Lovely work Laszlo. You are doing a great job.

Hello Everyone,

Finished the other "ship", now back on track on the Victory.

Issue 79:
- Belfry frame assembled and painted
- Belfry top and die cast parts sprayed primer & black
- Belfry assembled and fitted to the deck

Issue 80:
- Die cast parts fitted on the sides of the belfry
- Pin rails assembled, painted and fitted. CAUTION: If you haven't done it yet, be very careful with the L-shaped parts, they are snapping very-very easily. I snapped two of them only by touching them. Fixed with glue.
- Eyelets fitted around mizzen mast hole
- Poop deck handrail assembled, painted and fitted

Issue 81:
- Poop deck pin rail assembled, painted and fitted
- Bulwark fittings added
- Pulleys painted, assembled and fitted
- Mizzen mast collar assembled and shaped, will be painted when fitted later on

Looking very nice indeed.

Mark

Coming on very nice, lovely work.

Mark

Hello All,

Issue 82 finished:
- Similar to the port side, I fitted the gun port lids on the starboard side. After I sliced off the thread at the bottom side of the open lids I touched up with red ochre paint to disguise the end of the thread.

Issue 83 started:
- Acetate window sheets cut to size and fixed with clear glue.
- Started to fit the frames at the bottom/top of the windows.
- I used tiny blobs of blue tak to fit few balusters temporarily to get the next strips at the correct position
- Mizzen chainwales sanded to match the curve of the hull
- They painted and dressed with eyebolts and rigging blocks
- Deadeyes wired, then sprayed with primer and black. As with my other chainwales I deviate from the magazine which leaves the deadeyes natural. On the real ship they are also black.

Hi Walter,
Yes, it was quite tricky, the wire snaps very easily but I figured out a technique which minimises the risk.
Firts I used a 3mm dowel to wrap it around (not full circle but approx. 300 degrees), instead of using the actual deadeye. With this a smaller diameter circle achieveable and makes the next step (twisting) less stressful.
Then I pushed the deadeye into the circle, the springness of the wire allows it.
The wires were approx 60-90 degrees angle to each other after the deadeye popped in.
Then the trick... I haven’t twisted the wires evenly... With a flat plier I twisted/wrapped the short wire approx 180 degrees around the long end just enough to provide a little tension around the deadeye to keep the wire tight. With this the long wire (goes around desdeye) doesn’t have stress and won’t snap.
After this I used a small flat nose plier to keep wrapping the short end around the long one to complete the full circle ffom 180 to 360 degrees. Then I cut off the excess of the short end.
Then I used the method suggested in the magazine to make the 180 turn at the bottom.
Finally with a flat plier I held the two parallel wires from approx 2-2.5 mm from the bottom of the deadeye and wrapped the wire around with two circles. Excess cut off and job done.

Hopefully you understand my description, if you wish I can post some picture/sketches from the process

Looking Very Good

Looks great, very neat and tidy work.....

Regards

Alan