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Constitution Cross Section MS20245 Model Expo

next up were the boarding pikes that attached to the mast. The instructions would have had you attach the 2 wood pieces to the mast before this, However they are 1.32 inches thin and I knew if I attached them they would certainly be destroyed by my handing. I decided to take a page from Tom Culbs building log and make them off the model. I annealed the supplied 1/32" brass wire and cut it into 12, 1 1/4 lengths. I sharpened one end with my nail drill holding the wire in a pin-vise to make it look more realistic.

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Using the temporary mast used in the beginning, I wrapped a piece of tape sticky side out around it and put a piece of scrap wood to place the edges of the pike holders on.

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The 2 pike holders were painted white then attached to the sticky tape. The Pikes were treated through the top pike holder and secured to the bottom was a drop of CA. After that dried another drop was placed on the top to secure it to the top pike holder.

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After all the pikes were secured I painted the body of them with some leather brown enamel.

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The pikes and racks were carefully detached from the jig. I believe making them off the ship like this is much easier and neater than building them in a crowded environment. Looking at the building plans and the instructions the racks were placed just above the first set of rings and glued with CA. The exterior edges of the pike supports were then painted white using the tiny brush on the dental applicators I have mentioned previously.

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Next the ships bell and its support frame were cleaned up. I trimmed the small amount of flash with an exacto blade, scraping the seams clean. I next polished the bell and really did away with any seams by using an abrasive block used for nail polishing. The difficult part in doing this was holding the bell. After several tries I found that a medium sized tweezers worked best.

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The bell and its holder looked much better after polishing them.
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Kurt Konrath said:
The bell looks great, but was this a brass bell in real life, maybe if so give a coat of brass paint.
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Here is a picture I found of the current bell

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From my reading the original was made of brass by Paul Revere. I do have Brass paint and I may paint it that color. What are other peoples opinions?

Just a note. I will be on vacation for the next few weeks, so if you see even less than my usual activity, you know why.


Rob
 
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