HMB Endeavour by shipaholic - FINISHED - Eaglemoss - 1/51

[DaveRow]

Nice detail mate.

Nothing better to do over the Xmas break eh! .

Dave R

[shipaholic]

Haha thanks Dave, I've been off for two weeks and only got to the ship today.

[DaveRow]

I try to tinker every day or 2 to keep her moving along.

All the best for 2016

 

Dave R

[mikec]

Nice work with the ratlines. I thought about doing the eye splices too.

 

In New Zealand they have use the following catch phrase...

Yeah.....Nah.

 

i applied that. Too much hard work.

 

Yours will be awesome though once done and I commend you for taking on that task  :-)

[BANYAN]

More than a little impressed Steve; that is a major undertaking repeating that level of detail over 12 shroud sets!  I tried at scale 1:60 but just too fiddly for my 'fat' fingers and had enough issues with clove/restrictor hitch terminations.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[shipaholic]

Pat, Mike

 

Yeah Nah, thats exactly what I thought too Mike. I have no problem tying the clove hitches, over the years I have become quite adept at tying knots with tweezers. For the ratlines I am using linen thread I got from a sewing shop, its different and thicker than cotton and just the right diameter, it isnt fuzzy and forms nice neat "spliced eyes" by folding it over with a tiny drop of pva glue to hold the end and form an eye. I use the thinner cotton to tie the eye to the shroud and if trimmed close its really neat. I use a precision electronics wire cutter for trimming, brilliant. For all my rigging work and other small stuff I put a small amount of PVA glue into a small tray or stubby lid and use a piece of copper wire to apply a small drop of glue to the article. After a while you form a small mountain of dried glue, when I built my last ship I had a glue mountain about 20 mm high!!

 

Cheers

Steve

Edited January 4, 2016 by shipaholic

[BANYAN]

Steve, could you post a piccy of those cutters please.  I have a pair of electronics flush faced cutters, but they mangle the thread at the edge of the cut - perhaps the brand (quality) may be crucial?

 

Neat solution to the eye; I'll try that.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[shipaholic]

Thanks Paul

 

Pat, here is a pic of the cutters I use, they do a really clean cut and you can get in really close with them

 

Cheers

Steve

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Steve

Just wondering where can I get those cutters? They seem great

Havagooday

Greg

[shipaholic]

Greg

Yes the cutters are great, I got them from Jaycar Electronics, you can buy them onlne from Jaycar if you don't have one closeby

Steve

Edited January 7, 2016 by shipaholic

[BANYAN]

Thanks Steve

[shipaholic]

After my yeah/nah debate with myself a few weeks ago I have now decided nah.

 

I did quite a few ratlines with simulated splices and tying them to the fore and aft shrouds. The main problem was the linen thread I was using refused to stay tightly clove hitched around the shrouds, hence the whole thing looked untidy.

 

I switched to slightly thinner cotton thread and decided to just clove hitch on the fore and aft shrouds.

[BANYAN]

Still look very good Steve.

 

cheers

 

Pat 

[shipaholic]

Yes Pat I think they look better. I tried to trim the ends at the fore and aft shrouds as close as possible. The "stand-off" look is much better, sometimes us modellers get obsessed with detail and forget that if it looks good from a couple of feet away its fine.

 

Cheers

Steve

[kiwiron]

Good decision,and mine looks good from a couple of metres away not a couple of feet.Anyone at home that sees it just think it's a stupid hobby,at least I like it and am only building it for me to be proud of.

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Steve

Thanks for the info. I've got a Jaycar store about 5 minutes drive from my home.

Havagooday

Greg

[shipaholic]

The fitting of ratlines continues....................

 

 

[DaveRow]

Steve,

OMG, I have this to look forward too !!

Great effort, looking really good.

I'll certainly have to come back to your log when I start the rigging.

 

 

Dave R

[Nirvana]

Steve, very nice "rats" you have there. ​

[mikec]

Looking very good. I agree with everyone else. I reckon you made the right decision re splicing the the ends.

I too am guilty of obsessing over detail, sometimes too much.

[BANYAN]

Keep on rattlin mate; you'll get there   Love the effect you have created on the lines (close-ups) which reallygive the effect of grease heavy (tarred) lines.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[shipaholic]

Hi All

 

I have spent the last couple of days making the topmasts

[Captain Slog]

Hi Steve,

 

Really coming along.  Ratlines, shrouds, rigging in general is looking superb.

 

Cheers

Slog

[shipaholic]

Thanks Slog

[BANYAN]

Very nice and precise work  Steve.  Did you mill or hand cut the sheave holes?

 

cheers

 

Pat

[DaveRow]

Thanks Paul

 

Pat, here is a pic of the cutters I use, they do a really clean cut and you can get in really close with them

 

Cheers

Steve

Steve and others.

I bought a pair from Jaycar - they are great.

Thanks for sharing.

Dave R

[DaveRow]

Steve,

The rigging is coming along really good.

 

Dave R

[shipaholic]

Very nice and precise work  Steve.  Did you mill or hand cut the sheave holes?

 

cheers

 

Pat

Thanks Pat, I don't have a mill. I just used my Dremel, I have a stand for it so it can be used like a drill press. They aren't real sheaves either, just simulated.

[shipaholic]

I've been making the fore topmast trestle tree, this is just put together and not glued yet. Still need some adjustment to the slots so the top surfaces are flush. This wood supplied with the kit is fairly soft and easy to sand, but very open and grainy.

Edited January 9, 2021 by shipaholic
More pics added

[shipaholic]

Another pic. I decided to make the lower section of the topmast eight sided. I am not sure what is correct, the AOTS has them round, the replica vessel has them like this, Lees states that they were eight sided after about 1773 based on ship models.