HMS Pegasus 1776 by Trussben - 1:48 - Swan-class sloop based on TFFM

[Rustyj]

Looks great Ben. Glad to see you back at her!

[druxey]

Thanks for the smile you gave me with your photo update, Ben.

[AON]

Thanks for the reply re: treenail and plank sizing, Ben.

I am trying to better appreciate why and when various size treenails are employed.

Found a wooden ship building book dated 1919 with guidelines based on tonnage and joint location for treenails and bolts but not sure it hadn't changed from a century or two earlier.

Edited November 12, 2019 by AON
typed 1912 but it was 1919

[Trussben]

Port side has been marked and started drilling for treenails, have to draw some boxwood down, wow this is tedious work.

[BANYAN]

Tedious but will pay dividends to the final look Ben - nice work on the planking.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[druxey]

Be glad you aren't planking the whole hull!

[Trussben]

Work continues on upper planking to the sheer strake, this is a “fun” one to make and blend into the other planking.

 

ben

[LyleK1]

I enjoyed reading the build blog to this point!

I'm new to wood ship modeling and am working on my first kit, the HMS Terror. Someday, I'd like to try a scratch build... not yet!

I am curious about TFFM... What does that stand for?

As I continue to learn and build a tool inventory and more importantly, confidence in my work, I would like to eventually try a build from scratch.

Thanks in advance for the info!

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by LyleK1

[Trussben]

Hi Lyle,

 

TFFM stand for “ The fully framed model” which is a set of 4 books written by David Antscherl and Greg Herbert and they are available from Seawatch books,  who are one of the sponsors of Model ship world and you can find a link to their site on the main page.

The set of books is an excellent reference for many things in model ship building and in my opinion a must have for any serious model builder looking to move into scratch building.

 

ben

 

 

[LyleK1]

Thanks Ben!

I'll take a look at them!

[ChadB]

Beautiful work Ben!

 

 

Chad

[Trussben]

Work has restarted on Pegasus, completing the upper planking and treenailing, then I have to machine the upper deck beams.

 

ben

[dvm27]

She looks extraordinary, Ben! You're making good use of your extra time in the workshop.

[Trussben]

Thanks Greg, that’s high praise from you!

 

ben

[druxey]

Nice clean workshop, too! Decent work benches with drawers, 6' 0" drafting board with rail machine, good lighting....oh, and a very nice model as well!

[Trussben]

Thanks Druxey,

 

I just wish I could live up to yours and Greg's standards for a build! I am trying my best to get better every time - and this is the best I can do so far! Spectacles are now are part of my life!

 

ben

[Rustyj]

Great workmanship and shop Ben.

[Hubac's Historian]

I was intrigued by your Pegasus figurehead profile pic - the carving is excellent! - so I came to check out your work.  I’m glad I did,

and I’ll be following this project to completion.  You’re doing a wonderful job, here.   These models are quite large, eh?

[captain_hook]

That is a truly nice ship. The combination of pear and boxwood is hard to beat. And I wish I had a workspace that huge.

[Trussben]

Hi and Thanks,

 

To answer your question Hubac, the Swan class is quite a small ship at 96'7" long, and at 1:48 that equates to a 24" model ( length of main deck as per normal convention ), but if you rig her which I have not quite made my mind to do but I am leaning that way it will be quite a bit bigger, but still in the realms that the display case would not be too massive.

 

ben

[druxey]

Spectacles? Join the club!

[Trussben]

Lower Deck breast hook made and installed using 1” (0.52mm) black monofilament line “bolts”.

 

ben

[BANYAN]

Very nice clean and crisp joinery Ben; looks great!

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Trussben]

Upper deck framing design underway.

[Trussben]

First - thanks for all the likes everybody.
 

So I machined all of the 22 deck beams out of 9” stock with the correct roundup of 6” and here you see them temporally installed using T-pins in their correct locations.

I also had to make the wing transom knees ( these are a pain to fit ) so beams 21&22 could be made.

 

Now I came across an error I made back when building the lower deck, the distance between the beams 6&7 ( fore hatch ) are too far apart because I didn’t follow the Pegasus plans but instead the TFFM plans, lesson to be learned here - Always follow the drafts of the ship that you are actually building!! I have decided to make the upper deck match the lower deck so Pegasus will end up with a larger fore hatch than she should - hopefully it won’t interfere with anything else as it is beam 7 that is too far aft.

 

I need to make the upper deck hook, riding bit pins and topsail sheet bit pins and get them located properly before carrying on.

 

ben

[Trussben]

finishing up treenailing

 

ben

[tlevine]

She looks sweet.  It is fascinating/annoying how many differences there are among the Swan class ships.

[Trussben]

Riding Bitts are completed and temporary in situ, I decided to show the full length cleats between the upper/lower deck beams. They still need final sanding and finishing to complete later.

Now onto the next set of bitts.

 

ben

[dvm27]

It's like a chess game.  You have two think five moves or, in this case, two decks, in advance.  Beautiful work ben.

[druxey]

Looking very nice, Ben. We know nothing about Beam 7.