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Old 05-23-2015, 05:25 PM
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Shipyard's Endeavor

Been a while since I posted... so this one starts in the middle

After building the hull I decided I would have to start adding stuff at the bow and work back.
I have some walnut I decided to use for masts and spars
For "rope" i have cords I've made by twisting copper wire of different sizes, I have a few thin ones left over.
So I used those to make some coils for the forward bit's belaying pins.
I used a cardboard jig to wrap them, then bent them over and painted them
Then I bent them til they sat ok on the pins. Then I added a little dab of glue .
I'm doing it this way because I decided at 1/96 there was going to be no way to do the coils round the pins when I'm
actually putting in the running rigging.

I'll go back and post some pictures of building the hull later.
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Old 05-23-2015, 07:05 PM
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Very good work on the ropes. I look forward to future reports. Excellent work so far.
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Old 05-23-2015, 09:29 PM
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more work

more work on the bow,
the riding bits, with bamboo belaying pins
instead of drilling all the way thru I made the pins in 2 parts and glued top and bottom for each pin separately
on my finger is one of the timberheads, cut from walnut, i leave a little tab at the bottom to glue into the rail for strength, as they will
receive a lot of the riggin
then a couple of curved booms that i carved out of walnut.. this was as much curve as I could get out of my widest stock
last one of the timber heads glued in place
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Old 05-23-2015, 09:36 PM
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tonights work

a few more details
rings from copper wire
details mostly carved from walnut
the planking pattern on the hull
mistake to finish it white...
the Endeavor's bottom had "brown stuff"
punching the holes for the timber heads in the railing
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Old 05-23-2015, 09:44 PM
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hull work

some pictures of working on the hull,
the bottom of the hull was double planked to protect against boring worms,
so it ends up more or less level with the gunwale
mounting the curved hull under the transom
i cut out all the hatches and will mount them open to give a sense of "depth"
you can see the untrimmed "planks" on the bottom
i measured the hull off in equal sections them cut the planks to fit..
it did not work perfectly
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Old 05-25-2015, 08:49 AM
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Railings

Not being a warship, she does not have such massive sides.
The posts are bamboo, the rails heavy card
I ended up having to redo a couple of the posts when they came out to short, which I saw when I laid the rails on them.
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Old 05-25-2015, 08:52 AM
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the way back machine

looking back at the start
trying out a color for the decks
you always need to do something to maintain the shape between the formers
here i tried using some bakeable clay
this model has several internal decks
although you cannot see them when it is finished
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Old 05-25-2015, 08:56 AM
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more on the hull

more work on the hull
covering the hull
as it turned out, i should have used thicker stock for these pieces
for the bow pieces i had to cut some of them down so they would fit the curves
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Old 05-25-2015, 09:03 AM
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more on the hull

working on the hull
the internal hatches... not really trying for a lot of detail on these decks, as they will only be partially visible
on some of the pieces i had to add card spacers to give me something to glue the hull coverings to
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Old 05-25-2015, 09:10 AM
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Looks like a challenging project. Looks good so far.

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