HMB Endeavour by shipaholic - Eaglemoss - 1/51

[RGL]

Neither should it be, looking great.

[DaveRow]

Hi Steve,

Those anchors look very authentic.

Love the way you come up with ways to use ordinary things and modify/bash them into something else.

 

Watching you build man, love the work !  

[mikec]

Fantastic work. The anchors look very very realistic.

[shipaholic]

I've been doing a few small bits and pieces. Finally got around to putting the hinges on the hatches on the quarterdeck bulkhead

[shipaholic]

I also made the mast coat for the fore mast, sort of, I used the wood ring supplied, sanded it to an angle, roughly to simulate canvas and painted it black. Enough detail even at 1:51

[shipaholic]

Interesting pic taken from the same angle, everything lines up pretty well. The aft seems to go up higher in Parkinson's sketch but thats just to do with camera lenses versus eyes. Those damn "boomkins" in the sketch are a worry, I still reckon they are not long enough to be boomkins so what are they? Biggest debate in maritime history :-)

Edited October 30, 2014 by shipaholic

[shipaholic]

I'm a little bit erratic with my build. I did the gun tackles on one of the guns quite a while ago then moved on to something else. Today I thought I should finish them all off and get that job out of the way, fiddly work though because the blocks are so small. Well I got one more gun done. Gee the camera shows up flaws that you just cant see with the naked eye, like dust and white stains from the CA glue

 

[shipaholic]

I looked through my log and found that many of the photos in earlier posts weren't appearing, so I went in and uploaded them again. Here's a couple more new ones just for good measure :-)

[shipaholic]

Today I have been making the shutters for the side windows

[Captain Slog]

Hi Steve,

 

Your window deadlights look very good.  What colour did you paint the outsides of them?

 

Cheers

Slog

[shipaholic]

Thanks Slog

I painted the outside face of the shutters yellow ochre to match the badges if they are shut

Steve

Edited November 15, 2014 by shipaholic

[RGL]

Nice work.

[shipaholic]

Still on working the window deadlights, doing the other side window today. I made sure the deadlights were the right size and shape by fitting them in place. I made the false hinges with brass wire, flattened so it could be glued on the door.

[DaveRow]

Hi Steve,

There looking good those windows - nice fit !.

I often wonder how much effort one would put into deadlights and hatches. Whether to have them actually opening or not. ?

How to make the hinges even ?

 

Guess my turn will come soon enough when I get to do them.

 

Dave R.

[mikec]

Great work,

 

I reckon that sketch of Parkinsons is the most compelling evidence of bumpkins. 

[shipaholic]

Thanks Dave, the window dead lights are static, they don't close. I did make a couple of the other dead lights so that they open and close (pic below).

Hi Mike, yes they do look like bumpkins don't they, and it is that sketch that convinced Karl Marquardt. To me they don't look long enough to provide a benefit over the cathead as far as spread for the fore tack. And I'm still of the opinion that they would interfere with working the anchors. Anyway we could all argue till we are blue in the face but we still won't know. As a matter of interest you should take a pic from the same angle as Parkinson's sketch, like I did, and see if the bumpkins according to Marquardt look the same.
Cheers Steve

Edited November 17, 2014 by shipaholic

[shipaholic]

I was talking about opening ports, Kiwiron was asking about angles of chains. Here's a pic of both

[Captain Slog]

Hi Steve,

 

Having the ports open really adds dimension to the build, nice touch.

 

Slog

[shipaholic]

Managed to spend a bit of time on the ship today. Fitted the blocks for the buntlines under the main top.

Ready to start on the foremast shrouds but first I had to make the mast tackle which goes over the mast head first. The serving looks a little rough over the splicing but it will be okay once I paint it black. I am not using black cotton for serving because I think it is "too black". Using hemp colour for serving then painting with dilute black paint gives a more realistic look of tarred rope I reckon.

[mikec]

Looks real. I will be following your work as a guide for me. I am just about to start the formast top

[DaveRow]

Looking good Steve.

I keep in touch with your log - pick up on the details for when I get there.

Currently Tree Nailing the hull.

Dave R.

[shipaholic]

Today I made the other mast tackle, getting better at doing the splices, this one looks a bit neater.

[mikec]

Hi, is the mainmast and mizzen mast racked back? I am about to work on this and i think the kit has them at 90 degrees. thanks Mike

[shipaholic]

Hi Mike

 

On the 1768 draughts the angle of the masts are shown as follows

 

Fore mast 90 degrees to deck

Main mast 87 degrees to deck

Mizzen mast 83 degrees to deck

 

The forecastle deck is basically level, but the quarterdeck curves upwards towards the stern. The absolute rake of the main mast is 88 deg and the mizzen 87deg.

 

Obviously is easier to measure the angle compared to the deck on a model

 

Cheers

Steve

[mikec]

Thanks for your help.

[shipaholic]

I was fitting the other mast base rings (or simulated boots) and the main mast one supplied with the kit was a bit thin and broke when I sanded it. I had to find something to replace it, I couldn't make one out of wood because I don't have the tools so I hunted around in my stuff and found some old metal grommets, I filed out the centre and it was pretty clost to size I needed, looks pretty similar to the foremast one.

[shipaholic]

Rigged another cannon today, I used Caldercraft hooks for this one, they look pretty good.

[shipaholic]

Three down three to go, I keep putting off the gun rigging because it's such small fiddly work, but isn't it all fiddly work?

Edited December 21, 2014 by shipaholic

[shipaholic]

All ready to start fitting the shrouds

[shipaholic]

I'm currently doing the foremast shrouds. The foremost shroud is served all the way to the end and all the others are served one-fourth the way from the centre. I'm using Syren rope for the shrouds, its cable-laid and its nice and fuzz free. I put a round siezing on using some of the thread supplied with the partwork, not that happy with it - very fuzzy finish.

Edited December 28, 2014 by shipaholic