Montanes by Sir Charles Edward - OcCre - Scale 1:70

[trippwj]

Glad to see you back online!

 

The pictures post in somewhat of an arbitrary manner if you just upload them. What you can do is, after uploading said pictures, place your cursor where you want the photo to appear in the text and then click add to post next to the picture you want.

 

Hope that made sense, but probably not.

[Sir Charles Edward]

Wayne, Thank you for letting me know.  I guess either I was clicking on the "add to post" button automatically and for some reason didn't do that last night. 

 

Thanks again.

[Sir Charles Edward]

To continue with the bow detail.....I affixed the upper head rail and the completed doors to the forward bulkhead.  I also cut out the bowsprit grates and dry fitted them to the bow.  I discovered that there really was nothing to attach the grates to along the hull, so I determined to place a couple of small 2 x 2 mm boards just under the grates cemented to both the hull and the largest head rail support.  The first picture shows where I needed the support, the red circles, and the arrows indicate UNDER the grates.

 

Those Sampson posts that I made by "slicing" a shaped piece of wood, were then placed and painted all along the foredeck.

 

The outer amidships railings were attached also and finally the foredeck railing that was incomplete a few posts ago.

 

The final picture for this update is the starboard view of the Montanes at this time of construction.

 

 

 

[Sir Charles Edward]

This update is to show the results of using that "Liquid Windows" stuff to glaze windows.  I wanted to see if the stuff was still okay after being stored for almost four years and to see how it looks.  I found that I liked the effect and you can actually paint it after the glaze has dried.  I was thinking about glazing the three lantern brass details, then painting them red instead of following the instructions and using a simple red colored paper affixed to the interior of the brass windows for those three stern lanterns.

 

The first picture shows the result, it had not fully set when I took this photo.  It looks much better now, and the glazing does not leave much trace so I could actually get away with using the glaze on the front side of the windows versus the back side.

 

The last photo shows the effect of a light directly behind the glaze, it does look pretty neat.

 

 

[Sir Charles Edward]

To continue with the bow detail.  Installed the lower head rail and the anchor davits and you can see the finished doors in the photos.  Added the bowsprit grates.

 

The main stern piece with all windows glazes both front and back views, plus a close up.

 

 

 

 

 

[Sir Charles Edward]

An update showing the brass wire decoration affixed to the prow, painted gold.  The figurehead is not yet cemented, I just dry fitted it to align the lower brass wire decoration.

 

After this I attached the main stern gallery.  The photo shows that I painted over the middle glazed window because there were two obvious stern supports showing through there and I want more realism.  I realized that I maybe should have painted all of the windows black, as there is really nothing to see behind this piece except wood supports.

 

I next installed the port and starboard stern gallery supports which will be used to install the brass window highlights and some metal railings.  I plan to glaze all of these and paint them black on the inside since there is no detail behind them.

 

I dry fitted the lower metal stern gallery pieces that will adorn the port and starboard gallery and saw that I needed to grind, sand the main wale in order to better fit the pieces.  The photos show the already removed / grinded / sanded wale on the starboard side and the next photo shows the wale where I will have to grind / sand / remove it.

 

The last series of photos show the quarter deck stern lockers, I believe that these are not yet cemented to the deck.

 

 

 

[Sir Charles Edward]

Next update shows the installed ships boat supports, note the brass tie downs that will be used to secure the boat to its stand at a later date.