Don's Battle Station

[Jimsky]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a quoin?

Here you go Victator

 

[Vfordyce]

Wow. Everything has a name. I guess it saves time if you’re barking orders to the crew. It probably wouldn’t do to say”Grab the thingy!”

 

[DocBlake]

Here you go Victator

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It's worth mentioning that the the little round "thingy" off the breech of the barrel is more commonly called a "cascabel" rather than a "button" !

BTW: I like your new avatar, Jim!

 

[Jimsky]

BTW: I like your new avatar, Jim!

Thanks Dave!! It is a month of the 'Wish You Were Here' Every week I will have a new avatar from this album. The next month my avatar will be from one of my favorites albums (but short) Animals.

 

[mrshanks]

Every week I will have a new avatar from this album.

But Dave... I am going to stay on the "Dark Side of the Moon" for a while... for obvious reasons.... HA!!!

 

[DonRobinson]

Hello everyone, one more quick update for the day and I promise that"s it.

I decided to put a handrail around the one hatch on the upper deck so I needed to make some columns the following is a quick show as to how I do it.
I milled some lumber down to 4.5 x 4.5 mm, marked off where the rounding off would start and end.


Using the cutting tool on the lathe I rounded off in between the lines. I should mention that the end that is in the chuck has been rounded off using a 1" belt sander as you cannot put square objects into a three jaw chuck.


Once rounded off I used my Perma Grit files to do the tapering. These files maybe a little expensive but they are worth it as they do a wonderful job(the handle is hand made and does not come with the files)


The round end I was talking about is then cut off. From here it goes inside and is sanded to it's final length using the Byrnes disc sander. The table saw is a Proxxon, I bought this before I heard about the Byrnes line of tools . LOL


and here is the final product




Stairs were installed

And with that we will call this complete!!

Thanks so much for following along and I hope to see you on my next journey

Take Care

 

[mrshanks]

WOW

 

[DocBlake]

Outstanding, Don. I love the railing around the stairs. Great job!

 

[DocBlake]

That was a helluva kit! Too bad we couldn’t offer it as one!

 

[DonRobinson]

Thanks Dave and Mike. It was a fun project and would not have been possible without the two of you. Thanks so much for including me in this

 

[mrshanks]

I was just gonna put a simple rope hand rail around my stairs... you guys with your “hop ups”... LOL... Awesome job. I guess this means I need to finish my build.. Ok, right after my Patrick Henry is done..

 

[mrshanks]

Wait a minute! Where is the gunport wreath???

 

[mrshanks]

@DocBlake you noticed he made his stairs narrower? All kinds of little tricks in there!

 

[DocBlake]

No wreath??!!

 

[Norway]

Question, what would it have looked like if the last cannon had been in the rear position, as it looks when it is charged, I have not seen it before, it would have been exciting to see what it looks like, most often the cannons are displayed in attack position, greeting -

 

[mrshanks]

if the last cannon had been in the rear position, as it looks when it is charged,

Knut, that is a GREAT idea and I may just have to do that to make my model different from the other two!!!!

 

[Charles QC]

Master work

 

[Norway]

I thought it might be interesting because I would like to do this with my Blandford when I get there.