Cleopatra Shipyard 1/96 - Page 4

**Don Boose** · #31 02-13-2009, 08:33 AM

Cleo looks like a museum wooden ship model, Glen. Beautiful job. Lot's of innovative techniques!

Don

**birder** · #32 02-13-2009, 05:47 PM

Thank you Don! I do hope this model will fit in with the wood built variety. Shipyard makes the hull so well, so the rest is not all that different from a wood model build.

**birder** · #33 02-28-2009, 10:15 AM

working on preparing various things for the shrouds, here's the main mast with "wood" hoops and rope wooldings. Prior to adding them made cheeks from the hounds partway down and a front fish. No iron bands as Lees suggested these did not arrive until 1800. (love the old terms)
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...v/IMG_2350.jpg

**birder** · #34 03-02-2009, 10:27 AM

Status, working on getting the masts ready for rigging, although quite a bit of work to do yet, presently have prepared the foremast, not either masthead though, and now progressing to the bowsprit and jibboom
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...v/IMG_2351.jpg
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/e...v/IMG_2352.jpg

**willygoat** · #35 03-02-2009, 12:46 PM

Very nice Glen! I love the little bitty details. Cant wait to see that thing loaded with sails and rigging.

**birder** · #36 03-02-2009, 03:05 PM

Thanks Willy! It is a fun project for me, hoping to get the details right, mostly a sratch-build at this point. (no reference to the watching feline):D

**member_3** · #37 03-02-2009, 03:26 PM

Cat, ahoy! 3 points off the starboard beam! Run out all starboard guns and fire at Will (or whatever the cat's name is!) That is a might lovely vessel you have there. I was always a little disappointed that Shipyard did not have photos of their models in the book, but rather showed various dockyard style museum pieces. It's nice to know that the same level of detail can actually be achieved in paper (and some other stuff). I do believe that the beastie in the background has nefarious plans in mind, so be on your guard!

**birder** · #38 03-02-2009, 03:42 PM

Aye-Aye Captain, fire when they bear! (The rudder is unshipped though so we're a bit helpless at present.) Thank-you Ron, I'm studying Lee's book, wishing for more illustrations, but hope to fill the gaps with correct detail. Part of current project is construction of a case to protect (display?) the ship as more lines begin to dangle intruigingly.

**Yu Gyokubun** · #39 03-03-2009, 08:35 AM

With beautiful mast ready, should I refer to page 270 of the Historic Ship Models?

**birder** · #40 03-03-2009, 10:27 AM

Right Yu! Well, I'm not really using Mondfeld presently. but Lee's, as need more exact info regarding dates when particular changes made to the rigging. Many new changes incorporated in 1773 and Cleo is just after that date! The illustration of the mast with the fish and cheeks in Mondfeld is helpful. The masts themselves, at least the larger ones, were made up of a group of interlocking square poles that were clasped together by the bands round about them. Some of the smaller masts, on smaller vessels, were single wood poles shaped to dimension, the mizzen and bowsprit in
Cleo's case.(at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it)