1/350 NRP SAGRES sail training ship (quite the challenge)

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thank you for your encouraging words

..> Pride appears to come before a fall it seems !

After the neat spacing out of the boat racks using tape...
an error came to the fore;

I had spaced out the racks from aft to fwd
I had assumed ( !! ) that the Spacings were even and symmetrical

They were not!

In addition -- having failed to study these images more closely.... another error of mine showed up...

At least the retrograde steps were being vindicated to be replaced with a degree of betterment!

More study of the liferaft racks was required

These are surprisingly complex--
the overhead locker was mounted straddling within the 2 x aft arches

after a seemingly disproportionate time spent fiddling around it started to be more to my liking!

I felt that the imperfections of the real thing could be replicated on my model after all!

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I had been thinking about how to make the funnel with its distinctive cowl

Not having a lathe -watchmakers or otherwise ---
( or the required machining skill to create that shape )


I came up with this;

At least the build is going in forward gear again!

more soon

JIM B

[Dan K]

Nice solution to the funnel.

[Rui Matos]

Hi Jim

Very creative in finding solutions, and not compromising the looks of the ship!
Also very educational

Carry on, carry on... Telford is just two weeks away!
Cheers
Rui

[JIM BAUMANN]

More small wins...

but cumulatively it brings one fwd....!

The Handrails--superfine PE -Nickle silver-and it stays fine and thin....
==>-as the real ship had these rails painted silver
--and the Nickel-Silver PE can remain unpainted!
The real thing is quite thin .

The railings have been applied in small sections,

1) to allow them to adapt to and conform to the sheer-line of the ship
2) to guard against different ambient temperatures causing expansion and shrinkage of plastic versus metal
( previous negative experience when I built the Normandie...)

For the upswept rails at the bow...-the sheerline increases sharply
The angle of the longitudinal rails steepens as one goes fwd to the bow
To maintain vertical stanchions--I prepared the sections like this below

note--this results in quite epic amounts of failure and waste PE !

The taping at the base of the rails--simulating the waterway and the outside black trake is done with 0.3mm tape

These 2 x images shows the Capstan bars stowed on the inboard face of the railings

These capstan bars..... to maintain perfect and even alignment to simulate being in a rack
were made of re-purposed PE....

The slight distortions of the longitudinal bars can be adjusted ( very fiddly ) with a scalpel blade tip and using gentle leverage

Adding the details to the railings and cutting to allow the life-raft canisters
to be deployed took much fiddling , experimentation and some failures!

The large fairleads with rollers are still being worked on

More soon
JIM B