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Well, I've been busy beavering away on Pegasus. :D

 

I'm working on a couple of different parts. I wanted the get the rubbing rails complete so made the quarter badges. They were really easy to make and look so effective.

 

The first two parts are wooden and painted black, here they are glued together:

 

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The rest is of brass etch painted white, gold and ochre:

 

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I glazed the windows, a piece of clear plastic is included in the kit for this. I found it easiest to cut a piece a bit larger then the window part I was glazing. I then used bostic all purpose glue, and with a pin, spread it on the back of the brass window and stuck it down on the clear plastic. When stuck, I used a sharp knife and cut around the window. any glue strands that showed through could be easily scraped off with a pin:

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Glazed windows ready to attach to the wooden surround:

 

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Make sure the windows are flush with the surface:

 

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The two pieces for the top and bottom parts of the quarter badge are stuck together:

 

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Then attached to the unit along with the two other parts:

 

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Next were the posts that went between the windows. check the fit on these before you stick them on. I found some were too long to go in the space and had to trim the bottom off:

 

 

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The finished quarterbadge:

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First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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glad to see progress on your build Caroline  :)   very nice work!     I hope this is a prelude to more in the future  ;)

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Nice clean work on the windows!   ;) 

 

Cheers,

Tim

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  • BlueJacket - U.S.S. SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, DE413 | Butler-Class Destroyer Escort
  • BlueJacket - 310' Destroyer "The famous "four-piper" of both World Wars"
  • Model Shipways - Pride of Baltimore II (Topsail Schooner) 
  • Model Shipways - Willie L. Bennett (Chesapeake Bay Skipjack)
  • Constructo - Pilar (Ernest Hemingway's Fishing Yacht)  
  • Sergal - Race Horse (Bomb Ketch)
  • Classic Warships - USS Salem CA-139 (Heavy Cruiser) Resin Kit
  • Pen Duick Schooner - Half Hull (Scratch Build)
  • CSA Submarine Hunley (Resin Kit)
  • Classic Warships - USS Washington BB-56 (Battleship) Resin Kit
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Nice work on the badges. They really came together! Tell me why is that the women always show up the men? ;) Keep up the good work!

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Wow!  You are making progress and beautifully so.   Keep up the great work.

Mark
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Thanks all, your comments are really appreciated.

 

 

Here is the quarter badge just balanced in place at the stern. It's not glued on yet:

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I worked on the bow of the ship next. I liked what Blue Ensign created under the forcastle with his Pegasus so much I decided to adapt the idea to mine, especially as I am planning to add barrels. buckets and sacks to the area too, I thought it best to get it looking a bit more like it should.

 

 

 

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Next I added the ropes to the gunport lids as I'd forgotten to do them earlier:

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First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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Next I worked on the first of the guns located under the forcastle. I wanted to have them in the stowed position so after some research I made a start.

 

I used two pictures as guides:

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First I made the Breech rope, knotting and siezing one end to a ring then it was threaded through a ring on the carriage body and looped around the cascabel knob. Here a long loop was created by placing a bit of siezing above the cascabel. It was then threaded through the ring on the other side of the carriage and knotted and siezed onto the final ring.

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Then I made the side tackles in the usual way, but instead of the free end coiled on the deck, it was wound around the tackles themselves:

 

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Next I added the other 'strapping' type ropes to the barrel:

 

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First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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As I said before, nice work!  I'm looking forward to seeing more.   ;) 

Tim 

 

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Future Build:

  • BlueJacket - USS Kidd (Fletcher Class Destroyer) Solid Hull
  • BlueJacket - U.S.S. SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, DE413 | Butler-Class Destroyer Escort
  • BlueJacket - 310' Destroyer "The famous "four-piper" of both World Wars"
  • Model Shipways - Pride of Baltimore II (Topsail Schooner) 
  • Model Shipways - Willie L. Bennett (Chesapeake Bay Skipjack)
  • Constructo - Pilar (Ernest Hemingway's Fishing Yacht)  
  • Sergal - Race Horse (Bomb Ketch)
  • Classic Warships - USS Salem CA-139 (Heavy Cruiser) Resin Kit
  • Pen Duick Schooner - Half Hull (Scratch Build)
  • CSA Submarine Hunley (Resin Kit)
  • Classic Warships - USS Washington BB-56 (Battleship) Resin Kit
  • Blue Ridge Models - USS Alaska CB-1 (Resin Kit)

 

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Thanks! I really enjoyed making the cannon rigging, even though it was really fiddly. :D

First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

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Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

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I have a question.  I was looking at your paint job and I really like the colors you selected, but I couldn't tell if you had used a wood sealer before you applied the paint?

 

Tim

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Future Build:

  • BlueJacket - USS Kidd (Fletcher Class Destroyer) Solid Hull
  • BlueJacket - U.S.S. SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, DE413 | Butler-Class Destroyer Escort
  • BlueJacket - 310' Destroyer "The famous "four-piper" of both World Wars"
  • Model Shipways - Pride of Baltimore II (Topsail Schooner) 
  • Model Shipways - Willie L. Bennett (Chesapeake Bay Skipjack)
  • Constructo - Pilar (Ernest Hemingway's Fishing Yacht)  
  • Sergal - Race Horse (Bomb Ketch)
  • Classic Warships - USS Salem CA-139 (Heavy Cruiser) Resin Kit
  • Pen Duick Schooner - Half Hull (Scratch Build)
  • CSA Submarine Hunley (Resin Kit)
  • Classic Warships - USS Washington BB-56 (Battleship) Resin Kit
  • Blue Ridge Models - USS Alaska CB-1 (Resin Kit)

 

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Daniel {Dafi} did the same thing with his Heller Victory cannons.......have you seen them?   good to see your working on your build again,  a very nice beginning,  indeed!

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Tim, No I haven't used a wood sealer, just used the recommended blue enamel colour given in the instructions. The unpainted wood will have a clear satin varnish added at a later date.

 

Thanks for looking in Popeye, I haven't seen Dafi's Victory build, I'll go and have a look, thanks!

 

Thanks David, I really enjoy making the little extra's; it's what really makes a build truly your own.

First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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Thanks ZyXuz

 

Thanks for your tip Arthur.

 

I have attached the two bow cannons in place and added some sacks and barrels to the bow area.

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The bulkhead wall is in place and I've 'opened' one of the doors.

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I've checked the lighting and it still all works fine. I'll now glue the fordeck into place and get the bow completed.

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First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

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Hi Caroline nice to see your Pegasus is moving forward nice rigging on the stowed guns are you showing the others stowed or run out.

Ray

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Hi Ray, I think at the moment I'm leaning to mainly stowed, certainly the waist ones will be stowed sideways against the gunport. I like to be a bit different.:)

First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

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The foredeck and bulkhead wall is in place now.

 

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Next I made a mistake.

 

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Reading the instructions I put the capping rails on next........... DON'T!!!!!

 

A small section of the bulwark has to be cut out for the catheads, this needs to be done BEFORE the capping rail is attached.

 

A note on the catheads (Thanks Blue Ensign!) the sloped bit sits on the deck, BUT it needs to be altered so that is fits nicely on the deck AND goes under the rail confortably. ;)

 

 

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is there anyway the bulwark can be cut out and the cathead slid into place?

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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you could gently drill a hole and then use needle files to square them off

 

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Next build : undecided

On the Shelf : AL San Juan, Mamoli HMS Victory

Builds on hold : Ochre Gorch Fock, Hachette/Amati Black Pearl

Previous Builds Gallery : Virginia; King of Mississippi

Previous Builds logs : AL King of Mississippi 1/80

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Hi Popeye, Adrieke, You could, but it would be difficult. I was lucky and was able to remove the capping rails without any damage. :) I just wanted to warn any future builders.

 

The next bit I did was fitting the headrail and cathead on the starboard side. Well I invented some quite unique expletives while tackling this bit, not very ladylike at all, surprised my husband no end!!! :o

 

First I glued the upper prow rail (part 127) and lower prow cheek (126)  and the head timbers (25, 26 and 27) in place, no problems there:

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Next I bevelled the edges of the two bow cheeks (54) they needed quite a bit of shaping to get them to sit flush against the prow and the wale.

 

Next I put the top rail temporarily in position so I couls see where I needed to cut the bulwark to accomodate the cat head. I was so glad I'd been able to remove the capping rail here otherwise it would have been really awkward.

 

As mentioned earlier I had to alter the slope on the cathead where it sits on the deck to get it to fit comfortably under the capping rail as angles upward slightly.

 

After that was accomplished I glued the upper rail in place.

 

Then it came to the inventive language section with fitting the lower bow rail (125). The thing is so fragile I lost count of how many times it broke and I stuck it back together again, it ended up in such a mess I decided there was nothing for it but to cut some new ones using the other intact one as a template. Eventually I managed to manipulate one into position.

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The main problem is that it is too delicate to get it to sit flat in the slots of the head timbers and then twist slightly up to the prow. But I wasn't going to let it beat me, so I beat it into submission!

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Once that was finally in place I could fix the cathead and it's support and then the extended rail a section of decorative brass stripwhich runs from lower bow rail to the cathead support.

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The last bit to do was to cap the outer edges of the head timbers. I had to file some of the lower bow rail to get the caps to lie flat against the head timbers.

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First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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Hi Caroline,

 

Good fix on the head rails, you would never know there was a problem in the first place, well done. :)  :)

 

I am looking forward to seeing more progress, but no rush. ;)

 

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sometimes........yas jest has ta git tough!   it's inventive and it works.........looks nice!  ;)

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Thanks for looking in Mobbsie, Marktime and Popeye, part of the fun is solving problems and the sense of acheivement when they have been solved. :D

 

I have done a little more work on the bow, the starboard side headworks are completed and I've almost finished them on the port side. The unpainted bit at the stem is the filler bit behind the pegasus figurehead.

 

Finished headworks:

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Added the ochre coloured rubbing rail (?) in this area:

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Port side as she stands:

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Bow on view:

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First Completed Build: San Francisco (Original Version)

Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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I ordered a plinth for Pegasus to be displayed on, it is ash with a danish oil finish. I'm really pleased with it.

 

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I've also taken a few pics of the bow with the light on under the foc'sle:

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Current build: Victory Models HMS Pegasus

Cross Stitch Project (Finished): Battle Of Agamemnon and Ca Ira

Cross Stitch Project : Victory & Temeraire

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bow is looking very nice :) and in the dark with lights on looks really cool :)

 

Current builds : HMS Bounty, Constructo Pilar

Next build : undecided

On the Shelf : AL San Juan, Mamoli HMS Victory

Builds on hold : Ochre Gorch Fock, Hachette/Amati Black Pearl

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