To Constitution and beyond ...

[Model Monkey]

Truly wonderful.

 

[europapete]

Coming along magificently Dan! Glad to that you are also going up in the world. Regards, Pete in RI

 

[dafi]

Man´s glitter!

Well, after more than half a year I finally came back to my man cave and was able to do something. Man did I miss that!

In the meantime I was able to hatch some great ideas, so I dug out a matchbox ...

... and used it as the basis for a small pre-model.

As usual, it's about being able to try out a few small things. Esepcially again and again about the use positions of the carronades.

The guns are also slowly coming into the home stretch. It's always good to be able to keep an eye as a model builder on the programmer. The printing supports have been optimised so that the parts can be removed with as little reworking as possible, and the model construction itself also leads to details being improved in order to make them easier to paint. Here is the 24-pounder.

Beautiful details like the coin´s handle and the retaining cord of the stool bed are just great to look at, as are the fittings on the underside - just too bad they are mostly hidden.

Meanwhile, for the carronade, I decided to leave the barrel in one piece with the upper carriage. Because of the height adjustment screw, changing the elevation was difficult to adjust anyway or would have been too fragile. The swivel radius of the skeat around the pivot pin, the sliding way and rotation of the upper carriage were kept.

And here's a little family picture.

And then came the man´s glitter

XXXDAn

 

[europapete]

Welcome back Dan! Those new guns are looking awesome. Well done.

 

[dafi]

When the little wood hunger strikes ...

... then there it comes, the man´s glitter ...

... or dafi goes stray ;-)

First of all I made a small deck, the size of a matchbox ...

Then I put a round sander into the stand drill and worked out the frame shape.

After I had to look for my workpiece 3 (!) times in the hoover bag, a perforated plate was placed in front of the Hoover tube!

Then I glued 4 blanks with double sided tape on top of each other and sanded them as one piece into the frame´s shape.

A quick check - yup, it fits.

Made a jig out of polysterol strips so that everything can be glued at right angles ...

... and after curing the next fitting test.

Meanwhile, the gun visits its new home.

The barrel is in the center - yup it fits too

So I glued on the planks on the inside, from bottom to top according to Marquardt: Waterway, then Spirketting, Ceiling, Thick Stuff below Clamp and Clamp.

And then also closed the planking on the outside

And yes, here they come, the inevitable: the 1 cent piece and the TicTac ;-)

Best regards, Daniel

 

[Uwek]

You are a crazy miniaturist - and beautiful work
Strange size comparison with your standard TicTac egg on the cent coin - for those members who do not know until now Daniels "egg"

 

[europapete]

Where is his "Minions" face! lolol. BTW, over here in the US they are known as TicTacs, just to clarify for our readers. Regards, Pete in RI

 

[dafi]

Thanks Pete, I think here too, but too much youngsters app that overwrote the name in my lil brains ...

XXXDAn

 

[europapete]

I know that feeling. I keep the auto correct turned off, or at least try to.

 

[europapete]

May be heading up to Boston in a week or two if you need any info/photo's from Constitution.

 

[dafi]

That is kind, thank you. At the moment I am much more trying to distance myself from the exhibit in Bosten to eleiminate the modern changes. The same process i had to do with the Vic in Portsmouth

But I am sure, there are plenty of takers out here, if you make some good pictures!

All the best, Daniel

 

[dafi]

And on it went in the text, or rather with the man glitter.

First attempt at the substructure of the upper deck. I still changed it afterwards.

Then the planks were caulked: Glued vertically on a duct tape and brushed with thicker paint, gives exactly the right width for the scale.

Freshly glued, it looks like newly tarred ...

... and after holystoning already a bit more "shipshape"

Adjusting the height of the Carronade ...

... and fitting test.

Fits, so close and put the gunwale on

Enjoy

And to show the size ...

... in this sense, all the best, DAniel

 

[Uwek]

Do you sell your cannons and blocks?

Hallo @waynesbea
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Did you order in the meantime some guns? Which project you are working

 

[dafi]

And I was finally able to do some more woodwork. Got the lathe out and turned some supports.

Then built the 4 knees. And suddenly the part flew towards the aspiration tube. THAT'S WHY I have the perforated metal grating there on the smoke

Fitting ...

... and ready.

Here you can see the two diagonal knees above the gun.

And so that I don't mess up when rigging the gun tackles, I made the upper deck removable.

Now it's going to be small itsbits, looking forward to it,

XXXDAn

 

[dafi]

I continued a bit over the weekend.

First fixed the bolts and rings in the hull ...

Then prepared the breech: 0.6 mm, the middle marked by means of black thread. The barrels had no brech ring on the pommelion, so the breech needs an eye splice to prevent it from slipping off. The small parallel piece is glued on first. So that the attachment is not too obvious, it is cut off at an pointed angle ...

... and glued on.

Then came a test fit to determine the length.

Stabilized the cut with super glue ...

... glued on ...

... and fits

A good model building solution in itself, ...

... but in the original, this splice was additionally dressed to protect against the large stress when guns were fired.

Then made a template for the length of the breechline. The eyes are bound in the manner of the dead eyes.

And everything is ready for installation ...

... and in place. Here in the loading position at the very back, the brooktau tensioned.

And run out here.

So slowly it's moving in the right direction.

XXXDAn

 

[dafi]

Finally after a long time remounted my rope walk again. For space reasons simply hung in the basement hallway under the ceiling

Then I started rigging to try out the blocks. In the contemporary plans, the blocks are about half the width of the forward wheel. These blocks are minimally larger, which makes handling much easier. To do this, nailed a mounting hook into a piece of wood for holding the hooks. And for that the small blocks do not go off, I always put them immediately on the leash

And here the rigged hook and block from close up.

For comparison in size ...

...

and in place.

Since I had pulled down one of the knees with my thick sausage fingers, I immediately took the chance to be able to photograph undisturbed

Greetings, Daniel

 

[Jimsky]

Working with such a scale is already challenging, you are doing a great job rigging the cannons. I love your hocks, they fit the scale perfectly. Are those PE parts you are selling, or?

 

[europapete]

Isn't that guy a deserter from Victory???

 

[europapete]

Great idea to mount the ropewalk to the ceiling, well done!

 

[dafi]

Jupp, I will send the RN to get him back ;-)

XXXDAn