British Cutter Sherbourne 1763 - 1:64 - Almost scratch

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Small Update. I blackend the pins, I know they are wood but I like the look



I then redid the bitt before the main hatch. As on the Alert (and in Gregors log ) I like to have, guess it makes sense, the windlass there. It's not finished yet but anyway some pictures ... I used boxwood. Love the sharp edges you get










Another Update This time with some - I'm pretty sure - allready missed macros



Made the crank handle for the windlass.







The stanchion for the entry ladder. I used some small brass tube, Dafis eyebolts and some micro washer. All soldered together in pure harmony ... ähm ...











A small detail for the iron bowsprit retaining fit (not sure if this is "correct" .. but ... pfffff )




I'm pretty sure in this scale rigging will be a love and hate relationship ... so damn small for so many potential details ....

Anyway some first rope work ... haha ... damn small knots





cheers,

Dirk

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Gun Rigging Part 1:

It was quite a difficult decision what diameter to take for the breeching rope. It's kinda visual compromise with 0.63mm, a bit to thick at the breech but ok for the rest imo, especially in a non closeup view. I used the variant showed in the AOTS Alert book ... but ... haha ... no idea how this should work





Next will be a lot of 0.1mm tackles near the ring ... hmpf ...



Gun Rigging Part 2:

Made the small tackles and then glued all guns on deck, yeah

A little picture howto:



glue the small rope with CA



Wrap around the rope



After 5 rounds some more CA to fix it then a little cut



The result:












Gun Rigging Part 3

The gun tackles. I used Chuck's 2mm single blocks and Dafi's smallest hooks, single just because I only have singles and I don't think for a 3 pounder doubles are needed. As a compromise I made no dedicated eye (is this the correct word for?) for the hook mainly because of the limited length, ever 0.1mm counts. It's a pretty short distance.

I have 32 tackles to made, 31 to go .. hmpf ...





I also like to present my birthday present Tablesaw built by Alex M.







cheers,

Dirk

[Dubz]

What has happen ...

First I did some modifications to my workshop, I built another shelf and bought a new, bigger worktop to have more space for tools and stuff.







I also bought me a nice little tool I now need to learn to use, an old Unimat 3 Lathe





One of the next things I need to solve is the light situation, thats still not optimal for working.

After all I found some time to work on the Sherbourne too, yeah

I redid the breeching rope.



And finally finished the windlass with some microgear I bought.











As soon I get the new, a bit smaller hooks made by Dafi (!!! go go go !!!) I'll go back to rigging the guns.

cheers,

Dirk

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Not only Busty Syren also Baby Sherbourne gets an Update today

I started to build the deadeye ensemble. First I did the deadeye strops as suggested by the kit with the strops going through the channel.



But thats not the way it's done on the Alert, so I redid it.



The ebony moldings strip for the channel to lock the chainplate assemblies.





That's the way it should go, before I finally fix the stuff I need to place a dummy mast to get the right run together with the shrouds.






Today it was time for the Sherbourne to follow Syren and get her name. More letters more tricky also cause of the little curve. It's - again - not perfect but atm I don't know if I can make it better.





cheers,

Dirk

[Dubz]

After the gun rigging is before the gun rigging ... decided to do the Sherbourne too, done is done






Today I finished Sherbournes gun rigging. Here I had to optioptimize the distance even more everything needed to be as short as possible.



I also hat to "run in" the guns a bit, otherwise no chance ...
















Couldn't see blocks and ropes the last days so I needed to do something with wood .. haha ... working on a stand for Sherbourne.










Sherbourne as today.




Finished the stand.







cheers,

Dirk

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The Sherbourne is an older cutter with a correspondingly older rigging and topmast behind the mast. I was and still am very torn which way I should go. I got great help and information from Tony and Gregor. Thanks again for that. in fact it is not easy to find good information about the old rigging. Petterson's book refers to the rather new rigging, Die Alert basically to the old one but with a more elaborate rigging owed to the bigger ship.

There is probably no such beautiful 1:1 instruction. Also the measurements are "difficult", the plans of the Sherbourne are non-uniform and basically crap with the super simplified rigging.

Marquardt's book also shows the older rig but also for a bigger cutter. Well, I'm going to tinker with that now. Based on the Alert, taking Chuck's Cherful plans as a further orientation, I'm going to get a feel for it and hope to get a reasonably correct rig.

So first I needed to made dowels of pear. From square to octagonal to round.











After the Mainmast was mostly build I had to turn the Topmast.












Small update :-)








More progress on the mast. Small parts done with boxwood and pinned with 0.3mm brass rod. Nothing is glued yet except the crosstree to avoid any trouble with the rigging :-)











cheers,

Dirk

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And more mast detailing. Today I made the cleats. I used @Chuck ones and again thankful for him providing us all these little helpful addons :-)




The cleats needs to have the angle of the deck.




Second coat of Oil for the mast.






On deck







Finished most of the the mast parts today.









First I wanted to paint the lower mastpart red but I am unsure now ...


Inbetween project.





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How to calculate the length of the "common Pole Head": (Length of topgallant x 0,388)

So full length of this spar should be (Length of topgallant x 0,388) + Length of topgallant

(7,11 meter x 0,388) + 7,11 = 9,87 meters, what seems a reasonable length for a cutters topmast(?).

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According to this calculation I made another, higher, topmast with a common pole head.












Comparison old and new Topmast.





cheers,

Dirk

[Dubz]

Some progress. More spars.








And next to go.




More progress on the yards.

I finished the spread yard. This one will stay natural.






The others got their black paint today so that I can finish them. I airbrushed the parts and used Vallejo Black Primer. Easy to spray great looking result imo.




The mast got paint too (I will go with this dimensions now) :-)










And I finished the yards today :-)













cheers,

Dirk

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Working on Gaff and Boom.






There are so many "variants" found with no consistency.






More progress :-)




How to:










The spars.








I love the effect of oiling :-) Not sure yet if I will paint that black or not.









Some metalwork :-)












cheers,

Dirk

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Different Lighting.








Finished gaff and boom today with missing details. So it's macro time :-)

























cheers,

Dirk

[Dubz]

Some small details:









Deadeyes and Chainplates.

Some years ago I allready prepared this to build like shown in the AOTS Alert book.








For various reasons I did not like it, and .. it is documented HOW to do it in the original plans.




So I tried it this way with some prototyping :-)






As it seems to work, "mass"-production started.










To get the needed angle for the chainplates some "rope" were fitted ...




And the chainplates were pinned with micro rivets. There is nothing glued (yet).










Done :-)



cheers,

Dirk