HMAV BOUNTY - A “face lift “

[GrantTyler]

Yeah, we all need to be more carefully wen getting older. Just picking up a coin from the floor could be desastreus. So jumping over a gap with a bike...... ouch.

Good afternoon Stephan. True story. I’m at that cross over period where my mind out performs my body..

Hi Grant. Sorry to here about your MTB injury and hopefully there can cover you up in September. After that: Choose your moments as an experienced expert against the unruly boys. Just what you quoted about your approach for the Bounty:

Till now your cratch skills have produced beautiful results on the model. The fife rail looks very nice.
Regards, Peter

Good afternoon Peter. Thanks for the compliment. One would think that after riding off road for years, I would have learnt my lessons by now- clearly I’m a slow learner

Hi Grant, sorry to learn about your injury.
We will have to accept some limitations due to our age. A couple of years ago I wanted to get back in a better shape again and started too fanatically with rope jumping out of nothing and tore my calf muscle. Should have built it up slowly of course and enjoyed a long warming up more appropriate with the age limitation. I threw away all jumping ropes we had; nowadays I restrict myself to bicycling (not MTB) and condition training on a rowing machine in combination with some weights to prevent some breakdown of muscle mass due to age.
You do have more time for the Bounty now.

Good afternoon Herman. Those milliseconds of brain freeze which gives us months of pain and rehab. True story I will have some more shipbuilding time

I think you need to revise that, you are doing a fantastic job.
That knee injury sounds crappy but maybe more scratch time - the build not the knee .

Thank you kindly Roger, much appreciated . I will certainly have more time to play in the shipyard a sort of silver lining.

Bummer about the injury. As a knee surgery veteran myself (4x) I have learned the recovery is much slower the older we get. Be patient and do the PT!

Oh, and very nice modeling...the fife rail is brilliantly executed (if not a bit inventive)!

Good afternoon Paul. Wow, this is my first so I’m playing some catch up here…..hopefully I don’t ever catch up. Thanks for the compliment.

Too old to jump on a bike without a lot of protection material. The age of our bodies no longer matches the age of our brains.
Hope surgery will solve the issues, until then, take care.

Good afternoon Johan. True story, although it was just some bad luck as well. We have had some heavy rains and when I landed my front wheel hit a rain rut and it was all over. Thank you for your post.

Sounds like a massive redo to me…

Love this
Cheers Grant

 

[GrantTyler]

Good afternoon
Ships wheel and fife rails for the Mizzen rigging. I reused the wheel. I could design and print one, but the old one looks good- a little small from a scale point however good enough for this face lift.

Cannon rigging a WIP:

 

[rtibbs]

Grant,
I need your address. I have several unfinished models to send you.

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Grant,
I need your address. I have several unfinished models to send you.

Boy we all have a few to send Grant, it will make him a full time ship builder.

 

[Gravman]

Nice and neat! Excellent work.

 

[GrantTyler]

Grant,
I need your address. I have several unfinished models to send you.

Boy we all have a few to send Grant, it will make him a full time ship builder.

Good morning Ron and Kurt. “Grants restoration shipyard open for business “. The delivery costs from US to Melkbosstrand just “closed “ it.
Thank you gentlemen for checking out my Bounty project. I do appreciate it.
Cheers Grant

 

[GrantTyler]

Nice and neat! Excellent work.

Thank you kindly

 

[Chestcutter]

Good afternoon
Ships wheel and fife rails for the Mizzen rigging. I reused the wheel. I could design and print one, but the old one looks good- a little small from a scale point however good enough for this face lift.
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Cannon rigging a WIP:
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Magnificent work Grant. Your detail is yummy.
What scale is this build?
Please keep the updates flowing.
Michael

 

[GrantTyler]

Magnificent work Grant. Your detail is yummy.
What scale is this build?
Please keep the updates flowing.
Michael

Good morning Michael. Thank you very much. The original was a vintage Billings kit- from the 1980’s - a 1:50 scale. What surprised me is how small the Bounty is. At a 1:50 scale she is smaller than my Xebec at a 1:60 scale and Victory at 1:78. Cheers Grant

 

[GrantTyler]

Good morning
I always love seeing pics of the whole ships and I am my own worst deviant :
Some pics of the whole ship. There is WIP all over (for those who know ricochet rabbit).

Cheers Grant

 

[ConsNZ]

Good morning. Another cold rainy weekend, no kids and the admiral was setting up for her charity sale so I had a few days of shipyard time- fun.

HMS “Laminate” continues.
Windlass : This is significantly smaller than the original. My scale measurements are calculated from my downloaded plans.
The large knees cut and shaped from my walnut laminate. I perfectly tapered a dowel and planked with perfectly tapered 3.2mm to 2.56mm veneer. I used a square 1x1 mm nail to create perfect square holes with the walnut veneer perfectly holding its shape etc etc….you get the picture…
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Close ups:
Nails, ratchet, bell brackets. The bell is slightly big (was a mission to clean off all the varnish, CA glue etc to blacken)
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The fore bits and bowsprit bracket. Again laminated wood with some sheaves in. (Also a mission to clean up the belay pins and blacken- did not get these perfect)
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Ratchet and my perfect square holes..
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My scratch building is certainly a rookie, however I am having plenty fun with this face life.
Cheers Grant
PS spend still 0.00.

Wonderful work Grant. One question, How did you make the square holes?

 

[ConsNZ]

Good morning
2024 the year of injury….just when my back is sorted I blow my knee on my mountain bike hitting a gap jump I always make. (Not this time ) - hmmmm- I can’t stay with the youngsters anymore- I need to accept that. Surgery in September so I guess I will have more time to play on my Bounty face lift.

Main mast fife rail. I deviated from my downloaded plans as I liked the way Billings (the original ship) presented this. I promise my next ship will be built as an accurate replica….well I will really try to curtail my inner beast and give it a go
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The blocks for the wheel/tiller mechanism were added. I cleaned up ring blots from the original kit which for some reason we’re on the fife rail.
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Bent more left over brass for the rings
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And added some 4mm blocks:
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Cheers Grant
PS. I have a tiny bit of solid walnut left for some bits so I think I will make it for the deck furniture. Cash spend 0.00. Take that Justin .

She'll be right on the knee injury Grant. I had bilateral knee replacements and cycled a 200km 2,600 climbing metre event seven months post surgery. Take care and relax. cheers.

 

[Steef66]

She is going to be a beauty.

 

[Bill-R]

Hello Grant,

I went back to the first posts to remember what she looked like before you started the restoration. You are doing a fantastic job with the restoration. She looks beautiful.

Bill

 

[GrantTyler]

Wonderful work Grant. One question, How did you make the square holes?

She'll be right on the knee injury Grant. I had bilateral knee replacements and cycled a 200km 2,600 climbing metre event seven months post surgery. Take care and relax. cheers.

Good afternoon. Thank you. I used a square steel nail. It works reasonably well Howe with the Walnut veneer it does not hold its shape as well as with harder solid wood.
That is the news I like to here- getting back on the bike months after the surgery

She is going to be a beauty.

Thank you Stephan. She is turning out better than I expected when I started this project.

Hello Grant,

I went back to the first posts to remember what she looked like before you started the restoration. You are doing a fantastic job with the restoration. She looks beautiful.

Bill

Good evening Bill. Thank you very much. Your compliment is much appreciated.
Cheers Grant

 

[Ptèr]

Hello Grant,

I went back to the first posts to remember what she looked like before you started the restoration. You are doing a fantastic job with the restoration. She looks beautiful.

Bill

I think it's all photoshop.......

 

[Ptèr]

She is going to be a beauty.

Ditto!

 

[RDN1954]

It's becoming easier to see it's a Grant special; quite some (visual) similarities to the Xebec.

 

[Peter Voogt]

Good morning
I always love seeing pics of the whole ships and I am my own worst deviant :
Some pics of the whole ship. There is WIP all over (for those who know ricochet rabbit).
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Cheers Grant

She is looking beter and better every day, Grant. You are doing a very nice job.
Regards Peter

 

[GrantTyler]

I think it's all photoshop.......

Good afternoon Peter. Thanks……I think

Ditto!

Thanks

It's becoming easier to see it's a Grant special; quite some (visual) similarities to the Xebec.

Thanks Johan. I think each of us a build style and this carries through. Unless of course you are those highly skilled chaps….no names mentioned- Peter and Paul come to mind tho like the rhyme - then it’s just perfection.

She is looking beter and better every day, Grant. You are doing a very nice job.
Regards Peter

Thanks Peter. Been the most fun journey so far.
Cheers Grant