Day 31
A few details were worked on. I forgot my magnification headset back at the house again!
The bilge pump was made using parts from the kit. Heavy coat thread was used to simulate the iron parts of the pump. The iron handle is merely a piece of coat thread, soaked in CA glue.
The holes in the deck for the anchor chain needs some detail. So, some aluminum wire taken from the packaging of the chain below was wrapped around a drill bit and rings were made. These rings line the holes in the deck.
The two rings are painted black using a Sharpie marker.
The two rings are glued into the holes using CA glue. The tapered wooden pick shown above, was used to carefully insert the wire rings into the holes.
The edges of the hawsepipes in the bowel were simply colored with a sharpie pen to simulate iron.
This chain was purchased at a Michael’s craft store for use as the anchor chain.
The forestay was rigged using 2.5 mm blocks.
All these tiny details may look crude when view through the camera close up, but at this scale, they look pretty good from a distance of one photo grader.
Progress so far.
I got some single 2.5mm blocks from China on eBay but all they have in double sheave blocks are 3mm at the smallest. Are there any small Falkonet blocks left?
