Mayflower by SawdustDave - Finished

[Remcohe]

Impressive work Dave!
 

Remco

[popeye the sailor]

progress looks great Dave........love what you did  with the gratings! 

[SawdustDave]

Omega / Piet / Joe / Remco & Popeye.... Always good hearing from each of you.

Those little gratings are trying to kick my arsss right now. The smaller grid strips are much tougher to make .... Scrap rate about 80%! Thinkiing I should have just placed an order, but not giving up yet

 

Coffee set for 6:00 am....Lights out for tonight.

[Piet]

Ataboy Dave, stick with it and you'll lick this one too.  It's a challenge!   You could also do a show and tell in how to make small gratings 

 

Cheers,

[Omega1234]

Dave - you cannot give up!!!  You WILL succeed.  Remember, we're counting on you to inspire and instruct us on how things can be done better and better!!!

[SawdustDave]

You're killin' me over here.....right now, I'm the one in need of show and tell.

Tomorrow's another day.

Edited September 15, 2014 by SawdustDave

[SkerryAmp]

Beakhead looks fantastic,  really well done and I like the styling you did on it!!

[SawdustDave]

Laying in bed thinking, sometimes usually helps.

Off to a better start this morning. Looks promising so far.

[augie]

Good morning.  Hope the nights' sleep brought some revelations and confidence.  Works for me!!!!

[SawdustDave]

When the mind is tired, it's time to put it down and turn out the lights Augie. Seems like we should learn that after all these years. I tend to fight it a little too long sometimes.

Like Popeye says.... "I yam wot I yam".

Thanks for dropping in.

 

Admiral just fed me a late breakfast....ready to roll.

Cheers

[SkerryAmp]

I always seem to hit the point of "time to sleep" and then convince my self to do "just a little more".

 

Sometimes it works out well for me, others well -

 

But your build is fantastic!

[SawdustDave]

Took a couple of days away from the shop to take the Admiral on a little road trip with some friends to the coast....great time had by all.

So we came back all fresh and anxious to re-tackle those pesky beakhead grids....

Made pretty good progress the last couple of days.....photo below

Now ready to attach the upper panel (seen in the background) on the port side and create the stanchions for that side.

As nice as it was to take time away, it feels pretty good to be back in the shop.  I guess I have become re-addicted to this crazy hobby.  I'm sure none of you have a similar issue.... huh?

 

 

[pete48]

Nice work Dave, Beautifully done bow section looks incredible. I perfer to call it a passion , addiction sounds harsh . I think we are all in the same Boat ( every pun intended )

 

Best Regards,

Pete

[SawdustDave]

Thanks Piet.  Passion is true in most cases, but I don't recall any of my passions causing "withdrawal" symptems?  Admit it my friend, this stuff can cause deep problems that only Docter Phil can understand.  My appointment is next week. 

[NenadM]

Is something wrong in next picture: while cutting grass think about job issues,and doing your job think about how to resolve some position on your build. Or we are wrong. Or too much dedicated.

 

Very nice build we watch here.

Edited September 19, 2014 by Nenad M

[pete48]

Thanks Piet.  Passion is true in most cases, but I don't recall any of my passions causing "withdrawal" symptems?  Admit it my friend, this stuff can cause deep problems that only Docter Phil can understand.  My appointment is next week. 

Hey Dave, you may want to reconsider your appointment with Dr. Phil, in my session with him , the presciption he gave me was to join this ship modeling group

 

Best Regards,

Pete

[kees de mol]

 

Made pretty good progress the last couple of days.....

Looking very very good!

[Piet]

Those gratings look rather neat Dave, very nice and precise work.  Outstanding!

 

Cheers,

[Omega1234]

Beautiful work Dave! Will I be right in assuming the You Tube tutorial will be available soon? Go on...I know you want to do one!!!

Edited September 19, 2014 by Omega1234

[SawdustDave]

Thanks all....appreciate the encouraging comments.

Omega, I promise, if I decide to rip this section out and re-do it, I'll do the UTube thing.

Pretty sure I'm going to go with this as is.

[Omega1234]

Hi Dave

 

I have to admit, that as far as I'm concerned, there's absolutely no reason for you to 'rip them out' because they look great!

 

Well done and all the best! 

[SawdustDave]

Finished with the beakhead assembly for now.  I can finally enjoy seeing her complete profile.  Channels next, then on to masts and we all know where that is leading.......

[SkerryAmp]

Such incredible work - can't wait to see her rigged up!

[russ]

She looks very good so far. Very neat paint work. Great work.

 

Russ

[SawdustDave]

Thanks Adam, hope you're having a wonderful vacation....feel the same about seeing her rigged. I get to go to school on your work. I like that.

Russ - Always good to see you dropping in.

Edited September 22, 2014 by SawdustDave

[Omega1234]

Hi Dave

 

You know, for some reason, ever since I was a kid, I always had the impression that the Mayflower was a 'simple little ship'. The same goes for Columbus' Nina and Pinta. Why, I will never know!

 

However, having seen your Mayflower, I have a new found appreciation for the beauty and complexity of this ship. Just looking at her beakhead and the complexity of the design, gratings, stanchions, etc, coupled with the incredibly difficult to replicate geometric paintwork, means that, she is a real beauty and far from being 'simple'.

 

Well done and I, too, am looking forward to the rigging.

 

Thanks for sharing this build with us!

Edited September 22, 2014 by Omega1234

[SawdustDave]

Omega - I would have said the same thing about MF before I got into the smaller scale build and discovered there was much more to her than first  meets the eye.  In fact, after taking a couple of years off from modeling, I was looking for a little "warm-up" project before diving back into something more serious.  Boy was I surprised.  She's a real "sleeper" for sure.

 

I should add, I think Chuck Passaro's MF kit is excellent, (using his plan sheets for this build) and highly recommend it for builders at any level.  Although, as a scratch builder, I tend to do some personal bashing, my MF is 90% strict adherence to his kit design.  I look forward to tackling his Winnie once I ever finish these MF projects.  It looks really special.....in the class of the Confederacy.

Edited September 22, 2014 by SawdustDave

[Mahuna]

Hi Dave:

 

I agree on Chuck's Mayflower plans.  I'm also using them for a scratch build (my first) and they're excellent.  I'm also using his instructions as a guide.  I'm not painting my Mayflower, but instead am using various woods to get color variation.  There will be a lot of 'poetic license' in the build, since I'm using the Mayflower as a basis for an imaginary ship from a book series.  I haven't started a build log on it, but I'm considering doing so.

 

You're several steps ahead of me, and following your build has been very useful and instructive - thanks!

 

Frank

[Omega1234]

Hi Frank and Dave. Frank-I'm looking forward to following your build log for your MF when you start posting.

[SawdustDave]

That's the way to go Frank. It's YOUR ship, and you can bash it up any way your heart desires. Please let me know when you launch your log.