With the Telford deadline looming-...- and the weather being cooler
==> normal service seems to be resuming
A few more bits of progress;
Davits... on the real shio these could rotate--as well as be deployed angled outwards
to facilitate this lateral movement she has triangulate brackets ,
which act as guides to allow the davit swing outboard
These also had a hole within them
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I used the smallest triangular brackets with perforations I could find
( Lion Roar generics)
and then cut them down further
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These were attached to the hull in pairs
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Once these were painted white--the hole seemed to disappear to the naked eye
so I then ran the tip of a circularly sharpened propelling pencil lead around the hole to give some contrast
seems to have worked as a visual trick!
8x large davits--all with the same progressive smooth curve to be bent in brass wire.
==> surprisingly hard to get repeatability!
made the drawing and tweaked to get them right
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For light relief added the boat booms and their supporting brackets
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a while back after adding the boats -I was very unhappy with the 14 ft dinghy and removed it.
I took another dinghy and pared away at the hull sides with blades until a believable thickness as reached
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I cut a disc of brass PE sheet to make the aft mast platform.
alas as I kept fiking away at iot it became a bit oval and undersized....( oops! )
No worries
-- I made the railing to the desired correct size, tacked it on with CA glue
and backfilled the gaps with thinned white glue
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The masts had the yard arms added, these were tied on with Caenis thread and backfilled with CA glue
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after quite some degree of fraught work
at last I had the breakthrough moment I was awaiting...
Masts ...... UP!Attachment:
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