Thats a beautiful looking ship model in the making Kurt. 
HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries
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Kurt, I really love the scale of your companionway balusters. These look pitch-perfect!
Thanks HH. The smaller the scale you model is, the more out of scale the small parts seem to be. You have to look for options on modeling the small parts like balusters and blocks. The comes a point where you get frustrated added details on small models and go 1:48. I'm not there yet because I'm stupidly stubborn.
Thanks Bryan. Every tiny detail counts.Thats a beautiful looking ship model in the making Kurt.
Many hours later, more gun tackles and rope coils were added to the demi-culverin drakes that are on the waist. Many more to go. If I didn't want to rig so many guns, I'd have built a sloop.
That is looking fantastic Kurt. The scale is among the best I have seen at this size (1:84?). A tribute to your perseverance and skill!
Thanks Paul! Loved your Wasa model professional photographs! The scale is closer to 1:78 according to measurement of the keel length of the model. Today more gun tackles were made, but since I'm waiting on more 1.5mm blocks, the gun tackles for demi-culverin drakes hidden under decks in the forecastle and under the halfdeck are made using 2mm blocks like the ones on the middle gun deck. For those guns installed to far, all the gun tackles and rope coils were finished.
Assembling left and right gun tackles. I've made a lot of these, and they are going together much faster now.
More gun tackles ready to install.
Guns in the lower forecastle.
Progress so far
Assembling left and right gun tackles. I've made a lot of these, and they are going together much faster now.
More gun tackles ready to install.
Guns in the lower forecastle.
Progress so far
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The deck looks really good Kurt. I agree with @dockattner Paul that the scale is spot on - nothing seems too big or out of kilter.
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1.5mm and 2.5mm blocks? Currently I draw the line at 3mm, amazing you can manage those even smaller block sizes.
A very noteworthy build, my compliments.
I spent all day making the next four demi-culverin drakes in gun ports 8 and 9 from the bow.
Fabrication of carriages for demi-culverin drakes for upper gun deck broadside gun ports 10 and 11 was started. The parts were cut using a band saw, assembled and glued, then the carriages were painted. What's left is to install train tackle eyebolts and rings, breeching line eyebolts and rings, and gun tackle eyebolts. Then the carriages will be washed with brown panel liner to dull the red color a bit like previous carriages. The barrels and caps will be glued on, breeching lines installed, and then the guns will be glued to the deck in their gun ports and gun tackles installed. The carriages were test fit with their barrels in the gun ports to check barrel angle and clearances.
Marking bolt heads
After painting with trucks and quoins installed.
Marking bolt heads
After painting with trucks and quoins installed.
I love the detail, Kurt.
Lots of work getting done on your ship recently. You get fired from your job? 
Were the laser cut wheels supplied with the kit, or did you purchase them from elsewhere, Kurt?
Nope. still working.Lots of work getting done on your ship recently. You get fired from your job?
The laser cut cannon carriages were bought from Dave at the Lumberyard a year ago. Since they were 19th century carriages, parts were used and others modified to make 17th century custom carriages.
I was asleep last night and heard a crash. Knowing it was the cat, ignored it. When I got up, I found the model ship on the floor. Three cannon carriages are broken loose and the stem is snapped off. When I get back home from work, repairs will commence. The kitty too cute to kill, dammit. 
Sorry to hear that Kurt, must have been a tough sight after all your hard work.I was asleep last night and heard a crash. Knowing it was the cat, ignored it. When I got up, I found the model ship on the floor. Three cannon carriages are broken loose and the stem is snapped off. When I get back home from work, repairs will commence. The kitty too cute to kill, dammit.
I feel for you Kurt.
One of our cats starts to push things from the table too when she is out of food.
I hope everything can be fixed again.
One of our cats starts to push things from the table too when she is out of food.
I hope everything can be fixed again.
The stem was reattached to the ship an three broadside gun and a fore chase gun were dislodged when the model wen tumbling across the floor. Wooden levers hold the guns in place while the glue between the carriages and bulwark dries.
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