Buccaneer by Occre - First build ever

Craig C said:
Goos morning Toni,

I'm impressed with your build. I especially like the rigging! Congrats on you efforts. I'm working on the rigging of my Santa Maria and hope that mine comes out as well as yours.
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Thanks, Craig. I appreciate that. A close-up look at the rigging isn't very impressive, I'm afraid. I followed the instructions to a 'T' and still ended up with many ropes crossing where I don't believe they should be. Most likely all my mistakes. Ah, well, good experience.

I just jumped over to your build log on your Santa Maria and, wow, beautiful work. Following you now.
 
Toni_S said:
Hello, again, to all of you good people. I hope everything is going well with everyone.

And I do mean *very* good people for not calling me out about attaching my tiller on backwards (see my previous photo exhibiting this in all of it's glory)! I really honestly know nothing about ships but am learning so much as I work my way through this build. Had the tiller not crumbled off my ship from manhandling during construction I probably wouldn't have figured it out for who-knows-how-long. But I did finally figure it out, fixed the problem, and all's well that ends well.

Anyway, moving on. I finally got all of the trim onto the ship and also added frames around the gun ports. I had a hard time cutting the port hole openings so some of them were really messed up and the only way to hide that was to add the frames. They aren't in scale but for this build I'm okay with that.

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Then onto the decorations. Instead of following Occre's instructions and gluing the supplied paper pattern directly onto the ship, I used very thin cherry veneer that I cut with a Chopper II tool so that the pieces all came out the same. I did have to custom fit here and there once I glued them onto the ship but I think they came out pretty good overall.

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Next was "antiquing" the upper part of the ship with Judea de Bitumen. I didn't know what this stuff was...and kind of still don't...but I love it. It adds a slight tint to the 2nd planking that darkens it just slightly. Interesting how it works. Here's a thread about it if you're curious: https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/judea-de-bitumen-is-anyone-familiar-with-this-wash.13644/

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On to the belaying pins and rack, stairs (ugh, that was hard!), deck racks, cannons, etc..

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Glued them all in place:

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And then started working on the chainplates:

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That's it for now. I've been working on the masts and yards for a couple of days but haven't gotten very far yet. Lots of staining and sealing so lots of down time waiting for them to dry between coats.

I'm really loving this build but, wow, I had no idea the amount of work that goes into it. When I browse thru pics of all of your ships my eyes are wide open now and I am in complete awe of you all.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me!
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Hey there… long time (for me) between comments. With luck I should be doing my grates tomorrow
 
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