinook wind from the West.

 

Fly fishing from Niagara.  Interesting.  But now we hear Sjors can hit a fly with a cottonball.  OK, let's all meet at Patricks and fly fish for trout off Niagara!  Sherry can eat the daily catch.  (Didn't know there were trout in Ohio...... they must have gotten washed down from here in the runoff).

[Kevin]

dont invite me to go fly fishing with you, i get cold walking 10 feet from the front door to the garage,, lol i will go to ASDA to get my salmon, oh and by the way, no wain today or snow, just a wind that goes straight through you, or maybe its just me, my body is getting used to loosing weight as part of my new years resolution 19 kg so far

[augie]

Kevin-  congrats on the weight loss and (as always) on your beautiful HMS Victory.

[patrickmil]

We have some beautiful rainbow trout here in the Buckeye state. I prefer to fish for bass (all types), crappie, saugeye, muskie, and catfish. All of the above are delicious if prepared fresh. As far as entertaining a fishing party, I'm all in! At the end of April in fact I will be camping for three nights and will be doing nothing else but fishing and drinking beer; that's my taste of heaven.

[popeye the sailor]

I don't remember the last time i did something like that.   as a young lad......I lived for fishing.   used a drop line until my teen years...my uncle gave me my first pole......six footer with an open face reel.

[rdsaplala]

Hi Augie,

 

Very nice work on the running rigging mate, she's really coming along