Sovereign of The Seas by SawdustDave - FINISHED

[Piet]

Drastic measures Dave but once the smoke clears it'll be magnificent.  Working off ship will surely be a lot easier.  Looking forward to the art going on it.

 

Cheers,

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Dave

Been away from this site for a week or so and I'm gob smack with all the work that you have done and solved.

Well done memattieee!

Glad your hearing will be back to normal soon, but the down side you can hear what your admiral tells you!

Its look like you are redoing things again, you can handle it.

Havagooday

Greg

[SawdustDave]

Transom layout completed....

 

It took over 60 pieces of shaped and scraped trim moldings to do the panel layout for the transom.....not counting the outer edge trims, which will be sculpted figures of some sort.

 

Here, the finished layout is lightly tacked to the stern temporarily, in order to study and work out the fitting of all the edge trims.

 

 

I'll remove the module and begin creating the ten window units next. Then begin the beautiful lantern housing sitting atop the transom. All this will be done off ship.

 

The counter and rudder will necessarily be the last structures to be created only after the transom is finally fitted and trimmed out.

Edited March 12, 2016 by SawdustDave

[Omega1234]

 

Hi Dave

 

...the intricacies continue!!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[SawdustDave]

Transom update....

 

All of the major sculptings for the transom are now completed and fitted to the off ship module.

At this point, there remains about thirty more figures to complete before I will be fitting the module to the stern.

 

 

Needing a little break from sculpting, I think I will now begin working on the beautiful lantern housing that fits in the center of the cap rail. 

I've been really anxious to do that piece forever.

[GLakie]

I'd be forever and a day carving all that. Amazing stuff Dave!  Nice work! 

[SawdustDave]

I think I'm beginning to irritate the admiral a little.... calling into the house two or three times a day....

"Dear, would you mind heating up the oven again?" 

Edited March 20, 2016 by SawdustDave

[mtaylor]

Dave,

It sounds like what you need is one of those little tabletop/countertop convection type ovens.  When you're not drying the carvings, you can make yourself pizza.

[SawdustDave]

Dave,

It sounds like what you need is one of those little tabletop/countertop convection type ovens.  When you're not drying the carvings, you can make yourself pizza.

Great suggestion Mark.... Actually, I have one of those, and that's mostly what I use when I do the pre-heating.  The admiral likes her big kitchen stove oven and I do not argue with her on that issue.

[modelshipwright]

Great work on the carvings for the stern. It is really taking shape nicely.

 

Regards,

Bill

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Dave

Amazzzzzzzzing is all I can say. I think you are going so bloody fast on the decos, but it doesn't affect the final result.

Again simply fantastic.

Havagooday

Greg

[Piet]

Very nice work on the sculptures Dave.  The transom is looking very impressive.

 

Cheers,

[Omega1234]

Hi Dave

 

I'm lost for words. Darn fine work!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[SawdustDave]

Thanks again for the many visits, and especially for the supporting comments from the usual SOS crew members.... Goerge, Mark, Greg, Patrick, and Piet.
Also, it is a real treat to see Shipwright Bill Short drop in, since his scratch build of the SOS (still in progress) was my personal inspiration to undertake this project from the beginning. 

Great to see him back on the bench after a long break.
As far as I'm concerned, his incredible SOS is the standard by which any other SOS model must be measured by. 
Just hoping my effort might eventually earn at least a C+ in the eyes of fellow modelers on that standard.

 

Cheers all

[SawdustDave]

I received a question about the shape of the beak cross members..... it reminded me that I had not yet stained the underside of those beams. Anyhow, I might as well take a quick shot of the construction whilst she was flipped over on the bench.

 

Leaving the black poster board used to form the patterns for the planking seen from above. Since they are not visible, they will be left because it seemed a little risky to try to dig them out at this point.

Edited March 22, 2016 by SawdustDave

[Kevin]

I wish I had a fraction of your skills, those carvings look great

[SawdustDave]

Here's a little tip that may be helpful to anyone faced with trying to get a strong "butt-joint" of two really thin planks.

The lantern housing is an octagon shaped fixture with window units on each of the eight sides.  Each window frame must be very precise in height and width, and is constructed of planks less than 1/2cm thick.

 

The biggest problem is the butt-joints.  I simply glue a small paper tab to the end of each of the side rails.

 

 

Note:  The top and bottom planks have been carefully marked to insure exact spacing of the side pieces.  They will be cut into individual units after the side pieces have been carefully aligned and glued.

[modelshipwright]

Nice work Dave. What is the overall size of the window?

 

Bill

[SawdustDave]

Nice work Dave. What is the overall size of the window?

 

Bill

Currently, framed units measure 1/2" across by 3/4" tall.  This allows me to trim them back slightly in width and height in the assembly process.

Edited March 23, 2016 by SawdustDave

[SawdustDave]

Update - Transom lantern housing:

 

Seems like I've been working and re-working this little fixture for at least a month. Keeping a reasonable octagon shape and matching up the base with the windows and then the top was very frustrating.

 

Finally managed to tweek it enough to live with the results.... dry fitted as seen here.

 

 

My only concern is the overall height of the lantern housing, which is the result of my shaping the radius of the roof. My eye says it should be slightly flatter.

 

 

After looking at it for a few days, and before gluing the fixture in place, I'll decide whether to reshape it or not.

Meanwhile....any opinions and comments from the crew is welcome and appreciated, as always.

Edited March 26, 2016 by SawdustDave

[GLakie]

Looks great Dave!  Very nice! 

[riverboat]

Dave..... that is simply "AWESOME".........

 

Frank

[BLACK VIKING]

Brilliant simply brilliant

 

B V

[modelshipwright]

The lantern looks good Dave. Great job.

 

Bill

[mtaylor]

Just incredible, Dave.   I think it looks perfect.   

[SawdustDave]

Thanks guys....appreciate the nice comments.

However, after taking a good long afternoon nap, came back to the shop to re-study this most important piece.

Unless I change my mind after a nights sleep, I will likely begin version II of this fixture tomorrow morning.

What the hey!  Bill Short's postings has a quote I cannot argue with....

"Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

 

Thanks for the reminder Bill

[SawdustDave]

Lantern.... Version II

 

I took a much more deliberate approach to rebuilding the lantern housing.  Went to Autocad and created a template for the windows. 

 

 

Then made a jig to insure exact size and squareness of each unit and a pin jig to insure string spacing for the window screens.

 

 

The overall result of the second lantern is much closer to being acceptable in terms of scale and quality.

Here's a comparison to the two units....

 

 

And here's the new lantern dry fitted to the transom....

 

 

Took only three days for the second unit considering everything went pretty smoothly.

 

Now....Back to a few more transom carvings.

 

[BLACK VIKING]

Looking good Dave very nicely done

 

B V

[Omega1234]

Hi Dave

 

I swear that if were standing before you, I'd kneel down and give you my upmost respect. Ok, a bit 'over the top', but seriously, that's some outstanding work you've done. I'm in awe!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[modelshipwright]

Hey Dave,

 

The new lantern is looking great. It is more in proportion to the rest of the stern than the first one. Nice work.

 

Regards,

Bill