Thanks tomick :)

Hey robin, thanks!
sounds like a great idea, bit advanced for me, but as far as i know i dont think there is a capstan on any of the decks, im thinking of just putting a button or small switch near the bottom of the hull for easy access.

Hi again Admiral.

Another bright idea!
Does the Sovereign have a row or two of dummy barrel cannons glued into a black painted false 'wall' behind the gun port like the Victory? If so you could try this approach with the small push switches below. You would just need to drill out the false wall big enough to take the shaft of the switch which would then be secured in place by its own little nuts (then painted matt black) and then, (the sneaky bit) drill a hole into the actual push button (probably better before fixing the switch in! ) just big enough to take the pin on the back of the cannon barrel, then epoxy the barrel into that hole. All you need to do to switch the lighting on and off is to push that particular cannon in. (If you do use a push switch make sure you get a 'locking' one.ie, stays off or on after pushing it, 'momentary' switches only stay on as long as the switch is kept pushed in!)

Probably more silly ideas to follow!

Robin

PS these switches were about £1.80 in Maplins

Hi Admiral

I see what you mean about getting the solution done before the hull is finished. If you have one of those switches how about fixing it in place on the lowest deck on the centre line pointing straight down with a small (1/8"?) hole drilled through the keel to allow a 1/8" brass rod to pass up to the switch button. A scrap wood conduit could keep it lined up or you could still drill out the push button and fix the rod in place, it would only need to protrude about 5mm from the keel to push the switch on and off.

Told you more silly ideas would follow!

Robin

That switch should be fine Admiral, by the sound of it your push button switch is a 'momentary push to make' type so it wouldn't have been suitable for an on/off.
If you are mounting that switch on a lower deck you could make up some sacks of grain from cloth and cotton wool and hide it under them!

Glad to be of some help and good luck with it....(I really wish I'd decided to light up my Victory now!!)

Robin

That sounds like a mighty plan you have there karl! hope it all works out as planned, the connection points sounds like a smart idea.
Possibly more thought of wiring and placement would of made it easier for me to undertake this job, but this is my first led installation and im pleased with it. I'll probably take all the great information and advice given to me by you guys to my future builds :)

Tut tut tut..... patience, patience, patience my friend..... ...... Looking good Admiral, love to see it all lit up.... Keep the good work going ....

Regards

Alan

Small update
I wont post many pictures until there's more to do which probably wont be for a while, so for now its 2 images at a time.

Planking at the stern gets a bit more tricky to keep the planks in place and what position to put them in, the higher you get the harder i find to keep the planks flat to the keel (they look very off and not flat but they are more than they look, its just the angle.. i think ) so i hope once sanded down this shouldn't be a problem.

Ahh yeah ofcourse, its weird that they went with this style too seeing as in the painting with Peter Pett it clearly shows a flat stern. i noticed this earlier while going through Doris's build on MSW, but i was already too far in to make any modifications.

Hi Admiral!
She's coming on really well there! I had a lot of splitting at first with my DelPrado hull planks, mainly due to the quality of the wood I think, I always prefer to drill the planks where the nails will be driven in using a drill bit just a little smaller than the nail, if you're using 0.5mm nails, a bit of about .4 or .3mm would do it and should avoid most of the splitting.

Keep up the great work!

Robin