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Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 07-21-2014
EZDAYS Wrote: " since it is usually very easy to lose a part "
The sound - of the tweezer tips snapping together - as the part they were holding, l a u n c h e s !! :x 
There's no way I could ever make shackles and shackle pins for attaching rigging, in Normal scale.OK, maybe there is, but I haven't reached that level of insanity..........yet.
hock: 
Hmmmmm 10X Optivisor, and thinner wire - - - - and 
to steady my hands. :?:
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - ezdays - 07-21-2014
We've all heard of the four-foot rule, "if it looks good at four feet away, that's good enough".
Well, in Normal scale, we have a different four-foot rule, "if you can't see the part at four feet away, forget it, whatever you're building will survive just fine without it". 
Besides, something that small always winds up someplace under your workbench anyway...
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 07-22-2014
ezdays Wrote:Besides, something that small always winds up someplace under your workbench anyway...
" snap " dfh&&%$Hjjghh)(@@! PO (+%)(#*&*^%$^%#
Then again, "insanity has its place"....sometimes. :o
Remember, I did model approximately 7,500 individually hand cut, hand applied, simulated wood shingles, for the "Boat House". compared to that, :o a couple of shackles, and shackle pins isn't a major accomplishment.
I do have to get out to the Hobby Shop and get some blackened chain. The links are used as the rings that hold the Luff of the Head sails to the fore stays. Once they are in place, I can install the Jib, and Stays'l.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - ezdays - 07-22-2014
Sumpter250 Wrote:ezdays Wrote:Besides, something that small always winds up someplace under your workbench anyway...
" snap " dfh&&%$Hjjghh)(@@! PO (+%)(#*&*^%$^%#
Then again, "insanity has its place"....sometimes. :o
Remember, I did model approximately 7,500 individually hand cut, hand applied, simulated wood shingles, for the "Boat House". compared to that, :o a couple of shackles, and shackle pins isn't a major accomplishment.
I do have to get out to the Hobby Shop and get some blackened chain. The links are used as the rings that hold the Luff of the Head sails to the fore stays. Once they are in place, I can install the Jib, and Stays'l.
Whoa, enough with that sailor talk, you lost me after, "hobby shop".....
Somehow I was under the impression you made your own chain links forged from high-grade steel.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 07-23-2014
ezdays Wrote:Somehow I was under the impression you made your own chain links forged from high-grade steel.
That's for a "completely different scale"
I had to do that, I spent too much time looking for the "missing Link"
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 07-29-2014
Only a few small details left to add. Jib sheets ( I just have to make the decision where the sheet blocks will be set , and where the "hauling ends" will be belayed ),( Stays'l sheets are rigged ) Mainsail out-haul ( tightens/stretches the foot of the main sail ), anchors and chain.
Here's where it is now:
Overall view, port side. ( in most cases, the lighter colored running rigging is barely, if even, visible.
I think I used the right sized thread for the running rigging ! :o Close up of the bow, and bow sprit. Those sails are cut from a single ply, of Two Ply facial tissue. Furling, and rigging those, was an exercise in
The figure standing just forward of the main mast, is an HO scale figure. He's the "Ship's Master" / Skipper. Gives you something to compare the "size of things" to.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 08-05-2014
The Schooner still needs a name, but here she is, at the Seaport Village and Museum, Looking North:
and a shot looking East:
I have to remember to add some "foreground lighting", and "back up" a little :oops:
I am particularly happy with the way the jib and stay-sail turned out. I usually model these, completely furled down, but decided to try to model them with just a bit of the heads of the sails up.
I'm also now thinking that this one needs a "Yawl-Boat" ( she has no "power" ), which will mean building it, and adding the stern davits to carry it while underway.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 08-07-2014
On the thought of a name for this schooner:
I remembered reading and enjoying, a book, while still in grade school, by Howard Pease, titled "Hurricane Weather", that took place, mostly, on a "Trading Schooner".
He named the Schooner "Wind Rider".
This schooner is a "trading"/ "commercial" vessel.
So be it! and Fall On, this Schooner shall, from this day forward, be named "Wind Rider".
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Tyson Rayles - 08-07-2014
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 08-15-2014
I had this schooner up on a shelf above the computer, and "The, as yet not rigged, River Sloop" just behind it. I happened to look up and saw Three Masts,
hock: hock: Next ship for the *Seaport Village and Museum* ?? - - - a scale 112' Length Over All (l.o.a.) "Tern" ( 3 masted Schooner ). She'll be a scale 70' at the waterline, with a 23'-6" beam, and, - - - - - I just finished the "lines drawings".
I'll be scratch building this one, as a waterline model ( like the "Wind Rider" ),but Plank-On-Frame, instead of, on an existing plastic kit hull.
hock: I realized that I have never built a "Tern" before, and She'll fit just perfectly, at that same area of the seawall where the photo of "Wind Rider" was taken. ( I just might moor "Wind Rider" outboard of the Tern ( haven't picked a name yet, but am leaning towards calling her "Grace Bailey" which is the former name of the two mast schooner "Mattie", that sails out of Camden Me. ) (( The Grace Bailey was built in Patchouge, N.Y. about 15 miles East of where I grew up ))I just might get the River Sloop rigged, somewhere in the process.
:oops:
If I ever recover from this "bout" of "Sea Fever", I just might get back to finishing the Shipyard's, 3' gauge, outside frame, 2-6-6-2.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - JaBear - 08-22-2014
Sumpter250 Wrote:"Tern" ( 3 masted Schooner )Thats a nice looking class of ship.
My modelling in general is currently drifting, and I've got plenty on when I get back on course, but amongst my round tuit list and if I had enough "bottle" I'd like to have a crack at minatureising this......
But for a while I'll just have to do my modelling vicariously.
Cheers, the Bear.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 08-22-2014
That's a good looking Topsail Schooner
She'd make a good model. At 200 tons displacement she's a "bit bigger" :o than the tern I'm planning on building, which is about 60 tons.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 08-25-2014
"Pride Of Baltimore"
She was in Chicago for "Tall Ships Chicago" I was able to go aboard. Had a great conversation with members of the crew.
I was also able to go aboard the replica of HMS Bounty. I have a picture of my lady friend standing at the helm of "Bounty".
Was deeply saddened to hear of "bounty" being taken by Hurricane Sandy.
This one, at the quay of the "Seaport Village and Museum", (the W.W. "Marsland", named in memory of "bil" Marsland,a member departed of Big Blue ) is a Brigantine ( no fore/aft sail on the foremast ), of about the same tonnage as that Tops'l Schooner.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Sumpter250 - 08-28-2014
Pictures of the finished Schooner, "Wind Rider", at the Cindys Harbor Seaport Village and Museum:
In the next picture, upper left corner, is part of the Steel Arch Bridge, that carries the modules' "main line tracks".
The two dark vertical things are the pilings of the lobster pound.
Re: Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation: - Tyson Rayles - 08-28-2014
Looks right at home there Pete, nice job!