Hms Alert by Maarten [COMPLETED BUILD]

Hola maarten, buen trabajo, sobre todo porque te lo fábricas tú, el carbón es muy realista, y los barriles muy buena idea, lo recordaré para mi, un saludo

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Hello Maarten, good job, especially since you make it yourself, the coal is very realistic, and the barrels are a very good idea, I will remember it for myself, greetings
 
The eyelets and rings are looking very good and are absolutely in correct scale - often the rings are too big, but your are fitting very well.
Did you blacken them or they are still metalic iron "steel" touch - which material is the original wire?
 
Maarten said:
Hi Uwe,

Welcome back in the EU.
Thx for your comments, the iron works I didn t blacken as it is already anealed steel wire giving a nice metallic sheen.
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Hello, Mon Amie. In regards to annealed steel wire, I might have already asked you in the past, do you protect the wire with a varnish? Being this steel, will it be rusted over time, how it will behave with the humidity and other climate circumstances?
 
Jimsky said:
Hello, Mon Amie. In regards to annealed steel wire, I might have already asked you in the past, do you protect the wire with a varnish? Being this steel, will it be rusted over time, how it will behave with the humidity and other climate circumstances?
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I still apply a layer of shellack over the hatches, so the rings will be covered with some lacquer.
Being the model inside in an North Western EU climate I don t bother to much about rust.
 
Thx again for comments and likes.
The lower deck is now finished.
I added the scuttles for the coal storage and fore peak.
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The small openings are for the anchor bit beams and need fine tuning after I build the anchor bit.
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For the most foreward planks I have added small beams to carry the outer edges of the planks around the scuttles.
On the deck beams I have added treeails and around the scuttles and small beams iron nails simulation.
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And the final result after a coat of shellack.
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Dear Maarten. The way you are going about building this kit is just magnificent. There are so many dimensions, facets and detail to take in all at once, that it amounts to a sensory overload. Chapeau my vriend! Thumbsup First Place Metal
 
Time to switch to the outside.
Starting with adding nails in the keel, stem and stern joints.
These nails I make from 0,7 mm anealed wire via the "Russian" knive rolling technique.
Rolling the wire under a knive on a soft cutting mat will create a bolt head on the wire, cut of the other end and you have your own nail.
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The bolts on the keel are on the side.
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On SB I put them before the joined and on PS behind the joined to simulate the vertical scarph joint of the keel.

On the stem there are also 6 bolts on the side which I made similar on both sides as the model has a simplified construction of this connection.
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Now the bolts on the stem are added.
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Finally the white metal parts horse shoe plate and the fish plate are cleaned, shaped and burnished. Glued with CA and nailed.
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The following project is the rudder.
I prepare all the outside work to finalize the hull for its final stand which will be a project at its own.
 
On to the rudder.
The kit rudder contains three parts, the fwd and aft part and the heel. Some filing, scraping and sanding needed to get a proper fit.
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Here I glued the fwd and aft part with black pva.
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Then sanding the residue of the glue and sand the fwd side in 40 deg. angle. The heel is also added.
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I decided to reduce the thickness of the rudder to the rear and to the bottom as is normal for a rudder. And fitted it with the proper nails.20211104_211637.jpg
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The rudder woodwork is finished, next are the hinges. As I reduced the thickness of the rudder I have to do the same with the white metall hinges, this to properly fit them into the cnc milled slots.
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All the hinges burnished and fitted.
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On its proper place.
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Maarten said:
On to the rudder.
The kit rudder contains three parts, the fwd and aft part and the heel. Some filing, scraping and sanding needed to get a proper fit.
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Here I glued the fwd and aft part with black pva.
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Then sanding the residue of the glue and sand the fwd side in 40 deg. angle. The heel is also added.
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I decided to reduce the thickness of the rudder to the rear and to the bottom as is normal for a rudder. And fitted it with the proper nails.View attachment 268144
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The rudder woodwork is finished, next are the hinges. As I reduced the thickness of the rudder I have to do the same with the white metall hinges, this to properly fit them into the cnc milled slots.
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All the hinges burnished and fitted.
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On its proper place.
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Hi Maarten.
Very nice pictures of a very nice looking hull. I am impressed by the details you added and like the different types of nails.
Regards, Peter
 
Hello Maarten,

I'm constantly adding names of builders to my list of people to watch, now you became one of them.
What a beautiful build this is, put together with an awful lot of TLC and craftsmanship, impressive.

Kind regards, Johan
 
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