Thank you for this nice post, Roger. Right back at you!
Kingfisher 1770 1:48 POF
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Thank you, my friend! All the best to you and your family for a joy-filled holiday!
Hi Paul,
The best wishes for Christmas and a happy and healthy 2025 to you and the family.
Up to a carving 2025.
The best wishes for Christmas and a happy and healthy 2025 to you and the family.
Up to a carving 2025.
Thank you, Maarten! And to you and yours as well!
Right back at you, Johan. All the best to you and your family!
Merry Christmas to you and all Cattners family!
Thank you very much, Jim! And the season's best wishes to you and your gang as well!
Thank you, mon ami! Will do!
Dear SOS Family,
Over the past four years we have needed to set one less place at the holiday table each year (two fathers and two sisters). But we have also added three more chairs at the kid's table over that same time period. Even in loss, there is the gift of new life - a sure sign of God's faithfulness.
Merry Christmas from our house to yours! May the Christ of Christmas bless you and those you love in the year to come!
From left to right: Damian 3, Ethan 4, Ellie 2.
Over the past four years we have needed to set one less place at the holiday table each year (two fathers and two sisters). But we have also added three more chairs at the kid's table over that same time period. Even in loss, there is the gift of new life - a sure sign of God's faithfulness.
Merry Christmas from our house to yours! May the Christ of Christmas bless you and those you love in the year to come!
From left to right: Damian 3, Ethan 4, Ellie 2.
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What a beautiful family ! Merry Christmas.
Alex R
Alex R
Merry Christmas. Enjoy this season to the fullest. Maybe pull an extra chair next year?
Grab a coffee - this post is longer than most. Blessed with some extra modeling time this week I have a fair amount of work to share with you...
The Kingfisher comes equipped with a gangway (well, technically, two gangways - one is fixed, and the other is removable). The fixed gangway is related to the steps in the exterior hull, and the removeable gangway provides convenient access to the quarterdeck. All in all, they are a rather simple affair right up until you discover that they are supported by knees...
But before gangways can be installed, wisdom suggests it would be best to install the guns (access to the guns will be diminished by the addition of gangways overhead).
Here we go...
First, the framework for the fixed gangway:
The guns installed:
I have suggested previously that rigging guns is the single most miserable task in all of ship modeling. After this additional research I am pleased to confirm that rigging guns is the single most miserable task in all of ship modeling. No need to write to make your case for ratlines or treenails...
Entry #2
With the cap rails in place, I could see no reason to further delay the installation of the timberheads. A modeler with actual skills would have run the designated top timbers long and then added the cap rails over the top of them. What I did instead was cut off the top timbers a long time ago necessitating the fabrication of faux timberheads.
On the 'frames' side of the model the timberheads were left unfinished as if they were top timbers awaiting shaping. On the 'finished' side of the model that simplification was not be possible. The challenge was to create 19 IDENTICAL timberheads. Previously I have chosen to craft these sorts of things by hand (XActo, files, sanding sticks) but there is no way I could make 19 by hand and have them look the same.
My solution was to use my small table saw along with a sliding table to standardize the fabrication of these little bits...
A photo essay showing the processing of timberheads:
The angled portion was done by hand with a #11 blade. I suspect I could have figured out a way of doing that on the mill but that felt like a lot of effort during the holidays.
And now onto the ship:
Unfinished timberheads:
I see I neglected to get a finish (wipe-on-poly, in my case) on the cap rail and unfinished timberheads...
Attention now turns to the long-ignored headworks. As always, I am truly grateful you have taken the time to visit.
The Kingfisher comes equipped with a gangway (well, technically, two gangways - one is fixed, and the other is removable). The fixed gangway is related to the steps in the exterior hull, and the removeable gangway provides convenient access to the quarterdeck. All in all, they are a rather simple affair right up until you discover that they are supported by knees...
But before gangways can be installed, wisdom suggests it would be best to install the guns (access to the guns will be diminished by the addition of gangways overhead).
Here we go...
First, the framework for the fixed gangway:
The guns installed:
I have suggested previously that rigging guns is the single most miserable task in all of ship modeling. After this additional research I am pleased to confirm that rigging guns is the single most miserable task in all of ship modeling. No need to write to make your case for ratlines or treenails...
Entry #2
With the cap rails in place, I could see no reason to further delay the installation of the timberheads. A modeler with actual skills would have run the designated top timbers long and then added the cap rails over the top of them. What I did instead was cut off the top timbers a long time ago necessitating the fabrication of faux timberheads.
On the 'frames' side of the model the timberheads were left unfinished as if they were top timbers awaiting shaping. On the 'finished' side of the model that simplification was not be possible. The challenge was to create 19 IDENTICAL timberheads. Previously I have chosen to craft these sorts of things by hand (XActo, files, sanding sticks) but there is no way I could make 19 by hand and have them look the same.
My solution was to use my small table saw along with a sliding table to standardize the fabrication of these little bits...
A photo essay showing the processing of timberheads:
The angled portion was done by hand with a #11 blade. I suspect I could have figured out a way of doing that on the mill but that felt like a lot of effort during the holidays.
And now onto the ship:
Unfinished timberheads:
I see I neglected to get a finish (wipe-on-poly, in my case) on the cap rail and unfinished timberheads...
Attention now turns to the long-ignored headworks. As always, I am truly grateful you have taken the time to visit.
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I really like how the unfinished timberheads stand in contrast to the finished ones.
Thank you kindly, Heinrich. I'm glad you like them - they may very well be the last guns I will ever install on a ship model
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Much appreciated, Smithy!Nicely done.
Thanks, Daniel. This 'tale of two ships' is starting to gain some momentum.