Great tips guys! I would have happily just followed the booklet instructions, but its nice to get the little details right too.. Puddening and seizing... great stuff and a big "Thankyou" for your input.



@snowtiger: Highlighting eh? I'd personally use a very dark blue (helps keep the black looking nice and deep) and work up to a pale blue/grey (by introducing increasing amounts of very pale grey into the dark black/blue initial highlight colour)for the more extreme highlights to accentuate the sharpest edges and corners.

Looking good Jack - what line did you use?

All done and painted.

'hour by hour and day by day, months have past away' (Quote from G & S Ruddigore)

At least that is how it feels ... having started the puddening thread in the anticipation of receiving my anchor which the postman was still not able to oblige today, I have finally decided to join those who have already puddened and practice on my bower anchor for HMS Halifax. It really is fiddly isn't it!?

I have posted the result on my
HMS Halifax - Leeds Build

4 is the magic number

Hi Baz

Welcome to the forum

I don't know whether you have had a chance to read back through all the posts since the middle of March when Victory was announced!

MavrickandGoose went to visit Victory and took some superb reference photographs for the rest of us to use.

As an example:

anchors aweigh

This photo show a collection of anchors near the stem of Victory. I seem to remember from another post, somebody saying that the large anchor on the dockside was the only remaining original one.. This is probably not correct because it is fitted wih a 'jews harp shackle' and would have been used in Victory's later years when she would have been moored to a chain.

The large anchor fitted to the anchor cable with puddening(!) I believe is a fibreglass replica. Looking at the anchors as a collection you will see that the shank is sometimes square and sometimes round so we have to take a view on what the anchors at the time of Trafalgar might have looked like.

What I am trying to question is whether it is necessary to round off the shank although your result looks good.

Regarding the iron hoops, Harland in his 'Seamanship in the Age of Sail' states that anchors had either four or six hoops driven onto the stock. Presumably depending on the size of the anchor. Again the photograph seems to suggest six for the large bower anchors on Victory.

Regarding materials, other posts have suggested brass strip; cartridge paper or my suggestion which I will probably use is 160 g/sm card painted black and I will make six hoops.

Hope all that helps

Mike T

Thanks Mike

I'll look for those photos. I only rounded off the shaft because I treated myself to a Dremel multi tool for the build. I doubt I would have done it if I had to do it by hand.

I like the puddening, I will also have to try that on my anchor

I was thinking of using aluminium from a pop can for the bands, I will have to test it but I think it might be too thick

Baz

Just the seizing left to do, think I will just paint them with white paint.

I used 3 layers of masking tape for the bands

Veery nice Baz, very nice indeed.

John

Thanks every one

yes I'll be adding the 4 white bands, just trying to figure out what to use. Then onto the carronade

Baz