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Awesome and atmospheric as always, Jim - excellent and painstaking work all around!

Brilliant work, as always.

Hi Jim

Wonderful, marvellous and very nice job on a small ship!
I like the fact that we have different "feelings" viewing port vs starboard sides, which makes it more interesting to watch and enjoy all the details you have put in it!
BZ!

Also enjoyed the water colour... Mersey?

Rui

Again, a really impressive model! :thumbs_up_1:

Hello gents

a few " proper " photos

full gallery entry soon


===> onwards on next ship model!
JIM B :wave_1: :wave_1: :thumbs_up_1:

... makes me feel guilty - I chickend out, when faced with the question of awning-stanchions in place or not :thumbs_up_1:

Fantastic work Jim! (as always of course...) :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

The awning stanchions, railing and rigging lend the model a lot of delicacy and scale feeling. I also think 1/350 was a good choice of scale for this ship.

After some intensive modelmaking this whole week...(!)
Halcyon is completed !--phew!

I have portrayed her at speed -- at ca 17 knots ( she could manage 20 knots )

encs 2 x kitchen- table-point-and-shoot pics--

" proper" photos to follow)

Thank you all for following this thread and for your interest.
Next model....scratch-building 1871 Ben-my-Chree paddlesteamer !
new thread soon;! as below

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Delightful. Solid progress. :cool_2:

Hi Pascal Mod....

I wish I could tell you I designed it first and then and printed it... :big_grin:

alas this time .....
I went through my extensive stash of flag decals, including White Ensign RN flag decals of various
manufacturers
and ended up using a sheet ( numerous various sizes of flagdecal)
by Duane Fowler from back around 2003 -

-these were [i][b] ' alps ribbon printer '[/b][/i] printed;
and had a pleasing lack of density and not quite fully opaque white

( which I scaled @ 7 ft hoist -- from a side-elevation photo of the ship and offered up to a sailor onboard near the stern

the assumption-- he is 5ft 10 inches tall ! :big_grin:

near enough!

regards
JIM B :wave_1:

Jim, the ensign size - do you use some approximate decals to get it to fit (how shocking of me to assume) or you print them as decals to exact size? I ask because recently I discovered my Hood model did not have an approriate battle ensign size (24ft long) but whatever Trumpeter had in the box (... smaller). And It got me wondering how best to nail the flag size. If you have tips - please share! :)

As usual :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

Hello all-

-Herewith some images to back up recent works;
( excuse the low quality images--the lens had an ( un-noticed!) smear on it...


The ships boats had the rope fall blocks installed
and in the case of the outboard slung sea-boat whaler ,external tan straps hold it rigidly to the griping spar

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along with deck edge railings

( which were stanchion-and -cable , these had varying degrees of gentle sag in various places !)
and many more sailors

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Some of the boats -according to photos... were fitted with covers
the larger gig on STB side was open

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The ship was fitted with awning stanchion to enable fore and aft decks to carry awnings along with the bridge.
a repeatable source of awning stanchions was gleaned from PE Oars ( old WEM )

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these were pre-painted and cut to size

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Before the stanchions were to be installed I needed to install 3 x anchors
the Kit had some quite well proportioned anchors-.....
-if a trifle too large for the anchor beds--

and anyhow almost inseparable without damage and breakage from the resin base


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so I made my own-using redundant elderly PE semaphores as a repeatable starting point

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whilst making fiddly stuff I made the prominently visible Navigation light boxes of brass strip


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Awning stanchions were installed and rigged--the below image show the port side nav light ( red) below the bridge

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Anchor have been installed to the beds and the external chain draped along by its securing points to the anchor

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Rigging is now well underway


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the stern lantern has been affixed to the aft flagstaff along with Ensign

Unusually for a Royal Navy ship the Ensign is NOT flown from the gaff

( as there is no gaff! ) and images of the time show these ships underway with the ( decent size! )
approx 8 ft on the hoist Ensign flown from the stern !


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Hello all

I have been making solid progress towards completion.
alas...
at the moment ....
I find myself having some difficulties uploading the images to support my recent doings.

Will repost as soon as I can get the images ' up

Kind regards
Jim Baumann :wave_1:

It's rather strange and embarrassing, but I totally missed out on Jim's new project so far ... and it has progressed a lot since the beginning of the year, despite outdoor diversions. :thumbs_up_1:

What always amazes me is, how you find suitable pieces on odd photoetch frets. You must have stacks of them, but how do you keep track of what's on them?

@ pascal mod....

Boat covers in boats of old had various means of the hoist passing through them

the covers main purpose was keeping the contents ( sails, spars, supplies etc )dry

ultimate 'waterproofness ' was not primarily vital-
-as all water running down the hoists would have dropped through the floorboards and escaped through the drain-holes

( which are stoppered at launch! ) :thumbs_up_1:



thus the covers --in the instance pictured below--- have a slot ( that can be laced closed ) to allow fitting of covers
with boat on the hoists

where the hoists are further 'twards midships--there is often a laced up joining slot
'twards the inboard side from each hoist position


such as here on a Dryad class ship

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You can clearly see the laced up join fwd

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with stacked / nested boats like on Normandie--its trickier

the ' main boat is on the hoists--- the nested boats hoists are slack ( as the boat is not hanging ) and the the slack hoist
are led through to the davit

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I always wondered how the boats are supported on davits with canvas toppers on them - are they just roped through the canvas? Like there is a hole cut in canvas for wires to drop through them and attach to the bottom of the boats?

Excellent progress! Canvas covers are one of your specialities i like most. Thanks for sharing the misadventure with the AK burnishing product (splendid flamethrower effect, bravo AK :big_grin:)

With pictures like that I keep thinking next time you're going to be flying a Bleriot or Sopwith to go with your cars....

Excellent work on the boats as always.

[quote="JIM BAUMANN"]Hello all! :wave_1:
protracted absence

--alas supreme weather for 3 weeks (!!??) ( for UK...)
means I have been somewhat distracted by driving classic cars....

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B



1:[/quote]

Hello all! :wave_1:
protracted absence

--alas supreme weather for 3 weeks (!!??) ( for UK...)
means I have been somewhat distracted by driving classic cars....

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But in between I have made...some progress.

The boats that were supplied with the kit ..... had ( commendably ) a representation of ( crudely rendered) internal Ribs (overscale)
into / onto which almost none of the PE wanted to fit

This ship carried 5 boats --
Thankfully.... 3 of which -- even underway -were covered with canvas covers--Phew...!!

The Timber coamings were created using ) 0.2 mm black tapes.... sealed with CA and varnish, then snipped to size

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I made the boat-covers by forming a ridge over the boat
in wire and infilled with a span of white glue

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I wanted to blacken the kit supplied handrails--that were commendably thin
I used AK metal burnishing blue liquid ....

It looked good !

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.... for a while..... :Mad_6:

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somewhat tacken aback..........!!

:Mad_5:

I concentrated on other small stuff that was less soluble.... :big_grin:

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and other details

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more tangible progress soon
JIM B :wave_1: